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by Gupie 16y ago
"Given the same amount of expertise in 2 languages, if i can write the same feature in much less time in one language, then it is more powerful." I think the author overstates his argument by not accepting the above. However there is a case
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by Gupie 16y ago
Might make a good movie, but probably not mainstream :)
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Palin email witness decries 'dog and pony' prosecution(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by Gupie 17y ago|0 comments
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by Gupie 17y ago
Perhaps it's the type of question computers are not good at answering.
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by Gupie 17y ago
Good article but scary. If you've a start up without a wad of defensive patents what can you so if a large company gives you a "stepping all over our IP" threat?
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by Gupie 17y ago
Yes, and if he missed you can pick the knife up, throwing a knife is a good way to disarm yourself.
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Climate sceptics are recycled critics of controls on tobacco and acid rain(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by Gupie 17y ago|1 comments
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by Gupie 17y ago
How about the doctors funded by tobacco companies who did "studies" and told people that smoking didn't cause cancer, did these doctors/companies commit a crime against humanity? I think it is reasonable to say they did.
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by Gupie 17y ago
In the UK's last recession in the early nineties house prices crashed two years after the stock markets crashed. When the stock market crashed the government used low interest rate to boost the economy. This had the effect of keeping mortga
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by Gupie 17y ago
Looking at Amazon the iPod is most expensive: iPod touch $269.99, Amazon Creative Zen X-Fi Touch 32GB $229.99, Zune $234.99 The difference for lower spec players is large with the iPod being twice the price of its direct competitors! iPod
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by Gupie 17y ago
"But in every single case, the newcomer also enjoys a tremendous cost advantage, usually about 30 percent." This doesn't seem to fit Apple. Their products are more expensive than the competitors, e.g. iPlayer vs Zen, Mac vs PC. They market
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by Gupie 17y ago
Interesting, but can't this be explained by the distribution of file sizes. There will generally be many small files but fewer and fewer larger files. So there will be more 1k files than 2k files, more 2ks than 3ks, more files between 10 to
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by Gupie 17y ago
That a college would prosecute a student for reading a book is shocking. However most of the article is about colleges banning thing like "using any email message to insult or embarrass". This is not "severely restricting speech". It is jus
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by Gupie 17y ago
The real danger is that most of the world will become unsuitable for agriculture, e.g. the Sahara expanding to Southern Europe, the Mid-West becoming one great dust bowl.
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by Gupie 17y ago
It is impossible to prove that climate change will occur and is man made. The only way to do that would be to do the experiment: find a planet, pump lots of C02 into its atmosphere and measure the result. Of course you would have to do this
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by Gupie 17y ago
Historically pale skin was prized because rich women didn't work in the fields, they stayed in doors out of the sun. Tans came into fashion with air travel. Only the wealthy could fly to say the Med for their holidays Also I suppose poor s
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by Gupie 17y ago
One possible cause not mentioned is the expansion of water with increased temperature. One litre of water at 4 degrees weights 3% more than 1 litre at 90 degrees, i.e. there is 3% more water. So this might explain the effect especially if t
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Climate change global editorial(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by Gupie 17y ago|6 comments
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by Gupie 17y ago
These links are informative as the article itself without knowing Ross McKitrick's past form is quite persuasive. However on reflection it does seem extremely unlikely that the 20th century climate record was based on the cores of just 10 t
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by Gupie 17y ago
The second link does say that the UEA work "figured prominently in the IPCC TAR SPM" report. It would be an exaggeration just going by the link to claim that the UEA data was "the primary source of data used in the IPCC's reports". There ar
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by Gupie 17y ago
It's the UEA's data that has been lost not the IPCC's. UEA == University of East Anglia, IPCC == Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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by Gupie 17y ago
I am very dubious of the pictures. For example why the jet black skin? Neanderthals were cold adapted creatures.
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by Gupie 17y ago
"there are very compelling reasons for not having exceptions, given goroutines and channels" This confuses me I would have thought the opposite would be true. The goroutine/channel concept seems Erlang like to me. Erlang uses exceptions, if
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by Gupie 17y ago
I would be more likely to study a language that has a sensible name, has a web site that doesn't hurt your eyes and has a manual that isn't "One of the worst manuals I've ever seen in my life", http://c2.com/cgi/wiki$?GooLanguage .
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by Gupie 17y ago
Nice name for a language, I also like their home page http://people.csail.mit.edu/jrb/goo/
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by Gupie 17y ago
Google should change the name from "Go" to "Goo". Problem solved...
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by Gupie 17y ago
Structural engineers produce bridges, even if they are arguably just a side produce. In the worst case academics only produce academics.
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Safe Systems from Unreliable Parts(dobbscodetalk.com)
16 points by Gupie 17y ago|2 comments
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by Gupie 17y ago
I know which I would like to maintain.
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by Gupie 17y ago
It is lucky she didn't get round to noticing the AVG (Yahoo) toolbar that appears in your browser. You hide it then next time you start up you get a helpful "I have noticed you have disabled the AVG toolbar, I have re-enabled it for you so

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