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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

C++ has had the same style of obtuse errors for decades. They can be a real pain to figure out even if you are used to seeing them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Nobody reading about the contest in the linked page should have to rely on Google to fully understand the parameters of the contest. Whoever authored this page is lazy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

What do you mean by UTC only?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Why are they worse?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was able to read the article without logging in

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Check your employment contract. If that includes an NDA or a confidentiality agreement, the company may own your design as well as any code produced. Writing the program from scratch a second time may still end up being company property.

Given that they didn't put your program into production, it's unlikely they would pursue you legally for releasing a new version on your own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You've for the start of a sci Fi movie there : Mars comes out from behind the sun to find communication from Earth has stopped

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Every significant organisation, government, big company probably had done something terrible at some point.

Yup, which is why it's basically impossible to be an ethical consumer these days. "The Good Place" did a really entertaining exploration of this idea.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While this is an interesting read, this doesn't appear to be the case:

Every .io domain you buy funds a government committing crimes against humanity.

The .io TLD wikipedia article claims that it has always been operated by private entities and no revenue is shared with the United Kingdom

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would be satisfied if that's his only line in the movie

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How long until YT is totally paywalled?

Probably never. I doubt they could offset ad revenue with subscription fees.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder where they will stop?

probably the ground

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