thomasz

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by thomasz 13y ago
Exactly. It fucks everything up: As soon as you teach OO with real world stuff as examples, all they see are inheritance relationships. It is really hard to make 'em stop creating extremely complicated hierarchies in order to solve s
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by thomasz 13y ago
I think beginners should be confronted with OOP very early, but not in the typical way: - DO teach encapsulation of state. - DO NEVER ever try to teach about objects as representations of real-world things. And for the love of god, do not g
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by thomasz 13y ago
> Every time I have to RDP into them to change some configs instead of just vi'ing files in /etc I want to shoot myself. Ugh, maybe you should try out at least one of the several options for remotely managing IIS before you sho
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by thomasz 13y ago
> Does that happen in other countries, too? Yes. Donations from corporations are legal in nearly every country, in mine, in the USA, most likely also in yours. That's really nothing to bash america over.
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by thomasz 13y ago
"Your poverty makes us sick"
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by thomasz 13y ago
Let's see, we have a job posting that promises you that your job will have founder level responsibilities that will destroy your social life, for an interns pay. And now we get a forum post from the poor sucker who confirms that the re
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by thomasz 13y ago
> In other words, I can tell that there's a potentially poignant idea about web design in this post, but it was a little drowned out because of the way it was presented. I think it would be difficult to find an idea in this post tha
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by thomasz 13y ago
DIN is the German ANSI
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by thomasz 13y ago
Well, one problem is that publications like the wsws are not news in the strict sense. They do not have the staff and the founding that's necessary to engage in traditional reporting. What those publications are doing is to interpret s
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by thomasz 13y ago
I would appreciate if you wouldn't cite the 'world socialist website - Published by the International Committee of the Fourth International' as a reputable source. Some of their articles are surprisingly good, but it's s
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by thomasz 13y ago
Or watch it fall below $10.
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by thomasz 13y ago
from TFWA >In their report, the AAP found that they could not recommend the use of special diets for children with autism spectrum disorder because of inadequate evidence. > A 2008 systematic review from the Cochrane Library indic
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by thomasz 13y ago
Most of the problems arise from people not understanding that linq queries return iterators, not collections and therefore writing O(n²) loops. But that's not too hard to learn. Alas, if you are talking about Linq2Sql or Entity Framewo
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by thomasz 13y ago
Not if you know linq.
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by thomasz 13y ago
> i fucking hate the tsa and couldn't possibly give a shit about one of their ppl getting killed I sincerely hope that someday you will be ashamed for writing this.
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by thomasz 13y ago
That's the Non Aggression Principle at work, or at least a pretty common and equally stupid interpretation thereof: They clearly did not initiate violence against anyone, therefore, any intervention limiting their freedom to recklessly
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by thomasz 13y ago
> Excessive wealth is usually hoarded (in bank accounts), not used: But if you want the economy to work the most (creating jobs, etc.), you need to make money circulate as much as possible (which is not what rich people usually do). Hell
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by thomasz 13y ago
He's dumbing it down a little bit for the audience, what a crime!
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by thomasz 13y ago
> So, I guess Microsoft news/posts get pushed back simply because most of the people here are not interested in them and don't want to see them Well if that would be the case, the vote counts would look a little bit different.
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by thomasz 13y ago
I'd guess that there exists a causal relationship between "intelligence" as measured by standardized tests and the sum of dollars poured into someones education.
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by thomasz 13y ago
People who want to spend bitcoins on illegal stuff are just waiting for the next marketplace to emerge. Which should happen in a few weeks; the profit margin are known to be incredibly high and it can be done by a single developer.
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by thomasz 13y ago
for the browser, map, skype and facebook.
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by thomasz 13y ago
Well, I wasn't aware. Now that we know about his evil ethnicity, we can stop talking about his article and finally condemn the filthy Jew.
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by thomasz 13y ago
That is a pretty useless^H^H^H^H^H^H^H subjective statement. The author is clearly trying to alternate between examples for pro Israeli and pro Palestinian bias.
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by thomasz 13y ago
"Home" is not so great for a mobile device...
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by thomasz 13y ago
EE users added this value, and its highly questionable that they would have done so if they had known that their expertise would be locked behind a paywall.
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by thomasz 13y ago
Don't forget the SOA scenario: One service calls 0..n others to fulfill a request. Each of those calls is IO bound.
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by thomasz 13y ago
As I said, I don't think the problem is awareness. People know that a life on food stamps is not funny, it's just that they couldn't care less.
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by thomasz 13y ago
While there is nothing inherently wrong with experiments like that, there should be no mistake that "taking the SNAP challenge" does not give you a deep understanding about the condition of being poor. Living by $4.50 a day for a
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by thomasz 13y ago
> It was originally intended as generated code from a user interface-building tool [...] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BANCStar_programming_language

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