hacking_again

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by hacking_again 9y ago
This is probably libel, and regardless it's character assassination that reflects more badly on management than it does on Rick.
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by hacking_again 9y ago
Ok, so what changes would you make to my explanations?
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by hacking_again 9y ago
> raising the price of goods by locking out foreign competition is regressive: the made-in-America premium hurts most when you have the least to spend you could always lower sales tax and raise income tax
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by hacking_again 9y ago
Learn them both at the same time. Pick two small projects. For project 1, implement it in Python, then implement it in C. For project 2, implement it in C, then re-implement it in Python. Repeat for the next two projects. It will feel s
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by hacking_again 9y ago
In theory yes, if you have an impartial third-party monopoly, but in practice it's still might-makes-right, where might = money, lawyers, political connections, ethnicity, etc. It's probably still better, but it's less trans
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by hacking_again 9y ago
Eh, I don't disagree, I was just trying to distinguish between property existing and objects existing. But maybe force defines existence all the way down.
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by hacking_again 9y ago
And you won't get far with source modifications if you can't run the program.
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by hacking_again 9y ago
This doesn't mean property exists in the same way that objects exist. A piece of property is just a protected object.
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by hacking_again 9y ago
Well, maybe it's more accurate to say that it's impossible to consent because no consent is required to take someone's picture in public. People generally exercise control by choosing not to be in public. You could say that
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by hacking_again 9y ago
I don't disagree with you, but human society exists because of our ability to control violence via intellectual rules.
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by hacking_again 9y ago
It's valid if X is having your picture taken and Y is being in public.
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by hacking_again 9y ago
Python has its share of cruft and idiosyncrasies. I find some of the syntax irritating, e.g. boolean logic, argument handling, hidden / private / magic symbols, and those pesky half-open intervals that routinely lead to off-by-on
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by hacking_again 9y ago
More or less, assuming you can predict it. But there's a penalty for misprediction. So it boils down to whether using % frequently (either as a native instruction or as a sequence of instructions) is more or less expensive than predi
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by hacking_again 9y ago
Are your parents truly completely different people?
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by hacking_again 9y ago
On their own, % and / are way slower than +, -, *, <<, >>. Cycle counts depend on your architecture, you can look them up. That mod is so slow and should be avoided is a kind of folklore based in truth - kind of like func
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by hacking_again 9y ago
It doesn't have to be intended. It's just that every time you write or speak you communicate group membership. For example, there are further implications about group membership when you correct my interpretation of forking. An
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by hacking_again 9y ago
Well, it's faster than %, but I bet it's premature.
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by hacking_again 9y ago
The other primary purpose of language is communicating group membership. For example, it's reasonable to guess that you belong to the "uses version control" group by your use of the word "forking" in a non-VC conte
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by hacking_again 9y ago
Go on then, enlighten us with the definition, and failing that, the most precise definition you can give.
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by hacking_again 9y ago
In my experience the public face of Japanese society is very polite, but that's distinct from what can be said with the language, and what people say with the language in private face contexts. It also varies to some degree by class,
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by hacking_again 9y ago
According to the suffering and environmental damage line of reasoning, the reason meat is strictly worse is because if you grew plants instead of animals you'd have 8x as many calories to eat. I might be off, it may be some other fact
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by hacking_again 9y ago
So we're labeling people as mentally ill with a view towards criticizing them and their opinions now?
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by hacking_again 9y ago
Why bridge? Any good resources you recommend? How many hours per week do you think it takes? I was thinking about playing one of those play money games for a year or so.
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by hacking_again 9y ago
> Mozilla is not a company Mozilla Corp. is taxable and had revenues of $329.5 million in 2014 per Wikipedia. Most of that money came from Google in exchange for making Google the default search engine in Firefox. Open internet and goo
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by hacking_again 9y ago
> What if you just don't have meaningful things to do for that enum value? Then you use: default: break; It's a small price to pay for the consistency checks elsewhere when you don't have a default.
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by hacking_again 9y ago
It sounds nice and cool but the truth is it's just basically a mess of interconnected buildings and crappy malls that sometimes you can use to make a portion of your trip warmer. I mean, it's still good to have and everything, bu
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by hacking_again 9y ago
In my experience, customers that are friendly and treat the staff like equals get better service.
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by hacking_again 9y ago
The problem with TDD is that if you have a lot of tests, then when you want to change your code you have to change a lot of tests. This leads to inertia against changing your code, and then ultimately when you do need to change things, you
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by hacking_again 9y ago
Hard code passwords and temporary filenames.
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by hacking_again 9y ago
Ah, thanks for the explanation. For whatever reason, the idea of finding ways to encourage dinner guests to accept food or drink is foreign to me.

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