shawn-furyan

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   by shawn-furyan 13y ago

   Forgive me for countering hyperbole with hyperbole. She did baldly say in the main content of her article "Scripting isn't programming". It's not a hyperbolic title, it's in the body of the article. She also doesn&#
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   by shawn-furyan 13y ago

   Yeah, I worked for 2 years as a sysadmin, and now I'm working on building a website in one of those scripting languages that apparently don't count as programming, so perhaps I have a better perspective than most on this. The stra
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   by shawn-furyan 13y ago

   It's inappropriate to invoke Godwin's Law here, because discussion is regarding authoritarian governmental practices. Therefore the Nazi's are on topic. The problem with saying "There is a big difference between the US g
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   by shawn-furyan 13y ago

   The issue is less that LoC is universally a useless metric, and more that it's a metric whose nuances need to be accounted for carefully when used in analysis. The author gave no indication of such accounting, and so regardless of whet
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   by shawn-furyan 13y ago

   In many ways, this is an inherently unanswerable question, and it's just about as unanswerable for US citizens as well. At it's root, the problem is that you've left information scattered around the internet, much of this inf