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by rcurry 5y ago
My parents never let us have a television except for around Christmas. My dad would buy a cheap TV set and we’d watch holiday movies but after Christmas it went in the trash. We amused ourselves by playing Star Wars in the yard with hockey
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by rcurry 5y ago
Whatever. We have all these online sites where we can do battle over politics. Can’t we keep HN as a fun place to talk about tech stuff?
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Magic?
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by rcurry 5y ago
It’s the thought that counts, the social media platforms that ban you would gladly put you in a gulag if they could.
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by rcurry 5y ago
Writing off an entire generation of people as lacking critical thinking skills seems a bit short-sighted.
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by rcurry 5y ago
As I like to tell people - thank {god} we live on the ground instead of in the ocean. I mean, when's the last time you walked past a mailbox, or your couch, and it suddenly turned into some horrifying predator and ate you? life is pret
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by rcurry 5y ago
Ad hominem attacks aside, the question remains. Now that #OrangeManBad isn't here, who, exactly is,as you say, "the problem"? From what I've seen, Californians have a bad habit of electing people who can't accomplis
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by rcurry 5y ago
Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown.
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I knew a Marine would show up.
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by rcurry 5y ago
This stuff is always so much easier in the Navy. Just find a gay sailor who has a copy of The Anarchist’s Cookbook. Re: USS Iowa Turret Explosion
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by rcurry 5y ago
Well, we do block them on Facebook and Twitter.
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by rcurry 5y ago
Hahaha, reminds me of the old Simpson’s episode: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FwvZql6RToE&feature=share&fbcl...
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by rcurry 5y ago
In local news, officials announced that the accidental nuclear detonation a few blocks from the Acme Nuclear Weapons Depot was in fact the fault of a nearby farmers market. Back to you Jim for the college sports update.
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by rcurry 5y ago
Was the algorithm also able to identify the senior executive who was responsible for his firm hiring 150 unengaged and unproductive people, or is their big data team still working on that one?
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by rcurry 5y ago
I’m still freaking out about Dioxin.
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by rcurry 5y ago
Some science may settle during shipping and handling.
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by rcurry 5y ago
If YouTube had been around in the 50s, they’d be banning kooks who claimed smoking wasn’t healthy for you.
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by rcurry 5y ago
Learning to manage is a lot like learning how to write a novel - at first you think you need all those words but then you can learn to cut fifty percent of what you wrote and still get the same point across. It’s kind of the same deal with
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by rcurry 5y ago
Okay, now that he’s gone who do we pin the blame on?
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by rcurry 5y ago
Same here. Most of my cross country trips are in an ‘08 corvette. It gets about 26 mpg if you leave it on cruise, and takes about 8 minutes to fill up. And I can also stop wherever I want for a nice meal or whatever. Combined with zero main
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by rcurry 5y ago
Honestly. I miss the old days. I worked in intelligence at the tail end of the Cold War. We kept all our shit on paper, in a safe, and planted a couple of nice young Marines with guns in front of it. It worked well as a system - so well in
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by rcurry 5y ago
Same here, I started on 6502 assembly and you had to know a lot of that stuff just because we didn’t have cool libraries like the STL and so on. You want to sort something, well you’d better write a sort routine.
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by rcurry 5y ago
We need to start a repo for Enterprise Right Shift.
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by rcurry 5y ago
Wow, what a response. Thank you for taking the time to reply and I think you did a far better job of summing up the challenge of being a “modern C++ programmer” than I could have dreamed of. I had no idea that Scott Meyers had bailed on the
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by rcurry 5y ago
I spent a lot of years writing C++ code and really enjoyed it, it’s a fun language and you can pretty much do anything with it. But the problem I encountered with it was that it just became so wide in terms of features that you have a hard
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by rcurry 5y ago
Sure, this is true. In 500 BC I would have lived in a cave. But now I have a garage, it has a door, and one thing I need is an app that lets me open the door when I get back from cycling. Fortunately, there’s an app for that!
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by rcurry 5y ago
During an interview for a job with a Wall Street outfit, the interviewer asked me “In C++, how would you determine the concrete type of a pointer to a base class if you did not have runtime type information?” I couldn’t think of an answer,
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by rcurry 5y ago
Yeah, well the Chupacabra still keeps me up at night.
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by rcurry 5y ago
No offense intended, but it would be easier for you to Google “Type Enforcement” than for me to try and explain in a quick reply. Full disclosure: I was on the Sidewinder team at Secure Computing way back when.
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Trusted computing. Oh man, those were heady days. We really thought we could lick that shit with type enforcement and all that jazz. Spending months analyzing covert channels and trying to hard to build safe systems. Now days all you have t

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