wallyhs

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by wallyhs 9y ago
I think that's just his exaggerated writing style.
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by wallyhs 9y ago
It's a feature for developers: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc144096(VS.85).asp...
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by wallyhs 9y ago
Maybe you'll enjoy this: https://www.stilldrinking.org/5-reasons-waiting-tables-is-a-...
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by wallyhs 10y ago
If I remember correctly, you can put [void] in front of a statement to prevent it from being included in the return.
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by wallyhs 10y ago
I didn't think that you personally were accusing people. I hope I didn't give that impression. I probably could have written "we" instead of "you." Someone trying to explain how Islam doesn't encourage t
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by wallyhs 10y ago
So you conclude that Islam encourages terrorism because, when you accuse someone of being a terrorist, they don't respond openly and enthusiastically? You've decided that a religion is guilty and want individuals to show proof
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by wallyhs 10y ago
Suppose that I live in an apartment with a wood stove, second-hand smoke from a room mate, and radon. If I get lung cancer, which one is to blame? How do you know?
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by wallyhs 11y ago
We use an iPad based SASS POS, and editing the menu is a pain. Every time I start to edit something, I have to wait 60 seconds while it pulls in the list of every item on the menu. If I want to edit five specific menu items, I don't
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by wallyhs 11y ago
> When it comes to reintroducing wolves, everyone agrees the risk to humans is low. The contention is between wildlife activists and ranchers. Wolves tend to feed on livestock. You can imagine how upset a rancher gets when his assets d
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by wallyhs 11y ago
I wish I knew what this bear was thinking: http://www.mtexpress.com/news/environment/bear-grabs-sleepin... "A Boise hunter sustained minor wounds when a black bear grabbed him by the head while he was sleepin
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by wallyhs 11y ago
A person who pulls a gun on an officer has already decided not to obey the laws. How would adding more laws make officers safer from such a person?
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by wallyhs 11y ago
The salary isn't the point: > I immediately exclude discussion of company, title, and salary, because these are the things people think they want but can't really affect my decision. > So by stating that these three things,
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by wallyhs 11y ago
Say I build a house in a town near a forest in Idaho. Now, there are 20,000,000 acres of national forest in Idaho of which 200,000 are currently burning. So only 1% of the forest is burning and mostly in remote locations in which there ar
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by wallyhs 11y ago
You can remember it as 1 2 3 4 5 6 7: First month, second day, 3pm and four minutes and five seconds in the year '06, offset -7.
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by wallyhs 11y ago
FWIW, you can install MSBuild without Visual Studio. It's part of the Windows SDK. If your target system is not supported, you have to run it on a supported system and choose the "Download for installation on a separate computer
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by wallyhs 11y ago
Sure, but what if my only Windows system won't boot? I am sure that I can access the registry from a Linux system somehow , but it's not as easy as invoking less or vim. That is especially true if the Linux system doesn't h
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by wallyhs 11y ago
> You have to assume that code cleans itself up as the stack unwinds. Exceptions or not, if you have an unknown error condition, how can you assume anything? I apologize for the delayed response.
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by wallyhs 11y ago
I agree that you have to weigh the advantages, but we are talking about a special type of database. Most configuration data is read-only during normal operation. It's not as if anyone stores customer data in /etc or the Windows re
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by wallyhs 11y ago
Here is a reason: You can view the configuration files and logs of a damaged system by mounting its disk in another system and using any old text editor. There is no need to install special tools.
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by wallyhs 11y ago
That's my point: in this situation, you can't display an error and keep going. How do you know that you are not in this situation when you catch an unknown exception?
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by wallyhs 11y ago
You can only recover from such errors locally. The local context is not available in a global exception handler.
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by wallyhs 11y ago
> Corruption is outside the state of this discussion. Why? If corruption leads to an exception, it seems relevant. Corruption could be the application's own fault, it could be failing hardware, it could be someone trying to explo
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by wallyhs 11y ago
> No, you shouldn't. What are you going to do any differently with that than you would FileIsLockedException or NetworkIsDownException or HarddriveIsCorruptException? You wouldn't do anything differently. Show the user the Erro
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by wallyhs 11y ago
It's not just about the grass. When trees die, they become hazards and must be removed. That's expensive. Without trees, there are fewer birds. There is no shade. The sound of leaves is absent from the wind. Obviously, there
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by wallyhs 11y ago
Since the site is Enterprise Craftsmanship, I read it from that angle. In my experience, deployments must be requested several days in advance and require approvals from managers, testers, analysts, and functional experts. Quick "emer
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by wallyhs 11y ago
You omitted that from your comment, but I agree. I was just pointing out the option, because it didn't sound as if you had tried it. I did not mean to endorse anything.
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by wallyhs 11y ago
Instead of throwing away your project structure, try creating a "go" subdirectory in your project and setting GOPATH to point to it. Yes, you need a separate GOPATH for each project, but it's no worse than needing a separate
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by wallyhs 11y ago
No, but you seemed to imply that one can only learn from certain people in certain contexts. I find that I gain surprising insight from unexpected people at unexpected times. HN is not an exception.
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by wallyhs 11y ago
> No, they can't, because the folks who are commenting at what you think is that level are actually completely unqualified to do so. > The folks who are qualified to write articles and papers on the topics that might interest you
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by wallyhs 11y ago
In my area, they use goats in town along heavily traveled bike and foot paths to control noxious weeds such as knapweed and leafy spurge. Goats are reported to be more effective than chemical herbicides and don't harm beneficial bugs,

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