rapala

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by rapala 15y ago
Our very being, not just consciousness, is inseparable from our physical body. One day you maybe able to create an exact clone of the body to house the mind, but what good that would be? The body would be an exact clone with all its flaws.
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by rapala 15y ago
If you listen to them talk, there is some interesting stuff there, like formal logic, but the lion's share is just arguing about semantics and nuances of translation from the original German. I think that describes what it is to work with
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by rapala 15y ago
Copyright law, naturally. It gives a right to the owner of the copyright (or in this case, his/hers representative) to make a claim for the removal of the infringing material. The law text in finnish: http://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/
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by rapala 15y ago
It is not easy to lay off a public servant in Finland, but I think it is mainly so because of the procedure required. Several written warnings need be given that state the reason in plain text. Too often it just takes too much balls from th
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by rapala 15y ago
Very neat idea, but I think the reliance in bit.ly is self-defeating. This kind of approach would allow people to distribute documents using the web without having to trust them to a particular server, which can be very convenient if your
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by rapala 15y ago
I found that odd too. In Haskell you have to use monads only for I/O, and for that IMO they are a fine abstraction. (Monads are a fine abstraction to many other things too that have a lot less to do with side-effects.) You are free to use
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by rapala 15y ago
The use of DWORD as a type should, in my opinion, already state that the value is always non-negative. Explicitly checking for it might even be a bad thing, as it can distract the reader. He might not check the type and let negative numbers
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by rapala 15y ago
"Just to be sure: You suggest to write interfaces ('extract' in my original post as that seems to be the refactoring name you'd use for this kind of stuff in my world) that define a contract for pre-existing characteristics of 3rd party ty
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by rapala 15y ago
By my observation, this is pretty common logical fallacy. If from A follows B, many will deduce that from B follows A. This often happens in math, when a lemma says that A => B is true. Many will use the lemma "the wrong way around".
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by rapala 15y ago
It may not feel like it, but that is pretty much what languages like Java do. At run time, the type of the receiver is evaluated and the correct method is selected based on that. So we have the dispatch function, and a way to map results of
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by rapala 15y ago
In SICP (where I assume this is taken from) they actually solve this problem. They have a dispatch function (as multi-methods have in Clojure) and a map from dispatch values to action functions. In that case you can extend the evaluator by
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by rapala 15y ago
Or maybe he is hoping for something more elegant than plain shared memory, at the hardware level.
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by rapala 15y ago
Those are probably the worst two countries to choose as an example. Germany and France have a huge influence on the EU.
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by rapala 15y ago
At least here in Finland the lines were put in by a government owned company. Which was then privatized and later sold to Sweden. That private company now truly owns the lines, and the government is scratching it's head because it has pass
165.
by rapala 15y ago
Technology is supposed to push humanity forward, make possible the things that once were impossible. The developments in printing made it possible for us, the common people, to own books in the first place. But now technology is also used t
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by rapala 15y ago
You also need to remember to use RAII, and that always requires creating a class. You also need to get RAII right, where as Python's with is implemented for you. Also there's no mention about the fact that Java forces you to check for excep
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by rapala 15y ago
Yes, it's true that unit testing those components of a video game that abstract away the hardware underneath is hard or even practically impossible. But Foo here is not talking to hardware. It uses a model given by GrSubsys and that model c
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by rapala 15y ago
You don't organize a protest against the goverment using your real identity if there is a fear of retaliation. Not in the real world and definitely not in the web. Mapping someones friends by good old detective work is not that difficult. I
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by rapala 16y ago
>Instead of a list of methods, you get a list of methods (which do not have to stay the same, by the way) and a tree of resources. Theoretically you should be able to crawl a REST API using only the document types and the root URL, I do
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by rapala 16y ago
It so happens, that Linux kernel has a system call named fork. But nothing states that this system call has to conform to the POSIX specification of fork(). If it does so, it does so for convenience. What makes Linux as an operating system
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by rapala 16y ago
Hitler once wrote, that children must be in the focal point of the society as then anything can be done in the name of protecting them.
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by rapala 16y ago
Most people shopping at the supermarket could not see the difference between human meat and cow meat. Kiddie porn is not that hard to spot. It's interesting how we tie the act of consuming a product to the act of producing it. Sometimes it'