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by _emacsomancer_ 9y ago
And an American went missing.
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The US culture/society also tends to kill off non-English languages. Spanish is large enough and with a 'renewable' resource of Spanish speakers from other parts of the Americas that it manages to survive, but other languages
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by _emacsomancer_ 9y ago
There are an awful lot of English-native and English-speaking Commonwealth countries (including the UK itself) which have non-negligible influence, including on the US.
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by _emacsomancer_ 9y ago
> PhD study hyper-specializes people I would strongly disagree. A PhD dissertation itself requires a hyper-specialisation (that's the point), but doesn't mean that a person holding a PhD forever writes about the same topic.
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by _emacsomancer_ 9y ago
Maybe. But there are probably enough people for whom $3.37/hour profit sounds better than $0/hour.
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by _emacsomancer_ 9y ago
You could have also devoted some time to that problem instead posting a comment on Hackernews.
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by _emacsomancer_ 9y ago
Well, it's a lot more than on Mercury.
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Using Emacs, Org-Mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciences(github.com)
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by _emacsomancer_ 9y ago
From an ordinary person point of view, what does it matter if it's the same megacorp or a new megacorp? If it's ATT or Comcast? So many things are part of huge conglomerates that I really don't think many of the theoretical
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by _emacsomancer_ 9y ago
Why would code being a tree rather than a string necessarily differentiate it from other types of data? Surely, one could have non-code data that were also trees (think, just to pick a concrete example, of coded natural language data which
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Only if you 'reset' it every year. Eventually particular companies become big enough that they hard to compete against (e.g. they can artificially depress prices until their competition goes out of business) and bribe governments
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I'm fortunate in that my (US) University has a subscription, but unlucky in that they have a poorly implemented 2-factor authentication for EVERYthing connected to the University, whose cookies disappear after 12 hours.
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by _emacsomancer_ 9y ago
I'm assuming the 2nd edn. OED I downloaded from https://web.archive.org/web/20170805001549/http://download.h... for my ereader is of dubious copyright status?
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Yes, and relatively recently too (lots of this sort of "all languages should be Latin" nonsense is from the 1700s). You probably know the old joke, a visitor is on the Harvard campus, and says to one of the passing students: Visi
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by _emacsomancer_ 9y ago
That is why I said "Lisp Machine emulator" and not "Lisp Machine". The text-buffer abstraction is the "disguise". But I take the point that the paradigm is not quite the same.
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One answer: because with as much money as he has, why the hell not? I do think the Long Now Foundation is pretty cool, whatever I may think of Bezos & Amazon.
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Ah, the sort of editor who knows just enough about language to be dangerous.
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Likewise, I'm tired of hearing about what Bill Gates thinks about such and such big problem. Just because he was clever at manipulative business dealings pushing 2nd rate OSes and milking billions from tax players, doesn't mean he
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I've been stuck in a minigame for the past couple of decades.
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> However, they can already learn driving in GTA, so who knows? Yeah, that sounds like it'll end well.
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Then which is real and which illusion?
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Lose gloriously.
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I would question how much of this was not being able to get into it and how much was a platform for "we need backdoors into everything".
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by _emacsomancer_ 9y ago
Some of us actually want Lisp machines, and Emacs is effectively a Lisp machine emulator disguised as a text editor.
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In reality the authors and editors do 90% of the work and are not paid. If the articles are electronic then the "publishing" costs are minimal. No real reason for everything to be open access (and I mean real open access, not char