mrout

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by mrout 9y ago
Grocery stores are directly selling things to you, and they cost different amounts based on their costs to the grocery stores, handling requirements, etc. ISPs are like mail services: a letter is a letter is a letter. A package is a package
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by mrout 9y ago
-pedantic-errors -Wall -Werror isn't used in the wild because it breaks whenever a new compiler comes out. New compilers often come out with new warnings, new cases for old warnings, etc. It's not forwards-compatible to make warni
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by mrout 9y ago
I think the key thing for people to realise is that none of what you just said has anything to do with women . Meet your direct manager. Make sure you get along with them. Make sure people give off 'good vibes' i.e. you get along
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by mrout 9y ago
No pressure to socialise with coworkers? What kind of law firm is this? Lawyers are by a huge margin the most social people I know. I know a lot of lawyers, and not one of them doesn't go out for social drinks on a Friday at 430...
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by mrout 9y ago
The 'actual costs' are not the reason that fees are so high in the USA though.
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by mrout 9y ago
If you run them as a different user from yourself, maybe, but who does that? The idea that software is secure if it only runs on your own user account is stupid IMO. I'd rather that software had access to everything on my computer EXCE
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by mrout 9y ago
ECON101 isn't 'mainstream economics'. It's incredibly simplified economics.
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by mrout 9y ago
Not ironic. Just very fitting. They're using a failed system (patents) to try to monopolise their (probably very obvious) method of enforcing a failed monopoly system.
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by mrout 9y ago
Sorry for the harsh language, but that's fucking ridiculous in this context. Free speech? Free speech doesn't exist so that people can make ridiculous comments like 'taking comments from the public into account when making
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by mrout 9y ago
Good example of something (although it's perhaps a bit trivial) that is a puzzle that seems to make even non-mathematicians curious is the 'justification' for greco-latin squares. The idea is that you have 6 files of 6 men. E
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by mrout 9y ago
>Ostensibly, making everyone interact on the internet under their real name will "prevent harassment and bullying". But I have no idea how anyone with even passing familiarity with internet communities could believe that The id
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by mrout 9y ago
>Exceptions are 2-3 orders of magnitude slower if exceptions are thrown And free if they aren't thrown. It doesn't really matter if it's slow in the error path, as the error path is.. well.. the error path. You aren't
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by mrout 9y ago
Programming is easy.
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by mrout 9y ago
That's just stupid. There's way more to be gained by restricting cattle and cars than planes.
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by mrout 9y ago
That's silly. There's huge inertia in the US because they're all insanely profitable and there's no competition.
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by mrout 9y ago
> it's nearing completion very soon (I mean, maybe this or next year, that's "very soon" in the GDS scale). On whose scale is this or next year not very soon?
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by mrout 9y ago
>Telcos are high-profit margin regional monopolies Only in the US. Outside the US we have competition law.
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by mrout 9y ago
There's not really a lot you can do about this though, is there? It's not that hard to test that things work, or to see the failures. Comments I've seen like 'there should be a server that installs every package on its o
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by mrout 9y ago
Well people used to mail USB keys and CD-ROMs and such. It seems less popular now that everyone has gigabit fibre.
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by mrout 9y ago
No, I haven't. I don't make a pull request if the project is obviously abandoned, which is trivial to find out: it shows the dates of the most recent updates to each file/directory in the root of the project, you can see the
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by mrout 9y ago
Patents should be abolished. Anything less has no practical purpose.
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by mrout 9y ago
Okay, it sounds like it really affected the author or whatever. But I still have no idea what the game is actually about after reading this.
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by mrout 9y ago
The only people I see complain about this sort of thing are people that just want to leech off others' work without contributing back.
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by mrout 9y ago
To me the most useful parts of fugitive, the only things that actually feel more useful than the command line equivalents, are fugitive-:Gdiff and fugitive-:Gblame. :Gblame is particularly useful.
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by mrout 9y ago
Korean and Hangul are different. If you know the Latin alphabet that doesn't mean you know how to read English. It means you know how to read the Latin alphabet.
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by mrout 9y ago
You aren't learning Korean. You are learning Hangul. You don't just need to learn 'the Korean words'. You need to learn Korean lexicon, Korean syntax, Korean morphology, Korean idiom, Korean pronunciation, etc. etc. Thos
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by mrout 9y ago
He's said 3.10 more recently than that: https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/583346987925278720
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by mrout 9y ago
I think that if you treat strings as just lists[0] of UTF-8 code units, and code points, grapheme clusters, etc. are just views/adapters of those bytes, you're probably going to benefit the most. [0]: When I say 'lists',
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by mrout 9y ago
I did mean educated person under 40, yeah. sorry.
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by mrout 9y ago
>one could become quite proficient at reading (without any comprehension of what they are reading) If you can't comprehend what you're reading, you're not reading. Learning the Korean alphabet is not learning Korean.

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