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Re:America’s First Offshore Wind Farm on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @11:04AM (#12344283)
I'm not part of that consensus. A mill mills.
Colour the water but leave the taste - can choose the alert colour.
Re:I Love Go; I Hate Go on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @05:38AM (#12208748)
You've hit the nail on the head for me at my current place of work. The only alternative I have here is Scala, which I wouldn't choose, but higher quality ecosystem and community, and closer to Rust which I'm enjoying at home, so am thinking of doing the switch.
Re:I Love Go; I Hate Go on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @05:25AM (#12208711)
Yes, agreed, the Rust error messages are very helpful. Failure to understand the messages is a lack of familiarity with Rust, not a problem with the error messages.
Re:Programming Language Rankings: June 2016 on Thursday July 21, 2016 @02:11PM (#12138795)
Down-voted, haha. It's not an insult or criticism of Elixir, simply my preference for Rust. Delicate people :)
Re:Programming Language Rankings: June 2016 on Thursday July 21, 2016 @07:54AM (#12136209)
Ahead of Elixir on the chart, to my surprise, pleasantly.
I'm not up to arguing about this, but is that not related to the cuckoo filter (this implementation?) seeming to have a limit of four repeats? From the cuckoo description: "When a matching fingerprint is not found, the entry is definitely not in the filter."
Re:Conditional Action Programmer on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @06:46AM (#12078009)
Now try to find it in a real dictionary.
Re:Conditional Action Programmer on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @05:23AM (#12077749)
What's "an ask"?
Re:Which came first: the butterfly or the flower? on Thursday July 07, 2016 @05:19AM (#12048299)
The chicken egg, to be specific. As in the egg containing a chicken, not an egg from a chicken.
> Input Example

> { "image_url": "http : //i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160203182545-bitch-face-large-169.jpg" }

Eh?

Re:Elections are bad for democracy on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @12:51PM (#12002884)
Could it be argued that an understanding of how x works is irrelevant, only the outcome matters, in that individuals who don't understand the workings of x are still able to tell if the outcome is positive or negative for them, and vote on that.
Re:Reusing Abandoned Big-Box Superstores Across America on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @10:37AM (#11994106)
Affordable housing could also refer to rural housing, admittedly ignoring context. I don't like the term, sorry. It's spun to be more positive than small housing which is more accurate.
Re:Reusing Abandoned Big-Box Superstores Across America on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @10:16AM (#11993951)
On the subject of affordable housing, not to be argumentative, what is it? Why is that term used? If there was sufficient housing, it would be affordable. Seems to me affordable housing means crap housing, thereby cheap in the current environment where there is insufficient housing. Therefore people should stop talking about affordable housing, and start talking about more housing.
Eh? Because there isn't enough shock? Gently, gently. The idea is to avoid entirely alienating the losers.
Yes, minority is geographical, yet somehow it's come to mean not white male, a western view point. Not sure how female keeps getting classified as minority.
The link is now locked. Can we replace it with something interesting? Or a cached copy?
Re:British business ‘benefits massively from EU’ on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @12:22PM (#11955065)
Judging by its removal, no.
Re:British business ‘benefits massively from EU’ on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @07:02AM (#11952796)
This post is blatant political persuasion, not here for interest/information.
Re:OS X DNS cache reset script on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @11:32AM (#11902657)
Well now I have to ask... Presumably that's ascii art, and :) is an emoji. And :-) is also an emoji. So how many characters/rows before an emoji becomes ascii art? Also, I take it emoji is the ascii, and emoticon is the image. Also, emoji sounds plural to me - I take it it's not.
Seems I understood the subject matter perfectly clearly. You on the other hand are best described by the numerous references listed below.
"...shares her learnings about..." -- this is not English. Failing in the second sentence.
Re:Pre-sale of Cyborg implant for sensing North on Friday May 27, 2016 @09:58AM (#11786053)
This is hands-free.
Is there a term for non-human animals?
Sounds like we're confusing philosophy as investigation with philosophy as a way of living.
And "super"!