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by ArtB 13y ago
> That mostly solves that problem, but leaves people like me that would like to handle retirement savings themselves a bit annoyed. Ironic, because that's how I feel about speed limits: it's for the best overall but annoying to
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by ArtB 13y ago
I think of it as paying forward what your parents gave to you. I help my parents, but I fund my child and expect him to do the same.
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by ArtB 13y ago
I thought it was going to have a small and large version within it?
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by ArtB 13y ago
And apparently in Edward Snowden's as well as that.
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by ArtB 13y ago
> It's the Western equivalent of let them eat cake since they're used to eating grass. Underpaid labor is better than no pay is an excuse of the privileged; and only the privileged. ...and only an excuse.
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by ArtB 13y ago
> No matter if intentions of the business owners are benign or not, when the public invests in companies there is a need for rules governing transparency and control. What the post is referring does exist, it's called the stock market.
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by ArtB 13y ago
> You say things like this a lot. I'm willing to accept that I may be naive, but do you think that those of us who have had primarily positive experiences (and I know a few, not only me) just incredibly lucky? Do you live in a major tec
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by ArtB 13y ago
> * People are still writing COBOL constantly, but usually on existing systems. From what I've seen (somewhat limited honestly) it's less "writing" and more like "patching". Minimal maintenance features like adjusting tax rates, accepti
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by ArtB 13y ago
As one of those young people I can tell you that we lack the domain knowledge that the old dinosaurs who produce crap code have. Who is easier to bring up to speed is hard to say but I'd bet against us.
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by ArtB 13y ago
I fail to see the connection... please explain.
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by ArtB 13y ago
I've always felt that there fab division should have been forced to be split off from it's design division. It would be better for the industry if architectures had to compete on their merits and all designs had access to the same quality o
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by ArtB 13y ago
I've definitely observed this effect at work. Those too incompetent to be trusted with anything get to play Sudoku for half the day.
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Your most engaged staff may be your worst workers(theglobeandmail.com)
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by ArtB 13y ago
Waterboarding is torture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUkj9pjx3H0
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by ArtB 13y ago
I think he point is that the title shouldn't be fixed but dynamic to the device.
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by ArtB 13y ago
> around 80 to 110 mg/dL (4.4 to 6.1 mmol/L for those of you not in the US) uhm, aren't both metric? mg/dL looks like "milligrams per deciliter" to me
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by ArtB 14y ago
Experimentation in a very narrow manner. A university is where you explore new algorithms using Fortran on an old Sun machine. However, if you are just interested in a new programming paradigm, want to write an ORM in Haskell, or design a n
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by ArtB 14y ago
I hope I am detecting sarcasm. I say use whatever the consensus is, but TCO is a much bigger issue IMHO.
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by ArtB 14y ago
But is it better than your dad not going to Mars and instead being able to work on your parents marriage? -Also a child of divorce
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by ArtB 14y ago
I suspect it was meant to be sarcastic.
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by ArtB 14y ago
There is MechWarrior online in a freemium open beta and another mecha but more FPSy game in development I can't recall right now.
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by ArtB 14y ago
Will this be integrated with IntelliJ or available as a module/plugin?
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by ArtB 14y ago
> the only true science is mathematics Not to hate, but I hate it went "purists" restrict a words definition to the point that it is useless. Math is the only science that has no use, ever, for lab coats or experiments or physical objec
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by ArtB 14y ago
What does "All code points are rendered using a non-spacing and non-marking glyph." mean?
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by ArtB 14y ago
Wouldn't the easiest way to check this proof be to enter it into something like Coq? That way you'd only have to understand how to translate each step rather than learn each field.
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by ArtB 14y ago
Hmm, I'm confused by "the goal is to find the right balance between backwards compatibility (Emacs Lisp) and forward extensibility (Clojure / JVM)". I assumed the idea was to write emacs in Clojure and all the modules would be in clojure so
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by ArtB 14y ago
> Last I checked, burgers are non-addictive. Well fats are addictive. Not in the you will die from withdrawl like heroin or alcohol way, but in the way that gamblings and sex is.
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by ArtB 14y ago
But that doesn't apply to the maps, sounds, and textures which are really the heart of the game.
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by ArtB 14y ago
What is the difference between LGPL and GPL with the classpath exception?
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by ArtB 14y ago
I think that was meant as a reference either climate change scientists to cold fusion.

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