sethrin

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by sethrin 9y ago
Flat assertions of efficacy unadorned by empirical support may not be well received. However, I am sure that the idea is taken seriously by most, and that supporting evidence would be of great interest.
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Yes, and this is consistent with the rules of this private forum.
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That's an interesting idea. What would you say makes the LSAT difficult?
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WP was itself released a little after PHP acquired classes; before that PHP was purely procedural. However, WP was a fork of an older project, and they kept things procedural in order to maintain backwards compatibility with the previous pr
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What gave you the impression that WP was object-oriented?
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With respect, your comment is not particularly well-informed concerning either PHP or WordPress. WP is not written in PHP in any modern sense of that term. They got suckered into maintaining backwards compatibility with an API written befor
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You say that like it's a bad thing. Bash does not support niceties like typed variables, named parameters, or classes. Its conditional operator is an external program with a required last argument to make it look like sane syntax. Litt
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Bash is flat-out not a scripting language . It is a command language . It does not support typed variables, or named parameters, or any number of basic scripting language features. It technically does not even provide an 'if' co
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What libertarians deny is reality itself. Government is defined as a monopoly on violence. Non-coercive government is a contradiction in terms.
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Is it against "generally accepted practice"? Everything I've ever heard from recruiters and hiring managers has been that they typically have about 30 seconds to review any given resume, and zero time for code review. Do you
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>but to think that ALL the coins will fail in their game-changer level ambition.. this does not logically follow. Good thing no one suggested that.
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I believe Greg Kroah-Hartman is the designated successor.
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I have for many years suspected that the US telecoms have colluded to set a price floor for broadband service at $60/mo, and for mobile data services at $40/mo. It strains credulity that data services would be markedly cheaper in
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One more equivalent expression: ?x A question mark followed by any other single character is treated as a string literal containing that character.
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10 lines is a rule which is meant to be broken. Rules exist to guide the novice, and to inform the expert. Bash is an extremely useful tool, but not one which should be employed carelessly or casually.
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I would not consider those an exception, and would typically prefer to see the use of some other language. Bash is excellent at dealing with semi-structured text, and as part of a command pipeline, and if you have no alternative than to wri
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I wrote a book on Bash too. The most important thing for anyone to know about Bash is that it's intended as a command language, not a general purpose scripting language. If it's longer than 10 lines, or if it uses two or more vari
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> It's better to leave CSS and HTML as simple primitive bytecode for web UI with powerful compilers instead of developing epic w3 specs leading to numerous bugs in browser implementations. Haven't we pretty much already crossed
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I am blinded by tears. Words are inadequate to express this tragedy. May God help this family.
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The geometrical point you refer to is a projection, not an empirical fact. PBS has an excellent YouTube series called Space Time , which describes the Big Bang cosmology in some detail, in several episodes. I'm not exactly sure which
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In the same vein as, "Charlie don't surf" ?
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Apologies; I never used DOS enough to retain that acronym.
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As the other person has said, they have a FAQ for disabling the hotspot. I additionally set my modem to bridge mode in order to use a more capable router. It does look like Comcast mandates the use of their DNS whenever possible, and I&#x27
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Do you personally have the ability to create large-scale broadband networks, using only the financial means available to the average citizen? An estimate by Goldman Sachs put the cost of nationwide Google Fiber at $140 billion. Personally,
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As far as I am aware, it is possible to disable the public 'xfinitywifi' hotspot on all Comcast modems which provide this feature (I had a stint as a TSR relatively recently). Further, I believe this is a user-configurable setting
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It's not a rigorous idea, but I'm not sure what you might be wanting to read about, exactly. However, given that most of the language features that the article described are relatively new to the language, or are proposed language
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I switched from using NoScript to a plugin called uMatrix. It's an improvement in many respects, and I believe it's available for both Firefox and Chrome.
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I read a lot of bad game code written in Twine, for no particularly good reason, and I suspect there is some more productive way to pass time.
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I dislike Twine, and I unfortunately do not have enough to fill my days to be able to avoid reading a fair amount of Twine code. It's mostly terrible, even by hobbyist standards. It does however present an incredibly low barrier to ent
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Depending on your definition of programming language, that crown might actually go to HAGGIS. It's an "educational" programming language which is not executable (or intended to be). It's possibly the worst idea in the hi

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