webjprgm

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by webjprgm 11y ago
I don't think 2-3 partners is really low. I find it hard to imagine most people being successful at seducing a very large number of people. Probably in most cases it is <= the number of boyfriends the girl has had. I could also poin
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by webjprgm 11y ago
It isn't just lack of money. Teenagers are not as emotionally mature, they have not finished figuring out what to accomplish with their lives (career or otherwise), and often they end up being single parents. There is tons of family re
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by webjprgm 11y ago
And I disagree with that statement too. So do various researchers on families and marriage. (I'm horrible at remembering sources, I'd have to hunt them down if you really want them.) And I'm sure there's differing conclu
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by webjprgm 11y ago
But the government or a school giving birth control is someone teaching the children something parents don't want taught. So you are trampling on the rights of the parents in that case. If the child were to independently decide having
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by webjprgm 11y ago
If I understand correctly, modeling a program at the x86 instruction set level is cool but it would have a more complicated list of states than a high level language. More states means more computation to do the symbolic execution, therefor
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by webjprgm 11y ago
Downloading and running it once would set up the exploit but not complete it, IIRC. You need to go back to the target app and re-enter credentials then run the exploit app a second time. So a broken app that a user would run once and then d
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by webjprgm 11y ago
I'm no accountant, but I imagine they can classify various Prime customers into buckets based on what services they use and see that the average usage of any one bucket of customers matches up with the cost of Amazon Prime. If a custom
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by webjprgm 11y ago
Do you also consider TIVO to be stealing?
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by webjprgm 11y ago
But that's a hassle. First you have to figure out how to use the webpage / app to get the virtual credit card number. Once you know, you still have to log into a separate service and click a few buttons. With PayPal or Amazon Pay
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by webjprgm 11y ago
In my case I have one car and one account but my wife is usually driving in the morning and drops me off. So those trips get chopped in half and messes up the data. I basically use it only as a novelty at this point. I could set it up on he
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by webjprgm 11y ago
It also points out that execution is more important than the idea. Halpern could have also built an Uber-like service, since it sounds like he had a prototype of one already, and beat them fairly in the market. But since he failed now he is
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by webjprgm 11y ago
Government is just as unstable. Doesn't the OP say that trains were better funded in the past than now, and other posters have said the same about Federal interstates? The political climate changes so funding for projects change.
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by webjprgm 11y ago
I suppose. Kinda like => for "maps to" in some math / theory classes.
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by webjprgm 11y ago
Similar for scratch paper. Whiteboard is just a collaborative version, but in both cases you are working out incomplete ideas to arrive at a sketch of a plan. It is only necessary to capture the final plan. <rant> On that note, here&#
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by webjprgm 11y ago
I'm not a fan of using -> like CoffeeScript does. It doesn't seem to mean function-body / algorithm-to-do-the-thing to me. That operator makes sense for pointers or for function return value type expressions.
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by webjprgm 11y ago
This is also what I thought. I was disappointed to see no TNG references on the page.
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by webjprgm 11y ago
Does a VM of a PC count as a JIT compiler? Can we compile VirtualBox to JS using one of those C->JS compilers? I'm sure we can come up with some stack of turtles here ...
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by webjprgm 11y ago
I like seeing the trends of what features show up frequently in new languages. These features manage to work their way into more popular languages, either as changes to existing ones like Java or C++11 or new languages like Swift and Go.
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by webjprgm 11y ago
With what crystal ball? If you pick based on history, since you kinda have to, then you pick a more mature (older) language. If you're not careful with that you pick languages just before they go obsolete. (Like a company I know which
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by webjprgm 12y ago
I used some OS X APIs like this to have test machines and a test controller machine find each other. That was a while ago so I don't remember the details, but maybe it was built on the same APIs.
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by webjprgm 12y ago
Both LibreOffice and OpenOffice tend to crash on me. I stopped using them, but my wife still does and they still occasionally crash/hang on her. So in terms of stability I cannot recommend them. They also just look uglier. I have not l
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by webjprgm 12y ago
IIRC, React Native still runs a JavaScript thread to execute the logic. JUniversal and similar code translators will convert to Obj-C (iOS) or C# (Windows Phone) to run at native speed / memory / CPU consumption.
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by webjprgm 12y ago
Back when I was learning to program with Java 1.0 (using the AWT, no Swing) I made a text editor that supported syntax highlighting. My first big mistake was to open my text editor's source code with my fledgling text editor and attemp
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by webjprgm 12y ago
Was Orwell's point one of ethics? Or just powerful government versus weak, with the idea that a powerful government will be tyranical rather than benevolent. Is it not a common theme that a more powerful government offers greater stabi
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by webjprgm 12y ago
Google/Facebook don't have to sell your info to advertisers because the are advertisers. Either way it is used for commercial advantage.
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by webjprgm 12y ago
Are we saying the power to cause harm is what makes surveillance bad? Google has the authority to blacklist webpages so that they drop off Google search results and destroy the income of those websites.
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by webjprgm 12y ago
I think the point is that if the speaker is not one who may have experienced the discrimination then the speaker is not able to say that it does not exist. Do you agree or disagree with this idea? (Pithy comments may be fun, but a flame war
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by webjprgm 12y ago
Very interesting. As a white male, the closest experience I have is living for a couple years in Venezuela and Chile. Chile not so much, but in Venezuela I was frequently harassed with anti-American phrases. But I wasn't a child so it
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by webjprgm 12y ago
I might also point out that OO and FP are not strictly at odds. You can use object libraries in FP languages to encapsulate the state and logic but avoid the mutation of the state. So if the two issues are orthogonal then you're both r
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by webjprgm 12y ago
Awesome! (I've long had a secret wish to get stranded on a deserted alien planet and have to build my own computer.)

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