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Bloomberg, July 11, 2016 : [^]Quote: Lawyers filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Facebook Inc., alleging it allowed the Palestinian militant Hamas group to use it as a medium to carry out attacks that killed four Americans and wounded one in Israel, the West Bank and Jerusalem.
“Facebook has knowingly provided material support and resources to Hamas in the form of Facebook’s online social network platform and communication services,” making it liable for the violence against the five Americans, according to the lawsuit sent to Bloomberg by the office of the Israeli lawyer on the case, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner.
Note: I present this merely as an observation of what I regard as an interesting development in our ever-more "digital" society; I do not post this to make any kind of statement of a "political" nature.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
modified 11-Jul-16 11:58am.
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Considering the amout of censorship practiced by Facebook on everything pro-american, every lawsuit against them for NOT having practiced their censorship in other scenarios is well earned.
Either you are completely free, so to be able to motivate the lack of intervention, or you must intervene ALWAYS.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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I suggest you discuss your political beliefs, and sentiments, about this type of thing in the SoapBox Forum.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Yep, maybe it's better - somehow I thought this WAS the SoapBox 
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Maybe we'll find out who really pulls the strings behind Hamas..... should be an interesting trial..
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That's one hand not knowing what the other hand is doing. 
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Pokémon Go's Wednesday launch on iOS and Android has proven a rousing success for franchise creator Nintendo and app developer Niantic, with the app rocketing (Team Rocketing?) up every major download and top-grossing chart. Gotta rob 'em all!
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The Windows 10 Mobile upgrade will now continue to be free past the end of the month. Great news for the dozens of Windows Phone users
OK, I exaggerated for comedic effect. I should have said, "dozen".
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Poor WP users...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Nike, the home of all things athletic, is joining the ranks of the programmers with its launch of open-source software. Just fork it
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With each new version of Visual Studio Code, Microsoft is experimenting with UI/UX in ways the legacy of the original Visual Studio wouldn't allow Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M for monkey bars.
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I remapped it to Ctrl+M, Ctrl+B. Feels more like a real Visual Studio. 
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Oracle has asked a judge -- again -- to throw out the verdict that found Google rightfully helped itself to Oracle programming code to create the Android operating system. If only they put half this effort into advancing Java...
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ONE VOTE UP FOR YOU. Never mind just use scala??
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I'm sure the Oracle lawyers are cringing over the insistence of upper management to keep beating this dead horse. There's only so many times you can whine at a judge before s/he files a complaint with the state bar. I suspect Oracle is about to get slapped around in court.
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As enterprises continue to focus on implementing a cloud infrastructure, many still face roadblocks when it comes to hiring candidates with the right skills. I can recognize cumulonimbus clouds, does that count?
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The concept of a code smell is, perhaps, one of the most evocative in our profession. The name itself has a levity factor to it, conjuring a mental image of one’s coworkers writing code so bad that it actually emits a foul odor. But the metaphor has a certain utility as well in the “where there’s smoke, there may be fire” sense. "Whoever smelt it, dealt it"
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I wonder what code smell looks like for a scripting language.
 Never mind, a scripting language is, by definition, code smell. 
Marc
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That would have been my answer as well. 
TTFN - Kent
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Now I think we can define the term "blog smell". 
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Quote: I’m referring to methods that return values and have side effects at the same time. For instance, consider a method that takes a string, writes that string to a file, and then returns a Boolean indicating whether or not the operation succeeded.
Maybe I'm showing my ignorance here, but I'm trying to understand why this is bad.
I understand command/query separation. It's a great idea especially in distributed or high load environments. The problem is sometimes you really, truly need to know when something didn't work. I'm assuming what is "meant" to happen is you send the command to store a value, then you send a request to see if that value was stored.
Again, I know of (and deal with) situations where this is the absolute best, safest and most sensible way to do it. But not always. I don't feel this should be dogma.
Can Anyone explain what I'm missing? Or how it "should" be dealt with?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I think the example he gives is too simple a case. He's talking about side effects. A side effect is something that happens to some other part of the system as a consequence of the operation. Returning the result of an operation is not a side effect, it's the result of the operation. Of course, you need to know if the operation succeeded. He talks later on about asking for an invoice's total but not expecting it to charge a cc just because you asked for a total. It's that sort of side effect that is undesirable. But, sometimes, side effects are desirable, as in the case of JIT lazy loading, which is more about initialization than side effects.
Just my $0.00002 cents worth.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I agree that the example given is nonsense. The writer appears to actually be arguing that you should write the string and then make a separate call to ask whether that write succeeded, which is the smell of rotting bodies in humid tropics.
(One problem is Meyer was wrong. Requiring that queries have no side effects (be const in C++ parlance) is ideal, though not always possible. Extending that to commands often makes no sense, especially when writing to a file. I suppose the good news is that the last method I wrote which did exactly his example threw an exception on error, thus the method's return value was, indeed, void.)
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One man's C++14 is another man's code smell.
(Seriously; I recently worked with a guy who demanded C++11/14/17 be used and then freaked out when someone actually did, usually me.)
Besides, sometimes code smells like fresh cinnamon rolls.
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Daniel Attinger, a professor of mechanical at engineering at Iowa State University, is working on developing a tiny device that produces a continuous supply of wine. And the winner of this year's Nobel Prize is...
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