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Just wanted to say how cool this was. It's been awhile since I've done any C/C++ programming but the pointer syntax and work really takes me back!

At my job we say "hit by the lottery bus" to make it clear that we're using a euphemism for "what if this person quits".

Last time I checked, their hot wallet had less than 5% of the bitcoins on their books. A catastrophic data break would leave most of their customers without either their bitcoins o…

Alternate title for the article: "Lists of lodash features replaced by ES6 if you don't mind throwing an exception when given invalid input such as null or undefined". All kidding …

I was on the "Python 3000" mailing list while it was being planned, and the prevailing attitude seemed to be "it'll probably take 5 years before the community moves to Python 3". (…

Here's the standard argument, as I understand it: - There are something like 100,000,000,000 neurons in the human brain, each of which can have up to around 10,000 synaptic connect…

> What about people that can separate their personal from their business? Eich never did anything at all at Mozilla to push his point of view on gay marriage. If #1 is true, then t…

grellas makes two basic arguments in the post I replied to, which I will attempt to summarize: 1) Refusing employment based on beliefs has been historically bad, e.g. Christians re…

grellas' argument doesn't sit right with me either, but I disagree that his argument was tactless or intended to derail anything. When grellas writes: > Principle is more important…

Debates on Brendan Eich and Condoleezza Rice seem to boil down three separate questions: 1) Is there any belief or action not directly related to someone's job that should disquali…

Guido explains in an old blog post ( http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=147358 ) that he considers all of the possible implementations of multi-line lambdas to be un…

Definitely, which means that hospitals soak up a lot of uncompensated E.R. costs associated with people whose long term health issues are not being treated. Those hospitals are not…

> Also I thought the Klingons were part of the Federation at one point during DS9 era? Or perhaps that was just an alliance... There was indeed a military alliance between the Fede…

> War-like cultures would still exist even if the Federation believes they themselves have moved beyond that type of thing. An alternate take compatible with patio11's irreverent t…

A neat trick for helping you write in the style of a particular author: use a list of all the words in their collected works as the dictionary in your word processor. Then you'll s…

There are a lot of middle-ground options, such as "buying back" taxi medallions before opening the floodgates and letting anyone run a taxi. This is obviously a tricky approach for…

The Slate Political Gabfest is by far the best current events podcast I've come across: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gabfest.html My favorite comedy podcast is Judge John…

The release notes can be found at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/releases/1.6/ Personally, I'm happy that Python 3 is now officially supported, though in practice I haven't …

Not so, because as others in this thread have stated, the key is intent.

Asking how to quantify the good and bad that resulted from a thing is something we can ask about literally anything. It's especially hard in this case, because the potential harm w…

Your assertion that we may never know whether anyone was murdered was a surprise to me, which is why I responded. It seems relevant because whether the good outweighs the bad depen…

Strong agree that those documents had the potential to lead to the murder of informants - this alone convinces me that the mass release of those cables without any edits or redacti…

There are 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 possible 128-bit keys. So if you had a machine that could check a trillion possible keys per second it would take over 10 quintill…

Can you clarify why the master password isn't offering any protection? It encrypts your other passwords so that they are not stored in plaintext on the filesystem; this alone seems…

I'm aware that many people don't use ORMs and feel they cause more problems than they solve. However, I'm struggling to think of a popular web framework in any language that doesn'…