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by astine 9y ago
I'm pretty sure that they would have been fossilized by that point. Broken rock is different than broken bone.
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by astine 10y ago
Judging by this link: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=barbarian , the reasoning is based on words in other indoeuropean languages having a similar root to 'barbarian' being used to refer to stammering or i
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by astine 10y ago
If only all those who were pro-war could see innocent children operated on without anaesthetic, if they could see the true brutality of war then perhaps we would live on a more peaceful planet. I think you've misjudged a significant
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by astine 10y ago
The modern Pope? No, nothing beyond what ordinary Catholics have to follow. He may self-impose fasting or abstinence but that's optional.
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by astine 10y ago
I run Emacs on Windows just fine. Cygwin Emacs + Cygwin Xserver works pretty well. Ubuntu on Bash on Windows is better by some measures though. You might like that one.
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by astine 10y ago
Having worked extensively with some of those non-GNU Unixes, I feel that the difference is almost academic. Even if your box comes with nvi rather than vim, it probably still has Perl, and the bash shell is likely installed if not set as th
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by astine 10y ago
"if you replace that word with a better one does it change the tone of the post?" Yes, it does. 'Amateurish' is often used as an insult to imply that someone needn't have tried at all. If you replaced it with '
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by astine 10y ago
I don't work on any DoD stuff myself, but folks I know have developed ad-hoc networking capabilities that are mainly useful for helping military units communicate but likely have other applications.
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by astine 10y ago
You've got me curious. What would you have happen? Sure, I can see calls for stopping drone attacks and for not getting involved in wars. I can also see a reduction of the defense industry generally. But you seem like you'd like t
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by astine 10y ago
You don't need to write the markup yourself with WPF. You can drag components into the designer just the same as with winforms assuming you are using Visual Studio, and everything will look pretty standard unless you go out of your way
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by astine 10y ago
It's this statement here that I disagree with: "The people who think it's most important of all are the people who disapprove of it." Social conservatives don't want transwomen using the women's bathrooms becau
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by astine 10y ago
Having a good deal of familiarity with the sort of people you are talking about, I'd say that your understanding is almost exactly the opposite of the case. It depends a little on exactly which group of Kansas fundamentalists you are
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by astine 10y ago
For better or worse, Suckless's problem isn't with code bloat so much as code complexity. More features mean more code to debug. Better algorithms can also mean more code to debug. If you constrain your design scope, you can write
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by astine 10y ago
I'm going to cherry-pick your examples again and point out that sports scores actually an ideal use case for actual tables because they are generally actual tabular data. But frankly I just disagree when you say that a hierarchical tre
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by astine 10y ago
Ugh, no. Layout is one way to express those relationships, but those relationships already exist in the HTML. This is important because different layouts can express the same relationship. I can put a caption below, above, beside, or over a
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by astine 10y ago
Despite the fact that political language in the United States confuses this, 'Western Liberalism' is not the same thing as 'Progressivism'. Western Liberalism is about liberal democracy combined with free-ish markets. Th
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by astine 10y ago
Sometimes I wish I could quit my job for a few years and just catch up on all of the math I'd like to know. There is an amazing amount of stuff to learn that I just have no clue about and ultimately is much more interesting than yet an
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by astine 10y ago
I find that for me, "Hey are you busy?" is enough to drag me out of my focus. At that point you may as well ask me about the time complexity of red-black tree inserts. That way I get the request over with and back to what I was do
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by astine 10y ago
It seems backwards to me too. I usually see these terms when referencing dependencies in software projects, ie: Ubuntu is downstream from the Linux kernel. I would think that you would see the same thing with services.
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by astine 10y ago
I don't mind a small screen when I'm using Linux, but that's mostly because I spend most of my time in a full screen terminal with Linux. I don't use KDE, but xmonad and quickly page between mostly fullscreen application
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by astine 10y ago
Property is a basic human right in exactly the same degree and for exactly the same reason as prohibition of slavery. People have a right to the product of their own labor and the benefits that entails. The right to provide for oneself is
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by astine 10y ago
"if enforcement of property rights de facto takes away peoples realistic ability to provide for themselves" Removal of property rights intrinsically takes people's ability to provide for themselves away and replaces it with d
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by astine 10y ago
He was quoting the parent comment.
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by astine 10y ago
I suspect that in the short term the answer would be no, because of the initial learning curve. In the long run I think that it depends on the kind of project they are working on. Something like clojurescript would be a bit of heavyweight s
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by astine 10y ago
I hate them mostly? I've sent HTML emails before and they're a pain in the ass because they don't fully implement CSS. I've heard arguments that grid layouts are a step backwards because they put layout information back
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by astine 10y ago
Just because HN happens to use the simplest thing that could possibly work doesn't mean that the objections to tables being used for layout aren't valid.
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by astine 10y ago
There are actually generally rules for which employees have responsibility over the vaults in banks. The employees aren't equally responsible. Roles and responsibility are defined strictly. Generally, the lowly tellers aren't allo
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by astine 10y ago
Because the bureaucracy makes implementing such measures unreasonably difficult. Implementing any kind of new system, even one related to security takes months, even in a simple case and it might takes years for the system to be fully reali
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by astine 10y ago
"Firstly, their work was unavailable, but now it is available, and yet you don't see mainstream books on the history of science adding this newfound information in." Really? I don't think I've ever come across a boo
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by astine 10y ago
"Your argument breaks down once you consider contemporary mainstream world history books." Not really. Most historians base their history books on those who came before them. The majority of texts available to western scholars are

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