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  1. Re:next on the list on A Robot With a Chainsaw! · · Score: 3, Interesting
  2. Re:Novice programmers overwhelmed on How Experienced And Novice Programmers See Code · · Score: 1

    Most of them didn't even heard about diff...

  3. Re:Teribad summary on Vector Vengeance: British Claim They Can Kill the Pixel Within Five Years · · Score: 2

    The same could be said about mp3. Just like mp3 is compressing data in frequency domain instead of time domain, this codec changes pixel grid representation into vector representation.

  4. Re:rounded corners? on New EU-Wide Patent System Approved · · Score: 2

    But if you didn't submit translation in Italian, it wouldn't be valid in Italy. Now it will be.

  5. Re:rounded corners? on New EU-Wide Patent System Approved · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Instead you need lawyers speaking in French, German and English. Which for Italian speaking inventors might be very expensive. Previously this wasn't required, because if someone wanted to have their patent valid in Italy, he had to translate it.

  6. Re:The third option on The Scourge of Error Handling · · Score: 2

    Significantly - you don't (typically) catch exceptions in erlang. You plan what to do after some process fails.

  7. Re:The third option on The Scourge of Error Handling · · Score: 1

    If your state is corrupted, you should either restart or try to fix the state. Restarting is often simpler, fixing state may even add more errors.

  8. Re:The third option on The Scourge of Error Handling · · Score: 1

    I did many times. What can you really do when FileReader.close() can throw an exception?

  9. Re:The third option on The Scourge of Error Handling · · Score: 1

    I think it is a bad design decision to impose static checking on declared 'throws' statements, because that forces routines to catch stuff that they can't handle, or declare a meaningless list of everything every called routine could ever throw.

    It's good design decision in this case. Consider this:
    You call library function A().
    Library function A() calls some function B(), but you don't know this (closed source).
    Library function B() can throw some error, how can you know it? Either it should be catched in A or declared as thrown in A, so that you know that this exception CAN be thrown from A.

  10. Re:The third option on The Scourge of Error Handling · · Score: 1

    Not only telephony. Also in erlang you can make stateful servers, you just don't have shared state. Instead you send messages about data changes between processes. It's like many people talking and updating their knowledge of some situation.

  11. Re:The third option on The Scourge of Error Handling · · Score: 1

    It's only philosophy. In erlang you CAN catch errors (there is even try ... catch and throw). But typically you are encouraged to write programs so that when something fails, you just restart it. I've recently written a server in java which had errors and null pointer exceptions, but it survived, just logged the errors and restarted connection, so you CAN write something like this in other languages. Erlang just gives you some tools to make this even easier.

  12. Re:The third option on The Scourge of Error Handling · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's the philosophy of erlang, "Let it crash". Apparently this leads to some of the most reliable systems. http://www.erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
    Apparently OP didn't heard about it, because this is the third way.

  13. Re:Not everything is a privacy concern on Black Boxes In Cars Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Recently Germany installed some plate reading cameras near border with Poland to help looking for stolen cars. It didn't yet catch any stolen car, but did catch two drivers without valid insurance. Your theory is already happening.

  14. Re:I'll Sue Ya on HP Sues Over LCD Price Fixing · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Glad they're reliable on Inside the Raspberry Pi Factory · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If it's only one of five, it would be extremely interesting for RPi team they are actively working on solutions for usb problems (there were several found and some corrected already). Could you help them and write your experiences in this thread?

  16. Re:Real bread goes stale after 1 day on Scientists Develop Sixty Day Bread · · Score: 2

    and have you seen how much of that is chemicals? well over 90% of it.

    10% is not material? I thought bread was 100% chemicals, like everything else. If you have something which is not 100% chemical, you may be on track to winning 1 million GBP

  17. Re:When the light turns on... on Researcher Finds Nearly Two Dozen SCADA Bugs In a Few Hours · · Score: 1

    When you consider "no security whatsoever" as "not a bug" then yes, they are really solid.

  18. Re:RFID = The Mark of Beast? on Student Refusing RFID Badge Now Fights Expulsion Order · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666

    "Him who has understanding" - programmers?
    "calculate the number of the beast" - programmers.
    "for it is the number of a man" - primary key
    "His number is 666" - SELECT * FROM PEOPLE WHERE ID=666;

  19. Re:DUH on USPTO Head: Current Patent Litigation Is 'Reasonable' · · Score: 1

    It's probably where those "Everything that can be invented has been invented. Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. patent office, 1899" quotes are coming from. (Yes, I know it is a myth).

  20. Re:Let's qualify that sentence just a bit... on How Cosmological Supercomputers Evolve the Universe All Over Again · · Score: 1

    This was answered in Permutation_City by Greg Egan. You just start new simulation.

  21. Re:Sounds different from the bike one. on Goodyear's 'On TheGo' Self Inflating Tire · · Score: 1

    In Poland similar inspection (without wheel alignment) costs about 24 euro. It's required every year.

  22. Re:Hubris on Why Non-Coders Shouldn't Write Code · · Score: 1

    Getting over one's ego has to come from inside. I've had the same problem with ego, somehow overcame it. As for giving unreasonable estimates, it's almost always separate problem: poor estimation skills. I'm still poor at estimating time and many many other quantities (amount of liquid, distance, age...).

  23. Re:Silly on Is the Can Worse Than the Soda? · · Score: 1

    I too prefer beer in bottles, but I just don't drink much beer and almost no sodas. If I drink sodas, they are with sugar, not artifical sweeteners. I'm still fat, but it's just because I'm lazy and don't move enough.

  24. Re:Silly on Is the Can Worse Than the Soda? · · Score: 1

    Bottles can also be reused (not only recycled). The problem with glass is that it requires more energy to make than a can AND more energy and water to wash a bottle before reuse than to make a can.

  25. Re:According to wikipedia... on Wikipedia Scandal: High Profile Users Allegedly Involved In Paid-Editing · · Score: 2

    Steal as much as they can while in office seems to be what's behind the actions of the cabinet.

    How this differs from any other government?