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 Discussion on question by N. Virgo: I…

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Joshua Taylor
Jun 22, 2024 17:11
For the case where things don't share a common ancestor, but have similar qualities, there's the notion of convergent evolution in the biological realm. A culinary counterpart to that could be used to say that "despite their similarities, ramen and pasta are only a case of ...". A bit of link following unearths homoplasy (similar form but different evolution) and homology (similar form from common ancestor). Those are clearly technical terms and not really suitable as answers, but a bit more wordplay might inspire a neologism.
 

 Discussion on answer by Mark: Is the …

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Joshua Taylor
Jun 28, 2020 22:07
@zibadawatimmy My father has told me that when he was a younger voter, ballots read, for instance "Elector So and so, pledged to vote for Candidate X". So you'd be voting for a particular elector, who had pledged to vote for a particular candidate. But I haven't seen that in my lifetime either.
 

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Joshua Taylor
Jul 30, 2019 02:20
If the wizard didn't know any of them, an introduction would be "I am X, he is Y, and he is Z". It's easy for me to read this (and repunctuate) as: "I -- [oh, of course, me] you already know, he is X, and he is Z," adding the same pause that others have suggested.
 

 Discussion on question by Keelan: How…

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Joshua Taylor
Aug 29, 2017 12:57
Q: "How to answer “functional programming is useless”?" A: "What do you mean? It has nothing but value!" (or A: "That opinion is a side-effect of imperative programming.")
 

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Joshua Taylor
Jul 9, 2017 02:39
It's not a dissertation or thesis, but the acknowledgments section of the Scsh manual has some similarities, but comes across as a bit more clearly humorous.
 

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Joshua Taylor
Jun 6, 2017 20:46
For further reading, Fred Clark wrote about this issue, and also went through the trouble of linking to a bunch of other's opinions and writings on the matter in his post, Redeeming Susan Pevensie.
 

 Discussion on question by Revenant: T…

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Joshua Taylor
Jun 16, 2016 12:50
"a pretty time-constrained work environment" Tests are helpful because while they cost some time in the current development cycle, they save even more in later development cycles. "No tests" is a way of saying "Boss, I can get X units done this week, but in four weeks, I'll only be able to get X/2 units done in a week."
 

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Joshua Taylor
May 18, 2016 17:16
I wonder if perhaps "bugged" is a humorous back formation from "debugged", or maybe a somewhat censored version of "buggered". But I don't think so. There's a use use as far back as at least 1999. Some searching seems to turn up "bugged" in gaming contexts, similar to "glitched", except more as something that a player might do (e.g., "I bugged this item" when they get the item to do something unusual).
 

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Joshua Taylor
Apr 14, 2016 11:15
@Jayraj "To me git's "decentralized-ness" is one of the least important features recommending it. The ability to do frequent commits and rollbacks locally, without affecting anyone else, or powerful techniques such as rebasing are where git really shines in my workflow." Aren't those abilities precisely part of it being decentralized? You have your own repository, which means that you can have things locally, without needing to talk to a central server.
 

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Joshua Taylor
Apr 14, 2016 07:11
"I've noticed increased frequency of ransomware questions around Stack Exchange." FWIW, NPR did a segment on ransomware a day or two ago.
 

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Joshua Taylor
Apr 1, 2016 18:40
"The commonly-accepted answer was provided above" The order of answers changes, and yours is the highest now. There's nothing above it. Can you link to which answer is the "commonly-accepted" one?
 

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Joshua Taylor
Oct 3, 2015 17:17
"only random ones (the same amount each time) are editable" are you sure that these are randomly selected? Is it possible that there's some number of selections, and each one has been hashed?
 

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Joshua Taylor
Feb 4, 2015 13:01
"They properly back up the original, working code" And hope that the none of that had an unintentional bug that got replaced by an intentional bug?