Safety1stClyde

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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
> "I'm not an expert" means "I am not an expert", not that I know nothing on these matters. I've read about Japanese culture quite a few times in the past. There's a lot of information out there about h
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
> I'm not an expert, but it is consistent with cultural and historical details I've heard. I've heard several times that people born under the astrological sign Pisces tend to be confused because their symbol is two fishes
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
Saying the words "It's not" then quoting an almost entirely irrelevant Wikipedia article is not an effective way to convince me that I'm incorrect.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
> After the war, they were taught to redirect their devotion to the nation from its military expansion to economic expansion. They were constantly exhorted that they were a homogeneous people and superior to all other Asians, and super
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
This article is interesting, but I think many people will stop after reading the first two or three paragraphs, and never arrive at the interesting parts. Imagine someone reading out loud the text. Nobody would deliver the current version o
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
How did Go, a language designed from scratch by top people with unlimited funding, end up as such a muddle?
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
> A month ago I wrote an article called "How I realised “Open Source” is a better term than “Free Software”". Now I change my mind completely and explain why everything I said was actually wrong. https://www.youtube.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
Sorry to sidetrack this discussion, but this is the first I have heard of Google's 10,000 human raters. Can anyone provide more information about them? > Google is also setting new rules encouraging its “raters” — the 10,000-plus st
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
Perhaps they had a very novel idea: let's not send the user an empty page which then makes a request for several dozen javascripts from all over the internet and then loads the page content via javascript which then loads a framework w
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
It was quite interesting, but, as usual with these internet pages, it would have benefitted from some editing to reduce the length, remove much of the vacuous ranting, and make the conclusions of the article clearer.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
All I see is a purple blank page.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
The article didn't start well: > Leia Organa is famous for more accomplishments that the best nerds can count. I got this far: > With a back story like this Leia could have just as easily become a sulky brat like her brother You&
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
The title is mystifying.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
Without Erlich Bachman and Nelson Bighetti?
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
Editing the article to remove some of the extraneous information would have made it easier to understand.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
People love to try to appear to be exceptional in some way. Some people think that by eating food which is difficult to consume without first accustoming themselves, they will be able to distinguish themselves from the common herd. My feeli
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
The Chinese created famine in their country by eliminating sparrows as part of their so-called "Great Leap Forward". It turned out that the sparrows were eating pest insects. Now the Chinese offer to gobble these oysters. Can they
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
This content seems like it is a random selection from a larger work. It finishes in an incomplete way, and it has no references.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
That page delivered so many javaturds that it was impossible to read the content without the javashit.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
Needs updating including links to Dennis Ritchie's pages.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
Focusing on one particular aspect of history to the exclusion of others is not a productive way to educate people.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
What is the point of learning to make a Google anything when it will all be deleted and replaced by Google's new version or new thing in a few months or at most a year? Perhaps Google should put its money into philanthropy rather than
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
Yet more whining about questions. If the questions come by email, delete the email. Not a difficult operation. If you encounter stupid questions due to your participation in a website, stop visiting that website, or stop answering questions
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
I have JavaShit switched off everywhere except where I explicitly allow it, so I never encounter these problems. The solution to most of these woes is as simple as not allowing other people to run arbitrary programs on your computer, which
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
The fact that people in Silicon Valley are prepared to read through even one of Ayn Rand's books is a testament to their stamina and fortitude, like someone who is prepared to read the entire telephone directory, or someone who watches
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
Those things mentioned are not "great truths" but one person's opinions.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
Redesignating programmers as "engineers", or "developers", or "coders", or whatever the flavour-of-the-month description is, is most likely to be due to some perceived stigma with the words "computer progr
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
Could we go back to calling computer programmers computer programmers? If it doesn't have an engine, or a motor, you're really not an "engineer". Also, there are these other people called engineers who do engineering, no
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
What does "small tool" mean here? There seem to be a wide number of different comparisons.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
http://wiki.c2.com/spin.gif is all I see.

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