vpalanc1

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by vpalanc1 9y ago
I think the other solutions proposed are better, but: > Sadly, you can't set the value of an index in an array like that in the top level in C, only inside functions. This is not exactly true. An assignment is a value, you can do e.
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by vpalanc1 9y ago
YAGNI. Seriously. That pretty much describes the main problem with Java - "maybe we'll need this coffee maker to also do julienne fries in the future!"
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by vpalanc1 9y ago
... and, it will be eventually closed. Maybe. Definitely before the program quits. Not sure that it'll be closed before you run out of file handles, though.
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by vpalanc1 9y ago
> so no, I'm not going to do free work for you. My current employer, when hiring me, said "Have you ever looked at the Firefox codebase? No? Good. Here, take this Firefox bug. Fix it by Monday, or at least analyze the root caus
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by vpalanc1 9y ago
Not "this" - @musgrove said he/she's rejected as "overqualified", so it's not a matter of being selected for interview despite lacking the experience
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by vpalanc1 9y ago
> are averaging 30-50 sqmt That's still 1.6-5.3 times more than they used to be, according to the original claim. Seems less dramatic than 5-10x but for an apartment that already feels tiny, it's a lot.
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by vpalanc1 9y ago
> That chicken is a confit [...] plus cost of employees to serve Is that really a thing in the US? Honest question, I'm confused. The justification for requiring 20% tips (and considering you "nasty" if you leave any l
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by vpalanc1 9y ago
Electric vehicles = widely-available high-capacity batteries = solar eats their lunch, very very quickly
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by vpalanc1 9y ago
I think what many Americans fail to appreciate is that all the safety guarantees that come with deniability + lax security have a (pretty big) cost, one that YOU are paying in the end. Like - US for a very long while didn't use chip &a
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by vpalanc1 9y ago
On our ops dashboard we see stuff like number of ID syncs, number of events processed (by type), etc. - I'd argue that is something is truly "broken" you see it. If you're using funnel analytics to decide that the produc
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by vpalanc1 9y ago
it's not silly, it's infuriating. I can't pay at the pump with my card, because I don't have a US ZIP (I do have a perfectly secret PIN that I can use everywhere in Europe, but US doesn't seem to care about that)
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by vpalanc1 10y ago
What if I play it on blackjack? It may be incredibly poor judgement on my part, by what if I totally intended to win & pay it back, with interest? My point is that if I didn't actually do anything to deceive you into giving me mone
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by vpalanc1 11y ago
His advice flies in the face of every negotiation course/book. Yes, you must know the range they are willing to pay; but once you know... you don't wait for them to make an offer, you ask something at the high end of what they&#x2
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by vpalanc1 11y ago
Except right now?
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by vpalanc1 12y ago
I wouldn't put doxing in the same category as "web site graffiti and defacement". It has the potential to be psychologically every bit as damaging as rape...
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by vpalanc1 12y ago
It strikes me as incredibly... (foolish, arrogant, etc.) to think that one knows better how a set of certain people (programmers in this case) SHOULD organize their life/defend "their rights". People, in general, don't w