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Yes and the responses are implemented with methods. Always.

The coke bit has regional variance. In the entire southern US "coke" is a fully generic term for all carbonated beverages: http://laughingsquid.com/soda-pop-or-coke-maps-of-regiona…

And the object responds to the "foo" message by calling a method. The difference is whether we're discussing the invocation or the response. OP's usage of method isn't incorrect in…

The source of the 30% statistic is from a selection-biased sample of people who undergo paternity testing because there is already a question as to who is the father. It's not an a…

Sure, but you can say the same about going to bed at night with the intent of waking up in the morning.

It is. Cgroup provides limits for memory, CPU time. We already have other accounting mechanisms for processes/threads (rlimits) and for inodes and disk space (disk quota systems). …

Interestingly these programs are currently disallowed in California, I believe due mostly to Prop 103: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/focusarea/prop-103-californi...

Indeed. I can negotiate a connection to google.com:80 successfully on a 1000ms latency pipe just fine. Slowly, but fine.

"Isn't that mainly terrorism, not paedophilia?" It's nothing at all. Plenty of innocent people are on those lists having done nothing . That the pretext is terrorism is irrelevant.…

Interestingly the system you describe, marking two points and measuring time between them is illegal in California: Definition of a speed trap: http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d17…

The only nonsense here is your belief that a hiring process can accurately predict future results. Hiring is incredibly difficult: Vast volumes of literature have been written on t…

It's not really an analogy; The divide is still along similar racial lines. Civil asset forfeiture laws predominantly impact poor black or Hispanic people. Here's what the ACLU has…

'Unless a company has been completely asleep at the wheel, there is no scenario under which people will suddenly go "woah woah woah! these 200 people must go!".' Of course there is…

"Mass firings, however justified, represent broken management" I don't think you've supported this opinion very well. Here's a counterpoint: Hiring and firing are a completely norm…

You don't think businesses should fire under-performers? That's nuts.

"The motivation behind the new system call has more to do with chroot environments, where the device might not be available at all. " Why wouldn't one simply create the appropriate…

If the job is unnecessary why would it be a good idea to "save" it?

It's absolutely useful and it's telling that you think it is not.

Contribution is not a prerequisite for criticism. Deserved criticism, in this case.

Agreed. The name for this is "regulatory capture." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

> Also, C is extensively standardised Not really, at least not in the sense that you mean here: The generation of machine code in shared objects. There is a distinct lack of defini…

Most of the non-technical people I know are very VERY upset with facebook and privacy, but are still using it in much the same fashion as they're still using their AT&T phone or Co…

There's a good deal of nuance to these sorts of questions. For example, police may look at your house from the street in the visible spectrum, but may not look at your house from t…

The objectionable part is that it's not a regional issue. Vampires chasing money are everywhere and will relocate to follow the cash teat. This would've happened anywhere in the US…

A few popular database drivers use escaping under the hood for parameterized query arguments. mysql2 ruby gem (and any rails stack on top of it) for example.