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If we were to somehow perform a Principal Component Analysis on the amorphous, contradictory mess of "hippie ideals", we could probably distill them down to something like a call t…

>> What concentration camps reveal is that modern people are squeamish about killing. Well, there's a difference between exterminating a foreign and/or conquered city-state, and is…

I'm a bit confused here. >> Most operators in C++, including its memory allocation and deletion operators, can be overloaded. Indeed this one was. Okay, well, firstly - the issue h…

The C++ delete[] operator doesn't take a size parameter either. This is neither here nor there, and unrelated to the problem the blog post is talking about.

The main reason is the object-relational impedance mismatch[1]. Basically, programmers like working with objects that have data fields. This is because most modern, widely-used pro…

>> Our brains are fallible, and so only approximately equivalent to Turing machines; and even ignoring that can only compute every computable thing given both infinite error-free s…

The practical difference is that with async I/O, there's less overhead because you don't need a separate thread for each blocking I/O operation. It's the difference between using a…

k, along with j, is also often an index. Of course, this mathematical convention carried over into programming as well, with i,j, and k serving as index variables.

> It's odd how this is portrayed as a negative aspect of Japan's militarism, when the Allies were fighting the same war with the same attitude. That's not the point, obviously. The…

The "lone genius" is somewhat of a myth, but also has a certain amount of truth to it. For example, Einstein was certainly a lot smarter than the average person - indeed, probably …

Ethics aside, at a certain point, you realize you can make a lot more money legally and legitimately using your technical skills than through any sort of "clever" technical scheme …

Okay, well - never knew this. But that example seems really cherry-picked. Many NY street names are just numbers, even in other boroughs outside Manhattan. Many streets in the Bron…

I've lived in NY my whole life, but am not familiar with this stereotype about unpronounceable names. Apart from Kosciuszko there aren't too many difficult to pronounce names of br…

Basically, the main problem with signalfd is a problem with the Linux implementation of signals in general: if your program requires some kind of logic where each individual signal…

People talk about Marx as if he wrote some kind of blueprint for a Communist state. But he really didn't. He was basically writing a philosophy of history centering around a proble…

Obviously the DRPK stands no chance of tactical victory in any sense. But they have a very good chance of just saying "fuck it", and causing arbitrary damage and mass civilian casu…

That's a subjective value call. It depends on how many North Koreans are being brutalized/dying right now. We don't have that number, but it's likely that tens of thousands of the …

The assessment predicts: "Tens or hundreds of thousands could become casualties" ... in the event of an all-out DRPK/(US+ROK) conflict. One factor to consider here is what happens …

Doctors rely on software a lot to do their job. One day they may even be replaced by software.

I agree - I think for the most part, Java is a simple language that has straightforward C-like syntax. The main problem is specifically the boiler plate class and static main metho…

ECMAScript is a general purpose programming language that, historically, just happened to be made specifically for the purpose of standardizing a language made specifically with a …

Some upper-scale restaurants charge you a "no-show" fee, using the credit card used for the reservation. Maybe airlines could do this? (Of course, the difference is that restaurant…

Good article. But I have to ask for clarification for this statement: "Empty seats cost the airlines money, and they need to recoup those losses somehow." What does this mean? The …

Of course C doesn't map to all that. Neither do most of the MIPS emulators they actually use to teach MIPS assembly in universities. But it does map pretty well to basic loops/cond…