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by singular 15y ago
Don't forget the dereference - *((pointer-type)(e*sizeof(*p) + (size_t)p)) *((pointer-type)((size_t)p + e*sizeof(*p)))
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Readability - We Know Nothing(shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com)
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by singular 15y ago
Indeed - I personally think that half the problem with a lot of the software I've worked with is people getting addicted to the idea of just making stuff work and judging quality against that. Any mysterious problems with maintainability /
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by singular 15y ago
Sure, and it's understandable given the number of CVs companies have to filter through, especially the more desirable places - there has to be some way of filtering through. I think it's very important to highlight that these judgements are
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by singular 15y ago
What I've always hated about that is there is a sense of an immutable judgement going forward if at some point you perform poorly. Surely it's obvious that that idea is merely an approximation and life is somewhat more complex? Isn't it the
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by singular 15y ago
I think things differ in 3 main respects - 1. Whether there was an ongoing culture of doing the wrong thing - NotW yes, AirBnb not so much (afaik). 2. Whether there is an indication that the defence is actually completely false (i.e. whethe
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by singular 15y ago
Ok I'll bite; actually quite different - there are (very) strong indications that the NotW's problems were part of the culture there which makes the idea that the bosses did not know seem very unlikely. In this case there are no such indica
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by singular 15y ago
Indeed, entirely the point I was trying to make; namely that it's not fair to call them spammers. In response to the fact that they hired them + that it raises questions - sure, but there are two sides to the argument and that needs to be h
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by singular 15y ago
Actually that was apparently not sanctioned, rather the work of some contractors acting off their own back.[1] [1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2815183
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by singular 15y ago
You sound like a great landlord, to me it really comes down to whether they are actively acting maliciously, for example the landlords who screwed me out my deposit were clearly trying to steal the cash - one when I was at uni made up loads
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by singular 15y ago
I've heard similar horror stories from friends who rent places out, however it does cut both ways - for myself, despite going absolutely out of my way to be a good tenant, I have had landlords try to rip me off (several times), scream at me
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by singular 15y ago
This is supremely brilliant. Really embodies the hacking spirit :)
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by singular 15y ago
Does brew compile from source? That is one of the most frustrating aspects of macports, for example I was trying to install a simple musical ear training tool the other day and it went to compile GCC. Argh!
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by singular 15y ago
Right click works in chrome 12.0.742.122 / os x and when you right click on letter x it comes up with an option "Search Google for 'x'"...
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by singular 15y ago
gcc, at least, optimises out the null deref for both:- *(int *)0; and:- for(;;) *(int *)0; So the first bit of code does nothing, and the second slips off into an infinite loop. I suspect that treating expressions
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by singular 15y ago
You have to be careful with psychedelics - they can potentially cause very serious problems as well as (allegedly) improve things. A close family relation and a number of his friends took relatively small amounts of LSD and as a result expe
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by singular 15y ago
I think to function normally is to not be disturbed by things which bear no reasonable relation to external reality - that to me is the fundamental indication that there's something wrong, which varies from serious mental illness (e.g. ps
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by singular 15y ago
IANAM, but I do know it was an unassailable problem in Russell + White's efforts to found mathematics on a firm basis in Principia Mathematica [1]. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_mathematica#Consisten...
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by singular 15y ago
There is no foundation for Mathematics [1] :-) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godel%27s_incompleteness_theore...
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by singular 15y ago
God what an annoying troll. It's a very new language, and things are being improved + fixed all the time, I would be very surprised indeed if tail-call optimisation + the ever so vital self-recursive lambda issue weren't fixed at a later da
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by singular 15y ago
They have you print out a bunch of one-time passwords which can be used to access the account should you lose your phone.
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by singular 15y ago
Was just summarising the article as they put it, didn't intend it to be a statement of fact/my opinion :-)
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by singular 15y ago
Summary: Twitter unilaterally decide to host their own #devnest meetup around the world using the same hashtag and name as an existing, very popular, London-based twitter meetup without consulting them first. They plan to take said event to
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by singular 15y ago
cached at http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by singular 15y ago
With all due respect, I did read TFA - "I have been programming for a very long time. So long that it is incredibly boring to me." But you do of course later say: "This doesn't mean I think programming is boring, or that you will think it's
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by singular 15y ago
Though there is some wisdom in what Zed says here, I am getting quite tired of the 'actually, programming itself (especially as a job) is boring' meme, as if saying that marks you out as some sort of world-weary but insightful practitioner
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by singular 15y ago
Absolutely, agreed, I just wish the article had broached this.
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by singular 15y ago
Agreed, that's clearly part of it, but the overall thrust of the article seems to be 'if we don't do this physical books will disappear', which seems to be duplicating the work of national libraries. It's a pity they seem to gloss over that
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by singular 15y ago
I think this is a noble aim, however isn't this partly the duty of national libraries such as the British Library[1] and the Library of Congress[2]? Having said that, perhaps the point is to take such archives out of the hands of government
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by singular 15y ago
I don't mean to be overly harsh - I understand how it can be tough + draining sometimes. I'm also not acting under any illusions here - there are times when it's miserable, the key is whether the overall thing itself outweighs those moments

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