saucetenuto

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by saucetenuto 2y ago
This is true but I don't think it meaningfully checks the president, because the pardon power is also absolute and unreviewable, and does cover courts martial (as we saw in the Eddie Gallagher case). Military personnel are not require
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by saucetenuto 2y ago
thank you, friend
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by saucetenuto 2y ago
Guess again! Roberts explicitly calls out orders to the military as covered by absolute immunity. EDIT: and motive is explicitly barred from review too.
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by saucetenuto 10y ago
> ...all of these server applications would have to be easy-as-an-iphone to set up and administer. Right now, such apps don't exist, because there's no market for them. But if the market were there, millions of people with host
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by saucetenuto 10y ago
> we like them and we prefer to be friends with them. How true is this? Every Finnish person I've ever met has mistrusted and feared Russia.
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by saucetenuto 10y ago
Right, but then you also shouldn't be using the techniques described in the article, right? To put it another way, there's no case where deferred collection with smart pointers is better than real GC.
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by saucetenuto 10y ago
I have the same problem as the GP, on four monitors. All four, bought at different times in different countries, are miscalibrated according to these calibration images. Is that plausible? If not, what might be going on? And if it _is_ p
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by saucetenuto 10y ago
Suppose I have a configured tab width of 2 and I write a line with three tabs that's 78 characters wide. When my friend with tab-width 8 views it, he'll see a line that's 90 characters wide. What do projects with 80 charact
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by saucetenuto 10y ago
I guess I saw his proposal as more about customer acquisition; those of us who already know and love the game can send Tarn $19 any time we want, right here: http://www.bay12games.com/support.html
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by saucetenuto 10y ago
I think this analysis assumes that Dwarf Fortress has reached only a small fraction of its total addressable market (that is, the space of players who can enjoy DF without large improvements to new player onboarding). Any fixed-price offer
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by saucetenuto 11y ago
I think this is my favorite Underhanded C submission ever. One simple ambiguity, applied with breathtaking precision and effectiveness. Puts me in mind of an old essay of Zed's: http://zedshaw.com/archive/the-mas
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by saucetenuto 11y ago
So they get all the business they want from word of mouth and referrals? Good for them, but doesn't that imply that there's a lot of unmet demand?
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by saucetenuto 11y ago
How about: "Reliable curation"
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by saucetenuto 11y ago
Do you have a source for this? According to opensecrets.org, they're in the top 2 for tech companies (their major rival is Comcast), but they spend much less than Blue Cross/Blue Shield or the National Association of Realtors. T
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by saucetenuto 11y ago
That famous Platforms rant was supposed to be Google-internal, right? Implication: he's still writing, but you have to be a Google employee to read it. Google really does have the best benefit program in tech. EDIT: I'm kinda jok
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by saucetenuto 11y ago
I think he means that YC literally has not helped: they haven't made things any worse, but neither have they tried to make things better.
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by saucetenuto 11y ago
Ah, I see, I just misunderstood their interface. Thanks.
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by saucetenuto 11y ago
Where should I go to understand your work if I hate watching videos but like reading? Is the wiki the best resource?
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by saucetenuto 11y ago
Sure. As I said, I don't think skepticism is _correct_ here. But a critical reader will always be asking themselves, "why did they write it that particular way?", so as an author you have to continually ask yourself the sam
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by saucetenuto 11y ago
I think there's a useful lesson here about precision in writing. _Why_ the Fog Creek developers left isn't central to the essay's main point, and it's not interesting in itself. But the author did include it, so clearl
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by saucetenuto 11y ago
Part of the point, I think, is that there isn't a single correct answer. The answer the Nameless One chooses is the answer which is capable of changing him.
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by saucetenuto 11y ago
Wouldn't you have the same problem with a minifier, then? Minified js isn't "preferred" for anything except parse time.
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by saucetenuto 12y ago
Yes it has! It conquered our soda industry and then gave up.
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by saucetenuto 12y ago
It's fine if your world is designed this way, but in that case you shouldn't be allowed to play as a fighter. Do it like Magicka, say, and offer your players their choice of wizards.
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by saucetenuto 12y ago
I don't agree. The _signature_ should indicate whether a function has access to a class's internals or not, but the caller shouldn't have to care. This is already true in C++ today: when we write f(x), f might be a normal f
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by saucetenuto 12y ago
I see what you mean but I do think the STL was more visionary, and more abject, than almost anything else in its reference class. Truly unified sequence operations, for example, were novel back then. On the other hand, binary search _wasn
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by saucetenuto 12y ago
Lambdas in C++ are pretty new. Most of us who used std::algorithm had to write our own functor structs and do the variable capture by hand. Except that typically we didn't, because at that point a for loop is more readable. I think
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by saucetenuto 12y ago
The PHP runtime does know the types of all values at all times, though, in a way that the C++ runtime, insofar as it can be said to have one, does not. To call that type _safety_ is a little much even by the standards of dynamic languages,
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by saucetenuto 12y ago
You're right, of course. This is the sort of thing that Eisenhower foresaw when he warned against the military-industrial complex, but even with the benefit of hindsight I don't know what we could have done about it. Everyone&#x
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by saucetenuto 12y ago
Well, ultimately they're trying to help out Boeing and other major contractors, right? It's not about big government versus private industry, it's about private industry defended by lobbying and pork-barrel concessions versu

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