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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Amanda Knox guilty again.
« on: January 31, 2014, 04:49:51 PM »(the UK has started to do that now as well unfortunately)But transparency and accountability.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Amanda Knox guilty again.
« on: January 31, 2014, 04:20:03 AM »The principle is sound thoughBy "the principle" you must mean something completely different from what I described, unless you simultaneously agree and disagree with the idea.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Amanda Knox guilty again.
« on: January 31, 2014, 04:15:36 AM »Innocent people don't get convicted in America? Didn't know that one.Sean's claim seems to be that someone that's found innocent would be called to court again, and again, and again. Of course, we know how rarely that happens, so that argument won't have much sway on us, but imagine how convincing it must sound to someone who only thinks of it as a principle! Then again, with the way the American judiciary works, that probably would happen...
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Amanda Knox guilty again.
« on: January 31, 2014, 03:49:51 AM »In Murica we operate by the idea that you can only be tried for a law once, and that's how it should be.And if the judiciary makes a mistake, or new evidence comes into light, we should just go "You may have gotten away this time, but we'll get you yet!". 10/10 best system let's implement immediately.
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Technology & Information / Re: C++
« on: January 30, 2014, 08:18:42 AM »I'll translate it when I get home. It's mostly similar, except that C doesn't pretend to be OOP.Given that the code posted doesn't even attempt to use objects*, I struggle to think what you're on about.
I'm out of the loop on C++ but ... Pretty sure you need "int main()" if you're going to return an integer.In C++, main() has to be defined as returning an int. Also, if you wanted to define a function that returns nothing, just saying stuff() would be incorrect. What you'd need is void stuff(). Also, you should never advise people for their C(++) programs to do anything else than return 0 (or EXIT_SUCCESS, which is technically better) at the end of their successfully-executed programs.
In fact, take out the 0 in the return and see if that fixes it.
What would the equivalent code in C look like?It would use printf() or puts() instead of cout, and scanf() or gets() instead of cin. The code would flow pretty much the same, and Parsifal is just being a massive gays.
* - inb4 Parsifal points out that cin and cout are technically objects.
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Technology & Information / Re: Ask Rushy about Bitcoins.
« on: January 29, 2014, 04:55:52 PM »they'd have to send bonds the other way. I didn't want to make a huge detailed post just to tell Franklin that he is wrong again.Being wrong is not a good way to tell others they're wrong. It creates a (false?) perception that only legitimises their claims.
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Technology & Information / Re: Ask Rushy about Bitcoins.
« on: January 29, 2014, 09:25:15 AM »They don't need to print the money on to notes. Just type the number into a computer. In that sense US dollars are limitless. They can transfer 1000 trillion dollars into the treasury account if they like. But they won't because it would ruin the seriously good racket they have going right now.That's not how money works, not even in America.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Ask a Jew anything.
« on: January 29, 2014, 07:32:56 AM »Pizza, full Torah Observance is only possible in the days of Messiah.Why?
Also, I was wondering about you, personally. Would you do it if you saw someone disrespecting the Sabbath?
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Ask a Jew anything.
« on: January 28, 2014, 04:49:57 AM »
Would you stone a guy for picking up sticks on a Saturday?
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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Mathjax support
« on: January 28, 2014, 04:43:19 AM »Also, this is when a thread should be locked.It is indeed. This thread has been thoroughly and utterly markjo'd.
Markjo, please refrain from derailing S&C threads.
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Technology & Information / Re: C++
« on: January 27, 2014, 01:39:49 PM »
I would also recommend a scripting language as your first language. My first real programming language was Java, and while Parsifal is likely to shoot me for saying this, if you don't want to work with a scripting language, Java is very easy to pick up. If you want to work in Visual Studio, C# is near-identical to Java in syntax, and is also fairly newbie-friendly.
I would advise against C or C++ as one's first language, because in my opinion a beginner programmer should be guided by hand a bit, and oh God does C(++) not do that. On the other hand, if you start with C++ and survive its shittiness, there's pretty much nothing that can stop you after that.
C(++) will do exactly what you tell it to do, without questioning anything. If you tell it to read memory that it shouldn't be reading, it'll read it. If you tell it to write to it, it'll try writing to it (and probably crash in the process). It will let you accidentally overwrite a completely unrelated variable if you write to the nth position in an n-size array, and it won't tell you that you're doing it. None of those things are too bad to someone that already has programming experience, but I would seriously not want to deal with that as a starter.
I would advise against C or C++ as one's first language, because in my opinion a beginner programmer should be guided by hand a bit, and oh God does C(++) not do that. On the other hand, if you start with C++ and survive its shittiness, there's pretty much nothing that can stop you after that.
C(++) will do exactly what you tell it to do, without questioning anything. If you tell it to read memory that it shouldn't be reading, it'll read it. If you tell it to write to it, it'll try writing to it (and probably crash in the process). It will let you accidentally overwrite a completely unrelated variable if you write to the nth position in an n-size array, and it won't tell you that you're doing it. None of those things are too bad to someone that already has programming experience, but I would seriously not want to deal with that as a starter.
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Technology & Information / Re: C++
« on: January 27, 2014, 12:46:00 AM »
I also hate C++, but I'm reasonably good at other object-oriented languages, which should make me more than good enough to help a C++ beginner.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls
« on: January 26, 2014, 05:20:33 PM »Linkage? It doesn't seem to be uploaded by them anymore.She got rid of it because it led to her receiving death threats from angry video game guys. I have a backup of something like the first half of it (the "good" bits, before she gets some understanding of the game). I'll upload it and post a link in a moment.
EDIT: Here's what I have: http://omgomg.eu/ijustinep2. Sadly, the rest of the playthrough may be lost forevermore, unless someone hax YouTube or convinces iJ to make it available again. The whole thing was 57 parts.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls
« on: January 26, 2014, 02:11:11 PM »The point is that being good at video games should surely be something of a prerequisite to playing video games for a living.Clearly you haven't seen iJustine's legendary Portal 2 playthrough.
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Technology & Information / Re: Coinye, a Bitcoin spin-off, is being sued by Kanye West
« on: January 25, 2014, 10:17:12 PM »Another Polish immigrant nest.>implying I associate with Polish immigrants
If you started mining I doubt those 10 people would enjoy splitting the bill.Yes, but I also don't know them, so lol. I already run an electric heater because I couldn't get them to agree on a sensible central heating policy, which obviously collectively costs us more than heating the entire house.
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Technology & Information / Re: Coinye, a Bitcoin spin-off, is being sued by Kanye West
« on: January 25, 2014, 09:18:19 PM »
I'm not dead set on Bitcoin, no. A major issue for me is that I currently don't have a desktop, so I can either go for one of those magical tiny boxes people seem to be advertising a lot, or build a desktop from scratch. The latter is something I plan to do at some point anyway, but I'd like to make it good, and I keep spending money on silly things like replacing my broken laptop or flying to other continents.
http://tag.wonderhowto.com/bypass-electric-meter/I share a house with 10 people, and we split the bill evenly.
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Technology & Information / Re: Coinye, a Bitcoin spin-off, is being sued by Kanye West
« on: January 25, 2014, 06:51:01 PM »They take pre-orders for miners, mine with them, and then ship them to you when they're no longer profitable. It took a year and a half for people (not paid media outlets) to receive their miners. Anyone who asked about it or complained was instantly banned on their forums. You'll get your miner from them, as soon as it stops making them money. Buying something from Butterfly Labs is like investing in them indefinitely with no returns. They also don't offer refunds.All right. Suppose I wanted to get some sort of entry-level miner rig. Where do I look?
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Ask a Jew anything.
« on: January 25, 2014, 02:17:32 PM »From what I understand, Americans did that for about 30 yrs as a cleanliness measure, but no longer do so much any more.I can't claim to be certain of this, but as far as I know it's still a thing. Perhaps the Americans in this thread could weigh in?
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Ask a Jew anything.
« on: January 25, 2014, 12:47:44 PM »Getting circumcised differentiated us then & now from those not of the Covenant.Don't basically all American males get circumcised? A fair few people from Islamic countries that I know have also been circumcised. It doesn't seem to differentiate you at all, unless all you care about is being different from Europeans.