TremendousJudge

At my uni the first programming semester is Pascal, and the second used to be Modula-2. They only introduced C on the third semester. They changed it a couple of years ago, so now they never get to kn…

why is it better to silently fail than to throw an exception simply because it's running on a web browser?

You can't really do that today anymore though

>Almost like an economy that can adapt on its own might be a better idea, but I digress. Works just fine in the US. Not like people are dying on the streets due to lack of healthcare or anything

And the Latin alphabet goes back more than two millenia![1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet …

if fb and google don't like you, you can't put your voice out there if they control everything

>They got away with stuff that wouldn't fly today Linkedin manages to be even worse than facebook in that regard, even today

If you live in another country (specifically third world) then it's first world pension funds subsidizing rides in third world countries. Kinda weird actually.

I can't wait to have two 200mb apps on my phone fulfilling the same need instead of one!

neither javascript nor C++ are modular in 2017

Right now I'm writing my bachelor's thesis on IoT platforms. I think the real problem is that there's no real established pattern for authentication (the way there is for things like si…

Or turbojet trains[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbojet_train

>it's not like there are some obvious alternatives are being neglected A high speed train like the ones they've had in Europe for a long time? You know, the ones that regularly reach 300 …

What about building a high speed train? Proven technology, works in a lot of countries. LA to SF in 2 hours. Is it really that bad?

Yes, just like that. Check out this fantastic talk on being pythonic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M …

Or use the @property decorator

I use Media Player for music, it just works. I have all my music organized by folders with proper metadata, so I don't need any fancy navigation. The startup is instantaneous, which can't be…

Or just tell the carriers not to accept connections coming from inside the prisons

The Soviet Buran shuttle had the right idea. It didn't have main engines and was launched with the Energia rocket, which could be used independently with other cargo as well. Also, it was capable…

says who?

I don't know about new but it is pretty weird

It's apparently coming along [1], but I don't think they're done quite yet [1] https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1224 …

the fact that they care about privacy doesn't mean that they aren't user hostile

What he meant is probably 'nobody would use it because they are comfortable using git from the command line' (I know I am). Anyway, considering it shouldn't be hard to distribute in on …

Your example doesn't work in Firefox (text doesn't wrap properly), but it does in Chrome

My guess is that kids are different than adults. You don't want kids sitting bored in class because it's easy for them. It's awful (speaking from experience here). They either turn insi…

>On the other hand, a not-so-intelligent person that blindly followed protocol would have caused the downfall of the US and Soviet Union I was reading on the Cuban missile crisis last night. There …

>The desktop app is horribly laggy Just try this out on linux (maybe works on other OSs): open a system manager with a real time CPU usage chart. Open the Slack desktop app (or a session in Chrome,…

for those that don't speak Spanish, it literally means 'wanker'