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by adnam 11y ago
@rwmj who can disapprove of the middle classes getting "caned"? ;)
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by adnam 11y ago
@Archio I hate to break it to you, but I was a teenager myself in to the so distant past and I am fully aware of the opportunities available. My point is that I don't want my kids being turned into stoners and that the law should be on
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by adnam 11y ago
Oh gosh, you're really convincing me.
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by adnam 11y ago
Tell me that when you have teenage kids.
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by adnam 11y ago
GordonS> "Millions of drug users have been criminalised" Well yes, they are criminals who have broken the law. Your argument is defeatist; drug prohibition works quite well in places like Japan and Singapore.
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by adnam 11y ago
Pointing out the existence of a worse legal poison is not a very good argument for the legalisation of another one. Perhaps it should not be used at all.
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by adnam 11y ago
The often peddled argument is that cannabis is a "soft drug" is, according to what I have seen, a complete lie. It is capable of completely and permanently altering a person's personality in negative ways. Also, I would not w
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by adnam 11y ago
I know it's an unpopular view here, but I hope Meadow fails and that the tide of opinion turns against marijuana legalisation and the Big Dope lobby.
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by adnam 11y ago
Basically "Remoting" is now called "Ajax" and front-end developers have build tools now.
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by adnam 11y ago
Provided your data can be chunked in that way, yes.
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by adnam 11y ago
Holly Wood - her real name, it seems - is just a talentless troll trying to get a PhD in gender studies and realising she's hurtling into her mid-20s with no nogotiable skills and a bitter hatred of the world. http://sociolo
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by adnam 11y ago
Not to mention that XML is generally more suitable for streamed i/o.
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by adnam 11y ago
Useless tat
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by adnam 11y ago
and of course (4) off-by-1 errors
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by adnam 11y ago
The three hardest problems in computer science are (1) cache-invalidation, (2) naming things, (3) HN mobile markup.
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by adnam 11y ago
I have a Nexus 7 which was completely bricked by the "upgrade" to Android 5. I'm so furious I will never buy another Nexus device again. (I made the same promise about Nike shoes 20 years ago and so far haven't bought an
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by adnam 11y ago
Ah, the innocence of youth.
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by adnam 11y ago
Check out the profile and philosophy of the guy behind this: http://www.intellectualventures.com/inventor-network/invento... > In order to make money at inventing, Rothschild has started a few businesses, including
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by adnam 11y ago
They needed to demonstrate not only the awesome and terrible power of the bomb, but also that it could be accurately targeted (hence, two bombs).
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Discover the power of meditation (from the maker of milliondollarhomepage.com)(calm.com)
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by adnam 11y ago
You're welcome, it's funny what sticks in one's head after nearly a decade.
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by adnam 11y ago
Worth recalling what DHH had to say about Wasabi in 2006: http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/arc/2006_09.html Scroll down to the part "Fear, Uncertain, and Doubt by Joel Spolsky" from September 01 (permalink
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by adnam 11y ago
On your website it says you are based in Bath.
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Show HN: Badum-tish button(instantrimshot.com)
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by adnam 11y ago
PHP programmer, right?
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by adnam 11y ago
And his T-shirt says "I only give negative feedback" with a circuit diagram of that type :)
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by adnam 11y ago
It was Thomas Paine who said it was only the absence of knowledge that could keep a man ignorant; but while he maybe kept ignorant he cannot be MADE ignorant. Therefore free society should recognise people as rational beings and leave them
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by adnam 11y ago
37) make shorter lists
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by adnam 12y ago
Try using readability.com
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by adnam 12y ago
(And a third: Python ;)

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