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by artsrc 14y ago
I agree that a green cards (permanent residency) and citizenship involve significant obligations. From a fiscal point of view H1-B's are all win for the Government. They won't take chronically sick or otherwise disadvantaged people. They
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by artsrc 14y ago
Released? Are you saying never buy any Apple product except on the week of their launch? From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad Jobs unveiled the iPad 2 at a March 2, 2011
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by artsrc 14y ago
Hash Tables make iteration order hard to predict. Hash functions rarely are meaningful outside of the context of the collection. The tree interface leads to a simpler world.
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by artsrc 14y ago
> Income tax = tax on income, from whatever source (i.e., work, investments, gambling/lottery, prizes, illegal sources, etc.) I think that would be a good thing, but a lot of income from investments is categorized as capital gain, and t
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by artsrc 14y ago
The issue is that: * Humans use indentation * The Compiler ignores indentation * The indentation and the the compilers interpretation are different
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by artsrc 14y ago
Selling based false pretenses is unethical and potentially illegal. Perhaps Amazon should have policy that sources are referenced, contributions described.
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by artsrc 14y ago
> Or do you think there is no value in being able to transact in designs? I believe that patents should be abolished. There is value in being able to transact designs. There are costs in the patent system. Court cases for example. The
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by artsrc 14y ago
> roads are for cars, not bikes I agree roads are mostly designed with only cars in mind. That sounds like a bug, not a feature.
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by artsrc 14y ago
JIT compilation of bytecode is only one option. There are others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i The Debian ecosystem exists in the context on a more pervasive network than existed for DOS.
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by artsrc 14y ago
Is that like shop lifting at stores which charge $2.99 instead of $3.00 to give you the illusion of cheapness?
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by artsrc 14y ago
> Assange won't even show up to the trial. If he's so sure he didn't commit a crime, it ought not be a problem. Assange thinks he will be convicted of a crime. He thinks he will end up being imprisoned for the rest of his life in the U
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by artsrc 14y ago
Having the system create auto tags sounds good. Recordings a strength to the association between an entity and a tag is useful. This makes the lists created by tags ordered.
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by artsrc 14y ago
> Tag namespacing. I think tags model all the information you want. Perhaps there is UI problem. Available tags can listed with number of tagged documents as an ordering criteria. So then you click on databases. Interesting things to s
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by artsrc 14y ago
I propose that making the position of hour, minute and seconds the canonical definition is worse than using their names. So this: { type: "hms", hour : 10, minute : 45, second : 16 } is better than this: ["hms", 10, 25, 16 ]
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by artsrc 14y ago
It is possible to do separate functions form data in OO languages. It is less convenient than it is on other languages, where the wrapper class is not needed. Separating functions from data is not the natural initial solution in an OO langu
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by artsrc 14y ago
I like modules that are more like objects. I would like to supply parameters to their constructors and be able to refer to them via names. Languages without modules, like JavaScript, support that kind of thing. http://wadler.blogspot.com.
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by artsrc 14y ago
We, the software development professionals, have learned some things about the properties of OO techniques and should share that knowledge. People use OO as a way to attack good design and defend junk. Here is an example: > We believe
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Mainstream article on Agile(smh.com.au)
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by artsrc 14y ago
I got the impression the grandparent was comparing European diesel to US diesel. But you compared diesel to Gasoline.
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by artsrc 14y ago
> this whole don't hit your kids movement is an epidemic I think it is a part of the "pay attention to science" epidemic, like stopping smoking, and taking lead out of petrol.
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by artsrc 14y ago
If you change an interface, and someone else adds a new client to the interface locking does not help. So file based locking does not guarantee that merge conflicts won't occur. Managing essential merge issues relates to success at dividin
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by artsrc 14y ago
Yes. A couple of weeks back on either hacker news or reddit (I just searched, and could not find it quickly), there was a seemingly well conducted experiment, with a large number of students randomized to static and dynamic languages, that
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by artsrc 14y ago
The studies are not conclusive. Populations with low sodium intake, and other factors, have no hypertension, and low rates of death and disease from heart disease. The randomized studies have found lower death and disease from lower sodium.
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by artsrc 14y ago
This misinterpretation of what the authors of the study Cochrane should have said, led to the conclusions being re-written to conform to what was actually found: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0138yld
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by artsrc 14y ago
Nominal interest is different than real interest. Inflation reduces the real size of debt. Inflation was higher in the 80's.
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by artsrc 14y ago
> Do you really want Hemingway's texts be licensed under GFDL so you could improve upon them? We create copyright laws because we want value what is made possible by it. Games are entertainment. Games are culture. I want Hemingway's
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by artsrc 14y ago
Is anything taught in the final 4 years of school really universally necessary?
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by artsrc 14y ago
These kind of support your position: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces The most popular way of indenting Python is with spaces only. The second-most popular way is with tabs only. For new projects, spaces-only are s
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by artsrc 14y ago
Totally agree on CRUD applications. I would like a nice library app for my local library. Look at the comments on the iPhone app: http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/bookmyne/id350625461?mt=8 > Keeps saying "no enum const class".
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by artsrc 15y ago
To late? People replace their phones frequently. The mobile app market is diverse and vibrant, with frequent new players and products. If new ecosystem can not develop then Windows Mobile was just as bad a choice as MeeGo.

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