Clearly we need a language where you can declare a 0array
or a 1array
. That would end problems once and for all.
spamcourt
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RE: Iron Man is now powered by Oracle
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RE: I could spend hours and hours and hours just ranting about what an awful experience dealing with git is
You don't like it? That's odd, I heard it was designed by the same guy who made the Linux kernel.
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RE: Milwaukee PC
[i]Static IP Address Starting @ $74.99 / Month[/i]
So just assigning you the same IP every time you connect costs over twice as much as to give you Internet access, and it's more expensive the faster your connection is. They really must be running out of addresses. -
RE: The email address you have been using for 10 years is not valid
I'm usually a big proponent of "follow standards, even if they have some flaws", but these rules just seems way too overcomplicated (seriously, [i]comments[/i] in email addresses? And why isn't ".." allowed?). Is there any real advantage over just saying "allowed characters in the local part are a-zA-Z0-9_.+- and it must have between 1 and 255 characters"?
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RE: Hey guys, remember how all the tags on the forum are encoded into every post form?
@esoterik said:
@mott555 said:
pictures were replaced by a moderator, not references, you would have to post an xkcd comic as a picture to test if it still gets replaced.What happened to xkcd references getting replaced with pictures of
Jabba the HuttRosie O'Donnell?Does that also work with "xkcd slightly worse"?
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RE: DreamSpark, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ThePirateBay
@morbiuswilters said:
I'm starting to believe the best foreign aid we could possibly give is to drop crates of AK-47s in poor villages in these corrupt countries. It would at least give them a fighting chance to overthrow their government and establish something good.
We could just go and kill the corrupt leaders, and try to build a society over there that's not shit. But then it would be imperialism, and that's evil.
Anyways, that's why GiveDirectly was invented.
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RE: Iron Man is now powered by Oracle
@blakeyrat said:
@dkf said:
You're right! We should just stop using command lines for scripting, and instead switch to some kind of text-based interface inside a window!Sequenced stuff is just very easy to describe with written text.
And it's of course utterly impossible to have written text in a GUI-- that's why when you do word processing with Word, you have to type in hieroglyphics.
Wait, what?
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RE: Bumping Threads WTF
Well, I don't agree that the people who necropost are to blame. I think it's an obvious usability flaw, the software should either show a message when a thread hasn't had replies in X days, or lock/archive it (and that's not just Community Server's fault, most forums still don't do this). I personally would color-code the age of posts, and allow "bump-less" replies too (in case you just want to add some information to an old thread for some reason).
Of course that is an inherent problem of the "forum" format. People come and go, and they still want to discuss things that were discussed 6 years ago, so you either have the same thread being created once every few months or the same thread being bumped once every few months.
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RE: Only 193 more days!
Maybe your connection sucks? Do you get fast speeds with everything else? Or maybe you have the wrong "download region" selected? My Steam downloads are always as fast as the line.
I'm assuming you're not confusing Mbit/s and MB/s.
Latest posts made by spamcourt
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RE: How important is dressing up in your company?
The only requirement here is to have some clothes on. Most of the time.
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RE: Is my computer trying to phish me?
@dhromed said:
@Ben L. said:
watch this video.
I think something corrupted the graphics of your game.
Yes, it has colours. Other than that looks perfectly good to me.
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RE: Outlook.com style security
@anonymous234 said:
"Warning: your Microsoft account password contains spaces or is over 20 characters long. You may not be able to use it to log in to some services using the legacy Microsoft Passport system. To see an incomplete list of services that you might experience problems with, click here".
There, problem solved.
The Chen wing in the Redmond campus is packed with hand-knitted prisons for people who think like you!
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RE: Bitcoin Reprise
I'm not a Bitcoin cheerleader, so don't tear off my face for the things that I'm about to say.
You can use a third-party service to store and transfer your Bitcoins, but these services have historically tended to get hacked or just suddenly vanish, taking all your internet funny-money with it.
Why anyone would trust a largely unknown third party with their personal SSH/SSL/house keys is beyond me. (Especially when they're storable in a small container.) The author indicated that he understood the distinction between the wallet and the blockchain, so I don't understand why he's conflating the two in this paragraph.
Visa (for example) maintains multi-terabyte (at least) databases of financial transactions; now imagine if everybody who wanted to safely use a Visa card had to have a copy of all that data (including lists of everybody else's transactions).
Yeah. Doing the initial analysis of the blockchain is an enormous pain. (That shit took two-and-a-half days on my home PC.) There are "light" clients that don't have to download and analyse the entire blockchain to get work done. The (two) official "heavy" clients make an index of the entire blockchain which (at the time of this writing) occupies far less than 1GB. It should be possible to keep blockchain data on the network somewhere and fetch only what you need to get your current task done. Indeed, this might be how "light" clients work.
There is literally no privacy when it comes to Bitcoin addresses, and once someone can associate your identity with a public address, it is relatively simple for them to track literally all of your activity using that address.
Anyone saying otherwise is dangerously uninformed. BTC is no more anonymous than USD. It might be just as anonymous as USD, depending on how widely deployed bill serial number scanners have become.
Unless you have an ideological stake in the concept of Bitcoin (or want to buy drugs and/or child porn), there is literally no reason to get involved in it.
/s/Bitcoin/USD/ BTC is like all other currencies in that it can be used for both licit and illicit transactions. This should surprise noone.
[J]ournalism is [rather] uniformly terrible, always remember this.
FTFH.
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RE: This Slashdot article
@blakeyrat said:
You're telling me the CLI is only intended as a computer protocol, but here it is, right from the horse's mouth that it is intended for humans.
These two are not mutually exclusive. A major strength of CLIs is that they can be used both interactively and for scripting. If you notice yourself typing some commands repetitively in the command line, you can just write down the same commands you used before into a text file, optionally create place-holders for varying parameters (i.e. command-line arguments) and later just run that file. How do you imagine doing that with a GUI?
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RE: Updatez to Axis the Webz
@blakeyrat said:
@Jedalyzer said:
But, um, Windows XP uses the obsolete update site instead of the Windows Update tool.
This is where you went wrong. That is not true.
@Jedalyzer said:
@boomzilla said:
The last time I tried to check for updates in XP from the control panel security / update widget, it opened IE at the MS Update page. At least they fixed this by 7.
Ah, yeah, it does. Even SP3 gives an error page though.
Oh snap.
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RE: ASUS laptop and Windows 8 don't play nice
@Mcoder said:
As an example, this computer I'm writting on has a Linux kernel as BIOS.
What computer is that?
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RE: I have a lot more confidence in Bitcoins now
Tandy started as a leatherworking company, and Nintendo started with playing cards.
What's your point?
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RE: ASUS laptop and Windows 8 don't play nice
TRWTF is UEFI. One of the most horrible instances of solution-looking-for-a-problem I've seen (the other monstrosity, ACPI, pales in comparison.) What's wrong with just "load the first sector on the first bootable device at 0000:7c00 and jump to it"?
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RE: Small typo
The teacher who was fired for an “ineffective” rating in fact should have been ranked “minimally effective,” Kamras said.
In my opinion there's nearly no difference between those two, so he probably would've been fired sooner or later anyway. Just like a student getting 49% instead of 50%, there's no real difference there; he's a failure either way.