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by Niten 17y ago
No, not directly. But they're trying to squeeze as much money as possible out of hardware and licensing by limiting users' ability to run Solaris for free on beige boxes, and that does seem to tilt the odds in the open question of whether
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by Niten 17y ago
What Harris is arguing is that, regardless of what I feel or what your hypothetical fascist feels about this problem, there is a definite, objective answer to this question, not to be found by comparing opinions, but by empirically exam
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by Niten 17y ago
You miss the point entirely, and your "counterexample" is a non-sequitur. The purpose of Harris's speech is to argue, against the current postmodern fashion, that ethics and morality do in principle fall within the scientific domain, that t
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by Niten 17y ago
"And he is unable to present his variant of Western morality with sufficient force to convince people who do not start with a morality similar to the one he already has." That isn't his goal here. He is simply trying to show that these que
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by Niten 17y ago
No, not necessarily, but it typically seems to be the case. In practice I suppose it's just plain difficult to compose something that's both accessible and deeply rewarding, and the few bands that can really pull this off become incredibly
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by Niten 17y ago
Exactly. Functional programming may or may not be "worth it" to use for one particular problem or another. However, if we ask ourselves whether functional programming is worth learning (as I suspect the poster is really asking), then the
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by Niten 17y ago
That's too bad, I hadn't tried that. Though offhand I can't think of a good way to even try scaling these presentation slides to an iPhone-sized screen.
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by Niten 17y ago
This is offtopic, but I'm really impressed with whoever designed InfoQ's interface for watching presentations and interviews. Being able to watch the slides and the presenter simultaneously in separate panes is an approach I wish more site
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by Niten 17y ago
Has anyone here tried pkgsrc on OS X?
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by Niten 17y ago
Sure, but I think the salient point here is this: we've gotten good enough at filtering spam that looking through your email inbox is no longer a major headache. That's how I frame the war on spam, anyway, and in that sense I'd say we're d
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by Niten 17y ago
For what it's worth, apparently Office 2010 is finally getting support for common ligatures.
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by Niten 17y ago
Agreed. Neglecting issues of open vs. closed source (for whom that matters), the question boils down to "would you refuse to use an arbitrary program because it's named IE". Of course not.
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by Niten 17y ago
I guess you've never tried PDF-XChange or Sumatra PDF, then.
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by Niten 17y ago
Well, trivial in relation to a company rebuilding its product on a new programming language or paradigm.
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by Niten 17y ago
Also, where conditions allow, the developers who know better will generally prefer better languages than PHP--leaving disproportionately more of the people who don't know better on the PHP side of the fence...
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by Niten 17y ago
Yeah, it would be nice if unionization weren't necessary. Unfortunately history (or even a cursory examination of the world today) clearly shows that, in the public and private sectors alike, employees are inevitably abused when they do no
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by Niten 17y ago
I have to wonder how much of this is due to the limited capabilities of the iPhone, and how much is just the psychology of "physically" interacting with your apps.
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by Niten 17y ago
Even the most computer-illiterate people I know need, on a daily basis, the ability to switch between multiple running applications.
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by Niten 17y ago
And tcpdump, too. Anyway, if you're looking to build that custom OpenBSD firewall / gateway, might I recommend the Alix 2d3 board. It is so choice: http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm
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by Niten 17y ago
I really appreciate the author's rigorous scientific stance on the actual utility of these suggestions; I went into this article expecting pure pseudoscience (judging on nothing more than the title).
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by Niten 17y ago
More likely in a Gmail Android app, at this point.
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by Niten 17y ago
Can anyone enlighten me on this? I noticed the same thing: * Viewing this page in Firefox 3.6 on Windows caused Flash to crash, taking the browser down with it. * Viewing it in Chrome on the same machine caused the Flash plugin subprocess
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by Niten 17y ago
In what world does nobody care about Java?
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by Niten 17y ago
As uneasy as I am about what the iPad might say about the future of personal computing, if it can deliver the death blow to Adobe Flash then I'm all for it. However, I do have my doubts. This article compares the iPad's Flash problems to F
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by Niten 17y ago
But why? Really, is there any fundamental reason we should expect Google to remain perpetually on top of the search engine business? I think the difference in quality between Google and Bing search results is negligible; at this point it's
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by Niten 17y ago
Because we all know how much more comfortable it is to stare at e-ink than at a backlit LCD for hours on end? Also, battery life.
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by Niten 17y ago
"The only two (somewhat related) things Apple does that I would classify as vendor lock-in are 1: XCode, and therefore OS X, is required for iPhone development, and 2: You need a Mac to run OS X." What about the fact that they actively sabo
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by Niten 17y ago
Note taking is not just for real estate agents, either. One thing I'm surprised people aren't talking about more is that a well-designed tablet could be a hit in college and even primary school lecture halls and classrooms. Considering Ap
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I guess there is an app for that.
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I agree that this probably isn't the place for religious debates, but it's plainly absurd to compare Richard Dawkins to Sarah Palin (presumably) with regard to the substance of his arguments, or to imply that he has not added anything worth

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