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by rue 15y ago
> It's For Your Benefit, citizen. I take exception to using “citizen”, here, since it implies the gov't is somehow at fault… In reality, the banks had indeed devised such a scheme, and for the obvious reasons, but it's since been disa
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by rue 15y ago
To be precise, there's really nothing that you can determine from the resource you're POSTing to. A POST to /forum/http/ could create a new cat picture in /yaykittens/ for all we know. It's meant to be a catchall method, used for anything t
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by rue 15y ago
> Also, Rubinius still has to fully implement Ruby 1.9, so its not like you could just flip a switch. The only serious piece missing from 1.9 is the encoding support. There's a number of other relatively minor failures remaining, but th
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by rue 15y ago
…Except that that isn't “the community standard”. It's one of the more popular varieties, of about equal support with {…} for when you use the return value.
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by rue 15y ago
I certainly suspect that most people make a distinction between shooting someone, and videotaping someone. This leads me to believe that surreptitious surveillance would be a far more widespread problem than random shootings.
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by rue 15y ago
Most “rules” about {…} vs. do…end are nonsense. I tend to use {…} unless I can't be bothered to put parens around the arguments.
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by rue 15y ago
A response from Charlie Nutter (JRuby): http://blog.headius.com/2011/10/why-clojure-doesnt-need-invo...
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by rue 15y ago
v8 actually runs the code, though, so it's not an accurate comparison. (That said, this thread is just silly. I don't like Dart because it looks like it's built for obsolescense, but the hello world extrapolation is nonsense, as has been
189.
by rue 15y ago
No, they're not – nor is tabs-vs-spaces (convention) in the same category as semicolons (syntax). It's ergonomics; less superfluous entities and boilerplate makes it easier to express ideas.
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by rue 15y ago
I won't assess whether you're correct or not, but want to point out that things in a melting pot don't diversify, they blend.
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by rue 15y ago
How does someone work “in the cloud”?
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by rue 15y ago
> This is so wrong! Really, wrong ? Certainly, give it a go if your routine now is less enterprisey, and vice versa.
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by rue 15y ago
> There are plenty of other examples around the web where submitting a HTTP GET request results in an action. That doesn't mean it doesn't violate the HTTP spec. At all.
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by rue 15y ago
“Scala for the Impatient” is indeed probably the best of the current generation of books for getting into Scala. Unfortunately it's not for the actually impatient since only the first 9(?) chapters are released and the more interesting ones
195.
by rue 15y ago
You mean Scala 2.8.2 and 2.9.1, respectively.
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by rue 15y ago
> Consider this: the hard drive is the least reliable component of almost any modern PC/laptop. Is it really? Completely anecdotally I've never lost a HDD, but keep going through power supplies… it'd be nice to see some data on comp
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by rue 15y ago
I'd like to see this in the Peters projection, but otherwise quite fun!
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by rue 15y ago
> A good example of the impact of epigenetics is obesity. Children's propensity to obesity often has a lot due to with epigenetic influences during neonatal development. For instance, if a mother is pregnant during a famine and thus do
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by rue 15y ago
Some of us just aren't wired that way. It's not that I don't appreciate something, or find something funny, or scary, &c., it's that I don't demonstrate it as enthusiastically. I have the same range of enthusiasm, I think; the scale is
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by rue 15y ago
The police isn't the same as a federal agent, although it's best to avoid talking to them too.
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by rue 15y ago
You can certainly have multiple entry points, although you can't then statically model it with just prev in a simple manner.
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by rue 15y ago
There's no reason – none – to continue developing the Java programming language. It can be frozen to current release, with bugfixes, while the developers transition to another, modern, JVM language without the Java baggage. The old code is
203.
by rue 15y ago
Doesn't seem to be available as an ebook, a strangely common problem for “hard” CS texts.
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by rue 15y ago
Perhaps Uncle Bob ought use a metaphor that applies better, in that case. I don't think the fault is in the reader.
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by rue 15y ago
> […]because names are not unique. Mine is. There's nobody in the entire world with the same first and last name.
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by rue 15y ago
This is correct; more precisely, you can pay all you want, but reimbursement is for a reasonable cost.
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by rue 15y ago
Tiny bit of background is useful here: The US has very lax employment regulation. You can be fired for any reason at any time. Most of Europe, the Nordic countries in particular, have stringent regulation. Continuous employment can only be
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by rue 15y ago
This scheme is fine, provided that it's possible to easily maintain multiple identities, pseudonymous or not.
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by rue 15y ago
“Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at googleads.g.doubleclick.net.”
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by rue 15y ago
Hopefully you've since migrated to Array#shuffle.

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