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by xen0 3y ago
That's what taste kind of does...
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by xen0 3y ago
Median annual salary in the UK in 1999 was £19k. Average house price was £75k; a bit over treble. Median salary 2022 was £33k. Median house price was £265k; over 8 times the median salary. Not controlled for interest rates or changes in th
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by xen0 3y ago
9 seems to high for 'several'... Maybe 'quite a few'?
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by xen0 3y ago
How exactly does Google make Bing sub-par?
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by xen0 3y ago
Honestly, if you're at 'thousands of formulae' across multiple sheets, I'd probably suggest writing a graph based execution engine too. The circular reference thing would have definitely thrown me for a loop though.
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by xen0 3y ago
I believe that, in many places, tech jobs are exempt from such restrictions.
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by xen0 3y ago
65 million UK users over 16? I don't think there's 65 million people in the UK over 16.
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by xen0 3y ago
A spare can be the difference between arriving somewhere 30 minutes late and waiting two hours to be taken home.
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by xen0 3y ago
Is it reasonable to view the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation as being the limit of this? The remains of the big bang, maximally scaled up and red shifted as far as things can be today?
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by xen0 3y ago
Hobson's Choice is not something to be celebrated.
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by xen0 3y ago
When your favourite program stops working after an OS update, who do you blame? If you really want that program to run, what do you do? There are business reasons to maintain backwards compatibility, and they were very strong before the eas
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by xen0 3y ago
The code was shipped, just disabled.
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by xen0 3y ago
The job of BMW's advertisers isn't to convince me to buy a car. It's to convince me to buy their car instead of one from Tesla or Mercedes. And me walking into a BMW dealership does not mean I've decided to conduct busin
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by xen0 3y ago
Sometimes I know what I want, and if a salesman starts trying to sell me a 'concept' or a 'lifestyle' instead of a car, I'm walking away.
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by xen0 3y ago
Do you now have any 'work examplesin obscure language'? Or was the manager just interested in trivia?
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by xen0 3y ago
Traffic is not solved by moving the roads underground...
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by xen0 3y ago
Presumably getting up at 4am for a hunt requires a bit of planning? Is that really something an extra dial on your wristwatch will help with?
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by xen0 3y ago
Python can do that because: * it's not an error to have an unbound name in scope; just referencing it at runtime is an error. * there is a reasonable default; anything can be set to None This doesn't hold in C++. If your class thr
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by xen0 3y ago
Wait, you seriously hold that position!? As in, only Java permits good code?
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by xen0 3y ago
Right, but if constructing OutputStream throws ExceptionA, you shouldn't have it in scope; it's not something you can use.
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by xen0 3y ago
I don't think that helps? If, as is kind of the point of RAII, your constructors do some initialization and that initialization may fail, then: If you have a single object that may fail to construct then maintaining it in scope for the
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by xen0 3y ago
And a lack of checked exceptions means good programmers can't write good code? So good code may only be written in Java? No... I don't think so. Checked Exceptions are at best, just a 'hey, are you sure that's right thin
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by xen0 3y ago
A sarcastic 'careful what you wish for'. But to say the solution for people liking something evolution has made us like is to like things evolution made us avoid is... weird? For some people, some bitter tastes are intense; no amo
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by xen0 3y ago
Like alcohol?
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by xen0 3y ago
I think that should be caveated with 'you should try it _once_'. It is more than possible, but for anything non-trivial, it just sucks.
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by xen0 3y ago
But that doesn't mean the source code wouldn't necessarily be exuded in a debug build. I don't know the truth of the original statement, but it isn't too unbelievable.
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by xen0 3y ago
'Most' software is unseen. You'll never see the myriad of hidden Java services or tools that are internal to 'BigNameCorp Inc.' You won't hear of the tiny bespoke C# apps that some little dotcom uses to manage
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by xen0 3y ago
Population inversion is a thing; many lasers exhibit this behaviour. But we tend not to talk about the 'temperature' of electron energy levels. If we did, then they would have negative temperature.
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by xen0 3y ago
Things like this mean I just can't regard Tesla as a serious car company. They're a company that mostly makes cars, sure, but they (and investors) clearly view themselves as something else.
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by xen0 3y ago
That's not how git works. Unless every commit changes every single file in the repo (without ever reverting to a previous state). Most repos don't work that way. 22 million commits is a lot though; the author states that the repo

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