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The argument they cops used is that people who score to highly on the qualifying exams are likely to become bored with the work they do faster, leading to a lot of turnover and the costs that go with replacing them.

user generated content

I think it's http://downdetector.com/

s/.co.uk/.com and you're good

I'm pretty sure the idea is that it's just for prototyping so that ideas can be vetted or demoed quickly without having to touch a ton of C++.

coroutines and yielding are a pretty high-level concept that I wouldn't expect to see in a backend, but there's a really great explanation of how to map them to low-level concepts here: http://llvm.lyngvig.org/Articles/Mapping-High-Level-Construc...

til.

Puerto Rico is definitely within US federal jurisdiction.

    five year old anti-LGBT bullying video

five year old anti LGBT-bullying video.

Its name refers to its office location in northwest Washington, D.C., on 18th and F Streets.

Which is why buzzfeed didn't do it. I'd rather have had this come out because buzzfeed turned the data over to ITF & ITF took action against the players.

what is it about js_of_ocaml that made this worth doing?

"Why I Don't Write for Medium", they write on Medium.

beats, rye, types wait, wait, don't tell me this american life planet money

I frequently find this used by people who don't want to discuss that the Big Bang was originally theorized by a priest. It doesn't fit their narrative.

    back-bench political deal

Or just enforcing a ToS they've had in place for a while.

this sounds terribly cruel.

It feels like this is for people who have a good understanding of all the technologies that bitcoin uses, but have never looked at bitcoin.

According to wikipedia:

  Racism consists of ideologies and practices that seek to 
  justify, or cause, the unequal distribution of privileges,
  rights or goods among different racial groups. 

If you're going to say "we don't tolerate racist behaviour", great.

If you're going to say "we don't tolerate racist behaviour" with the caveat that race is taken into account when considering a complaint, not so great.

  protect or not protect their customers ... based on their race

literal racism.

  "Create your own contract in 29 easy steps"

yikes, that's a lot of steps... isn't this supposed to simplify that?

It's sort of amazing that the diatribe here is against Oracle for wanting to remove an undocumented internal API because of typesafety, and not against the open source projects that use a specifically unsafe, undocumented internal API. I mean, nothing against these projects -- I understand that type safety can carry a performance penalty -- but the anger of this article is amazing.

So the explanation is:

  Let me be blunt -- sun.misc.Unsafe must die in a fire.
  It is -- wait for it -- Unsafe. It must go. Ignore any kind of theoretical rope and 
  start the path to righteousness

And what the author takes away is:

  This engineer hates the Unsafe class for no reason at all.

The reason the engineer hates it is that it's unsafe. Disagree with it, sure. But it's a reason, and it's a good reason (imho). I understand that it's commonly used by apps I use, but it's hard to keep reading after this kind of knee-jerk.

Because we literally built them out of sand and metal. Do desks & tables get special rights?

   A spokesperson for the judge denied that she had implied personhood to 
   the chimpanzees. “She did not say that a chimpanzee is a person,” 
   David Bookstaver told the New York Daily News.
   
   “She just gave them the opportunity to argue their case.”

So, not really. Most of the article is the non-human animal rights groups saying that this is a victory, and legal experts saying it's not. The judge's own spokesperson said it's not a new status.

Most of the discussion seems to be "we shouldn't reconcile".

copy/paste:

takedown notice here: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-12-22-Cambri...

the interesting part is this:

"Although the file, com_svox_picottsengine.cpp, bears an attribution to SVOX AG in 2008-2009, it contains copyrighted source code written years earlier by me and assigned to Cambridge. I am the author of the claimed work and no portion of this work was assigned or licensed to SVOX AG. Accordingly, the content infringes Cambridge’s rights under the federal copyright laws, including the DMCA and Copyright Act. I have read and understand GitHub's Guide to Filing a DMCA Notice."

more interesting? this is in the android master tree here: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/svox/+/ma...

Feross actually gave a talk about this where a lot of these questions got answered.

When's the last time you went looking for web documentation and didn't use MDN?

> Most sane languages [3] give you exception hierarchy

Go being a glaring exception -- and this is a good thing.