Calling something "the shit" is still unnecessarily using profanity. It's impolite. It's not a surprise it would be flagged as offensive.
I think today it's a lot less explicitly aggressive, but it's actually more meanspirited. It might be controversial to say this, but online discourse is a lot less male and a lot more female than it was. Is this any…
If I could filter out the overuse of profanity shown in this article, I would. "Fuck yeah!!! That bad bitch is totally the shit!!" gets caught by a profanity filter. No great loss, IMO. If you get normal…
I imagine it could have something to do with the physical fixedness of a book. I can remember the positions of the line breaks in some of my favourite books as a child and it wouldn't surprise me if the physical layout…
Explain China's complete lack of development until very recently, then.
>In these later letters, Wolf sounds like the kind of alarmist digital enthusiasts often deride. After all, they say, reading is not dying; it’s thriving. Wolf herself quotes a study from the University of California,…
The Linux kernel uses lots of macros, many of them with lowercase names that are barely distinguishable from function names. Given the quality of that codebase, I think not using macros is a bit silly.
You could make a proposal to the C committee to add a keyword `_Nullptr` and to add a header `stdnull.h` which has `#define nullptr _Nullptr`, like they did with bool.
(Please do write code like this anymore.)
Learn C the Hard Way is considered by the community to be, not exaggerating, one of the worst C books ever written.
To use a trivial example: int free;
Why are you posting a SubscriberLink to an LWN article to HN? That's not really the point of the links. They're for sharing in small groups not for giving away paid content to thousands of people.
...says the person that posts things like > Isn’t this exactly the rationale used by Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot to commit mass genocide in the name of a more ‘ideal’ future state?
Elon Musk is indisputably a snake oil salesman. See: hyperloop.
>More fundamentally, it’s insufficient to throw in a few courses on maths that everyone quickly forgets. Maths, science, and logic should be the basic foundation for cultivating children’s world view, not literature,…
The top 141 'elite engineers' are certainly making more than $10m/yr and their careers will last much longer.
>This is inconsiderate. Would you write "hire a babysitter, maybe?"? I'd love if people hired babysitters (or left children with family) instead of taking their SCREAMING children on airplanes, sure.
The platform has always traditionally been your own computer. You install programs that you find useful, fun, interesting, necessary, etc. When you have an issue with one, you contribute to it.
It definitely seems like a lot of the time, the people making these lists could just resolve the issues with not a lot more effort than writing all this 'good first issue' documentation. It's one thing to throw a tag…
I think a video game ad displayed in a computer game magazine must be much more accurate than the kind of shitty advertising I get shown online.
Newspaper ads don't have tracking. TV ads don't have tracking. Why should web ads? They don't have a right to a business model. I do have a right to privacy. If they can't come up with a viable business model that…
I don't really understand halting share trading. Who is the exchange to say who may or may not trade a product you own? It just seems weird. If there's bad news, the people who pay attention most closely, and get access…
That's weird. It's not expensive to wire houses, and you can't get gigabit fibre speeds with ethernet. You certainly couldn't get anywhere near it 5-10 years ago, but gigabit fibre was available then.
>this is not really democracy Literally every single part of the EU apparatus is democratic. Every single bit. The European Council consists of the Heads of Government of the EU states. If your Head of Government isn't…
Yeah that's nothing to do with big companies moving there. That's what happens when you let Chinese investors dominate your housing market. (See Auckland as well)
Calling something "the shit" is still unnecessarily using profanity. It's impolite. It's not a surprise it would be flagged as offensive.
I think today it's a lot less explicitly aggressive, but it's actually more meanspirited. It might be controversial to say this, but online discourse is a lot less male and a lot more female than it was. Is this any…
If I could filter out the overuse of profanity shown in this article, I would. "Fuck yeah!!! That bad bitch is totally the shit!!" gets caught by a profanity filter. No great loss, IMO. If you get normal…
I imagine it could have something to do with the physical fixedness of a book. I can remember the positions of the line breaks in some of my favourite books as a child and it wouldn't surprise me if the physical layout…
Explain China's complete lack of development until very recently, then.
>In these later letters, Wolf sounds like the kind of alarmist digital enthusiasts often deride. After all, they say, reading is not dying; it’s thriving. Wolf herself quotes a study from the University of California,…
The Linux kernel uses lots of macros, many of them with lowercase names that are barely distinguishable from function names. Given the quality of that codebase, I think not using macros is a bit silly.
You could make a proposal to the C committee to add a keyword `_Nullptr` and to add a header `stdnull.h` which has `#define nullptr _Nullptr`, like they did with bool.
(Please do write code like this anymore.)
Learn C the Hard Way is considered by the community to be, not exaggerating, one of the worst C books ever written.
To use a trivial example: int free;
Why are you posting a SubscriberLink to an LWN article to HN? That's not really the point of the links. They're for sharing in small groups not for giving away paid content to thousands of people.
...says the person that posts things like > Isn’t this exactly the rationale used by Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot to commit mass genocide in the name of a more ‘ideal’ future state?
Elon Musk is indisputably a snake oil salesman. See: hyperloop.
>More fundamentally, it’s insufficient to throw in a few courses on maths that everyone quickly forgets. Maths, science, and logic should be the basic foundation for cultivating children’s world view, not literature,…
The top 141 'elite engineers' are certainly making more than $10m/yr and their careers will last much longer.
>This is inconsiderate. Would you write "hire a babysitter, maybe?"? I'd love if people hired babysitters (or left children with family) instead of taking their SCREAMING children on airplanes, sure.
The platform has always traditionally been your own computer. You install programs that you find useful, fun, interesting, necessary, etc. When you have an issue with one, you contribute to it.
It definitely seems like a lot of the time, the people making these lists could just resolve the issues with not a lot more effort than writing all this 'good first issue' documentation. It's one thing to throw a tag…
I think a video game ad displayed in a computer game magazine must be much more accurate than the kind of shitty advertising I get shown online.
Newspaper ads don't have tracking. TV ads don't have tracking. Why should web ads? They don't have a right to a business model. I do have a right to privacy. If they can't come up with a viable business model that…
I don't really understand halting share trading. Who is the exchange to say who may or may not trade a product you own? It just seems weird. If there's bad news, the people who pay attention most closely, and get access…
That's weird. It's not expensive to wire houses, and you can't get gigabit fibre speeds with ethernet. You certainly couldn't get anywhere near it 5-10 years ago, but gigabit fibre was available then.
>this is not really democracy Literally every single part of the EU apparatus is democratic. Every single bit. The European Council consists of the Heads of Government of the EU states. If your Head of Government isn't…
Yeah that's nothing to do with big companies moving there. That's what happens when you let Chinese investors dominate your housing market. (See Auckland as well)