JamisonM

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by JamisonM 14y ago
You need to provide some evidence for Stallman not being pragmatic. The existence of the LGPL is clear evidence that he is capable of pragmatism. Another example is that he does not get very excited about things like simple calculators bein
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by JamisonM 14y ago
By "backed by" I think you mean operated as a managed-float with these things as a basis. RMB has lots of influence in Asia because many countries in the region are exporters to the US and Europe and in direct competition with China there.
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by JamisonM 14y ago
This is not a field experiment, it is more of a crack-pot scheme. There is very little science going on here. I suppose the most unfortunate part of this misguided adventure is that very little will really be learned from it since it was no
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by JamisonM 14y ago
This makes sense from my experience, decent papers that are rejected are rejected by reviewers, who themselves are doing related research and publishing papers. This means that they have been exposed to a larger group of people who would wa
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by JamisonM 14y ago
Shouldn't the point of the "web platform" be that they make de-facto standards like JQuery obsolete? It seems to me that the examples and information on this site should be based on code that will work on all browsers without an intermediar
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by JamisonM 14y ago
Law I think is a field with unique responsibilities for their members to stay current and keep learning, things do change fast and you have to keep up to stay effective. Paradigm shifts every 10 years? Not really. COBOL to Python ain't no p
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by JamisonM 14y ago
It seems to me to be naive to believe that a bunch of computers running software built by humans will compete perfectly to create a perfect market, the hypothetical "efficient market". Instead what you would probably arrive at is an arms-ra
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by JamisonM 14y ago
I wonder how much of the mutations in genetic material relate to simply aging and how much of it might be a reflection of environmental exposures based on when the father was born? Substances like mercury or lead spring to mind as things th
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by JamisonM 14y ago
I think those hordes assembled in the 1860's, I do not know what the half-life of a disproving scientist horde is but I suspect they have dispersed in disappointment quite some time ago.
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by JamisonM 14y ago
Eric Raymond's working definition of a fanatic is, "Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim". RMS is to me the exact antithesis of this definition. He has always had a complete focus on his end objecti
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by JamisonM 14y ago
If the Germans do nothing at this point the Euro collapse will take down their banks as well. The other incentive as I see it is that this could also be argued as a more politically palatable solution for the ruling party since they have be
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by JamisonM 14y ago
Monstanto's own website says they have sued 145 times and only gone to trial 11 times. In the past I know they have indicated that they have settled more than 500 cases out of court but I can not find a good citation for that. I personally
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by JamisonM 14y ago
Others have taken issue with a 100 year sample size for a definition of "sustainability in practice" but I would not. My family bought its first Diesel tractor quite a bit less than 100 years ago, diskers to seed in the 1950's (I think), 4W
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by JamisonM 14y ago
Farmers in the United States in particular are mostly in a commodity business and the market for non-GMO products is relatively small so there is not room for all, most, or even a large minority of farms to accept the lower productivity of
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by JamisonM 14y ago
I think winning is considered important because of the mistaken presumption that this has some bearing on how Monsanto is conducting itself or the guilt or innocence of the farmers involved. The unfortunate truth is that Monsanto will proba
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by JamisonM 14y ago
> Shocked moviegoers will have been left wondering > why a genius-level hacker would outer-join to the > Victims and Keywords tables only to use literal-text > filter predicates that defeat the outer joins, > whether My
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by JamisonM 14y ago
Canadian austerity in the '90s was largely a systematic shifting of financial burdens down to provinces and then many of those provinces them under-funding areas where local government would be forced to pick up the slack. I suspect the Eur
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by JamisonM 14y ago
I do not know why you would say that GM does not grasp this, can you explain? GM does lots of impression-based ads all over the Internet which is all about name recognition so they seem to understand what that is about. Do you know somethin
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by JamisonM 14y ago
For one thing the better gas mileage is not much of an improvement from the mid-eighties, gas was much cheaper then ('78-'84 prices were high, inflation-adjusted still not as high as right now though except maybe in 1981). If you buy a new
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by JamisonM 14y ago
This is what is sad about it, are we now building cars that could last forever but their electronics will end up making them disposable? I hope not. Sending an otherwise good car to a wrecker because the little (and not very powerful) compu
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by JamisonM 14y ago
Although he opens mentioning buying a car in 1986 what he actually says is that cars have pretty much matched the rate of inflation. Seems to me he is saying cars are about as good a deal today as they were back then. I do not find that lud
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by JamisonM 14y ago
It is a trade-off, on that I agree with you and I do understand that checked exceptions do tend to propagate implementation-level details up where that might be undesirable. I also agree that in green-field situations it can be awkward figu
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by JamisonM 14y ago
I made it to the next one before I gave up: "Relational databases grew up solving problems where data integrity was paramount and availability was not a big concern."
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by JamisonM 14y ago
It is strange that the consensus in the Java community sort of ended up being against checked exceptions. I for one think that this consensus is completely wrong and I suspect that what looks like a consensus is just a bunch of very loud pe
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by JamisonM 14y ago
The only thing more insane would be having one or a few persons with clear history of positions on an issue decide these kinds of questions. That is what you end up with if you use "experts" -- people with some sort of vested interest in a
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by JamisonM 14y ago
It has always been a mystery to me that reasonable people somehow think it is better to omit the semicolons where you can instead of just being 100% consistent by using them to terminate every statement. I have always thought that computers
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by JamisonM 14y ago
I have not seen much evidence that private management is superior to any given civil service. I have seen absurd waste in the private sector in my time. I think that there is little empirical evidence to support either position. The civil s
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by JamisonM 15y ago
Google did not agree to a license but if Oracle convinces the court they needed one then that is a moot point (Oracle asserts trademark, copyright, and patents to make this claim I believe). All the differences between what MS and Google di
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by JamisonM 15y ago
Agreed, but Android was never actually J2SE either so Android is a fragmentation of a different sort. Of course, the the court accepts Oracle's right to control Java then it is Oracle's choice to fragment it however they like, not Google's.
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by JamisonM 15y ago
I don't think that saying J2ME should run on any given OS for a platform or form factor is relevant. I could then argue that if there is no Java for Minix or someone's pet OS that runs on a server somewhere that servers are not a platform

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