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The people in the UK actually go to prison though

There's also the fact that common methods threw exception types that were not final, and in fact overly generic. If I call a method that declares itself to throw NoSuchFileExceptio…

I just tested it by creating a repo with two branches without a common ancestor, and I was able to move a branch pointer to either history with update-ref, so no, I don't think so

You are looking for git update-ref

> we don't do commissions, we just pay good salaries The semi-joke I always heard about this was that if you don't pay commissions, you'll hire a sales team who are good at selling…

I don't know Spanish scrabble, but I have played Finnish scrabbe - another language that relies heavily on conjugation - and it disallows all conjugated and declined forms of words…

To say of that which is, that is is, or of that which is not, that it is not

Luckily, the link provides just this information: 35-44: 62% 45-54: 70% 55-64: 75% 65+: 79%

To tie this back to TFA, even before we knew that the Halting problem was uncomputable, we could have defined f(n) = { 1 if there is a Turing machine with at most n states that sol…

As I understand it, the C spec defines what are valid programs, and for valid programs, either specifies what their observable side effects must be, or leaves them either unspecifi…

Do you also count the first decade of your life from January 1st of the year before you were born?

And also, the system is a direct descendant of regnal numbering, where zero wouldn’t have made sense even if invented (there is no zeroth year of Joe Biden’s term of office).

I always thought the problem with this was that the compilers do loads of these optimisations in very mundane ways. Eg if I have a #define FOO 17 void bar(int x, int y) { if (x + y…

Only if the interfaces the underlying implementations provide remain stable

Doesn’t the fact you do use it mean the customer (the one who chooses the vendor) did not care, though?

On top of all the other problems pointed out, java's checked exceptions don't even do a good job of indicating possible failure conditions. The standard library set the tone on thi…

The iPhone launched 17 years ago. The correct rough approximation is now "20 years ago" :)

I always write a negative “is empty” check as “size > 0” for this reason

There’s always movfuscator [1] [1] https://github.com/Battelle/movfuscator

No, that’s not right. If you did that, you would need to force push to get the result pushed to the remote.

tarball is the mandatory parameter to the preceding -f and can’t be used to inject commands

Indeed, and even with apples, we can say "the apple is native to Central Asia" without meaning a particular apple.