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by yarrel 9y ago
1. Spend an awful lot of time chasing tenure. 2. Spend an awful lot of time trolling each other on Facebook. 3. Occasionally rehash old ideas. 4. Even more occasionally come up with breathtaking insights into the nature of reality and what
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by yarrel 9y ago
Next: GNU Privacy Guard implements the Clipper Chip algorithm. Why did GNU accept this state surveillance system as a project?
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by yarrel 9y ago
If we don't know that, our code has worse problems. It's the same in C-syntax languages with an if in a for in a function inline in a class. Losing a } is the least of our problems. Clojure breaks readability for me personally, sq
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by yarrel 9y ago
Someone reinvented shareware. This doesn't tackle the problem it claims to (livelihoods in free software) and misidentifies where the burden of license compliance falls (big companies are often among the most reluctant to use free soft
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by yarrel 9y ago
Why does an init system do DNS lookup? And in such a breaking way?
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by yarrel 9y ago
If this was phrased as a question it would be a trick one.
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by yarrel 9y ago
Which seems a little bit like training wheels for a starship. But it has its fans.
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by yarrel 9y ago
"Better PSD Support The PSD plug-in now supports a wider range of blending modes for layers, at both importing and exporting: Linear Burn, Linear Light, Vivid Light, Pin Light, and Hard Mix blending modes. It also finally supports expo
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by yarrel 9y ago
And if I use a teleportation device to move money directly out of a bank vault no breaking and entering has occurred and therefore no theft.
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by yarrel 9y ago
I think this is a great idea, and we should apply it to insurance benefits in other areas. Go to the doctor? You have to clean the gutters in a street for a few hours. Claim for stolen property? You have to help paint fences. House burns do
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by yarrel 9y ago
JS linters catch sources of bugs. That's a gain. A standard style makes code easier to read across a codebase. This makes the code easier to understand and easier to find bugs in. So no.
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by yarrel 9y ago
It may work the same way every time, but the way it works the same is different depending on context.
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by yarrel 9y ago
No, that a switch statement is more verbose than a single function. Switch statements in OOP are a sign that something is wrong.
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by yarrel 9y ago
Amazon own Book Depository. I recently had a run-in with their support department when they shipped me a book that was a) a photocopy of the original b) with a damaged cover. They were not willing to take any responsibility for this and mad
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by yarrel 9y ago
Bitcoin's original codebase is presumably part of Satoshi's plan. It contained sequence numbers, lock times, and transaction replacement.
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by yarrel 9y ago
Turing cops?
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by yarrel 9y ago
I'm using XPS 13 with Debian Stretch. Eveything except HDMI out from the USB-C dock works. I think that's a kernel patch merge away.
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by yarrel 9y ago
* Practice in private. Practice, practice, practice. People will tell you that you can over-practice a talk, and that's true, but it's not true the first time you're giving a talk. Or the third. * Practice recovering when you
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by yarrel 9y ago
Yes but that doesn't mean that they wrote this particular code. Authorship isn't transitive.
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by yarrel 9y ago
Cluster bombs have such blatant propaganda spread against them by well-meaning but naive individuals. Don't be fooled - look at all their positive uses!
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by yarrel 9y ago
A lot of very solid code has been written in it over the years and continues to be used as libraries accessed from e.g. R.
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by yarrel 9y ago
Not all countries have a president.
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by yarrel 9y ago
I made it all the way through. I wish I hadn't.
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by yarrel 9y ago
"Besides frequently losing itself in superfluous and wildly tangential flights of lexical diarrhea, the book suffers under the sheer burden of its incredible length." http://www.edrants.com/the-infinite-jest-review
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by yarrel 9y ago
We?
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by yarrel 10y ago
Some do by choice, as part of the gameplay and part of the feel of the world. Some do by accident, for example if you can proceed to the next location in the game without an object you need to solve the challenge in it and without the abili
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by yarrel 10y ago
Also, this "article" is not an individual item of clothing or part of a legal constitution, it is a piece of writing.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Your low opinion of Russia is showing.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Yes that still doesn't work.
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by yarrel 10y ago
That's awesome! I'm going to try it on my Touch.

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