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I think the other solutions proposed are better, but: > Sadly, you can't set the value of an index in an array like that in the top level in C, only inside functions. This is not e…

YAGNI. Seriously. That pretty much describes the main problem with Java - "maybe we'll need this coffee maker to also do julienne fries in the future!"

... and, it will be eventually closed. Maybe. Definitely before the program quits. Not sure that it'll be closed before you run out of file handles, though.

> so no, I'm not going to do free work for you. My current employer, when hiring me, said "Have you ever looked at the Firefox codebase? No? Good. Here, take this Firefox bug. Fix …

Not "this" - @musgrove said he/she's rejected as "overqualified", so it's not a matter of being selected for interview despite lacking the experience

> are averaging 30-50 sqmt That's still 1.6-5.3 times more than they used to be, according to the original claim. Seems less dramatic than 5-10x but for an apartment that already f…

> That chicken is a confit [...] plus cost of employees to serve Is that really a thing in the US? Honest question, I'm confused. The justification for requiring 20% tips (and cons…

Electric vehicles = widely-available high-capacity batteries = solar eats their lunch, very very quickly

I think what many Americans fail to appreciate is that all the safety guarantees that come with deniability + lax security have a (pretty big) cost, one that YOU are paying in the …

On our ops dashboard we see stuff like number of ID syncs, number of events processed (by type), etc. - I'd argue that is something is truly "broken" you see it. If you're using fu…

it's not silly, it's infuriating. I can't pay at the pump with my card, because I don't have a US ZIP (I do have a perfectly secret PIN that I can use everywhere in Europe, but US …

What if I play it on blackjack? It may be incredibly poor judgement on my part, by what if I totally intended to win & pay it back, with interest? My point is that if I didn't actu…

His advice flies in the face of every negotiation course/book. Yes, you must know the range they are willing to pay; but once you know... you don't wait for them to make an offer, …

Except right now?

> I'm arguing that "unfamiliar" does not necessarily mean "hard to find". Yes it does, it literally means "not having knowledge or experience of" and thus it is hard(er) on people.…

I wouldn't put doxing in the same category as "web site graffiti and defacement". It has the potential to be psychologically every bit as damaging as rape...

It strikes me as incredibly... (foolish, arrogant, etc.) to think that one knows better how a set of certain people (programmers in this case) SHOULD organize their life/defend "th…