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by alvatar 9y ago
It's not limited to that. I agree that you should be able to learn in Catalan (but have the option of Spanish too). Visit the Catalan wikipedia, and you'll see how History is changed there with respect other Wikipedias. Read their
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by alvatar 9y ago
No times for jokes when the whole country is a mess due to a nationalist movement.
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by alvatar 9y ago
I suppose the word colony is a matter of perspective. But I have a hard time equating Catalonia to the offshore territories the Europeans considered colonies in the past (and still to some extent). Especially considering that Catalonia was
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by alvatar 9y ago
A colony of Spain? What is that based on?
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by alvatar 9y ago
That is incorrect. It might be your impression, but Spain is actually one of the most decentralized countries in the world. Catalonia has something around 5% of their state workers depending on the central government.
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by alvatar 9y ago
You say "brutal suppression" based on the images you saw in the media, right?
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by alvatar 9y ago
Thank you for polarizing into "better and worse" humans.
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by alvatar 9y ago
Again, what is the repression of the Kingdom of Spain exactly? Not allowing the referendum? It was ruled illegal by the high courts. Catalonia should push for a change of that, but not blame the government for applying the Constitution.
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by alvatar 9y ago
You can keep downvoting me for thinking differently from what is seen is media. No, I admit it, there was shameful violence that day. But there is also daily violence against those who think differently and don't support the nationalis
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by alvatar 9y ago
I keep reading this in international media. The Spanish government didn't declare the referendum illegal. It was the top court, which is independent from the government. The government ensures that the law is applied once that is decid
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by alvatar 9y ago
As I said, the propaganda machine is more developed in one side. The story is related by those who have a stronger interest. I've indeed seen videos of violence against those who don't think like the independentist. And I've
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by alvatar 9y ago
This is a highly emotional issue. Little of what is said regarding History or economics is remotely solid. In an age with particularly low bar for checking facts, I think this independentist movement has basically been sheppered by a few on
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by alvatar 9y ago
The side supporting "yes" perpetrates equal amounts of violence. Is just the propaganda machine is much more developed on that side (with the money from all Spaniards...)
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by alvatar 9y ago
¡Bienvenido! I've lived a few years in Madrid and in several parts of Spain. As I expected, most people here would have a bias towards Barcelona. Barcelona is a great city, but don't underestimate Madrid. It is less turistic, vibr
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US gives up its remaining control over the internet to Icann(ft.com)
5 points by alvatar 10y ago|0 comments
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by alvatar 11y ago
As a professor, I always missed an easy-to-use and modern tool for that. I didn't research this topic much, but not finding anything easy and ready to use is probably a market opportunity (if there is a market).
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by alvatar 11y ago
Yes, or just use match.scm which provides this functionality as well. The point of Scheme is not the features it has, but how it allows you to build the features yourself. Try doing logic programming in Elixir, probably it won't work t
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by alvatar 11y ago
I remember this from a Leslie Lamport talk posted also on HN a few months ago. Is anyone using this for specifications, prototyping or anything in between in real life?
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by alvatar 11y ago
As a Spaniard, I find it amusing to see the election results in Hacker News from the geeky perspective "cool app".
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Building a Distributed Fault-Tolerant Key-Value Store(blog.fourthbit.com)
48 points by alvatar 11y ago|0 comments
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by alvatar 12y ago
I was about to write a comment about The Little Schemer series myself. It is one of the most captivating CS books I've read.
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by alvatar 12y ago
That's the point. Here is further discussion of this: http://blog.metaobject.com/2014/06/the-safyness-of-static-ty...
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by alvatar 12y ago
Once again, types are way overrated. However, Shen is an interesting new Lisp to watch. Needs a more open community, though (like a free book and/or deep documentation).
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by alvatar 12y ago
It is very important to differentiate between House and Skyscraper. You can't build a skyscraper (currently) without blueprints. But you can, and it has been generally done, build houses without blueprints. It was even common to build
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by alvatar 12y ago
Telefonica has many developers working on Firefox OS, it probably means that the want to show up.
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Traffic Analysis of an SSL/TLS Session – The Blog of Fourthbit(blog.fourthbit.com)
5 points by alvatar 12y ago|0 comments
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My Time-Management Algorithm – The Blog of Fourthbit(blog.fourthbit.com)
1 points by alvatar 12y ago|0 comments
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by alvatar 12y ago
Many of the last items in the list should be in the category "Scheme". Racket is a dialect from Scheme, but it still is a Scheme. The syntax-case macro transformations are available in most Scheme systems.
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SchemeSpheres release v0.8: Towards Beta(blog.fourthbit.com)
1 points by alvatar 12y ago|0 comments
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Lightweight object systems for Scheme – The Blog of Fourthbit(blog.fourthbit.com)
3 points by alvatar 12y ago|0 comments

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