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Err, no. I was hoping you could clarify what is meant, like I said. I get the idea of "casual [xxxx]ism", where something is so internalized and normalized that it doesn't even reg…

I'm not trying to challenge you, just curious: what is an example of discourse that would be interpreted by someone with said privilege to be civil, yet interpreted by someone else…

I don't really understand why you are being down voted for a technical question. It seems like answering it without giving a downvote as a snarky "ISN'T IT OBVIOUS?" would be suffi…

+1 for the DocumentBuilderFactory. I was trying to figure out why such an idea was implemented. I saw it sort of like having multiple implementations of DEFLATE on the same system.…

While it is important to know low level details if you are going to understand how the high level language is built, it is not necessarily important to know how the high level lang…

Unification of storage and computing...what does that even mean? I get that having nearly unlimited, fast, persistent storage would be awesome, but that's not a conceptual merging …

Can't wait to see it: You wouldn't steal a Library of Congress...

OK- Look at people trying to make 3D games for the web. GPU performance is a concern, but if you can't even run the physics simulation or cull your object database fast enough to p…

OK, it's not that HSA isn't useful, it's that coordination between the CPU and GPU is still stupidly hard and has a lot of CPU-side overhead, making it impractical for small worklo…

That made my day brighter. Sorry you're getting so many downvotes for that. :(

Just no. Well-written software (i.e. clean code, clear functions) is great and a joy to work with, but is absolutely not a substitute for documentation. Public APIs are double-trip…

Climbing the tallest mountain in the world?

+1 "Things aren't fun/good/interesting if hundreds do it." Pardon me if that doesn't sound a bit like the stereotypical hipster excuse not to do something - a fetish for being orig…

[Wavefront] OBJ is dead. Long live OBJ!

I agree it does not if you do. It would be if Mozilla Corp (an employer) fired him or told him he must resign, hence the part "pressuring people to force him to resign". You can de…

I wish I could give this post 10 upvotes. There is a reason that the US has employment laws [Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Section 703(a)(1) & (2)] related to discrimin…

"What abuse?" -> Demanding that he resign and step down and/or pressuring people to force him to resign? If that comes to pass, that he is forced out of his position against his wi…

Yeah, I don't think that is how America works. You can hold any belief and support any organization in any way that is legal so long as that organization itself is not criminal or …

"bahahaha" in response to something that amuses me. Usually, I just have to click a stupid upvote button instead. ^-- this is generally what I avoid, plz no downvotes. :(

Agreed, trust and confidence //that it can be spent//. I don't think "trust and confidence" against terrible scenarios was a requirement 1,000 years ago, (FDIC formed 1933) yet peo…

I fail to see how this is any different than people putting money into bank 1000 years ago and a bank robbery destroy their wealth. Isn't that a perfectly accurate description of w…

FWIW, memcpy(&anInt, &aFloat, sizeof(int)) achieves the same thing, is not turned in a real call to memcpy(), and doesn't not break the strict aliasing rule, and does not cause inc…

They are committed to the language because it makes them profit, yes. What did you expect from a company? A bunch of academics who are committed the language on its theoretical mer…

^-- This is the most important thing said on this whole topic.

Yay, Islamophobia. Forced prayer should be stamped out from public schools. Period. Let's just agree on that without going to extremes like "we'll all be living under Shari'a law!!…