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Oh, gotcha, agreed!

I'm probably missing something, but if it's going to be of variable size, why not just a null-terminated string? Why does the size itself need to be specified along with the string?

EDIT: Nevermind, this thread [0] has more discussion about it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7572081

The two top-voted answer includes WAAAAAY more information than the XKCD comic, so they're not really comparable. The third one explains it pretty simply.

Yeah, sorry, you don't get to just declare "fallacy!" and not explain yourself.

That's not "nuance" it's "pedantry". You're not "broadening" the discussion by pointing out the obvious.

Except that question was asked by free citizens, not by a government.

> So why is this any different?

I don't know, I guess it's that free citizens voting with their wallets is not at all similar to powerful governmental figures conducting an oppressive inquisition?

Understood, sorry about that.

So you're participating in the "witch-hunt", you just don't want it to seem like you are?

> Has she been indicted by any international courts? Has she stood trial and been convicted?

No, but that's not really the standard for an individual human making a personal moral judgement.

You're losing karma because your complaint has no basis in fact, not because of aesthetic concerns.

I actually really like this... Consolas still seems to have better hinting, but this is pretty cool.

Christ, thank you, I thought Ghostery was blocking something important or something.

Software Development?

Note that he did not apologize for his actions, or say that his actions were wrong.

"Words are wind."

Uh, no, I think that even if Eich had "merely" spoken out against gay marriage, there'd still be just as much uproar.

No, neither of you get it. All you have is the right to speech free from governmental impedance; you do not have any sort of right to speech free from civil consequences.

Boycotts are a form of free speech too, you know. How come you're not so antsy to defend those rights, I wonder?

> you can think the the beliefs are stupid, but you can still respect them.

I have no idea what you're saying here. What does respecting stupid ideas even look like?

EDIT: I respect people's right to hold and express stupid ideas. That does not mean I cannot discuss, at length and with vigor, how stupid they are, or encourage others to avoid financially supporting the people who hold those stupid ideas. I, too, have the right to free speech.

> Or we can live in a world where we respect everyone's beliefs.

Why? Some beliefs are stupid and/or harmful. Why should I respect bad ideas?

> It really hurts to know that a person is being ostracized for having political views.

Are you also Super Concerned about LGBT folks being ostracized by oppressive policies? This isn't some abstract fucking debate to them.

> We should be living in world of balance

Fuck that. We should be living in a world of justice.

It depends heavily on where you live.

You're on a trial at every single company anyway, they just aren't as up front about it.

Because UI concerns don't always (or even usually) drive requirements.

How many of them, though? Just because "some" of them were accurate doesn't mean he's any more accurate than any of us would be if we took a stab at it.

Wait, what? Don't get me wrong, I'm on board with the notion that misogyny is rampant, but I don't see how this is an example of it.

SPOILERS: She transcended him in the end. In the end, she did not need him. How did he solve any of her problems?

Stomping out polio is not short-term.

I'm too busy coding my 2048 riff to work on this.

IDEA: put the letters on the sides of the hexagon so that I don't have to think so hard.

C# - Java is too low-level.

I'd rather have cat pictures and memes than this humorless intolerance of whimsy.