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by sqeaky 9y ago
I don't know an accurate answer to your question, but lets presume unions did it all. I the GPs point is that having the power to change culture over the course of decades does not guarantee the ability to fix a single problem for a si
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I mostly agree, but I think history and expectations play into it as well. I can imagine customers that claim they don't care, then some ISV releases some software or game that only runs on one platform, then all of sudden the customer
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Itanium also did it by slapping on another die that was an x86 cpu. The core Itanium instruction set where totally new and different at the time. If the new thing were and x86_64 CPU with just the oldest, least used and least useful feature
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Gross, You purt 3 parameters are on two lines. Either indent none of them and keep it on one line or indent all of them. What are you doing, trying to hide "arguments"?
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Right up until we can type "include('sarcasm')" and have it work.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
If we called everything that was first described on Usenet as "Usenet's Law" then everything would be Usenet's law, probably even a couple of things in physics.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
In the past ten years I have had 7 different development positions (and a few IT positions), I have never been at a place that used tabs. Ruby, C, C++, php, C#, SQL were the languages used and there positions were scattered across medical,
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I don't have any strong suggestions on point 3, but there are some tools we could leverage for the other two. We have done things like this for other industries and sometimes it works well. First, we need a list of news companies that
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by sqeaky 9y ago
So Canada is not a democracy because it bans False advertising and the UK is not a Democracy because it has strong Libel Laws? Perhaps you are omitting some checks or balances. In both countries one group makes the laws and another interpre
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I agree with most of what you say, except for the implicit presumption that the general case is important. We don't need to ban all lies, we just need to stop some. Perhaps prohibit news organizations from lying; then we only need to f
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Blocked by my work's filter under the category "malware".
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by sqeaky 9y ago
In practice many places have outlawed various forms of lying effectively. Look at Canada and their false advertising laws or UK's defamation laws. Neither are perfect, both have some unintended side-effects but neither elected trump. I
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I would argue that all the people yelling "gotcha" aren't actually involved. Anything more than a superficial understanding see through that. Many of the people shouting "gotcha" can name their governor or congressi
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by sqeaky 9y ago
> Moore's Law isn't technically about ... Moore's law is fuzzy and has been for a while. I doubt if even Moore has the authority to say what it is about anymore. When one person hears "Moore's law" or any ot
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by sqeaky 9y ago
You are a troll and deserve all the downvotes.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
> And even posts with actual data are being downvoted Of course they are, its not your data that people don't like. They aren't downvoting the post, they are downvoting you. People don't like you, and anything you say will
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Devs seem to be optimizing for an infinite variations of PCs just fine. Modern consoles on a hardware level are closer to PCs than they have been in the past. Pick good algorithms, plan ahead to use as much as of the available resources as
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by sqeaky 9y ago
So does that give people who write allocators license to to threads arbitrarily? More seriously, in C++ apps (Games financial trading etc...) it is common enough to need to carefully manage memory to get that last bit of performance even af
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Mostly... But notice how you still post and the downvote brigade still obliterates your score. You can't say anything and get upvotes because you have angered so many with how you said some things.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I think this often as well. And I have actively practiced my typing to try to reduce this pain. I am stuck at a sustained speed of about 55 WPM, much slower than think. In bursts I can get it much higher, but not for a whole C++ class or le
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I was under the impression that cat automatically used a sane size for reading. Now that I think of it I cannot think of a source, other that to point out my own anecdotal experience. When I was writing raspbian images to SD cards to use on
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I don't know who is right or wrong. I am a software developer and familiar with Unix/Linux. I actively try to be well informed about other topics related to this. When engineering I actively try to remain emotionally dispassionate
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Many have have advocate for such and it is not entirely crazy. I don't agree with it, but it is hardly wtf-worthy. I think it is actually a kind of wtf that there are no certifications for software devs that make life and death things,
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Doesn't Amazon try to screw everyone pretty much the time? Don't they just do whatever they can get away with? I think pay statistics from multiple companies would be mcuh stronger for your argument..
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by sqeaky 9y ago
The employer is paying for it, it just isn't clear what ledger column the cost appears in. If an employer isn't paying me enough to cover travel costs and another offers work from home, it is a reason to switch jobs. I suspect tha
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I agree with you, except when they aren't hidden... For some large percentage of the problems we fix I agree with you, but every once in a while you need to peel back a layer or two of abstraction and ask "Why did it do that?&quot
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I have to agreee with you. How many look at the current situation and compare to a realistic best case? If wayland were adopted as fast possible without breaking a bunch of things for people how long would it take? Much longer than it is no
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I must disagree. As person with an education and half a wit it doesn't matter how I vote in Omaha Nebraska. We will always vote republican and because of gerrymandering my local reps won't change. No amount of education can be acc
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by sqeaky 9y ago
We simply don't know what the smallest thing we can compute with is. A material scientist might say that the smallest silicon traces that can do the are X nanometers, then another will come along and say he is right, but we can use gal
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I totally agree with you. Because I only wrote 3 or 4 sentences I left most of what it does out. I only included it because I the mental image of a Drill Sargent acting like a drill Sargent on a software dev team was funny. Peace.

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