tcarney

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by tcarney 14y ago
Exactly what I noticed. The "safer" function relies on the length arguments being correct, just as the copy function relied on the strings being null-terminated. The safer function is more explicit so less prone to error, but both rely on
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by tcarney 15y ago
I think the issue is that Tesla has a warranty problem, not a design flaw. With batteries, even if the battery management system shuts itself down and all subsystems, the battery cells will still internally drain to damaging levels. Until
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by tcarney 15y ago
I was actually apologizing for the due process reference since it was a concept formed from the Magna Carta, and I wasn't necessarily adding to the discussion. But I do fully agree he should have due process, for all we know he was punished
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by tcarney 15y ago
Give the guy due process at least.... Sorry, had to add that
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by tcarney 15y ago
Forget the essay, he listed the course as "Hist203L:Dimentions of History Lab"...
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by tcarney 15y ago
They may be trying to collect resumes (and job placement performance) from the top 1000 students to see what the correlation is. If they can prove that correlation, then they could essentially run the courses as a recruiting tool for payin
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by tcarney 15y ago
We need laws that focus on drivers, not the devices. There are plenty of ways to be distracted while driving. There are also reasonable ways to manage some of these distractions if you understand the risks. Saying "you can't do that" to
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by tcarney 15y ago
If mastering English is your goal, then reading == doing
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by tcarney 15y ago
This project seems much more accessible since shell scripting is a more fundamental glue language. But if you read Zach Holman's post[1] on glue languages he makes the point that JavaScript is becoming a glue language, so you can start to
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by tcarney 15y ago
hacker news required reading of course: Hackers & Painters - pg