thomasz

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   by thomasz 14y ago

   Yea, they have an entire army dedicated to nothing but trolling the brave enemies of the state who converge at places like www.abovetopsecret.com and dailypail.com. FFS. Those places are a pit of back stabbing, turf wars, elaborated socke
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   by thomasz 14y ago

   FFS, not that crap, not again, not here.
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   by thomasz 14y ago

   > Your code iterated more than once. Uh... no. *edit The first element is iterated three times, the second two times and the rest once, making it O(n).
4. 454.▲
   by thomasz 14y ago

   Well, if the error reporting of Enumerable.Single() isn't good enough for you (i think it throws InvalidOperationExceptions with different messages for both error cases), nothing stops you from implementing it once for yourself and profit
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   by thomasz 14y ago

   I don't see any pitfalls that wouldn't arise with imperative techniques. Well, Single() throws if there is no or more than one item with the property name "Blah!" in the collection, but if you just want the first one or none you should use
6. 456.▲
   by thomasz 14y ago

   They used a custom, minimal IDE that looks like a text editor and a class browser sewn together.
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   by thomasz 14y ago

   This is an interesting paper, but I'd dismiss the findings as a strong argument in the dynamic vs static typing debate. I think the setup is a little bit skewed as it's plays into the strengths of dynamic languages: * The whole api consiste
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   by thomasz 14y ago

   please make the keys assignable. On my keyboard layout, z is right to t :/
9. 459.▲
   by thomasz 15y ago

   it would be nice if you could announce it one week in advance next time :)
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    by thomasz 15y ago

    Wages for Truck Drivers in Germany by city: http://www.gehalt-tipps.de/Gehaltsvergleich/Gehalt/Lkw-Fahre...
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    by thomasz 15y ago

    Yes, when compared with US/UK, they are quite good. You have guaranteed access to decent and affordable socialized medical care. My sister has Multiple sclerosis, treatment is very expansive. The treatment is very expansive, the medicine al
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    by thomasz 15y ago

    Can you share some experiences with F# in bigger projects? I'm a little bit worried about the accessibility of larger code bases with global type inference. I would say that I have a pretty good grasp of the language in general, but I usual
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    by thomasz 15y ago

    It totally depends on your Application. I wouldn't call a non existing file referenced by a db record, an strange log entry or a malformed xml returned by a webservice an "expected application-level problem". There is absolutely no way for
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    by thomasz 15y ago

    > What to Submit > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual cu
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    by thomasz 15y ago

    The only reason you won't find this story on snopes is because it's too lame.
16. 466.▲
    by thomasz 15y ago

    It's always about accounting and/or externalizing risk.
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    by thomasz 15y ago

    you assume that most websites care about standards. They don't.[1] Writing truly standards compliant html is too much hassle for most people out there, and brings next to nothing in value. What they do is test it against the important imple
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    by thomasz 15y ago

    Although IE has been updated to 9 with Mangoo which is a decent browser, i would expect the same problems Opara gets with cutting edge stuff: You are very lucky if the app got tested for IE. I never encountered serious problems though, even
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    by thomasz 15y ago

    I guess "First world Heroes" means people who solve problems that are do not really matter for humanities progress. And I think there is a lot of truth in that: Mp3 players, Smartphones and such are nice things to have, but their impact is
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    by thomasz 15y ago

    FYI: Typography is totally fucked on win7+chrome http://imgur.com/7Ad0d
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    by thomasz 15y ago

    "AIs that haven't been specifically programmed to be benevolent to humans are basically as dangerous as if they were explicitly malicious" http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
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    by thomasz 15y ago

    I guess the real question was: Does the sequencing of Neandertal DNA allow us to prove that they had insufficient empathy?
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    by thomasz 15y ago

    you don't type "irfanview" into the start menu, you type "xmas pictures 1999" and click on the result.
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    by thomasz 15y ago

    The current release is included in VS Professional, Ultimate isn't required. It seems like the last recent installer for VS Shell is the CTP, so expect some difficulties if you want to go the free route on windows, although it's possible th
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    by thomasz 15y ago

    I don't fully understand why this makes callback hell better just because it is known under a nicer name. CPS has it's use cases, but application code is not one of them.
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    by thomasz 15y ago

    Hm those are really interesting features, but I really hoped that they would remove some warts and improve interop (WCF, constructors for Record types, declaration of mutually dependant modules etc.) in this release.
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    by thomasz 15y ago

    > The difference is that the British, instead of killing the "lower races", sought to reform them with what history indicates was a genuine sense of altruism among British Empire-builders. The Empire understood that collaborative local
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    by thomasz 15y ago

    > By pretty much any reasonable metric Name one.
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    by thomasz 15y ago

    Or maybe part of an elaborate plot by evil intergalactic entities in league with the Illuminati to conquer the world?
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    by thomasz 15y ago

    I'd bet that this isn't a move to stop piracy, it's just your typical patent troll shakedown.