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by wott 8y ago
> Indirectly yes, they will ask why their computer is slow. Then they'll buy a new one and accept the salespitch for fiber gbps link. This evening there was that broadcast on our national radio about "white zones", I don&#
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by wott 8y ago
True and wrong at the same time for France. In STEM, that's true. But in humanities, one third of PhD student do not get any stipend. Also, that's not so much under what you would do in the private sector. In 'industry',
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by wott 8y ago
And wine barrels.
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by wott 8y ago
It depends on whether or not the mansion is located on the top of a hill.
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by wott 8y ago
Reading the answers to your comment is kind of depressing (and that's a depressive speaking :-)).
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by wott 8y ago
A bit of searching seems to indicate that it depended on each Echomail conference (== newsgroup); they had flags, and one possible flag was "real names" (== mandatory real name). Most of the echomails seem to bear it. (I could not
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by wott 8y ago
It probably depended on the kind of BBS and the era too: in my country, on Fidonet almost everyone used his real name.
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by wott 8y ago
> He had never done any of these things himself before. Not only he had never done these before, but he had never paid attention for a single minute how they were done by his parents, he did not care, things appeared, ready done, that wa
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by wott 8y ago
I tried to shift into landscape design and park maintenance. I had 2 training periods. I was supposed to work on sites or supervise those works. After a few weeks or months, I ended up drawing AutoCAD plans in the 1st one, and I started dev
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by wott 8y ago
> Pure fun. Well... that gets quite different when you do it in a professional context. I'd say there is more pressure than in pure software development. 1. The deadlines are harder. You cannot really ship a half-baked product and
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by wott 8y ago
> No one teaches these languages. How popular could they get if companies and universities spent millions of hours collectively drilling even the most marginal programmer on how to use them like they do for C++ and Java? Schools and un
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by wott 8y ago
> My smart phone makes me a functional member of society This statement leaves me speechless. A huge feeling of vertigo. Are we really there?
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by wott 8y ago
> However, it's definitely a possibility in the future, and the organization of the groups into a hierarchy some some interesting possibilities for it, where different languages could have their own separate group hierarchy. Final
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by wott 8y ago
> The regulators have been running for two decades, Exactly 4 decades in France (it started in 1978).
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by wott 8y ago
- News Best TV and radio channels across the globe are government channels, funded by tax. - content creators on youtube & twitch 99,99% dispensable trash. - music Music funded by ads??? - search The only point that holds in you
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by wott 9y ago
That's how it goes in other countries: if the construction work lasts longer than N days and affects a business, there is a compensation.
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by wott 9y ago
> I don't know if my interests shield me from bad subreddits but most of the one I glance at are fine, at worst they're just comatose but never toxic. Hmmm, then I guess that's because you don't come often on airfra
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by wott 9y ago
> Most car manufacturers are releasing their products on the public year after year, knowing full well that a decent percentage of people that drive away from the dealership will be killed by the thing they just bought. Nope, and that&
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by wott 9y ago
Tag them.
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by wott 9y ago
Apparently, passing "-lmylib" to a compiler/linker has become a terrible effort indeed.
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by wott 9y ago
Not sure why you felt necessary to create an account to post this message. It is not funny and yet it is wrong on all accounts. Do I even need to discuss that C doesn't have libraries??? And a module == a compilation unit.
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by wott 9y ago
That's all fine and dandy. You can quote all the shiny names you want from your domain and write a novel about them as it seems you are in the mood for doing that, it will not change anything to what I witness on each C forum I follo
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by wott 9y ago
I have mostly seen it done by (young) people who come from web dev. They bring their bad habits together with them. And they usually don't get a very warm welcome for that. I mean, we've been nicely organising our sources in files
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by wott 9y ago
Yes, if you mean to wrap world potatoes peelings.
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by wott 9y ago
> Dairy farming is actually one of the occupations where the time change is harder because the cows are ready for milking regardless of the time on the clock. Twice a year I hear that, and twice a year I ask: "why on Earth do you pr
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by wott 9y ago
Yes, with the invasion of cheap Chinese (and alike) stuff, I calculated that you can can dressed with about 3% of the minimal wage in my country (where income is a bit below the one in the USA).
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by wott 9y ago
> before you free, check for Null. You can free(NULL), no problem. It will not do anything.
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by wott 9y ago
The 382th episode in which a rustacean blames C while he has only practised C++. 1. The (int PTR) cast of malloc() gives you away immediately. No cast in C. 2. > missing free on resize. When the resize occurs, we reassign vec->data w
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by wott 9y ago
What you say is completely bogus. Taxis are not expensive in Finland, they are less expensive than in most Western European countries.
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by wott 9y ago
I lived 8 years in Finland. Taxis were not expensive, they were also easily available and convenient, and an incredible lot of people used them. I mean, you could easily get taxis in the middle of the night in small towns (below 5000 inhabi

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