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by squidbidness 7y ago
Worth pointing out though that we do already know the answer: 42
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by squidbidness 8y ago
To my understanding, "common-law" technically refers to the body of precedent that the United States grandfathered in from English jurisprudence and prior colonial practice into the new United States government, as opposed to &quo
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by squidbidness 8y ago
I love the irony in this.
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by squidbidness 10y ago
I love how github fosters discovery and remote collaboration, though one of its liabilities is when great git command-line features are effectively lost unless github re-implements or exposes them, because some conventions incentivize only
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by squidbidness 10y ago
I see from retina_sam's comment that there's a fellow Mormon commenting here ;-)
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by squidbidness 10y ago
A plausible financial incentive for them would be rent-seeking: they might be afraid they lose money on the balance if you only have to buy the game once. Doing it this way they have a shot at getting money from you again for the same game
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by squidbidness 10y ago
IIRC Stroustrup mentions a desire for features such as these for versions of C++ after C++17.
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by squidbidness 10y ago
To clarify a question raised in this write-up: "auto [a , b , c] = getvalues(); "The braces are needed, getvalues returns a tuple. std::pair is not mentioned in the proposal, so its unclear if this works with pair, which is return
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by squidbidness 10y ago
Pedantic correction: "less they become ..." should be "_lest_ they become..."
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by squidbidness 10y ago
But that's just the prior, isn't it? What's the full Bayesian picture?
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by squidbidness 11y ago
The slippery slope fear is a bigger than which particular phone models will be made technically insecure by what the FBI is asking here and now in this case. The larger fear is the precedent that will be set by allowing such a ruling to st
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by squidbidness 11y ago
My mind is exploding with the possibilities this presents even for existing film and animation production pipelines. Just one example: A layout artist being able to directly sketch into being the spaces and sets they envision, then being a
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by squidbidness 11y ago
If you move in the direction of the pattern, its direction should carry you at least somewhat in the direction that a good design would, where 'orthogonal' would not carry you in that direction at all. So, not orthogonal, even if
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by squidbidness 11y ago
It feels to me like the argument of this article can be boiled down to: "The Majestic Monolith is a Good Thing, since when you know you're dealing with a monolithic system, you know you'll be hosed if you don't take extr
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by squidbidness 11y ago
Thanks for the clarifications. As soon as web text-based protocols were mentioned, I said "oh duh" to myself. There's nothing about the availability of a type system that forces a plain-data wrapper library to use it.
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by squidbidness 11y ago
I'll admit my total naivete up front: isn't Swift already a typed language? Is there something about being a web framework that necessitates some other kind of type safety?
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by squidbidness 11y ago
The usual expression is "fool proof", rather than "fullproof".
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by squidbidness 11y ago
I do worry about programmers forgetting to check hidden layers even more than we may currently tend to ignore comments, so I worry about this adding parallel maintenance burdens even worse than the common problem of comments getting out of
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by squidbidness 11y ago
This is why we can't have nice things.
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by squidbidness 11y ago
Just FYI, The expression is "rite of passage."
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by squidbidness 11y ago
Oui, ja, si, gea, yes.
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by squidbidness 11y ago
Yep, Indie games are a gold mine for great/unconventional art and design, as well as original gameplay mechanics. Some ones I've enjoyed: Limbo, Thomas Was Alone, Cave Story, Braid, FEZ.
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by squidbidness 11y ago
Guilt. Making a change towards better treatment of people from different places brings up the poor past treatment, which people don't like to take responsibility for.
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by squidbidness 11y ago
There are fringe, exceptional cases where this is a legitimate fear, but in the general broad-brush case, it's largely a self-fulfilling fear, brought about by the way people are treated when they come to a society that believes this.
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by squidbidness 11y ago
I usually prefer the general, English meaning of a word to apply unless there's a particularly compelling case for abusing the word, or the context conveys that specialized technical nomenclature should be expected rather than the gene
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by squidbidness 11y ago
I see nothing in the words "repeatable" or "scalable" that has to mean "rapid". To me a repeatable and scalable business model means one that can grow, and that isn't a one-time opportunity.
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by squidbidness 11y ago
I'm re-playing Super Metroid from the Super Nintendo glory days. Part of the entire charm of the game is repeated exploring of previous areas of the game with new tools, always looking for new secrets and areas. I do not wish Nintend
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Engineers take a step toward silicon photonic computing(unews.utah.edu)
2 points by squidbidness 11y ago|0 comments
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by squidbidness 11y ago
In this case it's a symptom of poor cohesion and separation of concerns. If you find you're having to give very long names for things, it's worth looking for a way to decompose it into separate things that each do one simple
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by squidbidness 11y ago
Here is where "first write good code" applies, at the design level. This function is begging to be two separate, composable functions that each only do one thing. reverse(addToEach(input_list, 1))

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