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I think the object-oriented paradigm, is the most hated aspect: - "Object-Oriented design" ( class diagrams, use case diagrams, Abbott Textual Analysis... and all the bike bikeshed…

a quote on this topic, during the early days of the Afghanistan, was "CNN shows us where the missiles are launched and Al-Jazeera shows us where they land" a More concrete example …

that's interesting, so you use an iPad for your day to day programming? from my experience converting ppt/word to pdf is a common enough use case that I would've assumed the majori…

I don't understand why no one is blaming the education system? How is it possible that students that are being considered for "advanced placement" are not familiar with file format…

when I last bought a laptop, notebookcheck's [1] cpu ranking was helpful. [1] - https://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Processors-Benchmark-Li...

how can you reconcile that with the fact that job-hopping in 2-5 years is proven to be a more effective way to raise your salary? Being seen as "local" may have its benefits but I …

I genuinely hate the software architect title. It's like when we were in school and the teacher told us to write an outline before writing. No problem ! the majority wrote the text…

would ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false); also help?

sorry I typoed I meant, countably infinite. by w I meant the ordinal.

> An infinite number of zeroes. . .and then a one. . .wait, you can't do that. why not? why can't an infinitely small number exist?

wouldn't 0.999.. be equal to 1 - 10^w since it's only a countably finite series of nines.

but the long division algorithm never terminates. why would it terminate at countable infinity?

>"but you're no longer talking the same language as the rest of the world" yes, in the standard real numbers 1 = 0.999.., but people have dealt with numbers like "pi" and "sqrt(2)"…

if we say that infinitesimals exist. that 1/3 != 0.33.. and 1 != 0.9999... and the probability of possible events is never 0. what are the properties that we would lose?

more like 1/3 != 0.3333 .... as in 1/3 does not have a decimal representation. you can only approximate it but never reach it.

why? 1/3 * 3 could still be equal to one. but 1/3 != 0.33333... that is, 1/3 is not representable in base 10. Which makes way more sense. I wonder if taking 0.9999.. != 1, that is …