What's amazing is that my dead uncle who I only met once in person while living, his account still exists and Facebook keeps telling me he "wants to reconnect" with me.
That's sick. But also an opportunity to shame Facebook into cleaning up their stupid spam. Claiming that specific people want to reconnect with you when they don't, is deception, and I think it should be illegal for companies to do that. They're basically using your dead uncle to advertise their service. And considering he's dead, it's pretty obvious he didn't give permission for that.
Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia.
These are the German federal states, often called "länder", which literally translates to "countries", though "states" would probably be less confusing to Americans.
Voting is anonymous to prevent coercion and bribery.
Okay, so that didn't work. Any other ideas?
It didn't?
We're talking about average voters, not congressional votes here.
Actually we are talking about congressional votes. See the GGP: "Why all the voting is anonymous? And by voting i mean the one that the congressmen are exercising."
I don't know if those votes are really anonymous, but if they are, it clearly doesn't prevent corruption in any way.
While I'm perfectly fine with beating the Internet Fuckwad Theory, repressive politics, not just in China, but also their recent rise in the west, requires that anonymity has to be possible.
The developers decided to bitch and moan about it.
You're wrong. The developers decide to inform the public that the Amazon App Store is a bad idea for developers, and lying to customers (who think the developers still get 20% of their original price). It takes every possible bit of power away from developers.
It makes sense for other developers to learn from this experience and avoid Amazon.
The developer received the terms of the deal, and decided to try it anyway, in the interest of experiment. TFA explains the results of that experiment: Amazon App Store is awful.
Personally I don't even see why people would consider Amazon's app store. What does it have to offer that Google's Marketplace doesn't?
If they were to ask me to work for them (they won't, but let's suppose), I'd probably tell them that they don't want me, because I have a strong sense of morality. I consider doing the right thing more important than following the rules. They may be looking for people who occasionally cross the line of legality without meaning to do harm, but they don't want people who cross the line of legality meaning to do right. They'd have an army of Bradley Mannings.
C's "everything is a pointer" approach gives you the power to easily do lots of cool stuff, and adding length to a string would break that elegance. But using NUL-terminated strings creates a lot of security problems, not merely limited to buffer overflows, which are really caused by C's backward memory allocation.
WinXP as a final destination is rather sad, though I admit I also have WinXP at home. I want to be able to play games, but I don't want to pay money to MS for their crappy OS.
If it's really that much work to deal with the paperwork, then I can't even blame them for charging more. Makes sense to have the customer pay for his own silly paperwork, doesn't it? So the real news is that bureaucracy is raising IT costs to an unreasonable degree.
Lots of people love it. I never used it, but most of my music-loving friends do. Though if it's only now expanding into the US, and you happen to live in the US, then that could easily explain why you haven't been exposed to it yet.
Really? I don't recognize any of that from my experience with git. I pulled from other people's repositories all the time, and it automatically merged with my code. Sometimes I did have a conflict, but quite often it could be solved by simply merging in the other direction (pull instead of push, or put one in a branch merge in the other direction, and then merge back). I have done the occasional merge by hand, but not nearly as often as I've had to do that with SVN, which requires manual merging every time two people changed something in the same file. Though the tools for manual merging for SVN were somewhat nicer than those we had for git.
According to my understanding, --rebase was only necessary when you wanted to do something really weird, but I forgot what it was. Or maybe I just didn't understand. I don't think we ever had any need for it.
Git always seems to require long command strings to do simple things and breaks horribly if you get them wrong ('oh, you forgot --rebase? Well, now your local clone is fucked, do a clean pull and manually merge your changes').
I've never had git break anything horribly. Unlike SVN, which is very easy to mess up in my experience. I've also never used --rebase in git. I don't understand the point, so I ignore it, and that seems to work very well for me.
This is important because then you can isolate them. You can cherry pick or revert one fix without affecting the other.
This is also why it's a good idea to separate the reformatting of code from functional changes to the code. The smaller, more atomic, more internally related and consistent the commits are, the more power you have over them. For the same reason, a single fix shouldn't be spread out over separate commits. That way you run the risk that someone accepts or reverts only part of the fix, which is likely to break stuff.
Don't underestimate the power of reverting or cherry-picking individual commits. Even in a small team, we used those features of git quite regularly. This is IMO where the true power of git lies.
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There's no guarantee of uniqueness, however. Different people could be using the same version number.
I definitely prefer the vibe of the open source project names.
I already have my name ready if I ever invent a language: Tawny. Would be cool if it was some sort of port and somehow related to Ruby, but I have no idea how to accomplish that.
Much of the High Court judgment was taken up arguing this (as Ainsworth was counter-claiming that *he* owned the copyright in the helmet), but it was ruled that if there were any copyright or design rights they would be owned by Lucasfilm as there are presumptions about employers etc. owning things,
But was he employed by Lucasfilm? I was under the impression that he just sold 50 units. TFA does mention a price per helmet, doesn't it? That should mean that Lucasfilm was his customer, not his employer.
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I think you're confusing Russia with East-Germany now.
What's amazing is that my dead uncle who I only met once in person while living, his account still exists and Facebook keeps telling me he "wants to reconnect" with me.
That's sick. But also an opportunity to shame Facebook into cleaning up their stupid spam. Claiming that specific people want to reconnect with you when they don't, is deception, and I think it should be illegal for companies to do that. They're basically using your dead uncle to advertise their service. And considering he's dead, it's pretty obvious he didn't give permission for that.
Are you arguing that computers should have the same rights as people?
Check your Wikipedia. It knows this stuff.
Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia.
These are the German federal states, often called "länder", which literally translates to "countries", though "states" would probably be less confusing to Americans.
Voting is anonymous to prevent coercion and bribery.
Okay, so that didn't work. Any other ideas?
It didn't?
We're talking about average voters, not congressional votes here.
Actually we are talking about congressional votes. See the GGP: "Why all the voting is anonymous? And by voting i mean the one that the congressmen are exercising."
I don't know if those votes are really anonymous, but if they are, it clearly doesn't prevent corruption in any way.
Voting is anonymous to prevent coercion and bribery.
Okay, so that didn't work. Any other ideas?
While I'm perfectly fine with beating the Internet Fuckwad Theory, repressive politics, not just in China, but also their recent rise in the west, requires that anonymity has to be possible.
The developers decided to bitch and moan about it.
You're wrong. The developers decide to inform the public that the Amazon App Store is a bad idea for developers, and lying to customers (who think the developers still get 20% of their original price). It takes every possible bit of power away from developers.
It makes sense for other developers to learn from this experience and avoid Amazon.
The developer received the terms of the deal, and decided to try it anyway, in the interest of experiment. TFA explains the results of that experiment: Amazon App Store is awful.
Personally I don't even see why people would consider Amazon's app store. What does it have to offer that Google's Marketplace doesn't?
I wouldn't mind working with Abby, actually.
If they were to ask me to work for them (they won't, but let's suppose), I'd probably tell them that they don't want me, because I have a strong sense of morality. I consider doing the right thing more important than following the rules. They may be looking for people who occasionally cross the line of legality without meaning to do harm, but they don't want people who cross the line of legality meaning to do right. They'd have an army of Bradley Mannings.
Allow me to summarize that for the tl;dr crowd:
C's "everything is a pointer" approach gives you the power to easily do lots of cool stuff, and adding length to a string would break that elegance. But using NUL-terminated strings creates a lot of security problems, not merely limited to buffer overflows, which are really caused by C's backward memory allocation.
Though it's more financial disguising than voice acting.
WinXP as a final destination is rather sad, though I admit I also have WinXP at home. I want to be able to play games, but I don't want to pay money to MS for their crappy OS.
If it's really that much work to deal with the paperwork, then I can't even blame them for charging more. Makes sense to have the customer pay for his own silly paperwork, doesn't it? So the real news is that bureaucracy is raising IT costs to an unreasonable degree.
Lots of people love it. I never used it, but most of my music-loving friends do. Though if it's only now expanding into the US, and you happen to live in the US, then that could easily explain why you haven't been exposed to it yet.
Sounds like you are interested, actually.
Really? I don't recognize any of that from my experience with git. I pulled from other people's repositories all the time, and it automatically merged with my code. Sometimes I did have a conflict, but quite often it could be solved by simply merging in the other direction (pull instead of push, or put one in a branch merge in the other direction, and then merge back). I have done the occasional merge by hand, but not nearly as often as I've had to do that with SVN, which requires manual merging every time two people changed something in the same file. Though the tools for manual merging for SVN were somewhat nicer than those we had for git.
According to my understanding, --rebase was only necessary when you wanted to do something really weird, but I forgot what it was. Or maybe I just didn't understand. I don't think we ever had any need for it.
Git always seems to require long command strings to do simple things and breaks horribly if you get them wrong ('oh, you forgot --rebase? Well, now your local clone is fucked, do a clean pull and manually merge your changes').
I've never had git break anything horribly. Unlike SVN, which is very easy to mess up in my experience. I've also never used --rebase in git. I don't understand the point, so I ignore it, and that seems to work very well for me.
If DRM allows true PC version of games, then so be it.
But DRM doesn't allow true PC versions of games. If anything, it reduces the market for them. And there were plenty of PC games before DRM.
We are already seeing that PC is not very loved game platform.
Mostly because of the crippling DRM that so many games are saddled with. DRMless games are thriving.
This is important because then you can isolate them. You can cherry pick or revert one fix without affecting the other.
This is also why it's a good idea to separate the reformatting of code from functional changes to the code. The smaller, more atomic, more internally related and consistent the commits are, the more power you have over them. For the same reason, a single fix shouldn't be spread out over separate commits. That way you run the risk that someone accepts or reverts only part of the fix, which is likely to break stuff.
Don't underestimate the power of reverting or cherry-picking individual commits. Even in a small team, we used those features of git quite regularly. This is IMO where the true power of git lies.
There's no guarantee of uniqueness, however. Different people could be using the same version number.
I definitely prefer the vibe of the open source project names.
I already have my name ready if I ever invent a language: Tawny. Would be cool if it was some sort of port and somehow related to Ruby, but I have no idea how to accomplish that.
Don't mix different fixes/features in a single commit. It's a really simple and useful principle that git makes very easy to adhere to. SVN does not.
Much of the High Court judgment was taken up arguing this (as Ainsworth was counter-claiming that *he* owned the copyright in the helmet), but it was ruled that if there were any copyright or design rights they would be owned by Lucasfilm as there are presumptions about employers etc. owning things,
But was he employed by Lucasfilm? I was under the impression that he just sold 50 units. TFA does mention a price per helmet, doesn't it? That should mean that Lucasfilm was his customer, not his employer.