aaronem

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901.
by aaronem 13y ago
Are you seriously suggesting, Citizen, that the same standard applies both to the oppressor and the oppressed? Have a care, Citizen; such regressionist attitudes court accusations of reactionism.
902.
by aaronem 13y ago
Don't you imagine it is easier to keep a level head in a confrontation when you are confident of your ability to defend your person, should it become necessary to do so?
903.
by aaronem 13y ago
> they haven't really hurt anybody (this time) The implicit threat, made explicit.
904.
by aaronem 13y ago
Speaking as an "imperative guy" who's lately been learning Common Lisp, I tend to suspect the confusion you're encountering is not so much a property of the functional style in general, as of Haskell's style in part
905.
by aaronem 13y ago
CalDAV most certainly is an API. It's standardized [1] and everything. [1] http://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc4791
906.
by aaronem 13y ago
In iOS 7, you do it under Settings/iTunes & App Store; tap "Apple ID: [whatever]" and choose "Sign out", and once signed out you'll be presented with options both to sign in under an existing Apple ID, and
907.
by aaronem 13y ago
How does any of that change the fact that Greenwald lives in Brazil?
908.
by aaronem 13y ago
Come now, Citizen! "Rule of Law"? How old-fashioned of you! Snark aside, what I don't understand is this: If it means so damned much to Snowden that he should expose all these supposedly horrible supposed abuses, then why isn
909.
by aaronem 13y ago
So what you're saying is, you'd pardon someone who broke a law against torture and saved lives by so doing. After all, the torturer "[broke] a law to bring light to greater wrongdoings", and "the only just thing to
910.
by aaronem 13y ago
> A teacher cannot teach a student who doesn't make an effort to learn. Quite so. But a poor teacher can do quite a lot to impair a student who does make an effort to learn, and, at least in the public schools of the United Stat
911.
by aaronem 13y ago
What could possibly do more to convince people that they should engage in the process of government than to be nastily judgmental of their reasons for not so doing heretofore?
912.
by aaronem 13y ago
Nothing odd about it, save that encountering such a pure strain of Marxism as late as 2014 is a bit of a surprise. I suppose every generation has at least a few True Believers, in every ideology that admits True Belief -- and Marxism is mos
913.
by aaronem 13y ago
I suppose I can see an argument for popping something up before firing the schema handler when something sets location.href to a mailto: URL, but that seems like the sort of thing where you'd really want to wait for evidence that it&#x
914.
by aaronem 13y ago
I'm astonished you're the only person in this comment thread to have made this very significant point.
915.
by aaronem 13y ago
Well, and who better than you to decide what's biased and what's not? And what could be more level-headed than to say that "[the matter at hand] makes me sick to my stomach"? Leaving snark aside, it seems telling that bo
916.
by aaronem 13y ago
I've never seen a prompt to open a mailto: link. Where is it specified there should be one?
917.
by aaronem 13y ago
The XOR swap is interesting, too. But I wouldn't want to see one in code someone wrote today, and which wasn't targeted at an embedded platform -- and a heavily constrained embedded platform, at that. (MSP430? Sure. ARM Cortex-M3?
918.
by aaronem 13y ago
I don't exactly use it a lot , but I haven't spotted any notable regressions in the keyboard-access stuff between XP and Windows 7.
919.
by aaronem 13y ago
Yep, that's a questionable choice of framework, all right.
920.
by aaronem 13y ago
I'm sympathetic, but not enough so to donate $22,000.
921.
by aaronem 13y ago
I suppose, in the wake of the Nürnberg Assizes, it makes sense to argue in this fashion. But I've never been all that strongly convinced by the argument that "only following orders" is never a defense, especially as applied t
922.
by aaronem 13y ago
What ligature would that be? I'm afraid I don't follow.
923.
by aaronem 13y ago
Why would CDs be banned in prisons? I suppose there's more internal void space in a CD case (between the CD holder and the back cover) than in a cassette case, but that seems like it could be addressed by using clear plastic CD holders
924.
by aaronem 13y ago
You know, if I occasionally needed a typewriter, I might buy one of these purely for the sake of niftiness.
925.
by aaronem 13y ago
Anything else with sufficient internal voids to conceal contraband, too, I should think. It's a lot easier than taking every such item to pieces during every inspection.
926.
by aaronem 13y ago
Well, if you assume both a peerage and a divine-right monarchy, then the divine right of peers seems more or less implicit, since they're created as such by the Crown, and a monarch anointed and guided by God would not fail to recogniz
927.
by aaronem 13y ago
Helpful aside: "Province", not "providence". The former is an administrative division of a larger polity; the latter is the grace of God, which could lead to some confusion when mentioned in this context.
928.
by aaronem 13y ago
I was wondering that myself. "Isn't Clojure a Lisp? Doesn't it thus give you linked lists for free? What's the point of reimplementing them at the JVM level?"
929.
by aaronem 13y ago
> You can imagine what was going through their minds as they saw themselves in their ridiculous garb and dehumanized condition. "At least they're not throwing things." Somewhat related, I'm curious about the veracity
930.
by aaronem 13y ago
A moment's thought, had you paused to engage in same, would've led you to realize that Ukrainian grandmothers today were, in youth, governed by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, whose regime was never particularly noted for

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