Riesling

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by Riesling 14y ago
Jeremy, I am a big fan of the goals of your work (CoffeeScript, Literate Programming). Both projects make code easier to understand and more accessible to everyone. I have the feeling that many of us forget about the value of this, after ha
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by Riesling 14y ago
In pandoc you can also use raw mode, which will just pass through all tex commands you use in your markdown file. pandoc text.md --parse-raw -t latex -o text.tex Then you can proceed to compile this to a pdf with pdflatex.
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by Riesling 14y ago
> No one is in even a remotely comparable position in 2013 to suppress ideas. Of course not. That would be weird, as those events lie hundred of years in the past. It is a total different world today. Thinking that those events map o
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by Riesling 14y ago
> Very little magic or innovation happens in this old business What about Amazon Web Services? Amazon was and still is a leader on the cloud computing front. > Bezos' desire to constantly reinvest in the future This is a huge advan
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by Riesling 14y ago
One reason I can think of is that most Antibiotics do not only kill bacteria, they also stall bacterial growth. So while the most resistant bacteria are killed at last, they still might not be able to multiply.
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by Riesling 14y ago
Actually I have read studies that indicate that depressed people have a better grasp of reality and that the state that we consider normal is the state of a slight delusion.
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by Riesling 14y ago
Interesting. Keeping my fingers crossed that the download script will be released next. I would love to read through the code and see for myself how much actual "hacking" was involved.
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by Riesling 14y ago
> I don't owe you anything simply because you exist. I have an opposing opinion. Let me explain my thoughts. In a fair system everyone would have access to the same amount of land once he is born. He could then farm the land build a hou
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by Riesling 14y ago
> It wasn't always so. Early man could claim and transform resources as he needed. Now we are required, on pain of death really (if we try to disobey we will be arrested, if we don't comply with the arrest we will be shot), to either pl
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by Riesling 14y ago
Probably just to emphasize that clock will be called 100 times per second (which will result in 100 fps).
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by Riesling 14y ago
> This guy is the 1st person I've seen who praises the Galaxy Nexus camera I was wondering about that too. After having owned a Galaxy S2 I was really disapointed with the Nexus camera.
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by Riesling 14y ago
I hope you came to this conclusion by actually trying out the language. I have written thousands of lines of coffeescript and I have never faced the mentioned problems. Besides, you can always use the pragmatic approach and use parenthesis
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by Riesling 14y ago
How is that odd? Replacing a walled garden with a walled park does not improve the situation a lot for people who do not like walls at all.
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by Riesling 14y ago
> But then, most people live crap lives. And this is the really sad part. If one does not believe in another life or an afterlife, life itself might be the most precious thing there ever was. Just think about the astounding circumstance
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by Riesling 14y ago
> noisy people is not that they're inconsiderate, but that they don't have any train of thought to interrupt I once have read an article about introverts vs. extroverts and the articles conclusion was that extroverts need to communicate
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by Riesling 14y ago
I just looked it up on wikipedia and they are not banned completely. Still, effectively they are, since the court said that > "verification of the result must be possible by the citizen reliably and without any specialist knowledge of
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by Riesling 14y ago
Then install Gnome 2 with sudo aptitude install gnome-session-fallback The best part is that you can install a multitude of window managers and decide at login time which one to use. This is one of the big advantages of Linux.
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by Riesling 14y ago
> I was a huge Ubuntu supporter from 2005 to 2012. And now I warn people to not use it. Wow, this is sad. Especially since it is so easy to install a different window manager on ubuntu. sudo aptitude install xubuntu-desktop wil
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by Riesling 14y ago
It quickly becomes apparent that the author has no experience with NLP. Still, I have mixed feelings regarding your comment. Firstly, the author shows a true hacker spirit by trying to use the computer to solve problems, on the other hand,
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by Riesling 14y ago
The current state of medicine is extremely frightening. Note 1: My comments here relate to the German health system, with which I am most familiar with, but I assume that other systems work similar, if not less efficiently. In my opinion, t
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by Riesling 14y ago
You might want to try PlayOnLinux. I used it to install Photoshop on Ubuntu recently and the process was painless. Office is also supported. http://www.playonlinux.com/en/
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by Riesling 14y ago
I would love to write code outside. I wish laptops with ebook reader like screens would exist. It would not even bother me if they were only black and white.
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by Riesling 14y ago
> I'm also not sure what the heck he is talking about in the conclusion - people without a liberal education are unable to make their own choices about what to buy? In my opinion he is talking about an uneven playing field. There is a m
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by Riesling 14y ago
This is definitely a nice showcase for three.js. I don't think one could lower the entry barrier any further. More projects should use this approach. I started playing with it immediately and I am already thinking about projects I could use
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by Riesling 14y ago
> If pinch and zoom is such a trivial thing then invent some other thing to use instead. But isn't that the exact problem. p&z is so trivial that any other thing would be less trivial which would be counter intuitive for human-compu
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by Riesling 14y ago
Go has a pretty mature http library. Since it is also aimed at the appengine I say the web is its natural domain. A good templating system is the go mustache port: mustache.go
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by Riesling 14y ago
I would not make the mistake of trusting the law per se. Law is far from being deterministic. It is merely a framework used for discussing concrete events. This is what drove me away from studying law after having done it for three full yea
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by Riesling 14y ago
I studied law in germany for a couple of semesters and I learned that human rights are never absolute. They are more like bubbles. Basically your right ends where it collides with someones else right or to paraphrase it "one man's freedom i
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by Riesling 14y ago
In a certain fashion, yes. Parties have helped to bring ideas and concepts to life. In a world where it is hard for people to communicate easily, often and in real time, they are probably the best tool available. A big problem of parties is
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by Riesling 14y ago
> The election after that one the pirate party main points will be part and parcel of the established parties' programmes. I doubt that. One of the main points of the pirate party is to take power away from the politicians and give it b

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