andymorris

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by andymorris 16y ago
I am exactly the type of person Kick-Ass is targeted towards. If it was not available to me via torrent, I would not watch it at all. As it is, I have it downloaded, but not watched yet. There is no possible universe where Kick-Ass has made
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by andymorris 16y ago
I just added an RSS feed to the site that contains all the posts from people you follow: beta.fedang.com/rss/<username> This is a public feed, so anyone can see who you're following - I plan on making this an optional setting if the
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by andymorris 16y ago
When you get templates working, it does feel pretty good - you can get an approximation of the power of functional languages, all the while knowing that your code has been directly mapped to assembly. I don't know if it's as good as writing
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by andymorris 16y ago
Have we seriously learned nothing from Iraq? Take out the leadership, and you are left with a failed country and a population that is likely to be hostile. Next you'll tell me that we'll walk into NK as liberators...
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by andymorris 16y ago
You can hardly point to the lack of the incident that the security measure was designed to prevent as evidence to the pointlessness of said security measure. If no-one's ever climbed over the walls at a prison, does that mean that the walls
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by andymorris 16y ago
I would have really liked to have seen a video sample at various stages of the evolution :-(
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by andymorris 16y ago
Without unleashing the market upon pot, criminals could still make large amounts of money on the black market. More to the point though - as the article says, the burden of proof is on the side advocating restriction! We don't require gover
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by andymorris 16y ago
Worse - it's 20 million people preventing 17 million people from enjoying a leisure activity through force. Democracy sucks.
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by andymorris 16y ago
That's a horrible reason. No law will ever be perfect - it's all about steps in the right direction. If we wait for things to be perfect, nothing will ever change. I find it very disheartening that some of the very people who want this chan
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by andymorris 16y ago
As is believing that politicians would interpret a low voter turnout as anything but a net gain - it just means they can expend less effort required to shift the balance in their favour.
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by andymorris 16y ago
According to wikipedia, nearly of americans didn't vote. It doesn't seem to make sense to say that voting for a 3rd party is a waste of time if half of the population who agree with you...
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by andymorris 16y ago
I'm Australian, and we have compulsory voting. We also have compulsory education, as one of the basic requirements for democracy is a body informed voters. I think one of the positive effects of it is that it forces everyone to think about
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by andymorris 16y ago
The only message that not voting for anyone sends is that you're happy with anyone. If everyone informed chooses not to vote for anyone, all that does is give more power to the uninformed.
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by andymorris 16y ago
The subset of us aussies who actually know about censorship largely have. The trouble is, there isn't enough of us who care.
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by andymorris 16y ago
If the need to enforce trademarks was actually great enough, then a private company or a standards body would obviously arise to fill the need.
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by andymorris 16y ago
You should definitely learn Python 2. Almost all libraries still are on 2, so if you tried to go straight to 3, you'd have to struggle your way around most newbie documentation on the internet - Especially if you're planning on doing Django
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by andymorris 16y ago
The guy who writes xkcd
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by andymorris 16y ago
I open up my Macbook and it's instantly on. You don't need to turn it off when you're finished using it - it really doesn't take that much power in standby. -- Ayjay on Fedang
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by andymorris 16y ago
I wonder how much place there is for such a slow-moving organisation in the incredibly fast-paced internet ...
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by andymorris 16y ago
See - Portal
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by andymorris 16y ago
C++ is the highest-level language that I can accurately guess the assembly that will be actually run by the processor. YMMV whether that's a blessing or a curse, though!
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by andymorris 16y ago
thankyou that was inspirational.
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by andymorris 16y ago
I'm not a vim guru by any stretch of the imagination, but I still don't take what he says at face value. I don't trust ANYTHING I see on the internet just because it's there! Your criticism seems to be due to the belief that, in a world whe
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by andymorris 16y ago
At my last company, I had to code in this style, and it sucks. You get into ridiculous situations where you have to somehow fail gracefully with absolutely no context or information about how to do so. Exceptions are a much better solution
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by andymorris 16y ago
I'd guess we solve the normal way - googling the filename with '+filetype:torrent'?
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by andymorris 16y ago
Or, you could think of the legitimate uses ... someone who just wants to offer something for download, and then has to pay a fortune in bandwidth. Instead, someon uses this service, and we all benefit! -- Ayjay on Fedang
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by andymorris 16y ago
I have to argue against most of the comments here though: I think, after a very short time with C, you get a clear sense of what will happen in the assembly. It's also pretty trivial to reach that stage with C++ - really, all the basic cont
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by andymorris 16y ago
Annnnddd the obligatory xkcd! http://xkcd.com/114/ -- Ayjay on Fedang
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by andymorris 16y ago
There's plenty of stuff in the Bible about God allowing/condoning/performing murder and rape as well though .... http://www.evilbible.com/Murder.htm http://www.evilbible.com/Rape.htm -- Ayjay on Fedang
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by andymorris 16y ago
I think it's getting at: say you had more actual evidence for the God theory than you did for evolution. Your response seems to indicate that you would STILL prefer evolution, as you would require certain, irrevocable proof for God. Your

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