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by sqeaky 9y ago
Money doesn't help the rich when they are dead. Spending in one area does not prevent spending in another. we have many dollars and some problems require more than others. They can even work together, perhaps a tax on CO2 release can f
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by sqeaky 9y ago
We also invest heavily in preventing such a nuclear exchange. Of course we continue on, we hope or expect that we will still be here. Rather than just lob missiles or give up, we took a stance and many active and expensive steps costing th
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by sqeaky 9y ago
> We would reject regulations that are too strict (which, lately, most environmental regulations have been) What?! There are no rules against dumping limitless amounts of CO2 into the air, how is none too much? Or do you reject the scien
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Death by asteroids is a low risk but high impact type of event. We cannot afford to have even one such event. It really does only take one and costs little for us to prepare. We want to mine asteroids and further science anyway, so we are g
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I wonder if these would do well in the wild? If so there is a huge ethical issue here. I think a more likely possibility is that they might be like like most domesticated photosynthesizers. Loose populations would revert to more natural tra
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by sqeaky 9y ago
They don't have to decide anything like that. They could prohibit cat videos for no reason tomorrow, and suffer whatever the consequences of that are. They have chosen to try to stop ISIS recruitment by videos hosted on their site. Tha
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by sqeaky 9y ago
A decision not to decide is still a choice. A decision to attempt to remain neutral should be carefully considered.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Have an upvote for being perfectly reasonable and attempting to provide examples and reason, even if I disagree with them. Rather than deflect away from C#, I will take the unpopular stance of defending verbosity. Does typing that really re
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I think you are confusing inability to communicate with inability to think. Many animals are dumb, Many are smarter than we give them credit for. In past few decades there have been a great many papers indicating some animals can do things
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I agree it could be more clean, but the way it is designed allows for immediately understandable semantics when dealing with inherited types (which everyone though was the future during Java's Formative years). This makes operations li
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by sqeaky 9y ago
You may be entirely correct, but the way you have presented your position looks extremely unconvincing. What I can see: You chime in on a discussion with a strongly critical viewpoint, then refuse to back it up saying you don't want to
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by sqeaky 9y ago
You shouldn't new or malloc unless you need to. The more you allocate the more you leak. Just stack/automatically allocate the resource and take the address with & then pass the pointer around. Because the data is automaticall
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by sqeaky 9y ago
It won't always be a tiny community. Virginia an New york where both once tiny colonies. The scale of a ship to mars today is not so dissimilar from the scale of boats across the Atlantic then.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I considered bringing up Hans Reiser and didn't because it conflates what were already discussing with another issue: Support. Hans Reiser and his tiny company was the primary point of contact for support on ReiserFS. With him in priso
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I think you are being downvoted because none of that matters. It sounds like Eric Raymond might be a horrible person (I really don't know) but it doesn't matter for the sake of technical discussion. Do his technical opinions and t
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by sqeaky 9y ago
My compiles have gotten more than 20% faster so something is making my newere machines faster than my older machines. That it is not 10x as fast I blame on AMD for not being as competitive as they could have been.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
But you can't opt out of the problems with garbage collectors without dropping the language.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
You are totally correct, but it violates the intuition of many people.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
So put another way if every country (~200) planted this many trees it would capture about half a percent of the carbon we release each year. That really puts into perspective how much carbon is trapped in fossil fuel reserves for me. Put an
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Popularity is not about facts. When someone says "nuclear" many unthinking people with votes think "That's bad they could blow me up or polute all the things" and then shut off their brain to rational responses. Bec
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Unless you care about resources other than memory. GC doesn't help to make sure mutexes don't deadlock and files are closed. As far as I know there is no general purpose algorithm for those.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
So would this still work? ValidDir/../../../../../../../etc/passwd
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by sqeaky 9y ago
You are right about the majority of what you said, but I am pedantically picking on one point. CPU cores are getting faster, but they aren't doing it with clock speed, they are dispatching more instructions per cycle or otherwise makin
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I have never read clean code and bringing it up as an argument against me and my points is a straw man. I don't think you meant for that though. Most of my knowledge was hard earned from a couple of decades of cleaning up disgusting
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by sqeaky 9y ago
> but often times I think the scrolling is a downside that is underrated What editor can't take you directly to a defined symbol, even ones in other files, nowadays? As for API design, all classes and functions implicitly become API
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by sqeaky 9y ago
This isn't a legal issue in that the laws are bogus (I mean, they are but it is not the issue here). The real issue is that this company is bully and using the legal system as a bludgeon. These abuses should be penalized and they would
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I have a 4k screen at some point this pattern stops working.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
There are several advantages you are disregarding. Functions have names and you get to name the code in a way that shouldn't expire the way comments can. In most languages separate functions create separate scopes. This prevent inciden
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Even the highest voted post here is commenting on the value of examples and lack of value in higher order discussion. I must discard the post because everyone I have known professionally with similar opinions was grossly incompetent. Some s
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by sqeaky 9y ago
That seems a bit extreme compared to where many teams are at, but I can see how it could work. How would you compare that to reducing the size of classes to bound where side effects can happen?

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