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In a former life I worked with a codebase that used that style. Let's just say it isn't enough.

No, but you can easily end up missing some because somebody wrapped them in some sub-type of RuntimeException because they were forced(!) to. This happens all the time because the …

Parent poster explicitly said "under pressure". What more do you want?

> Copying is encouraged. Like I said, having the algorithm there is a good way to make it apparent what the code is actually going to do and the associated cost of the solution. It…

Present tense -- it's (almost?) always a little shorter, so you can fit more information into the "subject" line.

Using min() seems like it could be incredibly dangerous as an "implicit" behavior, not to mention surprising. I'd wager it'd be much better to just specify that abort() gets called…

> IMO Lambda calculus should be taught wider in CS programs. It brings useful models, builds (if one likes theory) good background to functional programming paradigms, etc. I'm sur…

Honestly, it seems like a pretty clear intention to co-opt a term ("commons") which has usually meant "let's share things!" to mean something entirely different. (And shame on them…

I believe it may be because the email only mentioned Intel explicitly and had a "I won't be buying Intel in future" (paraphrased) comment. However, I personally wouldn't assume tha…

If I were being pithy, I find that when you're doing this type of thing it's more a feeling of "working fun" rather than "working hard". (Of course this means that one is probably …

I think you mean the "biosphere" rather than "we". Modern humans have existed anywhere from 50k-200k years. Just to put the time scales into context. EDIT: Just to clarify: As long…

If the array structure itself were being modified, the "i < a.length" check would have to be done every iteration, but in this case there's no mutation of the array itself, so it's…

I suppose that's true in some sense, but at least string theorist have done some interesting math? (It may not be math that applies to the real world, but math being math is eterna…

Damage-by-software usually isn't spectacular (and therefore not likely to get noticed) or not necessarily very directly costly in terms of human lives, but I'd argue it's actually …

Um, mix in a second randomly-chosen UUID? My point wasn't so much that I had the perfect solution and that I'd thought of everything. It's that there are much better systems and th…

I can second that recommenadation.

Indeed. Java is in fact a sort of worst-of-all-worlds in that it's even possible to catch things that are really unrecoverable errors like StackOverflowException or OutOfMemoryErro…

Personally, I think even having to choose a UID at install time or dynamically is a pretty sad indictment of just how broken the user system on Linux (and pretty much every UNIX-li…

Did you read what I said at all? "Order total: undefined" is hugely different from "There was an error -- maybe just leave the page, yeah?".

For the hard of hearing, non-native speakers who are used to subtitles from non-dubbed movies, etc. etc. I suppose. I do know that, as a non-native English speaker, I've always app…

That seems... short-sighted. There's a huge amount of 'interesting' things one can do which are illegal, immoral, depraved and worse. (I'd argue that stealing is generally at the v…

This has nothing to do with undefined vs. exceptions, sorry. You can do example the same with a powerful enough sandbox -- e.g. what WebAsm does to avoid hostile code taking over y…

How is "there was a JavaScript error on this page" informational icon any worse than an order total of "undefined" or that the page just doesn't seem to be reacting to clicks? I'd …

The JS way is a mistake, intentional or not. Here's a little thought experiment: Your program ends up with an "undefined" in some variable 'x'. How did that happen? In JS it can ha…