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by __bjoernd 16y ago
Google came out with Go some months ago, now Mozilla presents Rust. Both languages seem to be targetted at the same audience, I fear it's mere corporate politics that prevent both from using the same language, isn't it? Addon-question, don'
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by __bjoernd 17y ago
The post's comments describe a row of useful explanations for these facts apart from sexual focus.
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by __bjoernd 17y ago
> Until very recently in human history the Europeans brutally conquered half the world and effectively turned the "savage people" that were unlucky enough to survive the raping and the pillaging into slaves Yep, but it seems at least th
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US army overhauls basic training because new recruits weakened by computer games(npr.org)
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by __bjoernd 17y ago
It's the old Socratean thing: "I know that I don't know".
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by __bjoernd 17y ago
http://www.xmarks.com/ comes in quite handy for this purpose. No Opera support, though. :/
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by __bjoernd 17y ago
Having not followed Friendster and its history, I found this a pretty compelling read.
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by __bjoernd 17y ago
This is also an interesting read in this respect: http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20100315_germany_mitteleuropa...
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by __bjoernd 17y ago
I'm a European and I know there are narrow-minded people over here as well.
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by __bjoernd 17y ago
Although not completely correct on facts, still quite funny. :)
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by __bjoernd 17y ago
"...if I pay a plumber to fix my tap, I don’t ask him to leave his toolbox so I can fix it myself next time; ..." Well, but I do have the right to go to the next DYI market, buy these tools and use them myself. Of course, I can't claim a wa
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by __bjoernd 17y ago
Is this the week of posting Wikipedia links to HN then? Interesting, though.
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by __bjoernd 17y ago
Similar for me. School was easy, I only learned to really work for something at the university.
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by __bjoernd 17y ago
They definitely showed that this approach can be used in a real-life scenario last year, when they broke some voting machines using ROP. http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/computer-scientists-take-over...