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by veltas 4y ago
That issue applies to anything 'managed', and applies between managed languages as well (actually more so, have fun interfacing between two different GC systems). The compatibility layer can be a bit warty, but does it matter? We
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by veltas 4y ago
I think it's healthy for the website that many people reserve downvotes for stuff that really 'deserves' it. But good to remember the mods position so you don't go around moaning about rule breaking voting. And how could
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by veltas 4y ago
I will say that in my own experience, if you go against the zeitgeist on HN you can often get by as long as you're sensitive/respectful and intelligent on the issue. There are people who downvote things they disagree with, but I t
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by veltas 4y ago
Having a compatibility layer with C doesn't impact your language design, and depending on how 'complete' you want that compatibility it doesn't have to be a lot of effort. Interestingly I think all high-level languages h
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by veltas 4y ago
I will say that in my own experience with online diplomacy, you should just block and ignore them before sending them something that in context is telling them to "fuck off". As soon as you engage with language like that the civil
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by veltas 4y ago
Yeah this is precisely the issue. Sure, all issues are value. But can you afford that value? Nothing is free.
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by veltas 4y ago
On most larger projects the 3 minute fix is more like 10-20 minutes depending on workflow, and they have many such issues in the backlog already. And most of the people who know your issue well enough to fix it that quickly are unpaid volun
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by veltas 4y ago
Yup this was me in school as well, hope to have kids and not looking forward to this aspect!
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by veltas 4y ago
Respectfully, and not to start an argument, but I think you don't need to defend the artist or say people shouldn't comment if they want to criticise. I don't think artists who do this stuff care if people think it's poi
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by veltas 4y ago
Before commenting please read the article which shows a less horrifying story than the title suggests. These graves were in poor repair, and they were in the middle of the great depression, so decided they could keep them neat enough by cut
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by veltas 4y ago
Why should there be an equal number of male and female Lego figures?
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by veltas 4y ago
Is Yellowstone National Pork bad for your cholesterol?
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by veltas 4y ago
Again, the filesystem in context was the Windows filesystem, not a UNIX filesystem or Reiser4.
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by veltas 4y ago
I don't really see a reason to believe this list is comprehensive, especially looking at the sources.
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by veltas 4y ago
Yes but that is the comparison being made, that the registry is like a filesystem and thus should have just been a filesystem. If the suggestion is to put many fields in one file then that's a different suggestion.
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by veltas 4y ago
A point being overlooked by article and commenters: the records in the registry probably use in the order of 10-100 bytes each, while every actual file takes up at least around 1024 (EDIT: maybe more like 4096?) bytes. Putting tiny 'fi
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by veltas 4y ago
groff can do all of the above. The big issue is finding the documentation for it.
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by veltas 4y ago
If a wind turbine catches fire it emits pollutants too. I think we're defining on the (usually reasonable) assumption all goes well and there isn't catastrophic failure.
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by veltas 4y ago
The multiply instructions on later CPUs were implemented as microcode programs on the silicon, so sometimes it was faster to write your own or a specialised routine anyway.
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by veltas 4y ago
'hash' is better known and one syllable, much prefer saying that over 'octothorpe'.
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by veltas 4y ago
I heard it (in UK) referring to { }. In programming circles I've come to expect: () parens, [] brackets, {} braces. Probably easier if we all try to stick to that.
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by veltas 4y ago
I always get a monster appetite after exercise, could just be conditioning. Sample size of one.
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by veltas 4y ago
auto stands for 'automatic', because such variables are automatically allocated for each function invocation. In C it became redundant because base types were added, and so the base type could start the definition (auto was still
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by veltas 4y ago
It's not creative, it's just being precise. And it's not even pro leave, it's just not as anti-leave as the inaccurate narrative. I voted remain: not everything said about Brexit is rhetoric.
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by veltas 4y ago
...no difference to the result, but big difference to the interpretation (as it would be for leavers not turning out). My point is just that Scotland isn't one person, there were plenty of leavers there.
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by veltas 4y ago
Don't know why this was downvoted into oblivion. Seems like the point adds to conversation, isn't rude, ignorant, etc. Whether or not you might agree with them.
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by veltas 4y ago
If Scottish leave voters hadn't turned out then the referendum would have resulted in "remain". So it's interesting to say in that context that "Scotland voted to remain" as many people simplify it to. 3:2 is a
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by veltas 4y ago
Funny you say that because I'm British and only hear and say "near-sightedness". I certainly wouldn't be offended by "short-sighted" but instead confused because it has dual meanings.
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by veltas 4y ago
This is very true and I think it applies to everything, not just software. I was an anarchist at heart until I understood that if you just remove all the rules they all just come back with different names, and often in an inferior form.
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by veltas 4y ago
Not to self-own or anything but I'm religious and lots of religions have a message of immortality for the virtuous, e.g. Christianity, Islam. But our method of achieving it is spiritual, not technical. I think pretty much every normal

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