Contero

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by Contero 8y ago
Yeah re-reading the wording now I think you're right. It's this part that throws me off: > could determine that, in the absence of any undefined behavior "could determine that" based on the code example shown vs &quot
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by Contero 8y ago
> Consider the following example: if (cond) { A[1] = X; } else { A[0] = X; } > A total license implementation could determine that, in the absence of any undefined behavior, the condition cond must have value 0 or 1
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by Contero 12y ago
I found it odd that the author seems to think that empathy for the individual is somehow at odds with caring for the many, instead of being closely correlated. As if removing empathy would somehow get people to care more about each other, r
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by Contero 13y ago
I would keep all the normal editing methods in place, but just add this as a friendly alternative for new users.
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by Contero 13y ago
What I think wikipedia needs more than anything is a new way to propose an edit without actually committing it, and to be able to solicit feedback or have others fix it for you before having it finally approved and submitted. It needs to be
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by Contero 13y ago
Making self-driving cars safer than people-driven cars is trivial. The hard thing will be handling the tidal wave of FUD when the inevitable happens and someone dies as a result of one. Google or Nissan or whoever will need a mountain of go
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by Contero 13y ago
I think an interesting implication of this is that people may feel satisfied having purchased something useless that seems to have enough "stuff" in it.
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by Contero 13y ago
I think the idea is that if the manufacturer was the only one selling, that they could inflate their prices higher than what the middleman overhead would be since they're the only one offering that product. Why he thinks competition between
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by Contero 13y ago
He gave a sincere followup. It wasn't sarcasm.
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by Contero 13y ago
I really think Android should add another layer of protection here, similar to the "This app wants to use your location" prompt in iOS. I'd like to be able to install an app that might need to access my phonebook in some use case but be abl
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by Contero 13y ago
If the author wants us to discuss the point he should get to it faster rather than droning on about apple stock and product pipelines. 300 words isn't so much that it's cumbersome to read, but it definitely primed me to think that his point
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by Contero 13y ago
I think Machinarium is a good example of how you can preserve the fun frustration of adventure games without pushing people to cheat. They would allow you to play a mini-game in order to reveal some extra hints which would push you in the r
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by Contero 13y ago
So clearly similar laws should exist to protect email, encrypted or not.
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by Contero 13y ago
I'm curious what exactly it is about pointers that makes them so hard to understand. Many new programmers seem to warm up to Java "references" just fine, and they have mostly the same semantics of C pointers. Maybe it's because passing by v
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by Contero 13y ago
The causation could easily be backwards. Who wants to marry a depressed, unsatisfied drinker? > Isn't it generally sound to assume causation until the position can be falsified? Not really, no. Would you assume causation in the case of
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by Contero 13y ago
On the contrary, I think people who are already comfortable with vim have a harder time identifying the pains of learning it. There are many problems that started out as pains but are second nature to us now, so we don't think to optimize t
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by Contero 13y ago
You reminded me of a sort-of relevant part from Richard III that I enjoyed: BUCKINGHAM: And when mine oratory grew to an end I bid them that did love their country's good Cry 'God save Richard, England's royal king!' RICHARD: Ah! and did th
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by Contero 13y ago
I thought that was meant to be a joke. At least I hope it was. It would get a good laugh from me in an interview.
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by Contero 14y ago
I don't get it. Nearly that exact scenario played out with John Lasseter and Disney/Pixar. I don't see why it would be unreasonable here.
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by Contero 14y ago
Why is it idiotic? I see more value in having Disney pay an appropriately large amount of money to keep their IP than I see in making sure that their specific content gets into the public domain. Who cares about steamboat willy if Disney is
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by Contero 14y ago
It sounds like it would allow a client to send data (HTTP request) before the server has acknowledged that the TCP connection is open.
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by Contero 14y ago
"Just don't configure it that way" -Jen-Hsun
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by Contero 14y ago
Google maps allows you to find things you didn't know existed in the first place. I've often found myself spinning the globe and zooming down onto a remote island's beaches just to see what it looks like on another part of the world. Being
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by Contero 14y ago
> 2. People will write it the "bad" way anyway. People will write bad code in every programming language you give them. I don't see that as a justification for limiting the expressiveness of a language. If you take that line of reasonin
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by Contero 14y ago
You're over engineering this I think. The "hash" only needs to be an internal account id that can be plugged into Blizzard's database to get your account info. No encryption is necessary. There is no way to get a mapping of internal code to
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by Contero 14y ago
What I don't understand is why the screenshot would contain your literal realm id, and not a hash that only Blizzard could understand. As long as Blizzard is the only party that can glean meaningful information from these watermarks I see n
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by Contero 14y ago
I'm a technical user who spends a lot of time using Linux, and it gets out of my way for doing development quite well. Of course, that's because I exclusively connect to Linux machines through an ssh terminal on my Win7 workstation. I've pe