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by wlievens 16y ago
Maybe that's what's happening right now :-) If I would build something like this, I'd go for an interpreter with a stack you manage yourself to handle infinite loops... using a timeout, not by solving the halting problem, random smartass!
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by wlievens 16y ago
From 2007. Would love to see something updated!
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by wlievens 16y ago
Causing the scrollbar to appear :-)
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by wlievens 16y ago
Has this ever happened?
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by wlievens 16y ago
Was it necessary at some point? I'm not being sarcastic, just interested.
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by wlievens 16y ago
I'm now picturing James Bond ordering a Salade Niçoise in said manner.
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by wlievens 16y ago
The (and search) might solve that?
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by wlievens 16y ago
Just guessing: instead of handing you an installation disk and a license key, they tell you "on disk X there's the installer and the keygen"?
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by wlievens 16y ago
Unfortunately, this is common. It's also something for which there doesn't appear to be a gray area. You either see a mature (in the 'attitude' sense, not 'age'), professional company that legally obtains licenses, or you see people using c
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by wlievens 16y ago
In theory, sure. There's a gray area where you're not quite content with the employee, but the employee is making some progress, so you may want to hold out. But surely in that case frequent feedback is a must (to guide the progress) so I g
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by wlievens 16y ago
The Commonwealth Saga by Peter F. Hamilton.
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by wlievens 16y ago
The Pentagon was not attacked to disrupt military capability. That would consistute a military target. It was attacked for the symbolic value.
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by wlievens 16y ago
That's interesting and relevant, but should in no way mean this post needs to be flagged. I wasn't aware of any of this (post nor rebuttal) for instance.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Not just a reasonable reply, but also quite timely for a hosting company.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Where I live, a company-paid car lease is pretty much standard for every non-junior developer. It sounds decadent and it probably isn't the "best" non-cash benefit one can come up with, but it does bring a lot of value since paying for a ca
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by wlievens 16y ago
Really? Wikipedia is pathetic unless he starts charging for it?
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by wlievens 16y ago
> So learn OOP from multiple perspectives. This is key. Even if you end up never using the less traditional OOP models, learning them will let you write better software in the conventional languages. I can say with certainty that my bas
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by wlievens 16y ago
I cannot second this enough. Suspension of disbelief isn't some accidental aspect of fiction, it is essential to enjoying it. When even a casual viewing (as opposed to rigorous pseudo-scientific analysis) can't maintain suspension of disb
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by wlievens 16y ago
The holodeck is one of the most-abused plot elements in Star Trek. Basically every time budget was short or the production crew felt like using other costumes, they'd just use the holodeck as magical plot element. With grave plot inconsiste
740.
by wlievens 16y ago
So basically you're saying that if you make your sample size small enough, you can prove your point? :-)
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by wlievens 16y ago
If it's not a case here, how could this be a good example ? This is an example of generating code to work around a limitation. You can approve or disapprove of the whole situation, but it does have technical merit.
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by wlievens 16y ago
It's been a while since I generated JVM bytecode (oh my, five years), but I don't recall there being array initializer instructions. In other words, the new Object[] {...} statement probably translates to a whole bunch of array-write operat
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by wlievens 16y ago
Same here, but it may be an age thing rather than a wealth thing. Both correlations exist.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, I interpret you as saying "they wanted to preserve gameplay over a potentially more interesting business model, and that's a bad thing". Maybe you're not a gamer, so that makes it harder to imagine. But game
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by wlievens 16y ago
Indeed. I don't think people were ready for that model in 1997.
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by wlievens 16y ago
There's a saying that goes something like: never lend a book, always give it.
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by wlievens 16y ago
That's downright cruel.
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by wlievens 16y ago
AFAIK stevia isn't genetically modified at all. It's banned because of the sugar lobby.
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by wlievens 16y ago
I don't get it. What does this have to do with Java?
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by wlievens 16y ago
Not having decided what he wants may be part of the question.

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