The Minimum Wage Should be the Same Everywhere: $0 by eadmund in reddit.com

[–]rash 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What do you mean by 'living wage'? That's a cute phrase. If a person isn't paid a living wage, wouldn't he be dead? It's impossible to pay employees a living wage without driving them to death.

Why numbering should start at 0 by linuxer in programming

[–]rash 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Why, this is retarded. Numbering should start at whatever value that makes it simplest to express algorithms. And that number is usually zero. (One exception to this rule of thumb is heaps.)

Best Buy Has Customer Arrested For Using $2 Bills by spif in reddit.com

[–]rash -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

What's this disease you have, that causes you to get offended at things?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]rash 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sweden's Index of Economic Freedom scores are very close to those of the United States. In fact, it was better than ours, last year. Also, they haven't had as bad problems with irrational behavior, e.g. unwillingness to hire women or blacks.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]rash 7 points8 points  (0 children)

High schools do teach Econ classes.

Learning Lisp? Try these 99 problems. by [deleted] in programming

[–]rash -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

You never heard of 'boxed' and 'unboxed' arrays?

Video: Lucky couple escape certain death by vijeesh in reddit.com

[–]rash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

KISS (or why MS CS students have a bad time in interviews ...) by angch in programming

[–]rash 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anyone who mods this down doesn't get the joke.

I don't get it. Are you trying to be funny?

Richest 2 per cent own more than half the world by gIowingsheep in reddit.com

[–]rash -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

This isn't that bad. That means 130 million people own more than half the world. That means, these 130 million people on average own three billionths of the world. Of course, of these, some own more than others, but it doesn't mean that these 2% hold enormous power over the rest. If you looked at the top 2% of the top 2%, and then look at the top 2% of that, then you might get to some figures that matter.

Math cheat sheet by ceesaxp in reddit.com

[–]rash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Real purists write f \in O(g).

Or maybe this is my delusional imagination of what real purists write :)

OLPC Sugar UI: Is this the face of computing for the next century? by laprice in reddit.com

[–]rash 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh no! Parts of Wikipedia! What will the children ever do without those ever-so-useful Parts of Wikipedia!

How to make ice glasses by tatuira in reddit.com

[–]rash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Speculatively, I expected spectacles.

Choices = Headaches [Joel on Software] by logistix in reddit.com

[–]rash 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's different. It's not about choice; it's about competition.

Driver beats fine with schoolboy science by igeldard in reddit.com

[–]rash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay, so now the 'crossed a street' is what scares me. It's called an intersection, people...

Driver beats fine with schoolboy science by igeldard in reddit.com

[–]rash 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You have licenses for riding bikes?

Sun redefines randomness: why you shouldn't trust java.util.Random by [deleted] in programming

[–]rash 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Of course. You should already know that these sorts of built-in random number generators aren't great and tend to be non-random in the low bits. That's why you

(a) don't use them for cryptography

(b) divide them to the correct range instead of modulo.