zowch

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   by zowch 12y ago

   It's also worth noting that 'winter' used to be monthless in the Roman calendar, so there were 10 months, ending in December (so all of the number names make sense) and then a big blob of 'winter' before the new yea
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   by zowch 13y ago

   As somebody who attended this conference, and hadn't had much exposure to C++11 features outside of 'auto', my personal biggest takeaway from almost every talk was this: Stop passing your sink variables as const refs. That
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   by zowch 13y ago

   I'm confused as to why you think the code presented in the blog post isn't an example of 'the same functionality implemented some other way'. The await code is almost undeniably more straightforward and the exceptional c
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   by zowch 13y ago

   This is the link, for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6033567
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   by zowch 13y ago

   Pedantic and tangential, but in your example, the statement would still be incorrect, as a revocable right is, by definition...well, alienable.
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   by zowch 13y ago

   My question is: Once the truck is stopped in front of the sign, presumably with traffic backed up behind it...how do they get it out?
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   by zowch 13y ago

   Not really the case here because the article specifically calls out what happened, but it can't really be the case that the name of the blog or site should play NO role in determining defamation, right? If I run a blog called "Murderer Watc