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by reality_czech 7y ago
What they got right was shutting down. If only AMP would do the same.
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by reality_czech 8y ago
If none of the big tech companies will step up to adopt openssl, we should put it down, like in a real pet shelter.
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by reality_czech 8y ago
If a project becomes inactive, Apache puts it into the Attic and development ceases.
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by reality_czech 8y ago
I'm sitting here waiting for you to realize "unsecure" is not a word.
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by reality_czech 8y ago
If Oracle gets its way, code smells will be copyrightable as well.
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by reality_czech 8y ago
"Post-modern" C++? Finally someone admits that the language was all a huge prank.
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by reality_czech 8y ago
> The problem with traditional operator overloading is that you have to > memorize which symbol corresponds to which magic method name. That's not even in the top 5 problems with operator overloading. > How many years or decad
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by reality_czech 8y ago
> I think he's getting downvoted because the Washington Post is, almost unquestionably, not a cult. And with that simple statement of fact, "pacifist" has been "intellectually pantsed." LOL.
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by reality_czech 8y ago
Java has been gradually eating all the good parts of Scala. So far, it's eaten lambdas, map / reduce / fold functions, option types, raw string literals, the concept of a built-in REPL, type inference for local variables, an
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by reality_czech 8y ago
* The health plan is really expensive, since your co-workers' body parts keep falling off. * The only thing the cafeteria serves is BRAAAAAAINS. * Your noncompete agreement is still valid even after you die. Aside from that, it's
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by reality_czech 8y ago
> There are model airplane pilots, they have FAA regulations, they have a community that is very serious about education, training, mentor-peer relationships and self monitoring and reporting. Right. And that community, the Academy of M
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by reality_czech 8y ago
Friends don't let friends depend on Google products.
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by reality_czech 8y ago
Wow. I don't even know where to start on this one. My experience with academia is that everyone is scrambling to get grants and get published. Nobody ever asked questions about where the grants came from. A lot (probably even the ma
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by reality_czech 8y ago
Expect an insta-shutdown in a few months.
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by reality_czech 8y ago
Yahoo hasn't had its own search engine for years. In 2010, they became essentially a frontend for Bing. In a later 2015 deal they switched the backend to using Google. Duckduckgo is a metasearch engine, technically, but mostly it del
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by reality_czech 8y ago
Does this mean we can have more than 16GB in our laptops now? Also, is "stratechery" named based on the old Celebrity Jeopardy skits on SNL?
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by reality_czech 8y ago
The mind boggles at how the dongle mongerers hobbled these Mac models. From every new Mac, a tangle of dongles hang at odd angles. What a boondoggle.
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by reality_czech 8y ago
I don't think "an entirely different ethical framework" should apply when you're "treating someone versus learning to treat them." First of all, "learning to treat someone" is not clearly separable f
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by reality_czech 8y ago
Scott's complaint is basically that the IRB regulations don't match the regulations that apply to standard psychiatric treatment. For example, the department had a huge amount of patient information stored in their regular compute
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by reality_czech 8y ago
Yes, publishers do certainly value a platform that is able to combat privacy. Although lately the combat has been a little one-sided.
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by reality_czech 8y ago
Python broke compatibility a lot more than once. Python 3.5 and Python 3.6 are not compatible, for example. There are even cases where code written for an older version of Python 3 will not work on a newer version of Python 3. For exampl
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by reality_czech 8y ago
Now in Smell-o-Vision, so that you can really take in the "ambiance"
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by reality_czech 8y ago
The part which really makes me angry is that this guy probably also employs graduate students who make minimum wage, have terrible health care, and no job security. But he doesn't feel like that's important enough to mention.
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by reality_czech 9y ago
The cheap jabs are all incorrect, as well. Any compiler from the last 10 years will warn you if you don't match your printf format string to the arguments. printf also supports reordering arguments using the %m$ syntax (read the man
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by reality_czech 9y ago
I guess my feeling could be summed up as: bye, flash! We in the Mac/Linux sphere won't miss you.
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by reality_czech 9y ago
It would be better if they installed two turntables and a microphone.
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by reality_czech 9y ago
And yet, the countries which had sweatshops, like China, India, Vietnam, etc. have had huge success in bringing their population out of poverty. The countries which didn't, like most of Africa, did not. Population growth also tends t
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by reality_czech 9y ago
It's OK. A court in the US ruled that we should have jurisdiction there, so now we do.
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by reality_czech 9y ago
Of course they wanted to use PEX. It's cheaper and easier for them to install, since they don't have to solder anything. But there are definitely some concerns about PEX. http://www.calpipes.org/ProtectingCalifo
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by reality_czech 9y ago
New stuff is not all PEX. Some people prefer copper because of its anti-microbial properties and because it's a known quantity that has been used for a very long time. PEX was only even approved in California in 2009, and there was a

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