Yes, although you don't have to be so perlish as to do the if in that order do: thing() thing() if condition: continue
> Right, that's how you could plausibly have made one or two, as a palace amusement, or a circus act. It's a little surprising this didn't happen (as far as I know). You also need people to ride it. It wouldn't fly as a…
That's one part of it. Another part is hiring a breed of test engineers who like breaking stuff and have a knack for it.
Fair enough.
Which is an example of the the euphemism treadmill. Secretary means secret-keeper and has built into it connotations at least of trust and often of power. Which is why top officials of many great ministries ion are…
> Your code won't be pretty, Depends on the algorithms that use that code. Two separate arrays is not a bad way to represent a vector-of-tuples. And so if you think of everything as a vectorised operation (and if that…
I would put it the other way around. wpa_supplicant is actually very good at doing what it does. But rolling it's functionality into ifconfig is probably "good enough". wpa_supplicant is an application of the "do one…
Is it because people or so young, or that the pipeline to become a junior-but-still-responsible person goes through schools rather than something like an apprenticeship.
> Unison https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ is a tool to keep two folder structures in sync - that is its main goal but it can have other uses. And though I tend to be a GUI hater, Unison is one tool where I…
How is that a contrary view. That guy seems very happy with the Ubuntu and X1 combo. Though he does spend a long time obsessing about the battery, after his initial take was "yup, it's good enough for me".
So that you can SSH into it from your server?
Circular references like that are called "recursive types" in formal type theory. They are one of those big issues that academics like to write papers about. Even if you just want to write a practical interpreter, and…
Smell is an interesting point As travisjungroth points out, the most obvious mechanism is feed-back where they eat something, it works, and the body is designed to do more of the same. But if there is a feed-forward…
Does #5 get around my worries about a "stringy-marcro-framework"? I.e. when things get too complicated, you can break out to a Heavy Duty (TM) language (aka Lua).
While mentioning ConTeXt, can anyone give me a sell job on when and why it might be nicer than LaTeX? It's not that I'm super fond of LaTeX, it's just that I assumed its warts were more or less inevitable in a stringy…
No, when people say "The thing is N feet down the road", I find that it is really N yards down the road. That is, I multiply the distance by three. Though it's true, the alrgorithm for doing the multiplication happens…
Interestingly, the headline on the BBC page is more accurate than the one I see on HN. BBC says: "Did the Romans Really Reach Scotland?". And even though it's a headline, the answer is "yes, duh." HN headline, "The…
The kids these days write JavaScript.
> that reason ought to be the slave of the passions, I don't think you will find Hume actually arguing this. People read this into him because they glide so easily from is to ought. > or that it must be so This is a…
> It's an empirical fact that we must act on our desires; Is it? > when I examine my actions closely I notice that all of them can be traced back to some desire or combination of desires. But when I introspect, the…
Sandworm is responding to the statement that: > People (for the most part) don't just sit around writing fake reviews for companies they have no dealings with. And > If fake reviews about an organization exist, they…
It's definitely wrong. But it is blasphemous to even believe that there can be right or wrong in such matters.
`du`, `ls -r` and `find` are all tools which recursively walk and stat directory trees. In that light, it can make sense to pick just one.
The RFC is written by and for people who have already discussed in depth what problem they are trying to solve. But little old I can't figure it out by reading the text. Can anyone enlighten me about what it's for? How…
Well, as a C++/Python/C# programmer, I see it as a combination of ways to (a) organise procedural programs using language features that make abstract data types more powerful, or (b) obfuscate procedural programs using…
Yes, although you don't have to be so perlish as to do the if in that order do: thing() thing() if condition: continue
> Right, that's how you could plausibly have made one or two, as a palace amusement, or a circus act. It's a little surprising this didn't happen (as far as I know). You also need people to ride it. It wouldn't fly as a…
That's one part of it. Another part is hiring a breed of test engineers who like breaking stuff and have a knack for it.
Fair enough.
Which is an example of the the euphemism treadmill. Secretary means secret-keeper and has built into it connotations at least of trust and often of power. Which is why top officials of many great ministries ion are…
> Your code won't be pretty, Depends on the algorithms that use that code. Two separate arrays is not a bad way to represent a vector-of-tuples. And so if you think of everything as a vectorised operation (and if that…
I would put it the other way around. wpa_supplicant is actually very good at doing what it does. But rolling it's functionality into ifconfig is probably "good enough". wpa_supplicant is an application of the "do one…
Is it because people or so young, or that the pipeline to become a junior-but-still-responsible person goes through schools rather than something like an apprenticeship.
> Unison https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ is a tool to keep two folder structures in sync - that is its main goal but it can have other uses. And though I tend to be a GUI hater, Unison is one tool where I…
How is that a contrary view. That guy seems very happy with the Ubuntu and X1 combo. Though he does spend a long time obsessing about the battery, after his initial take was "yup, it's good enough for me".
So that you can SSH into it from your server?
Circular references like that are called "recursive types" in formal type theory. They are one of those big issues that academics like to write papers about. Even if you just want to write a practical interpreter, and…
Smell is an interesting point As travisjungroth points out, the most obvious mechanism is feed-back where they eat something, it works, and the body is designed to do more of the same. But if there is a feed-forward…
Does #5 get around my worries about a "stringy-marcro-framework"? I.e. when things get too complicated, you can break out to a Heavy Duty (TM) language (aka Lua).
While mentioning ConTeXt, can anyone give me a sell job on when and why it might be nicer than LaTeX? It's not that I'm super fond of LaTeX, it's just that I assumed its warts were more or less inevitable in a stringy…
No, when people say "The thing is N feet down the road", I find that it is really N yards down the road. That is, I multiply the distance by three. Though it's true, the alrgorithm for doing the multiplication happens…
Interestingly, the headline on the BBC page is more accurate than the one I see on HN. BBC says: "Did the Romans Really Reach Scotland?". And even though it's a headline, the answer is "yes, duh." HN headline, "The…
The kids these days write JavaScript.
> that reason ought to be the slave of the passions, I don't think you will find Hume actually arguing this. People read this into him because they glide so easily from is to ought. > or that it must be so This is a…
> It's an empirical fact that we must act on our desires; Is it? > when I examine my actions closely I notice that all of them can be traced back to some desire or combination of desires. But when I introspect, the…
Sandworm is responding to the statement that: > People (for the most part) don't just sit around writing fake reviews for companies they have no dealings with. And > If fake reviews about an organization exist, they…
It's definitely wrong. But it is blasphemous to even believe that there can be right or wrong in such matters.
`du`, `ls -r` and `find` are all tools which recursively walk and stat directory trees. In that light, it can make sense to pick just one.
The RFC is written by and for people who have already discussed in depth what problem they are trying to solve. But little old I can't figure it out by reading the text. Can anyone enlighten me about what it's for? How…
Well, as a C++/Python/C# programmer, I see it as a combination of ways to (a) organise procedural programs using language features that make abstract data types more powerful, or (b) obfuscate procedural programs using…