devnulloverflow

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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
> I can't even find a half decent http client which handles all the important stuff. I'm guessing you don't count cURL as half-decent. Because it's API is C++k let alone idiomatic, modern C++?
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
> comply with the law It's not a defense of a bad law to say that it forces people to by "comply with the law".
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
It also depends on the country. I had family hand me a 500 Euro note because they couldn't even get get it changed at banks in France. I took it on my trip to Austria a week later and got it changed at the post office.
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
It's a joke. The whole point is for the author to cast themself in a negative light.
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
Yeah, it's an amazingly creative technique: explain the fuck your thing is, so that people might decide they want it. I suspect the market does not lie though, and if you are pedaling broken stuff t to middle-managers, it's best t
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
Most versions of the American accent are a bit nasal compared to other English speakers, so I guess that makes it higher pitched on average -- even if I wouldn't call it "shrill". Also, there is no a neat separation between n
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
It would have been a great title. But the pedants like me would have crept up to say "but Liskov tells us we can accept substitutes".
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
Is there an actual explanation of how the design fridge works?
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
> ..., you often get no feedback after job interviews. There is nothing new in this.
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
Now you are confusing me, because in Australia "mall" means something else -- and in Bondi Junction there's a mall right outside the Westfield. I had some visitors from from Washington DC recently. They were impressed at how
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
Because in America these things are designed by zoning and the political process. What you describe in Japan sounds like the Horrors of Captialism and can't possibly be allowed in America. (Except I suppose it does happen, since the w
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
> Complexity will increase, but our level of abstraction will increase to match, as with any technology. But this is no panacea. The complexity will still be there, and ops folks will have to deal with it through extra layers of indirec
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
That looks, on it's face, like a violation of the 14th amendment equal protection clause.
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
A public safety rationale would be about cops service weapons. The parent post sounds like he means individual cops can buy guns on the open market as private citizens would be allowed to do in states with looser gun laws.
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
> why didn't they test before panicking? Because that's the sort of thing that can blow out a lawsuit or result in bad press.
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
What does ISTM stand for?
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
Are you talking about in house spies, or spies placed in companies by governments? If the latter, then the answer is all of them .
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
> British idiomatic spellings Let's get this straight. There's "American English" used in the US and Canada. And then there English, where "colour" is spelled with a "U", and that's used in
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
The Nazis got away with going around beating up opponents with truncheons. The authorities turning a blind eye to that stuff was not an upholding of anyone's civil liberties, it was being complicit in shutting down other's free ex
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
That's a of an odd reading of an article that is going out of it's way to point out that the "marketplace of ideas" idea was (1) not the justification for the 1st Amendment and (2) that Ben doesn't view it as the ju
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
It's interesting to see how Hamilton's arguments against a bill of rights hinges on the idea that the government doesn't have power unless the Constitution grants power to the government. > Why, for instance, should it
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
> copyright enforcement. Ahh, but copyright won the last war, by moving to centralised platforms. The privacy mavens are going to lose, but they are going to lose to Big Brother, not to decentralisation.
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
>> "A generation of lazy people who don't work hard" >I am sorry for derailing, but how does that happen, did they come out like a faulty batch from a factory? One generation is unlikely to be much lazier than the la
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
> shady work-for-hire deals Is that the kind of deal where you work for an employer and they pay you? Kind of like the deal most software engineers take.
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
> grant money as possible rather than build a successful product. You are not thinking the right way. Machinery for writing good grant applications is a successful product. This is why research universities are such great training gro
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
> > "Oligarch" originally meant the post-soviet kleptocrats who were handed control over formerly state companies at discount prices. > Aristotle already pioneered the use of the term as meaning "rule by the rich for
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
Wouldn't you be canarying your switch over a period of longer than 24 hours anyway? I can still imagine a benefit to short TTLs in the sense that you can maybe roll out your canary in a more controlled way. But that's a lot more
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
It's a pretty common pattern for brilliant people to do a PhD in the Ivy league while having done undergrad in some other country entirely. Not sure if that is less or more common than having done undergrad at an Ivy and/or some
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
What is the exact relationship? The history as I remember it is: 1. SGML (Simple Generalised Markup Language) came first. 2. HTML was a specialisation of SGML, it took off because of the web, and is probably the only reason for SGML to bec
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by devnulloverflow 7y ago
> Didn't stop the court case of US government wanting data from Microsoft Ireland and trying to force Microsoft US, (empahsis added) The trying to bit is important. The US tried to compel Microsoft to hand over data, and Micr

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