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by astine 14y ago
These kinds of technologies have been tried before (and largely abandoned.) The real problem in long term data storage is figuring out how to interpret decades old binary formats for which the software no longer exists. It doesn't matter if
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by astine 14y ago
Nigeria is a former British Colony and the official language is English, so that makes sense actually.
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by astine 14y ago
If this becomes an important money maker for Canonical, you just know that they will find a way to make it hard to turn off. This seems like the first step where they are willfully making the user experience worse rather than better, to ful
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by astine 14y ago
If your concern is about contributing to open soource software, you don't need to know how to code to contribute. Bug reports are actually hugely important and some projects take financial donations. As to learning to code, there are actual
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by astine 14y ago
Meta Comment: pstuart is technically correct, but I think it's much more useful to explain why something is the case than to simply accuse someone of willful ignorance. There's always the possibility that they, or someone else, genuinely do
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Ask WTF: Learning The Business(thedailywtf.com)
46 points by astine 14y ago|10 comments
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by astine 14y ago
The USSR was falling apart in the 1960's during the Cuban missile crisis? I've actually studied the downfall of the Soviet Union and the notion that it fell apart simply because of economic or political pressures is rather simplistic. The p
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by astine 14y ago
By that logic, Google will cease to exist!
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by astine 14y ago
"IMHO Java's success today is more because of corporate inertia than anything else." I don't think so. Java as a platform is a lot easier to manage than most other platforms, including Ruby and Python. Jars, in my experience, are much easie
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by astine 14y ago
"Not even remotely near the same thing. Can we agree to stop making crappy physical analogies, please?" No, that is exactly the same thing. Private correspondence has the expectation of being private. Just because you have the technical a
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by astine 14y ago
"Did USSR attack US on a massive scale, and on US soil?" No, they did not. But is that because the USSR was never a threat? Or, was it because the US correctly assessed the USSR's threat and planned accordingly? I won't say that the M.A.D.
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by astine 14y ago
How would you accomplish somthing similar without exposing implementation details? It seems to me "this function may throw these conditions" is more a documentation issue. I think every other system I've seen, (esp C) exposes more details
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Why Git Needs an Editable History(theatticlight.net)
1 points by astine 14y ago|0 comments
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by astine 14y ago
See, this is not a field I'm really involved in, so I can't comment on the particulars. Case in point: what you describe is the isolation of a preexisting gene, rather than the creation of a new one, which is different from what I was think
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by astine 14y ago
I think it would. If the original statue was your product and the new statues would only have come into existence because of your original, then the criteria for copyright would still apply. The reason is that copyright is meant to give cre
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by astine 14y ago
If human beings composed said genes, ie. through a splice or more involved process, then said composition is indeed a product of man because it was brought about through deliberate human effort and did not exist before. There are many ethic
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by astine 14y ago
While I really hope Tromey's effort succeeds, I really think that this is probably a different effort with different goals. Porting Emacs to CL would greatly strengthen the platform Emacs is written on and would add a lot of features for fr
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by astine 14y ago
You'd be surprised. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/the-pope/8009299/Po...
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by astine 14y ago
"Languages aren't inherently fast or slow, that's rather the quality of the underlying virtual machine / hardware architecture the compiled binaries run on." That's not really true. Some language semantics and features are difficult to impl
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by astine 14y ago
I dunno. Perhaps it hits just that sweet spot where Stackoverflow loads just fine but Youtube is unbearably slow?
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by astine 14y ago
No, no. It's one thing if crooked business men steal from and lie to one another, it's another entirely if Congress, which is supposed to prevent that (on at least some level) has an active interest in those lying and cheating business deal
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by astine 14y ago
It's not a matter of free markets, it a matter of corruption. Solyndra's business model as a company was provably unsound years before it emerged as scandal but it still received funding from the government because people believed in the id
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by astine 14y ago
"Are you really going to criticize the government for investing in American companies of which a couple ones failed on a VC news site." I am. The government is not a VC firm. It's investment are invariably political and not business based.
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by astine 14y ago
I'll bet it wasn't the concept of directories that those secretaries of yours had trouble with. I'll bet that they simply weren't told that they existed and the computer offered no hints and that when they were told, they understood it re
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by astine 14y ago
On Rotten Tomatoes they do have actual news critics writing critiques. That's the whole point of the site. It's an aggregator for critical reviews of movies. I think that this site is doing something similar.
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by astine 14y ago
Dude, it's actually rather simple. Value is subjective. You are worth whatever people are willing to give you. If an employer or client is willing to pay you $80k to watch Youtube videos all day then you watching Youtube videos all day is w
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PhantomJS: Headless webbrowser(phantomjs.org)
1 points by astine 14y ago|0 comments
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by astine 14y ago
Actually, to expand on that: The American War for Independence precipitated a major and unprecedented shift in British politics. For the first time the Liberal party gained power in Parliament, and leaders like Edmund Burke instituted major
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by astine 14y ago
I've been wondering if the fix would be as simple as filtering stack trace entries generated by higher lower level code (ie, from Clojure itself rather than the application code.) It seems like such a simple fix that I wonder why it hasn't
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by astine 14y ago
[ disclaimer, I am a (barely) trained economist. ] So goods have a higher perceived value based on the effort that went into them? That's probably true but I don't think that it really changes the fundamentals here. In economics, all valu

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