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by abrahamsen 17y ago
Doug McIlroy http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sinclair/doug/?doug=mcilroy
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
Well, it is certainly the UNIX way. Have many simple tools that do simple stuff, plus the ability to combine them for doing complex operations, rather than few complex tools that do complex operations directly. I'd say it is more elegant d
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
What is the problem with defining the kg in terms of the already existing atomic mass unit? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_mass_unit The atomic mass unit is already associated with the mole, which is in SI.
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
Already debunked: http://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=200511112730.afdb_effectivene...
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
The reason stated was pests. Most likely both crop production and pesticide use will increase in the north, mostly due to increased temperature allowing for both longer growing seasons and better conditions for pests. The CO2 effect will b
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
Or, alternatively, it suggest that being a women doesn't fit the stereotype of a game developer, and therefore is an interesting trait in itself. I wouldn't think the stereotype of a game developer includes skin or hair color, or sexual ori
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
Implementation is a lot less forgiving than design. Therefore, requiring a working implementation is a way to sort out a large amount of (unworkable) design ideas.
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
Usually these cases start when a would-be competitor accuses the monopolist of taking anti-competitive actions. First step would be to review these accusations, if they exists. Speculating whether they "might do something" without specific
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
Domain loss doesn't mean importing single words. Importing new words, especially for new concepts, and adjusting them to the native grammar is just natural evolution of the language. Domain loss mean that we switch fully to another languag
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
Not sure what I can say when you don't believe me. Here is an article from the Danish national encyclopedia (in Danish). http://www.denstoredanske.dk/index.php?title=Samfund%2C_jura... German was the official language of the Danish milit
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
#1 (rapid evolution) is not a sign of language dying, it is a sign of language living. Only dead languages don't evolve. #2 and #3 are true, not sure if they are a sign of death. As a (Danish) kid I found Norwegian (bokmål) far easier to
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
> It's satire, not politics. I hope you didn't meant to imply that the two are mutually exclusive.
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
Of course it can: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=p+%3D+n+p
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
Denmark did that recently. It is really just a poll tax.
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
This is about the transparent society versus the surveillance society. Google represents the transparent society. Tons of information that used to be public but impractical to collect is now available to ordinary citizens, who can use it f
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
The learning curve will be less steep with the new standard, even if the hill is taller. Much of the work on the new standard is focused on making libraries easier to use, including giving better error messages. This will facilitate the "A
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
The organization "Svenska föreningen för upphovsrätt" that gets most of the press claims on their home page to be an apolitical organization for people interested in copyright law, with no opinions on its own. http://www.upphovsrattsforeni
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
When I visited the Unix room at Bell Labs in 1993, there was a picture of Dan Quayle before a blackboard with the famous misspelling. Below the the picture was the text "My heroe -- Ken Thompson".
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
Context is everything, in this case the context is Sterling's assertion that connections is for poor people. So the context is rich versus poor. "A big, secluded house" is correctly a metaphor, but a shallow one, namely for living the sty
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
It is not (directly) a question of money, but of legal responsibly. If they start actively censoring the content of the data that passes through their network, they risk losing the local equivalent of common carrier status, and become lega
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
> Is it feasible for all the ISPs to be taken to court? Yes. And it is much referable from the point of the ISP's, as that way they will avoid legal responsibility. If they start closing the connection to some servers because of illeg
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
>> in big, beautiful houses, with precious, irreplaceable objects. > And what is stopping her from doing that? Lack of money, perhaps? Even the non-material first part >> among family and friends can be difficult if eve
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by abrahamsen 17y ago
I think a problem in these discussions is the tendency to ignore how different "open source" projects and related experience is. Of the six programs I list on my CV, five are free software. For two of those I was paid full time to program,
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Matt Welsh could also claim some credit for making Linux popular. He wrote most of the user oriented documentation back when Linux was new, and founded the Linux Documentation Project.
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by abrahamsen 18y ago
Most young scientists I know don't have much of a career plan. They get a research grant to continue to do something that interest them after the PhD, apply for another grant after that, and continues until either they fail to get a new gr