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by applicative 17y ago
> Non-notable articles often end up abandoned and vandalized for long period. Yes, but can't we use some other criteria for this than the utterly absurd ones being deployed to destroy all of the articles on open source software? I used
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by applicative 17y ago
The update on ye olde population hysteria seems to be this: Erlich thought there would be too many people. He was wrong, but he didn't distinguish between people. The real problem will be that will be too many of the wrong kind of peopl
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by applicative 17y ago
Is it just me, or has github gotten a lot slower in the last couple of months? I haven't noticed it with `git clone git://github.com...`, but the website seems to be grinding to a halt.
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by applicative 17y ago
I think the data won't be so easy to collect. I think about 2/3 of my 'friends' have just stopped using it. Their profiles are still up, maybe they sign on once in a while to see if an old friend is trying to contact them. Frankly the arti
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by applicative 17y ago
This sounds great, you learn how a machine could be programmable, and how existing programmable machines operate; but the question mostly under dispute here is whether C brings out the nature of 'programmability' -- i.e. whether it brings o
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by applicative 17y ago
> C/C++ is the foundation of the most software in frequent use, the Internet and our society. That's why they should teach it over Lisp/Scheme/Smalltalk/etc But maybe this is like saying that the oppression of women is the foundation of
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by applicative 17y ago
The problem with this sort of college price hysteria is that it is completely fact free. Here's a randomly googled CNN Money report: "After grant aid and tax benefits, full-time students at public four-year colleges are paying an average $
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by applicative 17y ago
What did you learn from this? He doesn't seem to have any facts except that ever more pages are published. He doesn't even bother to index the number of articles and papers published in different decades by the number of profs, which is c