Marazan

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811.
by Marazan 8y ago
Do you honestly not understand why?
812.
by Marazan 8y ago
Yes, there isn't (in my view) such a thing as a singular 'Scots'. The 'Scots language' is effectively a 20th century invention by early century poets like Hugh MacDiarmid. They created a pan-Scottish 'Literary
813.
by Marazan 8y ago
Probably with Norse as an ancestor. The Swedish for Good is bra, pronounced very similarly to braw.
814.
by Marazan 8y ago
It's not the language, it is the system that was built. You can't just throw it away.
815.
by Marazan 8y ago
Oh, actually mentioned in the article further down. Bizarre I missed that on first read.
816.
by Marazan 8y ago
Then there's the amazing BiFrost and Nirvana engine which beat the colour clash limitations to produce huge full colour sprites on the Speccy. Amazing.
817.
by Marazan 8y ago
It might be single purpose but that single purpose is a reallllllly difficult problem.
818.
by Marazan 8y ago
The company website is still up and they have produced further 'puzzles' in the series.
819.
by Marazan 8y ago
How does that in anyway protect against fraud?
820.
by Marazan 8y ago
It's perverse that after Flash/Flex are 'dead' that Sun's mutant attempt to compete in the space is still going.
821.
by Marazan 8y ago
Yes, and bookies do as long refund clients' mistakes as long as the price hasn't moved that much and it is before the event.
822.
by Marazan 8y ago
I bet you dollars to donuts that the average person doesn't spend 5 figures on a car. They spend 4 figures on a second hand model.
823.
by Marazan 8y ago
And one of those cost approximately my annual salary and the other doesn't. Telling people automatics are great when you are referencing a type that the majority of people will never have a chance of owning is a classic Hacker News man
824.
by Marazan 8y ago
The alt-right are ficking Nazis. Say it with me: Nazis are bad. Sorry if that hurts their feelings.
825.
by Marazan 8y ago
The rating agencies absolutely did not do the right thing. There were contemporary pre-crash criticisms of their rating of mortgage backed securities so this is not Monday morning quarter backing
826.
by Marazan 8y ago
No, the government has already spent it on current retirees as you pay.
827.
by Marazan 8y ago
John Gruber trying to convince himself at the time it was a great hire was hilarious. A completely inexplicable decision.
828.
by Marazan 8y ago
Slack is ludicrously chuggy for basic operations. Why does it take so insanely long to start up?
829.
by Marazan 8y ago
Health care is not a regular market. You can't shop around for emergency care when your leg is severed or you are unconscious in a car accident. Healthcare can and should be heavily regulated, its not like buying a hammer.
830.
by Marazan 8y ago
No, it just means they will make a little less profit.
831.
by Marazan 8y ago
What if you raised the workers' wage rather than reducing the CEO pay?
832.
by Marazan 8y ago
TL;DR
833.
by Marazan 8y ago
Absolutely false. The subprime crisis was not caused by 'government mandated' lending to traditionally undeserved parts of the population. Anyone pushing that narrative is trying to pushing a implicitly racist 'reason' f
834.
by Marazan 8y ago
The British Prime Minister made a completely unfullfillable promise to bring down immigration numbers - despite the he country being part of the EU and thus having free movement making it impossible to hit his targets. Because this mistake
835.
by Marazan 8y ago
Whilst absolutely a concern the cost of a college education is hugely inflated by the guaranteed loan money.
836.
by Marazan 8y ago
The revolution of Napolean's Corp system cannot be understated.
837.
by Marazan 8y ago
His grand strategic strategy that aided him in winning many battles resulted, in the end, in the massive career defining loss.
838.
by Marazan 8y ago
I still hold that part 1 (building abstractions with procedures) of SICP is not that good from a teaching perspective. The continual reliance on more and more obtuse mathematical formulae for the programming examples is sub-obtimal for enga
839.
by Marazan 8y ago
The player is closed source but the SWF spec is open. https://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf.html
840.
by Marazan 8y ago
Why on earth is this being down voted?

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