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by 0x44 19y ago
The average surfer probably would not feel as strongly. The average surfer is correspondingly unlikely to install plugins for Firefox.
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On the contrary, I'm suggesting that Lisp dialects do not diverge as far from each other as the various dynamic languages do. That means that the idiosyncrasies each dialect has are going to be more glaring. The other dynamic languages don'
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Unless you're implying that each Lisp interpreter is its own language, I don't think your contention really applies. If I learn Lisp on Lispworks, and go sit down at GNU CLisp, I'm not programming in a different language - I'm using a diffe
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You're right, though I think I would say "extremely difficult, tending toward impossible". People do not change their minds easily, especially on subjects they feel a strong emotional attachment to.
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I rather liked the old design.
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My example was obviously a gross simplification, but not all disagreement stems from contradiction. Worse, sometimes when people agree on many points they are in inreconcilable disagreement with each other on others. If we were to consider
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Let's assume there exist two groups of people. The members of group A think that some improved product is better because it tastes great. The members of group B, on the other hand, believe that the same product is better because it's now le
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You're not having a personal conversation with someone else over bits, you're having that conversation with someone else through an intermediary, specifically the hardware of your respective ISPs and any other third parties between whom the
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there's a huge difference between recording my personal conversations and recording my movies, searches, or voting habits. It isn't a personal conversation if it's going through an intermediary.
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NodeBox: Python Graph Visualization Library.(nodebox.net)
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