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by astine 11y ago
Do people not know what an administrative center or military compound is? Are analogies from neurology of all things really more accessible?
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by astine 11y ago
Do you want to blame modern Assyrians for the excesses of the Assyrian empire? Do you expect the people of Botswana to be held responsible for the actions of Mauritanians? When you define your 'communities' purely in terms of race
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by astine 11y ago
"Though, fwiw, mainstream Christians consider it heretic for some reason." That's because it's technically a Gnostic writing, not a Christian one. The relationship between Christianity and Gnosticism is complex, but they
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by astine 11y ago
" in many of its strains catholicism is so exalted you're only supposed to have an eternal soul, your body is filthy." Um, nope. That's called Manichaeism and it was condemned by the Catholic Church as long ago as the 5t
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by astine 11y ago
"The series of photos also uses other bodily fluids like semen, milk, and blood -- fluids which are highly symbolic, especially for Catholics (Serrano is a believer)." I was raised Catholic. Milk and semen are not symbolic to Ca
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by astine 11y ago
The practical outcome of that policy would be to lock out anyone below a certain income bracket from political office. Living as a politician can be expensive and lots of people will find it beyond their means. There is a reason it's f
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by astine 11y ago
McAuliffe was as DRC financier before he became a politician himself. He ran for governor for the prestige of the office rather than the money so it's not likely he'd risk the embarrassment a bribe could bring. Someone independent
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by astine 11y ago
It's likely that they believe that even experience running a business into the ground is better than no experience at that level at all. It's possible that they don't even blame him for the failures and just chuck it up to th
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by astine 11y ago
Is that possible? They're much lighter than water and super tiny. Is there even a way to know that you got all of them? You'd almost have to run the affected water through a still.
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by astine 11y ago
It might be if you were planning to deploy to end user's machines.
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by astine 11y ago
It's likely that they're refering to core.async which is a Clojure library that provides IoC threads via the `go` construct.
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by astine 11y ago
"I mean, I think everyone knows that 'Dark ages' is a made up label from centuries ago during the Enlightenment era." Actually, the idea comes from Petrarch, who was a late Mediaeval writer who was upset at the disrespec
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by astine 11y ago
One of the Thirty was a student of Socrates, not all thirty, and none of them were philosopher kings. They were a puppet government installed by the Spartans, which is why Socrates was amongst the people who opposed them. The fact that Cr
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by astine 11y ago
It's possible to serve multiple sentences simultaneously in the American system. The courts have discretion in deciding on how a sentence must be served.
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by astine 11y ago
I think he's implying that finding joins difficult is a sign of immaturity of the developer rather than a problem with the language. Joins might be tricky if you are unused to them, but they are the secret sauce of relational databases
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by astine 11y ago
Accounting systems I've worked with do most of their logic in a RDBM and store monetary types using a 'decimal' type.
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by astine 11y ago
Clojure's strongest selling point as compared to other JVM languages is probably its concurrency story. If your enterprise app is of any sort of size, you've probably run into concurrency related bugs. Another strong advantage is
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by astine 11y ago
intermingling the actual Clojure keywords (there's only ~17 of them) with the convenience macros and functions built up from those two primitives. It sounds like you are drawing a distinction between the core Clojure language
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by astine 11y ago
Git is actually integrated in the latest VS and a lot of recent documentation assume that you are using it by default. Also, the latest release of ASP.NET MVC uses Bootstrap as its front end. That's not GPL, but it seems to be part of
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by astine 11y ago
Unless you are using a different meaning of 'reversion to the mean' than I am familiar with, it's not a statistical error and has nothing to do with the size of the sample. 'Regression to the mean' happens when you
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by astine 11y ago
Systemd cannot be used on the BSDs because it uses Linux kernel specific features.
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by astine 11y ago
My understanding of the phrase 'do it well' isn't as an injunction but as a way of saying that if you restrict your program to one thing, you'll have the ability to do it very well. It's to contrast it to a program
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by astine 11y ago
On the 'do one thing and do it well' issue, there seem to be two spectrums: 1. suitability of a tool to multiple tasks 2. number of features a tool has This makes for sort of a field with four quadrants: 1. simp
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by astine 11y ago
I once built a location aware application on MongoDB. After months of Mongo being the bottleneck in the application and periodically crashing, I switched to a naive implementation of the application with PostgreSQL and the application sped
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by astine 11y ago
When we run out of stored carbon energy we will probably switch wholesale to splitting atoms and harnessing the energy of the sun. Alternate energy is a matter of how soon, not whether.
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by astine 11y ago
"While this is strictly speaking corruption, it is a very democratic form of corruption." If the police are for sale, then they are for sale to the highest bidder. If the prices seem reasonable to you, it's only because your
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by astine 11y ago
"A lot of the issues with unhealthy food are mitigated by a caloric deficit." Which, if I understand correctly, is the whole point of the demonstration. You'll lose weight on a calorie restricted diet almost no matter what yo
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by astine 11y ago
http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/api/javafx/scene/doc-files/c...
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by astine 11y ago
If I could have my ideal setup, rather than web applications we'd have a sandbox installed on our computers that would run applications that could be downloaded on the fly. Something similar to Java Webstart but without proprietary non
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by astine 11y ago
In choosing between presentation freedom and a sane GUI programming model, I'd choose the later, especially given that the 'presentation freedom' is problematic when I want my desktop to have a common UI theme. Take into acco

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