throwaway0010

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by throwaway0010 12y ago
Yes and the responses are implemented with methods. Always.
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
The coke bit has regional variance. In the entire southern US "coke" is a fully generic term for all carbonated beverages: http://laughingsquid.com/soda-pop-or-coke-maps-of-regional-d... Wikipedia lists "Coke
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
And the object responds to the "foo" message by calling a method. The difference is whether we're discussing the invocation or the response. OP's usage of method isn't incorrect in this case if it's discussing
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
The source of the 30% statistic is from a selection-biased sample of people who undergo paternity testing because there is already a question as to who is the father. It's not an accurate figure. The actual rate is likely somewhere bet
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
Sure, but you can say the same about going to bed at night with the intent of waking up in the morning.
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
It is. Cgroup provides limits for memory, CPU time. We already have other accounting mechanisms for processes/threads (rlimits) and for inodes and disk space (disk quota systems). We've had those for ages. I imagine there will be
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
Interestingly these programs are currently disallowed in California, I believe due mostly to Prop 103: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/focusarea/prop-103-californi...
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
Indeed. I can negotiate a connection to google.com:80 successfully on a 1000ms latency pipe just fine. Slowly, but fine.
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
"Isn't that mainly terrorism, not paedophilia?" It's nothing at all. Plenty of innocent people are on those lists having done nothing . That the pretext is terrorism is irrelevant.
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
Interestingly the system you describe, marking two points and measuring time between them is illegal in California: Definition of a speed trap: http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d17/vc40802.htm Speed traps are
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
The only nonsense here is your belief that a hiring process can accurately predict future results. Hiring is incredibly difficult: Vast volumes of literature have been written on the subject. Mistakes are common; your idea that business oug
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
It's not really an analogy; The divide is still along similar racial lines. Civil asset forfeiture laws predominantly impact poor black or Hispanic people. Here's what the ACLU has to say: https://www.aclu.org/crim
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
'Unless a company has been completely asleep at the wheel, there is no scenario under which people will suddenly go "woah woah woah! these 200 people must go!".' Of course there is. You're projecting this as black a
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
"Mass firings, however justified, represent broken management" I don't think you've supported this opinion very well. Here's a counterpoint: Hiring and firing are a completely normal part of a business cycle. Every
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
You don't think businesses should fire under-performers? That's nuts.
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
"The motivation behind the new system call has more to do with chroot environments, where the device might not be available at all. " Why wouldn't one simply create the appropriate device node inside the chroot? This argument
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
If the job is unnecessary why would it be a good idea to "save" it?
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
It's absolutely useful and it's telling that you think it is not.
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
Contribution is not a prerequisite for criticism. Deserved criticism, in this case.
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
Agreed. The name for this is "regulatory capture." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
> Also, C is extensively standardised Not really, at least not in the sense that you mean here: The generation of machine code in shared objects. There is a distinct lack of definition between C syntax and the resulting machine code. &gt
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
Most of the non-technical people I know are very VERY upset with facebook and privacy, but are still using it in much the same fashion as they're still using their AT&T phone or Comcast cable despite their distaste for policy.
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
There's a good deal of nuance to these sorts of questions. For example, police may look at your house from the street in the visible spectrum, but may not look at your house from the street in the infra-red spectrum without a warrant.
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
The objectionable part is that it's not a regional issue. Vampires chasing money are everywhere and will relocate to follow the cash teat. This would've happened anywhere in the USA.
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
A few popular database drivers use escaping under the hood for parameterized query arguments. mysql2 ruby gem (and any rails stack on top of it) for example.
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
I think you may have misunderstood. "Some" is certainly not "all" or even "most." We are discussing legality, not whether the practice is common.
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
But some theaters DO block cellphones -- by encasing the venue in a faraday cage. It's possible to buy paint with metallic bits to block radio. Broadcasting to jam is illegal. It is not illegal to build a room in which cellphones do no
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
Depends on scale. For startups with small datasets and low traffic, hardware is cheaper. When traffic and data ramp up, 150k for a guy to cut your capex by 10% sounds like a steal.
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
In a thriving economy, workers with problems can often get jobs. When the economy tanks and layoffs occur it's the most weak and vulnerable who are hit the hardest.
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by throwaway0010 12y ago
whoops, thanks!

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