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by rue 16y ago
For you and ErrantX, I think you're reading too much into my parallel: I was just replying to a statement made in the parent. Obviously I'll expect that someone making changes to my code is qualified to do so. It's presumably parallel for i
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by rue 16y ago
I don't disagree, and I don't see why you think I'd consider it a good idea to muck about with things without understanding the intent – but the perception of the intent (and its fitness for purpose) can vary. A work of art, in the sense I
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by rue 16y ago
I understand what you're saying…but as an open-source contributor I certainly expect that my code can be modified for various reasons. I guess a “work of art” would feel more personal, and (unless given a tight spec of elements that must be
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by rue 16y ago
> I disagree. The speed is definitely a big part of the problem, but there is also space to consider. Yes, drives are big and space is cheap (relative to many other things), but it's not nothing, and on a production system, there is ze
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by rue 16y ago
Approximately 60% of all questions on #ruby-lang could have been answered by ri , just for the core and stdlib. It's a shame it doesn't get used more. It's an orthogonal problem, though. The main issue with doc generation is that it is rea
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by rue 16y ago
Or, more simply: case $stdin.gets.chomp when lambda {|matchobj| matchobj.count("!") > 1 } puts "Quitcher yelling!" when "hi" puts "Hi yourself" end
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by rue 16y ago
> Currently, find/replace only lets you re-order or remove groups or insert static text. I must be misunderstanding you, but that's obviously incorrect. "foo 1 bar 2".gsub(/\d+/) {|m| m.to_i * 2 } 1.8 also. Does MatchEvalua
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by rue 16y ago
That doesn't follow, at all. Let me reformulate: any job whose existence isn't necessary (most of the financial sector, for example) can be terminated and the remaining jobs, all being necessary, are of equal value.
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by rue 16y ago
I've never quite understood the anti-TDD attitude around here, but an experienced developer and coach such as Mr. Markham being so confused about the scope to which TDD/BDD is applied is eye-opening. The kinder gentlemen above have explai
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by rue 16y ago
No, they really aren't. They can extract 1000 or 1000000 times the money, sure.
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by rue 16y ago
There's no problem moralising it while keeping in mind that the current system indeed is amoral. I think the point is whether it should be. Personally, I'm of the opinion that no job worth doing is worth less than any other job, but I rec
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by rue 16y ago
You should be using the combined number for Germany: 35% or so have a post-secondary degree. (If I'm reading the statistic correctly.) Beyond that, I'm not sure your numbers are comparable. First, you're using “some college” against gradua
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by rue 16y ago
Ah, I couldn't say since I don't use it myself. I know I've been asked to log in to view publicly disseminated document links. If setting it to public solves the problem, by all means do that!
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by rue 16y ago
I found a couple people surprised by this in another context, so I'll include it here: while nice and featureful, Google Docs requires viewers to be logged into Google. This is a problem for some curmudgeons like myself, so if at all possib
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by rue 16y ago
There's an abundance of Twitter clients for Android, or you can use the mobile web version. I use TweetDeck.
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by rue 16y ago
(And I'm a white guy from northern EU. My sympathies to those from more targeted regions or ethnicities.)
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by rue 16y ago
Kids are pretty good about malleability. Legos > jigsaw puzzles.
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by rue 16y ago
I'm a permanent resident of the U.S., but even with the green card the hassles at the border are just nasty regardless of where I've been or for how long. The attitude is atrocious and I usually feel more like a criminal they've reluctantly
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by rue 16y ago
Oh, true. I meant only in the sense of market stability which is above all psychological.
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by rue 16y ago
The entire financial sector and large parts of the economy are a bubble but it doesn't matter unless people panic over it.
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by rue 16y ago
A pyramid scheme is a very specific type of fraud: starting with a very small group and adding tiers of people, using the entry fees (whatever the pretense) of the lower tiers to pay dividends to those in the higher tiers.
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by rue 16y ago
That's a completely different matter, though, in that it's not permissible to ride a bike on a sidewalk pretty much anywhere (here, we must use the bike path although I'd prefer the street which is the case elsewhere). It's reasonable to be
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by rue 16y ago
Not the best idea , if you don't debug as well under such pressure. Some people do.
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by rue 16y ago
I think it's simplistic to discount the effect that the bureaucracy, turf wars, and the split-up of the various units as well as trying to push dozens and dozens of different models would have had on the design ethos in the company. It'd sa
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by rue 16y ago
For most employees, it's the only recourse.
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by rue 16y ago
Such a short service could equally well be explained by a concerted “takeover” effort.
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by rue 16y ago
I use DDG except for local sites, which it doesn't index anywhere near as well as Unca Googs.
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by rue 16y ago
I can't help but feel this was all arranged, with or without the full knowledge of the Nokia board, when Elop moved over. It's a little sad for me, personally. I can't say with confidence that this isn't a good move for Nokia among the gene
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by rue 16y ago
I think “blasé”, by definition, isn't for poor or stupid people, unless you're using it ironically.
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by rue 16y ago
It seems just an incorrect reappropriation of “theism”, really. I could make a similar argument, though without a religious undertone, about a belief in a greater-than-whole (or struggle for one, if that sounds better).

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