alan_cx

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by alan_cx 13y ago
Tongue in cheek, but I think there might be a point here struggling to see the light of day... Why? I mean, why would women want to get into coding? If one is not already working with computers, from the outside world, its a crappy job, and
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Just my personal thoughts as a hiker; not a hacker, HNer or what ever. Firstly: Dont be disheartened by my criticism which will follow. Its a decent first attempt, the idea is absolutely worth working on, and could become a valuable resourc
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I assume every single one has bias of some description. Problem is, they are all written by humans. I think most are an attempt at some sort of honesty, but with the best will in the world, they are always going to problems.... Hang on... H
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Hip. Just sayin.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Ego. In my experience, most problems come down to ego.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
To go back to blackmail arguments elsewhere... I hope people see from this that if the OP or any of his friends decides to enter politics, they are compromised. They have strong reason to believe the NSA has dirt on them, and that if they s
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by alan_cx 13y ago
It's used in the same sense that people would say that the CIA 'rendered' people?
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by alan_cx 13y ago
While I do get lost as to where the current hate is, is it not Java, rather than javascript, which is currently hated?
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by alan_cx 13y ago
The OP knows there is no evidence, hence the use of the phrase "every reason to believe". It is believed to be true using reason, not evidence. Its a best deduction. Your demand for evidence and facts is bogus, since there cant re
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by alan_cx 13y ago
One thing about that is that if it was suddenly announced overnight, the value of weed could crash. Given that a lot, if not most, weed trade is on credit, (they take the weed, pay the supplier once its sold on,) most dealers would be left
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by alan_cx 13y ago
"> The NSA said the technology has not been used in computers in the US. The NSA! The NSA says. And yet I bet a lot of people read that as if the "leak says" or something along those lines, and they probably believed it.&q
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Given how in bed with the USA my country the UK is, yes, I would suggest that. I might be wrong, but I would very much make that suggestion. My problem ultimately, as a Brit, is that it seems that we are more and more becoming a satellite o
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I know what you mean. Worse still, you need to be a lawyer to understand it. I started on it and ground to a halt, and I do have some limited experience of dealing with legal paperwork. And of course, while I appreciate the need for precise
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Oh please. This line of logic can be abused such that for their own good, as preventative measure, all Muslims could be on a no fly list. And the great bit about that is that if Muslims cant fly it protects them from accusations of terroris
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Cheap until to see the mooring fees, and various add ons, in London. Even on the outskirts in places like Kingston upon Thames, once you add in all the fees, boats are not that much cheaper. That said, given the choice between a boat and so
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I assume there are different reasons for people fearing public speaking. But, FWIW, my thing is to really and fully know the subject you are talking about. For me, the nervousness comes from the fear of being found out in some way. So, I fi
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I see PC sales, as they have been, as a sort of blip bubble, which happened while proper simple consumer devices were developed. Now we have such devices, PCs are less and less necessary for day to day uses. So, as time goes on the PC sales
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by alan_cx 13y ago
An infinite football match might get a tad tedious. An infinite movie? Hmmm, I feel like I have actually seen a few of those. A couple of books I've read also felt like that. Besides,if the football match was infinite, I'd never g
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by alan_cx 13y ago
No. Im not in to lying, hiding and pretending. I dont like these sites. I have explained why. I stand by that. To normal non "Critical, stressed, agitated, easily annoyed and aggravated" people, that is called feedback. Additional
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Changed perception? That has to be insane. Just a mere funky web page and you go from not interested to wanting to buy? Good grief. I am stunned that a mere web page can do that for any one in actual reality. You seem far too easily bought.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
That is as depressing as it is plausible. Nice that its such a simple theory, but rings more true than any other.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
They read like just sarcasm to me.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Dont quite see why none of that can't apply to books. Books can easily be inaccurate and emotive, if not more so. Authors are not bound by, what you very amusingly call, "journalistic ethics" at all. Then, it seems to me that
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Dunno if this a seperated by common punctuation thing, but to me, a Brit, I dont even know the term "scare quotes". To me, its just emphasis.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
While accepting the other replies, I do wonder how hardware trust is achieved. The security point about open source is peer review. For a dunce like me, I can pretty much rely on people much smarter than me to review open sourced code. In r
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by alan_cx 13y ago
From what I can make out, if something is worth pirating, other people will happily pay for it. IMHO, the main question is; are there enough people paying to make it worth it in itself, regardless of people sharing it freely? If so, then th
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Part of me thinks.... what happened to google just being a bloody great search engine? It was great then. Thats all I wanted, a decent search engine. And now all this crap. However, how about just dont sign in to google at all? Click the do
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Opera does. It has this "off road" mode, which does the same thing. Its supposed to be some sort of caching for slow connection, but as the proxys, or what ever, are outside the UK, all the banned sites work. I am surprised Firefo
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Im only posting this because it annoys me that I thought it. "Knowledge is not power, acting on knowledge is." At first, I totally agreed. Thought I'd tuck it away as a keeper, a small pearl of wisdom. A good thing, right? Bu
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Sure, but Im not sure we can legitimately accuse them of all the things we have proof the NSA have gotten up to. See, thats the problem for the US right now, we can play the proof game. Right now we know what the NSA and US get up to. Its

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