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A brief explanation of what some of these are doing, or moreover, a use case for why I would want to use them would be handy.


Indeed! Will do it later! I just started this! Thanks for the feedback!


Only looked at "Fetch Data" and "Bubbling up thread errors" so far, but they were self-explanatory. I'm betting most of them are like this.


Yeah..Some of them are self-explanatory, it makes me to think that the comments/description may not be necessary. But, a simple comment it's not a problem...Let's see. =)


associative arrays could use an example illustrating when/why to use them


You have the right to say anything you want, you do not have the right to say it in my home. I don't understand how there are so many people that don't understand FOS.


They understand it perfectly - you're conflating the law (the government isn't allowed to prevent you from speaking) with the principle it's based on (restricting people's ability to speak is a backwards, repressive thing to do).

Freedom of speech != the first amendment.


The story talks about an European group trying to reach a global audience. I was making a more general point about how over-reliance on private platforms makes censorship much easier for governments and corporations everywhere. Why do you guys keep assuming that "the law" equals "US law as I understand it"?


I'm sorry but your definition of FOS is radical. I think few people would agree that FOS means you can say anything anywhere at anytime.


I've extended the "in my home" argument to "on my website" before--e.g. Reddit restricting what you can say on Reddit is not really censorship--but stretching "in my home" to mean "on the hardware which you purchased from me" seems like rather a different thing.


If programming is poetry, then I write limericks for a living.


Currently using atom and it's package system for a POC for a custom dumbed down editor. I'm really surprised at how much I've managed to accomplish in a week. If we go through with the project, it'll be a joy to work on.

That said, I tried editing the package initially using atom, and switched back to vim on the second day. So it'll suit our purposes, but a terminal based editor still has so many more advantages when hacking on code. (Though if editing a vim plugin were this clean and easy, I'd be outpacing Tim Pope).


I don't have an active social media presence attached to my real name because I like my privacy. To imply that makes me lacking, is simply ignorant.


No, you're perfectly capable of eating people. Assuming they didn't contain poisons of pathogens that can resist cooking temperatures.


You can't access that which doesn't exist.


Nothing stops Ontario from buying from B.C. or other existing culrivators of medical marijuana. Scaling these operations, and looking to Colorado as a model, will take a year or so to be sure. I suspect we should have legal weed in 18-24 months tops. Under a minority government, I would have agreed with you. But outside of dubious treaties, there isn't anything preventing this now.


International legal council, lawsuits, fines, and the free fares offered in some areas probably eat into the runway quite quickly.


And it should. Seriously, there are are less than 2% of users using Linux on the Desktop. Now a fraction of these users dual boot. Microsoft is a business, and it's bad business to spend money you could be using to make your product better to ensure that you play nice with every possible bootloader out there.


Most people that are capable of installing Linux (or some other Unixoid system) are probably capable of reinstalling GRUB (at least with a little help from a search engine of their choice).

But if you try to get your parents to give Linux a try, because their laptop ends up infected with some virus every other month, this does not help.

Which makes me think: What about dual-booting two Windows installations? This is probably a very rare scenario, especially with virtualization, but what if I was developing, say, device drivers and wanted to check my driver works both on, say, Windows 7 and 8/8.1? Does the Windows installer put my other Windows installation in the boot menu automatically? (Honest question, I have never tried this and probably never will.)


I wouldn't recommend linux if your parents keep getting malware. Wipe the PC, and set yourself up as the admin. Create a base user account for your parents, and RDP in to their machine to install programs for them. Or get them to use a tablet. The other option is to set them up with a mac. If they stay within the App Store, they're pretty safe.


I triple boot Windows XP, Windows 7 and Ubuntu 32bits in my gaming computer.

Grub shows a single Windows entry on its boot menu.

Then you see Windows 7 and 'Previous Windows version' in a text mode menu.


Thanks for the info!


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