Ralith

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by Ralith 14y ago
It sounds like you'd prefer that rote labor not be automated. Should the potential for a post-scarcity society be abandoned because it costs a few jobs in the short term?
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by Ralith 14y ago
I think grandparent's point was that ARM can patent their hardware designs, and thus avoid the whole issue.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Probably quite a ways past using the previous company's email lists.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Can't you reflash it with a generic install?
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by Ralith 14y ago
I think eliminating the need to set up a SVN repository for very small projects is a major boon.
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by Ralith 14y ago
He means to say you're welcome to submit patches to make them more exhaustive.
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by Ralith 14y ago
So, a good ways behind nuclear fusion, then? No, let's be fair--fusion research is actually looking pretty promising, what with polywells and all.
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by Ralith 14y ago
It makes sense when you realize that churches are tax-exempt, i.e. the reap all the benefits without paying any of the costs, and that this is made possible by the payments of taxpayers.
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by Ralith 14y ago
How unfortunate, then, that the article doesn't actually describe any progress or innovations.
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by Ralith 14y ago
According to the article, touching it is "like running your fingers along a picket fence" due to the angling of the blades.
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by Ralith 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4157104
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by Ralith 14y ago
> If they don't want Secure Boot then the user can turn it off. Unless you're on ARM, in which case you're screwed.
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by Ralith 14y ago
You may want to mention the language that you are talking about in future titles.
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by Ralith 14y ago
> The internet still seems rather men oriented I know if I don't know the gender of a person and can't make a guess by their username I default to using male pronouns and most other men seem to do this as well. This is not a property of
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by Ralith 14y ago
What? The solution proposed by the article is to make quality education available.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Not exactly spaceships, fusion, and feeding Africa, though.
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by Ralith 14y ago
> A year after graduation, ten of the first sixteen Clemente Course graduates were attending four-year colleges or going to nursing school; four of them had received full scholarships to Bard College. The other graduates were attending
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by Ralith 14y ago
While Elon Musk's work is great, I don't see how that's changing the incentive structure for young, unmoneyed entrepreneurs.
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by Ralith 14y ago
You make an interesting point; LaTeX is certainly less relevant if you no longer target paper. At the very least, though, I have yet to see any text renderer or layout engine that can make a wall of text quite as aesthetically pleasing. Per
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by Ralith 14y ago
You're right, but the incentives just aren't there to support another mode of behavior. How can we fix that?
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by Ralith 14y ago
Open-sourcing things is good, but can anyone clarify what exactly this software is ?
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by Ralith 14y ago
Wups, force refresh did it; must've been some weird browser caching.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Doesn't seem to be. I'm referring to the links to the original image at the bottom of each picture.
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by Ralith 14y ago
What makes you think that? So far the groups of developers that have been called out are "Developers" and "Developers who love dual-display setups." I don't see anything about mobile devices except that gaborcselle seems to think [almost] e
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by Ralith 14y ago
Why are you URL-shortening all the links? This just introduces an unnecessary point of failure and bitrot into your results. It's especially silly when you have the full-length link in the display text, too...
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by Ralith 14y ago
Which worsens its image further--"I've got an amazing new method better than the scientists could come up with, but it's secret!" smells of incompetence at best.
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by Ralith 14y ago
It's fallacious to assume that the majority, or even a sizable proportion of, developers use a portable device of any kind as their primary machine.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Speak for yourself--I'd rather develop for Linux any day.
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by Ralith 14y ago
LaTeX is built for typesetting, and is very good at that. HTML, of any variant, is not.
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by Ralith 14y ago
I wish my compiler course had used SML--then maybe I wouldn't have had to greenspun C++ so hard.

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