rodovich

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by rodovich 8y ago
My first programming project was a tic-tac-toe game with a computer opponent. I painstakingly copy-pasted about a hundred nested `if` statements to check for a winner & decide the computer’s next move. Several years later I saw a Matlab
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by rodovich 9y ago
Additionally, question 2 amounts to "what is the usage of python's queue class", question 4 requires knowing whether array indexes start at 0 or 1 in python, and question 8 amounts to "what is the usage of python's
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by rodovich 9y ago
Not that this greatly affects your counterpoint, but your calculation is off by three orders of magnitude: 151,000,000 calls/year ÷ (365 days/year * 10,000,000,000 calls/day) ~= 0.000041 = 0.0041%.
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by rodovich 9y ago
> To my mind if someone creates something of value, the creator should have a say over how that something is consumed. To use something without the permission of the owner feels a bit dirty. I agree. That's why I want a say in how m
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by rodovich 9y ago
I'm glad you understand what that price is and are happy to pay it. I personally have a hard time evaluating the price because the _whats_ and _hows_ of a site's tracking seldom are disclosed in a clear and concise manner that I c
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by rodovich 10y ago
> position:fixed (auto-replace to position:static) I've gotten pretty good results from a bookmarklet that converts `position: fixed` elements to `display: none`.
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by rodovich 10y ago
I understand this rationale, but I think most developers will encounter commit messages written by bozos who don't press enter after every 72 characters, far more frequently than commit messages that contain stack traces or other fixed
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by rodovich 10y ago
This is a good point, but the developer also can deploy AI tools to help analyze the behavior.
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by rodovich 10y ago
If leaked-but-redacted documents were of interest for a prosecution, couldn’t the originals be obtained by subpoena, either to WikiLeaks or (preferably) their original source?
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by rodovich 10y ago
> If you want to be private, don't use a social network where you are the product. That's all well and good, until someone posts a photo of you, tags you in a message, or embeds its tracking widgets on another page you visit, a
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by rodovich 10y ago
Not the TSA in that case, either.
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by rodovich 10y ago
> Or, better yet, eliminate payroll deductions entirely and ensure everyone has a liability come April. Pretty hard to defraud a liability. Much easier to not pay a liability -- especially if it's a double-digit percentage of your a
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by rodovich 11y ago
> I do not believe governments (especially ones engaged in clandestine surveillance operations) have an obligation to share security vulnerabilities with companies. Is this view particular to software defects? For example, do government