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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
> This is pretty off-putting, especially given a few glaring factual errors in your own post. Ironic, given you started with none. I standby the response, as appropriate commentary. > IDK what "good money" means, I don'
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
> This article compares "teachers, police officers, nurses, farmers" to "lawyers and bankers", claiming that the latter make much more money than the former. > In general, that's not actually true. Please do c
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
> You're complaining that you can't tell what this HN submission is about from the top-voted comment alone Nope. johnonolan's post is top and it explains about as much as the site. Not much at all. There's an animated
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_proliferation ? Thorium/breeder reactors don't work for large booms, but would be fine for small booms and dirty bombs.
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
That's missing a tangential point, but not THE ostensible point (topical)?
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
So it was an accurate depiction of what they would be working on? It seems like this is akin to the goal.
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
No. It's alive and particularly pragmatic in dynamic languages. The type of sigil, @ or $ or I or Array(space) are all equal to the interpreter. The difference is how offended you might be that type annotations are semantically identic
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
I prefer a convention of semantically relevant variable names prefixed/suffixed by a letter indicating type.
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
> He was working at an Arizona bank, where he was a “programmer,” not a “software developer.” That's an example of nightmarish bureaucracy getting in the way of hiring. Titles don't mean anything in software development. If you
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
> Code Review should be about catching mistakes. Overly-complicated code is a mistake. Maintainability matters almost as much as a passing unit test. You want your code reviews to catch meaningful things, but they often end up being abou
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
> The fourth amendment absolutely applies to hotel rooms. Hotel Security aren't the federal government. The 4th amendment? C'mon.
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
Seattle and almost anywhere in Southern California are also fantastic areas.
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
> The porn industry is violently against even basic things like condom use THAT is a matter of profitability, whatever else you may think. SMH I have to wonder what's wrong with people who think there's some other motives.
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
> reinforce an invalid argument. It's not about some logical argument. That's for a judge to decide.
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
> The set of integers do not form a field The set of integers represented by the integer types of pony can be treated as a field, since they have discrete ranges.
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
> programmers write programs to solve real problems, and real problems define 1/0=undefined Saying that is easy and common. Can you come up with a contrived example?
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
The topic is a computer language. I'm referring to utility.
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
I think this is calling for a Pony programmer working with floating point to know how their own basic operators function. Wrapping division in a function that checks for zero will give you the proper result you would like to return.
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
> You’re doing something different than real number arithmetic Computer languages execute on rules that are not utilizing real number arithmetic. I didn't want to mention it, but there's these things called floats... Edit: Pony
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
1/0 = undef (cast to 0) 1 != 0*0 I don't see the inconsistency. Abstract math vs practical application.
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
> the many pieces of code that assume that (x / y) * y equals x The same issue if division by zero throws an exception. This is simply a more practical approach that dispenses with the exception handling (ie becomes a less irregular
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
Classic postmodernist eventuality. Everyone is equal, but if you take issue in highlighting that a practice might offend by implying that there is a difference, you become the enemy in reverse... eg what, you think blackface is offensive to
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
I disagree. The larger context and underlying causes are not possible without the groundwork. The claims that it isn't being done reads like you just want the answers faster, while simultaneously implying that proper rigor is not being
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
Howabout not using Node.js in your mail server? I mean who thinks this is a good idea?
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by FlipperBucket 8y ago
https://www.focusonthefamily.com/marriage/communication-and-... This is a widely discussed topic.