But that’s impossible! Guns are illegal in Australia! Everybody knows, once you ban all the guns, that immediately and permanently stops all gun violence from happening, ever!

Coding on mobile is hard

I’m glad you noticed. That was my favorite part too.

Yeah, it does look like C now that I think about it. You’re right about the end result too. I believe C# will let you do inline declaration and assignment like that, so maybe that’s what we’re looking at? Been a while, could be wrong

I just tested it in PowerShell. Works fine

$i = 1
$x = -$i
$x

Outputs -1

It’s an incoherent hodgepodge of C#/.NET, PowerShell, and JavaScript, each of which I’ve forgotten more about than I currently know

function myFunction() {
  try {
    x = new Random().nextInt();
    if (x != 10) {
     throw "not 10";
    }
    else {
      return (10)
    }
    catch(err) {
      myFunction()
    }
  }
}

x = myFunction()

Commit notes: Added error handling

function foo() {
  x = new Random();
  case (x = 10):
    return (x);
  default:
    foo()
}

Shit, you’re right. x is declared inside the loop, so it doesn’t exist until the loop begins execution.

Technically, I suppose you could say the compiler will allocate memory for x without assigning a value before the loop is executed and… I’m understanding what you mean now, I think.

Not in this case. First, i is declared and assigned a value of 0. Next, x is declared and assigned a value of -i or -0. On the first loop iteration, i will decrement to -1, perform the conditional check, then execute the loop body which will assign x to -i or -(-1) or positive 1, and so on.

The only time a variable is created without a value is if you declare one without assigning a value like with

[int]i;

If this is JavaScript, it would have a value of -0, which is actually valid and works the same as normal zero thanks to type coercion. I think the only difference is some methods that detect if a number is negative will return true instead of false, but otherwise, JS treats -0 the same way as 0

Now write a function to unroll the while loop to “optimize it for the compiler”

The glut of US tech workers is due to the excessive number of H1B visas being issued. This year, the number was almost the same, but slightly higher than the total number of US tech graduates. Why hire an expensive American new graduate when you can hire someone from India with 3-5 years of experience at 60% market rate instead?

I tried to think of a good pun also, but they’re too corny.

Once you subtract suicides, self-defense, justifiable homicides, officer involved shootings, and accidents, what you’re left with is a statistic that indicates 100% of gun violence is caused by less than 1% of gun owners.

Overall, the vast, VAST majority of gun owners in the US are safe and do make good choices.

No, the biggest problem (IMO) is that we enshrine the right to bear arms, but mandate no education about firearms in public school. If we’re going to embrace guns the same way we do cars, we should teach “shooter’s ed” the same way we teach “driver’s ed.”

The second biggest problem is, even though most Americans agree that the root causes of violence need to be addressed (poverty, homelessness, unemployment, mental health, etc.) the sad reality of our political system is that these interests aren’t represented because capitalists have hijacked our government for their own benefit.

I’m a member of the American public. I abide by the rules, make smart choices, and don’t tolerate those who don’t. All my friends are the same way.

Less than 1% of American gun owners commit 100% of gun violence in the US.

Have you ever tried it?

There’s nothing quite so uniquely irritating as someone intensely critical of something they know very little about.

Unless you called the cops don’t talk to them.

If you have a problem and call the police, now you have two problems.

A tire patch kit is less than $10. You could have fixed that in your driveway in a few minutes.