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by vor_ 13y ago
One problem I have with Lua is that it silently returns nil when accessing non-existent elements. There are a few hacks around this, but the most common only protect global access. I have to wonder why the language reports no error in that
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by vor_ 13y ago
I see nothing wrong with criticizing him for being undeserving of the prize, because he is.
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It seems naive to consider it a coincidence that something so blatantly pro-whistleblower has quietly been removed within the last month. He obviously broke an election promise to protect and encourage whistleblowers who speak out against a
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by vor_ 13y ago
I'm telling you that singling out conservatives for being hypocrites while ignoring your "side" for being hypocrites is a form of modern tribalism. In other words, you're part of the problem of gridlock because you'
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by vor_ 13y ago
I do understand where that irony comes from, thank you. I was pointing out the irony that conservatives would hate half the founders for being radical liberals, while liberals would hate the other half for being radical conservatives. Hones
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by vor_ 13y ago
Haha, great troll, dudebro! Well, gonna go back to making money from iOS apps and running Linux on a backend server since I can still write software, download development tools, and generate binaries.
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by vor_ 13y ago
But iOS users surpass Android users in web usage and other smartphone features. Android is essentially the default choice on cheap feature phones. It's often what one gets when there is no choice.
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by vor_ 13y ago
Staggeringly ignorant if you think the Apple ecosystem is nothing but fart apps. Seriously, I haven't seen one of those in many years.
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by vor_ 13y ago
The irony is in the fact that, as today's conservatives would hate many of the founding fathers for being godless radical liberals, today's liberals would hate many of them for being anti-government Tea Party extremists.
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I don't understand singling out conservatives here. Liberals have been at least as complicit in bloating the spectrum of government power. Even worse, the majority of the media expressed practically no skeptical interest until they fou
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by vor_ 13y ago
That irony isn't specific to conservatives. Today's liberals would have hated many of the anti-government founding fathers.
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by vor_ 13y ago
The Senator merely said he has "a feeling" that the administration is concerned about bulk phone records collection. As of yet, there's no definitive confirmation that this is true.
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by vor_ 13y ago
I have to admit I was never a fan of Obama and didn't understand those who trusted his promises as a candidate. Every candidate makes promises they rarely keep, but Obama was well known for the level of change he claimed he would bring
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by vor_ 13y ago
The Democrats that controlled both houses of Congress made Obamacare happen.
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The Psychology of the Man of Steel(underthemaskonline.com)
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When did this trend start to refer to things as a "story"?
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What context is added to his original statement by the subsequent sentence that changes its meaning? If anything, it strengthens his point by mentioning that Google retains the information, and that one example of its use is that authoritie
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by vor_ 13y ago
Somehow, I won't feel bad if a multi-billion dollar advertising company has to deal with privacy laws that make their data-harvesting a little harder.
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by vor_ 13y ago
I don't think it's self-obsessed to care about your privacy, and I don't think there shouldn't a reasonable expectation of privacy in public places. For example, if you're a woman and you bend over, and someone snaps a photo down your blous
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by vor_ 13y ago
I don't understand the recurring drive people have for trying to write native applications without Objective-C. The various bridges and other glue projects never feel complete or as well-integrated with the system frameworks.
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by vor_ 13y ago
> The most interesting possiblility would be that this is the start of Apple’s evolution away from Objective-C into promoting a higher-level language for their platform That seems like an enormous leap of speculation.
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To please customers?
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This has been explained before. Google+ numbers can be misleading because they're tied to other services. The article mentions this: "The reasons behind Google Plus's growth -- it now can boast 359 million active users, up 33 percent from 2
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by vor_ 13y ago
Many games on Steam can be played in offline modes. Maxis claimed there was extensive server-side processing that required SimCity's online connectivity, but this was proven to be an exaggeration. In addition to a lack of local saving/loadi
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by vor_ 13y ago
I always liked Batman because he was obsessed with perfecting himself, while I liked Superman because he was like a universal punishment of evil and an example of morality, someone given amazing powers who chooses to be selfless, never lie,
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by vor_ 13y ago
Batman didn't have to apply himself to make his money. He's what happens when you give billions of dollars to an angry orphan with no social life. As a Hercules-like demigod character, it's partly the point that Superman is more than the me
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by vor_ 13y ago
Well, it's Sunday, and it's kind of nice to have a fun submission now and then. The author related his love of Superman to hope in the face of tragedy. I can dig that.
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by vor_ 13y ago
Well, Batman's powers are handed to him on a silver platter as well, being born into wealth and given access to technology. When talking about story cop-outs, just as Superman is usually invulnerable to things due to superpowers, Batman end
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by vor_ 13y ago
I think a great many other people--mainstream customers who don't read websites like Hacker News--would argue that they don't care about the free software movement or hacking devices. They think people using the term "dictatorship" in refer
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by vor_ 13y ago
> She probably could afford most of the perks her jobs provides, but for some reason a nursery gets singled out as some outlandish thing. You're being obtuse. Obviously, the nursery is getting singled out because of the no-telecommuting

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