TravHatesMe

Speak for yourself. I'm typing on a thinkpad at the moment, I use the trackpoint all the time. Once you've mastered it, you no longer need to move your hands between typing / moving the mouse. Your fingers stay on the keyboard.

Wouldn't Jupiter's orbit create some interactions?

Maybe large swaths of users wouldn't download enhancement suites if you actually listened to them? It took like 3 years to support the basic feature to "never group tabs" in the Taskbar -- that's been supported by previous versions of windows for decades. That's why I downloaded patches.

You are naive if you believe they have zero political bias

This is a shame. CBC should trim the fat elsewhere.

What are your thoughts on state funded media? I see the benefits but also the drawbacks, namely their partisanship when a political opponent wants to stop the hand outs

Isn't Alberta real estate historically boom and bust?

Interesting take. What are your thoughts on government healthcare? Just or unjust. To what extent?

> Non-nullable reference types as default was a bad idea

Why?

Can the down voters explain themselves? I genuinely want to hear more discussion on both sides, and this commenter has provided some interesting points..

I often hear this apocalyptic outlook and I wonder how probable it is.. people speak of it as if it is a certainty but I am not entirely convinced. Can someone point me in either direction?

Unless you're building an app relying on office/COM apis

I think it is a good layman's explanation, but I think the author could have explained NPC a bit better though, ie. mapping the inputs and outputs of a problem to a known NPC problem. Perhaps a brief overview of how NPC problems are proved to be NPC.

My friend thought brown eyed girl started with "hey there amigo" instead of "hey where did we go"

Hostile, really?

I was around the forums a decade ago and it was a wonderful place.

Good advice. Same with Canada.

A little bit of both.

But reasoning includes statistical correlations

> more systems with "job security" built in.

How common is this?

Gaming companies contributed to the death of LAN parties too. They killed the "split-screen" gameplay that would support 2-4 players on the same machine. They wanted each player to require their own copy of the game. They killed LAN support, forcing you to play on their servers. Culturally we saw a shift towards social isolation. People are more comfortable talking over a mic.

Great so will you volunteer to support a high rise behind you overlooking your house and backyard, a methadone clinic to your left, and train tracks to your right? Throw in a homeless encampment or two across the road to appease your bleeding heart.

Sorry for being facetious, I sound like a jerk, but there must exist a threshold in willingness to devalue what is typically one's greatest asset and more importantly decrease your quality of life. By all means be as selfless and altruistic as you would like but do not expect everyone else to follow suit.

4. Drought / lack of seasonal flooding?

But this approach doesn't scale. How can you expect everyone to have this intuition? Agreed that 100% coverage is stupid.

My father mentioned that while working for banks, back in his day (~25 years ago), there were "guidelines" of how much you should donate to $bigNameCharity depending on your position. He was pretty much forced to donate $1500/year, a lot of money back then. Of course, way up the hierarchy, someone was friends with the charity's founders. And of course, these charities paid out huge salaries and expensed extravagant "business trips". Typical.

You should be upfront about his political bias (which is in his best interest as it is his source of revenue).

Don't get me wrong I like his videos but I also like hearing from the other side for good measure. Perhaps it is pedantic to point out that everyone has a political leaning but I think it is good to be upfront so that people can consider the biases of the input in order to make a more informed opinion. Or perhaps others should gauge the political bias themselves? That's a question of philosophy and ethics. I wish that everyone had enough skepticism and critical thinking to question everything and be conscious of their measures of validity and invalidity.

You could say the same about obese people, drinkers, and smokers. We also pay for the healthcare of pedophiles and rapists.

I feel like a script kiddie is someone that ripped off good code from others, maybe made a few adjustments at most, and claimed it as their own in an attempt to look cool

In other words, shouldn't we prefer integration testing, or perhaps partial integration testing. This requires an initial effort of setting up your test framework/environment, but in my experience integration tests provide good value for the time you put into testing.

Rather than a granular test on a single class, test the orchestration of many classes. You end up hitting big % of code. As always, depends on the project. If we're building a rocket ship, you need both granular testing and coarse testing.

Bit of a tangent: I read the article to my wife and she mentioned that there is an episode of Grey's Anatomy where they wanted to perform a transplant of a pig's bowels but the Jewish (or Muslim?) lady refused. Interesting how one might choose to their faith over their life.

Interesting. Maybe I will change my ways in the future. Thanks for sharing

> You can become so convinced that you need fear to excel that you fail to realize there's a better way.

But this is such an effective way of excelling. My fear of failure influences my output. Abstractly, perhaps we each need different kinds of stress that will push us in different ways. I embrace fear because it is exciting and uncomfortable and challenging. Without it I would be lethargic and lazy.