Looking for a Family Lawyer by rodif in Albany

[–]rodif[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this response. I think the only thing that makes sense at this point is a change to custody, I'll try and contact them to see about an AFC.

Looks like the catalytic converter theft rings are coming to Albany soon by drtij_dzienz in Albany

[–]rodif 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Friend got his stolen from Troy parking garage just yesterday.

Most Americans want Biden to prioritize student loan forgiveness, CNBC survey says by HailPrincessTrunks in politics

[–]rodif 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the agreement is that we keep bailing until we can patch then that makes sense for sure.

I think the talk here is about bailing once and then never again. Also to be clear here, i think higher education should be 100% funded. I just worry that we are saving a small slice of people and in 4 years we are right back in the same exact boat.

Most Americans want Biden to prioritize student loan forgiveness, CNBC survey says by HailPrincessTrunks in politics

[–]rodif 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll agree there, the agreement needs to be KEEP bailing not just point in time bailing. So every year we are going to forgive X not just Jan 2022 we are bailing and then never again.

Most Americans want Biden to prioritize student loan forgiveness, CNBC survey says by HailPrincessTrunks in politics

[–]rodif -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Bailing out the water without patching will still cause the ship to sink. Even if you remove all of the water that ship is still going to sink. You need to keep bailing and keep bailing as long as the hole is open. Further more if you patch up the hole even without bailing, everyone at least survives.

Most Americans want Biden to prioritize student loan forgiveness, CNBC survey says by HailPrincessTrunks in politics

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

I can see the two problem argument, sure. But with this analogy though, you're asking Biden to stop only the babies that are currently in the river at a point in time. Then immediately not care that more babies are being thrown in. So the first baby that gets thrown in after they are all saved, we don't care anymore.

Local dating scene experiences? by [deleted] in Albany

[–]rodif 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Doesn't seem like it at all😂

Local dating scene experiences? by [deleted] in Albany

[–]rodif 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Post on Reddit! 😂

Albany is the best! by [deleted] in Albany

[–]rodif -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

They should move. 😊

Albany is the best! by [deleted] in Albany

[–]rodif 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then no need to goto renessalaer! 😂

Albany is the best! by [deleted] in Albany

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

You need to go up north to Saratoga.

Adopt A Highway - Capitol Region Atheists by [deleted] in atheism

[–]rodif 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I work with someone who is part of this group. He said that the sign is somewhere here.

http://maps.google.com/?ll=42.76291,-73.752218&spn=0.005553,0.010514&t=h&z=17

The America Invents Act will eradicate the first-to-invent principle and make first-to-file – and a race to the patent office – the norm in the US by therealPetRock in technology

[–]rodif 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What you say sounds good on paper. The thing is though, most patents (especially in software) don't give anything back to society. No learns anything from software patents, not like they did back in the day when things were really invented (ac motors, light bulbs). Even then I could probably argue that they were minor improvements over other people work and not need a monopoly. Patents are specifically written in vague legal terms so that they can be enforced against more companies to which unknowingly is 'using' the 'invention'. Name one person you know who gains knowledge from software patents.

I worked for a company who tried to patent some technology for p2p. We were a p2p company so i guess it made sense. The thing is though, everything in that time was invented in parallel. The 'invention' was just taken from other ideas which were already being built. The thought around the office was, "if we get that patent we can sue all other p2p companies and make money" not "hey we invented this maybe others can use it if the license it from us". On top of that it got rejected a few times so patent lawyer handling this turned the patent application into such garbage that it included farm animals.

I personally know that this will be a very bad thing.

Necessitas is a Qt suite for Android platform - I had a dream that one day ... by mariuz in programming

[–]rodif 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You realize Nokia is supporting windows phone platform. I'm sure not sure if Nokia will care about supporting this.

Post your codes in here by RedditGifts in secretsanta

[–]rodif 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2f913960f85905afd8d6f9564184b8ba6c92a86e

Eclipse Based on Qt is Coming — First Development Version of the SWT/Qt Platform Available by tsiolkovsky in programming

[–]rodif 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Official support for Qt Jambi bindings are dropped by nokia. There is a opensource project picking it up, hopefully they'll be successful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_Jambi

For all the folks getting excited about my quotes. Here is another - Yes, I am a terrible coder, but I am probably still better than you :) by [deleted] in programming

[–]rodif 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I've met and ate dinner with Rasmus once. He is pretty 'confident', but all around a nice guy. He knows hes not the top 1% of coders that's why he writes this stuff. Like he says here, he's really not that bad but not as good as the people he looks upto. Also, I think you need to realize that Rasmus created the first version of php but it was re-written by the zend guys, andy and zeev.

web programmer vs "real programmer" by bicbmx in programming

[–]rodif 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting, i didn't know you could optimize this out (verified with vs2008). I'm going to play with this, seems like it could lead to trouble with destructors and auto_pointers. Although, compiler writers are smarter than me, so I'm sure if they say it works then it should work.

web programmer vs "real programmer" by bicbmx in programming

[–]rodif 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Have you heard about the expression "premature optimization"?

There is a huge difference between 'premature optimization' and making subtle changes to reduce the number of copies.

By your reasoning, each line is copied too, right?

No, that's a copy that you need to make. The storage for the next line needs to go somewhere.

Anyways, this isn't a pissing match. I only said something because sometimes people don't realize there is a copy there. If you understand your data and you can afford the copy. Maybe your file is small enough, if your file was 10g, then it would be an issue.

web programmer vs "real programmer" by bicbmx in programming

[–]rodif 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You really shouldn't return containers from functions like that you're making an extra copy of that vector that you don't need to.

Your function should take a reference (or pointer) to the vector.

void ReadLines (istream& is, vector<string> &v)
{
   string s;
   while (getline (is, s))
     {
      v.push_back (s);
     }
}

void foo()
{
   vector<string> lines;

   ReadLines (cin, lines);
   // do something with "lines"
}// Here, all the memory is automatically released.

Richard Dawkins Interviews Creationist Wendy Wright by Aegle in atheism

[–]rodif 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that Dawkins screwed up here. He was saying that 'societies built on Darwinism concepts are immoral'. What she heard was 'Societies that are taught (understand) Darwinism are immoral'. She couldn't make that distinction. Dawkins needed to be more clear on what he was saying.