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811.
by vog 10y ago
That was before Usenet, wasn't it? In the time of Usenet it was already possible to either search within your local Usenet archive, or, slightly later, to type in someone's name into a search engine.
812.
by vog 10y ago
And as the internet and the possibilities grew, many people started to feel uneasy about it and requested their deletion (or did not register again after changing address and/or ISP). Nowadays, nobody uses the phonebook anymore, the de
813.
by vog 10y ago
I also never had such problems, but others did have these problems, and that's what counts. (Everything else would be victim blaming.)
814.
by vog 10y ago
> But this system would need to be decentralized Back in the times of Usenet, this already existed: The client-side (hence decentral) "Scorefile" and "Killfile".
815.
by vog 10y ago
> Yes. I see the issues you are stating, but not so much a qualitative change. > serious risk of being harassed and endangered in real life by an army of trolls This type of trolls (aka "stalkers") have already existed d
816.
by vog 10y ago
The real name discussion is as old as the Usenet, maybe even older. I find it strange to see it re-appearing again and again every few years for almost decades. Back then, the consensus was roughly: 1. If a community accepts pseudonyms, it
817.
by vog 10y ago
This site looks great. Unfortunately, it is the exact opposite of low-traffic.
818.
by vog 10y ago
Too bad that the blender website has neither a "blog" section nor an RSS/Atom feed. I would love to keep being informed in a low-traffic way (once a week, or even once a month) about the latest cool features, development and
819.
by vog 10y ago
I find it interesting that CakeML, like many other developments in this area, is based on SML (Standard ML) and not OCaml (Objective Caml). Moreover, whenever I read something about ML languages, it seems most people in the academic field t
820.
by vog 10y ago
> Well the first number that doesn't appear in OEIS is 18159. That make it interesting to me, but apparently this number isn't interesting to mathematicians. I have a diploma in math (equiv. to master of science in math) and
821.
by vog 10y ago
Or, how many use a prime <= 2017, for that matter.
822.
by vog 10y ago
> Imperative/OO [...] programming will just about always win over non-OO declarative programming in an analogy like that (i.e. a Simulation of a real world process) Some time ago I thought that, too, but I'm no longer convinc
823.
by vog 10y ago
> But it's subsidized; so people who aren't getting an education are paying for those who do. This is just another way of saying that the society cares about this issue! To put an analogy: When a society cares about parenthoo
824.
by vog 10y ago
> wouldn't schooling for education I agree that there are not-yet-mainstream concepts for schools/universities/etc. that should be covered by public money as well, at least partly. Currently, this exploration happens ent
825.
by vog 10y ago
These numbers still look very high from a European point of view. It seems it makes a huge difference whether a society deeply cares about educating the population, or cares just superficially. For example, in Berlin you spend less than 300
826.
No significant difference between TDD and iterative test-last (ITL) development(neverworkintheory.org)
1 points by vog 10y ago|0 comments
827.
FIDEX: Filtering Spreadsheet Data Using Examples(neverworkintheory.org)
2 points by vog 10y ago|1 comments
828.
Apex: Automatic Programming Assignment Error Explanation(neverworkintheory.org)
1 points by vog 10y ago|0 comments
829.
Paradise Unplugged: Identif. Barriers for Female Participation on Stack Overflow(neverworkintheory.org)
1 points by vog 10y ago|0 comments
830.
The Role of Ethnographic Studies in Empirical Software Engineering(neverworkintheory.org)
2 points by vog 10y ago|0 comments
831.
by vog 10y ago
> electrical really is that efficient [...] albeit a heavy investment, they should be employed in buses and taxis first Most cities, and whole countries!, already have this! And they had this for a long time. It is just mostly overlook
832.
Bibisect – binary bisect(wiki.documentfoundation.org)
3 points by vog 10y ago|0 comments
833.
by vog 10y ago
According to their website, there is only one JavaScript implementation, this that one seems to be for server side (NodeJS), not client side (browser). And even if we had that, we would need some consensus (read: coding rules) on how to exa
834.
by vog 10y ago
I wonder if this isn't already covered by archive.org ... (And if not, why not? They collect so many other things.)
835.
by vog 10y ago
Indeed, this is a common workaround when your editor has no proper syntax highlighting. Still, in today's world nobody would write in that style in other programming languages. You see the same issue with other relicts, for example, Pa
836.
by vog 10y ago
> You had to use upper case only. It may not sounds a big deal, but you'll get tired of it eventually when working with lots of fortran code. Fun fact: Nowadays people are doing the same with SQL - even though there is absolutely
837.
by vog 10y ago
Luckily they also support direct donations via bank transfer (SEPA), so I can give it to them without having the coffee cut by Google or PayPal.
838.
by vog 10y ago
They only want money for providing the build. The source code and build scripts are free/libre. From the website: How do I install Conversations? Conversations is entirely open source and licensed under GPLv3. So if you are a
839.
by vog 10y ago
Since this distiction is really important, shouldn't we consequently call it "Restricted-XML" (or "restricted-xml" as of RFC 3920) instead of XML?
840.
by vog 10y ago
> XML really isn't that bad. Honestly. It can be (and is) parsed fast, without any schemas at all Only if you agree upfront on some kind of "safe subset" of XML. For example, disabling entity references helps a lot in te

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