DannoHung

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1621.
by DannoHung 18y ago
Quite. _why's style is simply there to get you interested. The substance of his work is what keeps you interested.
1622.
by DannoHung 18y ago
Yeah, except this time, Truman will know he's being watched. It's a little weird that we've somehow collectively chosen to embrace the 1984 vision of constant surveillance; throwing ourselves into it ahead of even the government's capacity.
1623.
by DannoHung 18y ago
And then they'll nuke it like Dodgeball and Jaiku? Maybe the article has a point...
1624.
by DannoHung 18y ago
Makes me think it might make sense to have a configuration user and a "runtime" user. Any application that asks you to make a change to your configurations when you don't expect it to can be considered suspect.
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by DannoHung 18y ago
Darn. I was hoping that the Kindle would be good for technical books. It'd be awful nice to carry around a bunch of references on one of those.
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by DannoHung 18y ago
You don't really need to entirely eliminate the idea of ID. You just need to ensure that the accpted mechanism is evolution. If you can convince ID advocates that the mechanism for design was that of evolution, then, who gives a crap? Yo
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by DannoHung 18y ago
I tell people that we should aim for this sort of automation and they pat me on the head and say, "No, no, that will never do." I think there's an idea that if something goes wrong because you let an automated system do it, it's somehow muc
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by DannoHung 18y ago
I think it's more that OO was created because lots of programmers couldn't be bothered to exert discipline in observing APIs, so discipline was forced upon them.