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by sbmassey 14y ago
Sell up and buy stuff abroad. Or, since you mentioned above that the tax is on net property ownership, get a loan in the UK to the amount you own there, and buy stuff abroad with it.
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by sbmassey 14y ago
Any programming paradigm is going to at minimum have something like an if statement. Say you wanted to do something when two items compare equal, in text you could write something like: if (a == b) { ... } With a visual metaphor, you are
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by sbmassey 14y ago
Figures. So I guess that, in the case where you both need to worry about fixing invalid data, and also need to do historical queries, you would have to add your own timestamp to the data to represent the actual time of the event, because th
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by sbmassey 14y ago
How would you idiomatically fix invalid data in Datomic? for example, if you needed to update a badly entered value in a record, but keep the record's timestamp the same so as not to screw up historical queries?
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by sbmassey 14y ago
OK, don't fucking list all the fucking examples, fucking give one fucking single fucking example where fucking is used to fucking express something other than fucking anger, you fucking fuck. (Other than belaboring the point, an example of
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by sbmassey 14y ago
I have found that if you have anything valuable-ish in external pockets to your luggage, it will usually disappear. e.g. change in a bag; CD's & DVD's etc. I'm sure the baggage handlers that do that don't make it obvious to their co-wor
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by sbmassey 14y ago
Sure it is. It's "incredible versatile" if you want to express how angry you are about something, because you can basically use it as either a drop in replacement or an intensifier for any word you want, but the common meaning is to expres
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by sbmassey 14y ago
The purpose of the swearword "fuck" is to signal that you are passionate and emotionally unrestrained about something, with a slight underlying threat of violence. Can someone explain why that is appropriate on this well crafted site?
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by sbmassey 14y ago
I strongly agree: the article comes across as an attempt to solidify an emotional division between different kinds of software developers, and that never brings out the best in humanity. Most people with any programming talent can learn to
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by sbmassey 14y ago
It may be "fake", but it still has the property that this article was looking for, in that it is obvious to the reader what each of the arguments being passed to the method are for.
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by sbmassey 14y ago
Science Fiction writers != some of the brightest minds.
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by sbmassey 14y ago
I doubt any other President would have done much different.
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by sbmassey 14y ago
I was going to say the same thing. 'cut', of course, destroys the purely algebraic nature of the thing, and forces you to understand the whole search-tree and backtracking part of the language, but the basics work.
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New online game to design RNA molecules: advancing nanotechnology?(foresight.org)
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by sbmassey 14y ago
You can look at it's return code.
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by sbmassey 14y ago
OO is a good fit for programming a lot of important types of software, such as GUI's or 3D graphics, where it is convenient to model the program data as consisting of widely different types of data structure, having a common interface, and
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by sbmassey 14y ago
I doubt that the Democratic political culture would be considered conservative anywhere in Western Europe: they do the normal leftist thing of trying to build power through coalitions of victim groups, trying to raise taxes on the rich, and
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by sbmassey 14y ago
Do you really imagine that someone trying to set up mandatory EU-wide health insurance in the EU would be considered "conservative" in Europe? Notwithstanding that "conservative" means very different things, depending on which part of Euro
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by sbmassey 14y ago
Why not simply accept that wikipedia has a particular bias, and set up your own wiki - fashionpedia perhaps - if you want to create articles that wikipedia doesn't accept? Wikipedia has become a success because of its culture. It should be
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by sbmassey 14y ago
D's garbage collection is global, and either off or on (and a lot of D libraries leak memory like crazy if it is off, so in practice it has to be on most of the time) Rust's per task GC seems like it should allow more flexibility, and I'm h
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by sbmassey 14y ago
Rust is the most promising up-and-coming programming language, in my opinion. Finally a programming language with decent syntax that does RAII, and understands the need to restrict garbage collection! Thanks!
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Resistance to antibiotics is becoming a crisis(washingtonpost.com)
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Power vs. Adventure - PL/I and C (1994)(uni-muenster.de)
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by sbmassey 14y ago
You can do a lot more in vim without plugins than with most text editors. In fact, I'd say that was one of it's major advantages over the competition. Relying too much on plugins and configuration makes things hard when you're switching m
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by sbmassey 14y ago
It's also easy to bring to its knees with seemingly innocent queries, and has a pretty darn opaque programmable interface in Q. (OK, the vaguely SQL-like stuff is not too hard, once you understand the differences from normal SQL, but doing
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Vanishing Girls Optical Illusion(moillusions.com)
7 points by sbmassey 14y ago|3 comments
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If the Irish government still had their own currency, they would be able to devalue; their debts would become cheaper, and they wouldn't still be suffering in 2012 for a crisis that happened in 2008. In addition, the original cause of the r
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by sbmassey 14y ago
I don't think any mainstream perspective claims that the crises in the various member states are caused by anything other than their being in the Eurozone, if that is what you are claiming. Since the problems with having currency union with
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by sbmassey 14y ago
Fascism is caused by the economic depression. The EU has proven itself to be completely economically inept. Therefore today's Fascism was caused by the EU. I would also point out there was no Fascism during the relatively peaceful age from
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by sbmassey 14y ago
The 'OMG Scary Nazis, lets put everything under the control of a single unified state' idea doesn't appear to make any sense. Surely if you're worried about Nazis taking over, you should be encouraging the existence of small independent nat

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