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Idiot.
If he'd encased it in a transparent plastic block and cut it in half, he could have won the Turner prize!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just found a C# 8 nullable reference types warning in Noda Time. Fixing it by changing Foo(x, x?.Bar) to Foo(x, x?.Bar!) which looks really dodgy… anyone want to guess why it’s okay? C#?!
Almost using as many punctuation characters as C++.
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Quote: But now the compiler warns that the second argument could be null, and the parameter is meant to be non-null.
That's the point you lost me... How it comes?
And if it does warn in C# 8 than we have a big problem because the code (without the ! operator) compiles with no problem (as it should) in C# 7... (and that because the public Delivery(Person recipient, Address address) method has no problem whatsoever to receive null in every parameter you choose)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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He didn't put a fullpoint (leftpond: period) at the end, so it won't compile in COBOL.
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Researchers have developed a simple and highly novel form of computing by shining patterned bands of light and shadow through different facets of a polymer cube and reading the combined results that emerge. Computing via Lite Brite
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Breaking News: Hackers use iphone mirror app to steal personal data!
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Science Daily wrote Researchers have developed a simple and highly novel form of computing by shining patterned bands of light and shadow through different facets of a polymer cube and reading the combined results that emerge. What's the big deal? I've heard people were doing this back in the '60s with LSD.
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The Windows Sandbox is a Windows 10 virtual machine that can be quickly launched so you can test downloaded programs,browsers extensions, and suspect sites without risk of infecting your normal Windows operating system. "Remember what happens to castles of sand"
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Update: The sandbox is such a basic version of winio that it includes almost none of the cr@p that makes it the garbage that it is, so users have opted en masse to use it all the time, instead of the Best! Windows! Evah!
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The clear intermediate answer is “because DOS and OS/2 used backslash”. Slash-nonfiction
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A more pertinent question is "Why does this stupid website use recaptcha"?
Blocked.
Never to be seen.
I can live without it.
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Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? | OS/2 Museum
Archive.org link because the original was apparently slashdotted (reddited? hackernewsed? insidered?) offline.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The SpaceX company has begun the roll-out of its orbiting broadband system. MuskNet begins
Hmm. Maybe I need better branding on that. Elonternet?
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Update: Global warming exacerbated by too-fruggin'-many reflective objects in geostationary orbit.
And Superman sues for hair-care costs.
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Serendipitous discovery unearths new threat for MySQL server owners. Passwords deemed helpful
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Guido van Rossum is one of the world’s most influential programmers. Van Rossum is the author of the general-purpose programming language Python, which he started working on in 1989, and is now among the most popular languages in use. Seems ironic for a language that treats whitespace so significantly
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That's funny, I'm not interested in working with his toy.
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I highly doubt he'll shed a tear.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Seems ironic for a language that treats whitespace so significantly More like heteronormative white privileged space!
(I am so going to be kicked into the soapbox... must resist temptation...)
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 26-May-19 4:18am.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Guido wrote: “It’s not just about writing the code, but you have stand up for your code and defend your code, and there is a certain male attitude that is endemic in many projects where a woman would just not feel comfortable claiming that she is right,” he explained. “A guy who knows less than that woman might honestly believe [he is right], so they present a much more confident image.” ..because men are supposedly better at defending, or what?
Any woman who works in science needs to withstand peer-pressure and defend their claims. None of them have complained yet about the unfair advantages of men.
If someone is not comfortable about claiming that they are right, it is usually not gender-based, but based on them judging theirself and their (lack of) knowledge. If you can explain why you are right, then that is a non-problem.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
Any woman who works in science needs to withstand peer-pressure and defend their claims. None of them have complained yet about the unfair advantages of men.
No, female scientists have complained about having a harder time than their male counterparts. Not too vocally for fear of retribution because academic fields tend to be small where everyone knows everyone, but I've come across them.
It probably also varies field to field, since they tend to be more insular and self-regulating
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Covert racism and sexism is bad enough (and it does indeed exist), but using overt racism and sexism as a means of compensating for the covert side is equally dangerous, and more that just a little hypocritical.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 24-May-19 8:37am.
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I may look like a white man, but I identify as a hispanic woman. If he doesn't mentor me, I'll sue him for discrimination.
His "sensitivities" are gonna start to get sticky, and smell funny.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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