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It's their business because they have to pay for it, and not just indirectly through taxes. It's the difference between using my tax dollars to pay for something I don't believe in, such as drone strikes (which I can't complain about); and forcing me to personally buy a Hellfire missile to blow...

That was his story, but the jury did not believe that story in the context of the other evidence. Here is how the federal appellate court described the facts:

It doesn't even have to be a rural (i.e. sparsely populated) area. In my county, you'll pay about $25,000 (minimum) for water/sewer hookup for a new house even in a dense suburb: http://www.aacounty.org/departments/ins ... mpact-fees.

The comment about being treated like a utility makes no sense. Water and sewer hook ups aren't free. They're very expensive, but usually the builder pays the county and you don't notice. We just got public water and sewer in a neighborhood that previously did not have it. The county charged...

I'll just leave this here: http://meincmagazine.com/business/2015/01 ... ios-builds ("Wireline operating income margin was 4.4 percent")

The Ars article is missing some crucial details. There was a suit for the actual disclosure of the passwords. It was dismissed last year, because the judge decided that nobody could prove that anyone was actually harmed by the password disclosure. Your LinkedIn password was leaked--and so what...

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I wonder if the superstitious shepherds who slapped Genesis together had <I>any</I> idea of the problems they'd be creating 2500 years down the road. The mental gymnastics...

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"> Would any of you pay for your children to attend a private, secular K-12? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I decided sometime in college that I'd send my kids to private school...

There is a neat anecdote in Cooper & Torczon's "Engineering a Compiler". This company sold a FORTRAN compiler with an extension that allowed programmers to specify branch execution probabilities. Well, after a few versions, they found a bug in their code that generated code based on those...

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Let's be honest: while writing your code as your AST is incredibly powerful, when everything looks the same and you're in a maze of small function calls, all alike, it can...

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">It's not that they don't make sense. I just don't like dealing with brackets. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Meh. I'd rather deal with the brackets the editor takes care of...

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Short answer: because C/C++ are pretty terrible and few people particularly want to use it. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>+++<BR><BR>C/C++ gets the job done, and puts money in...

GCC does not do link-time optimization. It will compile that virtual method invocation with a v-table lookup.

Non C/C++ is a pretty big range there -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --<br> This looks neat for simple stuff. <br><br>Though, it's pretty hard to beat Matlab for this sort of thing.<br><br>Oh, and there is also certainly no shame in...

From agiftedlorax's link:<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">The closure supporters are, IMHO, not real programmers.<BR><BR>You only become a real programmer once you are forced to debug tens of...

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I'd have to agree. lisp's biggest problem is code readability. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>It's largely a matter of familiarity/practice. After several years of using the...

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I would agree with you if I were not a Senior who is entering into a Chem E PhD program in the fall. I don't know yet what sort of research area I'll be in and so I want...

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Doesn't the birthday problem apply here? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Yeah, uh, the bit about N files is completely wrong. I don't really know where I got that...

It's simple to figure out. No matter what your keys are the hash will be one of 2^32 different values. Assuming random input, the probability of any of these values appearing is equal. So, the probability of collision between the hashes of two given files is 1 / 2^32. The probability of...

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I open my browser, read what I need and then close it. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>It's 2008. We don't use single-tasking operating systems anymore. Why bother closing any...