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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
This controversy to me seems eerily similar to the so-called "SCO Wars" when the SCO Group defended her intellectual property rights against looters like IBM and Novell. This act will help to prevent tragedies such as what happened to SCO f
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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
What a horrible article. Whoever wrote that was some sort of Amish anti-technology fruitcake. Fuck him.
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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
I have commented (at length) on this earlier, so don't have much to add. But a further thought did occur to me: JavaScript has "loose typing", that is, one is not taught the difference between say, an int, and a double, or even a char, and
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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
Here is my blog article I wrote on this travesty. (Available here: http://blogkinnetic.blogspot.com/2011/12/on-civic-decay-of-u... ) I am not a pugilist for the sake of it, but when I see abominations like this, well, somebody has to take
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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
My response: http://blogkinnetic.blogspot.com/2011/12/on-civic-decay-of-u...
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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
Airbus could easily be the most unsafe major airline in history. No surprise when I read this article that it said this happened on Airbus. Those things have a nasty habit of randomly crashing for no reason whatsoever. Unfortunately planes
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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
Like others, I wish I had read "The C Programming Language" earlier than when I did (probably did not get to it until my mid-20's or so). However, I am really glad I read "The Road Ahead" by Bill Gates while still in high school. That gave
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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
I live in a van down by the river.
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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
Seems like this is something like P = ((N * M) - (N + M - 1))/K but haven't tried out too many cases.
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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
It is not playing God to hunt to get the resources we need, like, say, hunting buffalo for their meat and fur. That is just survival. We need the whale oil, so hunting them is no more playing God than is hunting buffalo. I do not see a prob
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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
Whaling needs to be brought back. Sperm whales are prevalent once again, so controlled harvesting of them should be possible just like hunting deer or anything else. This creates jobs, and contributes to finding renewable energy sources. Fu
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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
Any way to tell if this is legit or not?
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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
Say I live in a set, set_1, that has some property p_1. I can think about other sets, like my own, say, set_n, with similar properties for those, say, p_n. I am confined to set_1 so I can only speculate about what goes on in the other sets,
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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
With due respect, cryonics won't work. Why? Because "I am a strange loop" as Hofstadter would put it. We are NOT the code. We are the code execution. Think of the human subject as a really complicated, recursive sort of while(1) loop. When
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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
Baruch dayan H'emet. This is very tragic. Nothing else to say. Rest in peace.
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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
Hi - I can relate to this post because I also have an on-again, off-again, "pipe dream" of doing solo work. I really have one big "passion" and that is machine learning - genetic algorithms and related stuff, but don't have a C.S. degree so
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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
The K&R textbook is still my programming "bible". I don't use C on a regular basis, or at least as not as much as I'd like to, but still refer to it, even so. IMO, people should learn C first - teaches the right principles.
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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
What a wonderful story. Just when I thought I had shed all the tears I was going to shed over this over this past week, it just all comes right back. He was a legend, but also a good human being. A true rarity.
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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
As long as it is not pay-pal. The company I work for, which shall remain nameless, had much of its staff "cannibalized" by pay-pal. One manager of mine mentioned to me he turned down an offer from pay-pal because of its total lack of securi
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Ask HN: Is there a YC-equivalent for tech related non-profits?
5 points by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago|1 comments
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Perhaps P is unlikely to equal NP. but not necessarily so
1 points by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago|0 comments
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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
Max Tegmark's 4-level Multiverse solves the issues discussed in this article. For Tegmark, the physical world does not emerge out of the Platonic world, rather, the physical world is (a subset) of the Platonic world. The real question is I
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by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago
Interesting, thanks. I'll check it out. Does this support building a demo app, i.e., can it have a public url to the jboss app I would deploy so I can send that public url to others to view?
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Ask HN: Who can host a jboss portlet written from eclipse?
3 points by _THE_PLAGUE 15y ago|3 comments