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by ajarmst 13y ago
That's nice. I haven't had a chance to use the word "hubris" in a while.
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by ajarmst 13y ago
Well, "could have survived is [s]he hadn't been a dumbass" is a valid comment about an astonishing number of human deaths.
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by ajarmst 13y ago
I've always liked a quote from the otherwise forgettable movie "Reality Bites": Lelaina: Can you define "irony"? Troy Dyer: It's when the actual meaning is the complete opposite from the literal meaning.
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by ajarmst 13y ago
For any who care, Christopher Hitchens had a delightful essay on Borges. It was reprinted recently in his collection "Arguably".
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by ajarmst 13y ago
This "story" is simply a press release from Mycle Scneider, who has a clear and consistent record as being anti-nuclear power and a probable agenda to elevate concern about it. I'd like to see a real "independent" r
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by ajarmst 13y ago
Unlikely. "Your honor, I should get a new trial because, in addition to the evidence that was apparently quite sufficient to convict me, it turns out they also had an illegal wiretap recording of me arranging the buy."
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by ajarmst 13y ago
Let's not get too carried away. Secrecy in law enforcement can be a valuable tool: it allows things like protection and development of informants, lawful surveillance, undercover operations, etc. Prosecutors have never been required t
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by ajarmst 13y ago
Apologies. I thought you were objecting to "proprietary". I think we've just a semantic issue. How about "he knowingly caused proprietary source code to leave the control of its owner"? Although, as he did post
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by ajarmst 13y ago
"Other possibilities include"
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by ajarmst 13y ago
(a)I was offering him the benefit of the doubt. You're correct. Other possibilities include that he's simply a criminal or merely dumb. (b) You did. Reread the third line of the post.
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by ajarmst 13y ago
I said that breaking a law has fairly predictable results. Among them the possibility of acquittal on appeal. In fact, if you're doing it for some sort of protest reason, this might actually be the goal (building case law against an u
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by ajarmst 13y ago
It could have as easily been phrased (and likely would by a prosecutor) as "a cache of source code longer than the King James version of the bible." The defence could respond "only about three millionths of the amount of dat
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by ajarmst 13y ago
And Irish citizenship, which means that for nearly all purposes, his US citizenship will be irrelevant to how he is treated under Irish law. Dual citizenship complications are more an issue in third countries. If you are a citizen of the
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by ajarmst 13y ago
Not sure why the comment editor trashed "int * const * * p"
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by ajarmst 13y ago
Doesn't mention the standard "read it backwards to get the type", and consequently recommends "const int" over the superior "int const". int * const p; Is clearly a pointer to pointer to constant pointe
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by ajarmst 13y ago
I came here to say this. Full text of title: Object-Oriented Programming in COMMON LISP: A Programmer's Guide to CLOS
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by ajarmst 15y ago
Which is very similar to what I did. A simple cron job with a bash script is quite sufficient (assume a *nix environment), and you can use the make utility to add your build trigger support quite simply.
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by ajarmst 15y ago
Ah - forgot to mention. If you (like me) occaisionally need to see AMSLaTeX (math) rendered to make sure you got it right, Mathbot on the iPad is your friend.
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Main problem is that most people who would want it could write the short script to implement it themselves. :-)
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Wait a sec. "No LaTeX on the iPad" conflates "editing a LaTeX document" and "rendering and compiling LaTex to a final document.". Editing LaTeX on the iPad is already perfectly easy and really quite pleasant, especially with a bluetooth k