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JoshuaAshton

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    Comment #27842145

    Worst combo ever.

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    Comment #27649231

    I find it more amusing you don't see the blatant circular logic flaw in that.

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    Comment #27649206

    So you should be required to go through a government licensing programme to be able to tell the government they fucked up? :D

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    Comment #27555071

    b sqr 4 a c * * - sqrt Yeah no. This being "bug free" seems like a joke.

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    Comment #27418811

    Rasengan goes 1 week without spamming his inane crap on HN challenge!

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    Comment #27367869

    Fucking sellouts.

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    Comment #27318654

    I wonder when Rasengan will realize how much he messed up.

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    Comment #20374174

    Or you can just select to hold that package for updates in a package manager in a competent distro that actually gets needed security and usability updates. Doesn't help that some …

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    Comment #19572431

    The default idea behind exceptions is silly and as I stated before, they typically get generated to some horrific code

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    Comment #19572072

    Usually documentation tends to have this, or you can look at the function and immediately know what it will return, whereas with exceptions any passthrough errors are transparent.

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    > You also can't possibly know all error codes to handle for a function if it calls other functions returning error codes You aren't using error codes or documenting correctly. You…

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    Comment #19571687

    > That's because you're inexperienced. That's fairly rude to the guy, and doesn't make your point any stronger. I've worked with exceptions before, it leads to try/catch spaghetti …

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    Comment #19500546

    I got an ad for McDonalds on this

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    Comment #19462248

    No you don't, because that is absurd and highly illegal.

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    Comment #19453296

    All they have is telemetry right now. Why even bother making an announcement?

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    Comment #19452925

    > promising blockchain startup Yeah... sure. You kinda shot yourself in the foot here.

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    Comment #19013398

    Give me an example of their real work they have done while at Buzzfeed. That person is also not on this list :v

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    Comment #19013038

    I wouldn't exactly call anyone who has worked at Buzzfeed "super talented." I don't think anyone sane would.

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    Comment #18671892

    This forces you to allocate it on the heap... The C init function didn't require this.