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by Elrac 12y ago
That was my reaction too. Unlike other chips which at least sit on some data buses and theoretically have electrical access to the information being processed by the PC, _this_ device is attached to little other than a DC power lead. To tar
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by Elrac 12y ago
I'm admittedly nitpicking here, but I think "(non-)imperative" is not a useful label for characterizing Lisp-ish languages. Some Lisps, like Clojure, are rather functional; others, like Common Lisp, are considered imperative.
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by Elrac 12y ago
I'm not exactly a Rubyist, but I really like Ruby. One of the things I like about it is its orthogonality: the concepts you learn work identically or similarly in different places, for different object types (where possible) so a relat
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by Elrac 13y ago
I don't mean to take sides here, but maybe the creation and existence of workarounds like Google Proxy, which eventually turn into open secrets, can be a way of communicating that there's a problem, which may in turn motivate peop
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by Elrac 13y ago
Further to what you said, it has been pointed out that (with very few exceptions, meanwhile) there has never been a war between two countries that both had MacDonald's franchises.
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by Elrac 13y ago
Your argument is without merit, because you're conflating concepts that don't belong together. You are telling us that some of Pakistan's leaders, including of course religious leaders, are resisting American aid in the form
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by Elrac 13y ago
I call it "going through the motions of science" in order to be able to claim scientific objectivity. There certainly is a science of forensics, but I think that what happens in a crime lab relates to that science like plumbing re
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by Elrac 13y ago
I like your idea! In an evidence based society, it might be picked up and spread like wildfire. Of us (by majority, here) programming nerds, who wouldn't want to write better programs? Which consumer doesn't want better product sa
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by Elrac 13y ago
Collaboration? AFAICT we have lots of reason to suspect that it happened at the _instigation_ of the prosecutors! By all means, throw the book at the dishonest chemist, but I want to see heads on pikes (or at least a legal equivalent) for t
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by Elrac 13y ago
Grey on black in a hard-to-read font? I'm a bit comforted that there are Web designs worse than my own, but saddened that sometimes nice, useful stuff like this book list suffers from this.
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by Elrac 13y ago
Yes! I came here to opine that in an ideal world somebody would slap the site designer for his lousy color choice. All the more ironic that this is a developer trying to tell us about innovative and creative thinking.
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by Elrac 13y ago
Thank you for this sobering reminder about the lethal reality of "ostentatious feel-good meets cold Capitalism!" Sadly, what you say is not surprising and I have no reason to doubt it. But while in the second paragraph I was remin
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by Elrac 13y ago
I often wish there was, too. I _hate_ being forced to watch the video to assimilate what a person has to say. At work, it's not an option for me.
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by Elrac 13y ago
I didn't have much of a problem with the GP's mildly dismissive comment about Hickey's talks, nor was I hugely concerned that you opened a can of worms about it. What I would, however, like to remark on how your comment force
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by Elrac 13y ago
I call bullshit. Here's a list of the points in the article that jumped out at me as uninformative, pseudo-scientific or misleading: > a laser beam producing a temperature of 10,000 degrees Celsius. Scientifically, that's meani
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by Elrac 13y ago
> but because Starlite is so lightweight - 1 mm thick Just what about a substance determines how thick it is? How thick is concrete, then? Glass? Is there a reason Starlite can't be manufactured 75 mm thick, and would it then not be
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by Elrac 13y ago
I don't have a problem with dictionaries documenting this travesty of language; their makers are merely doing their jobs. I am, however, angrily resentful of the fact that ignorant and barely literate people, often obnoxious simpletons
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by Elrac 13y ago
For what it's worth, I came here to say a similar thing. I was jubilant that SOAP had finally been put to a well-deserved rest. Well, of the two, I'd agree that SOPA is the greater evil. By a slim margin, anyway.
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by Elrac 14y ago
Nicely done!
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by Elrac 14y ago
Ironically enough, point #4 sounds very similar to how Vigil claims to work.
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by Elrac 14y ago
(I'm a different user) For a reliable universal private notepad like this, I'd pay $2 per month. That sounds cheap, but I'm talking personal use, not business.
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by Elrac 14y ago
I confirm text selection is working fine for me now - in Chrome.
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by Elrac 15y ago
As Isaac Asimov complained years ago, “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your kno
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by Elrac 15y ago
It's the decidedly dismissive tone some people have a problem with.
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by Elrac 15y ago
yEd is a beautiful simple diagram-drawing tool but it's essentially "just" a slimmer cousin of e.g. Visio: Click to draw blocks, join them with arrows, drag things around with your mouse until everything looks nice. I'm one of those obsessi
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by Elrac 15y ago
Cool, just what I need to pre-edit lengthy texts for Reddit. But wait, it's only for OS X?
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by Elrac 15y ago
This sounds like a good explanation. I think there's a lot of complexity bolted on in order to make the syntactic sugar work.
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by Elrac 15y ago
That said, I own a whole raft of Scala books, including the original by Odersky, the yellow-black Apress one and so forth; and of all of them, I find Wampler & Payne the most approachable and useful.
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by Elrac 15y ago
It so happens I've been trying to write my first "real" Scala application these past few days. It's been a harrowing experience. Just a few highlights off the top of my head: * Eclipse support is spotty. Apparently legal programs suddenly d
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by Elrac 15y ago
The "de la" means "some" or "some of," while "la" alone just means "the". "Folie" (folly) is an amorphous, uncounted quantity, like water or sand. War is a one-of-a-kind entity, like "Peltier effect." So you speak of "some water" but "the P

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