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721.
by astine 14y ago
You're talking about the supply side of the supply/demand equation. Essentially, the greater the supply of something, the lower the price one can charge for it. Reducing the cost of production effectively increases the supply, so it ultimat
722.
by astine 14y ago
"I thought that you could fit the Library of Congress in less." Nope. I've worked there, they've got multiple petabytes of data, though a major portion of that is audio and video. Even the books aren't stored as txt files.
723.
by astine 14y ago
If you're trying to learn Common Lisp, then no 'cl' is not sufficient. It ads a few CL features to Emacs lisp, but it isn't the same thing at all. If you're just trying to write Emacs extensions, then it's a nice extension to the language w
724.
by astine 14y ago
I've used Rails and Noir and they're not really comparable. Noir is much more minimalist and doesn't cover nearly the same ground as Rails. Noir is more like Sinatra as I understand it. The Clojure mentality so far has eschewed all encompas
725.
by astine 14y ago
I should clarify... Yes org-mode has todo features, including calendering, scheduling, etc, but listen some of the talks Carsten Dominik gives where he explains his rational: http://orgmode.org/talks.html It's core is as an flexible note-
726.
by astine 14y ago
I'd be interested as to what you think the point of org-mode is. It's principally a free form note taking and outlining mode, not a todo app like you might be imagining. edit: clarified intent
727.
by astine 14y ago
I think that there's a difference between art today and art a hundred and fifty years ago and I think that it's deeper than you suspect. In the Middle Ages, scholars believed that beauty was representational. They believed that something
728.
by astine 14y ago
For what it's worth, I have the same laptop running just fine with Linux (Ubuntu) as well. My one complaint is that the keyboard is horrible. The responsiveness is well below that of any other keyboard I've used.
729.
by astine 14y ago
The whole point of the Ultrabook is to act as a viable Windows competitor to the Macbook Air. Linux doesn't even enter the picture.
730.
by astine 14y ago
I'd be more concerned about government mandated fingerprinting. Using public key authentication, it would be possible to make biometric keys nigh impossible to steal (such that they don't ever exist on disk in any form whatsoever.) However,
731.
by astine 14y ago
Just switch fingers.
732.
by astine 14y ago
Assuming people know that they are renting slummy, dangerous apartments, I see no reason why they should be prevented from doing just that. Unless it's creating a wider problem for the community, I just don't see the benefit of baroque li
733.
by astine 14y ago
"teaching people the fundamentals of algorithmic and logical thinking" You don't need to be a programmer to think logically. There are a lot of other fields that teach that. Basic algorithmic knowledge is useful in daily life, but you won't
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Functional Parsing With Clojure(theatticlight.net)
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735.
by astine 14y ago
Except that in Lisp "-number" is totally different than "- number" and I rarely have to worry about it when I code in Lisp. I code in both Lisp and Ruby on a regular basis, and I don't see the ability to write "x-y" as any real advantage. I
736.
by astine 14y ago
This maintainer is a little more notable than most... And his opinion is a little more relevant :)
737.
by astine 14y ago
That would be fraud and you can go to jail for that.
738.
by astine 14y ago
I heard it for v2, for 2.5, 3, and 3.5 and now of course whatever crazy version number Firefox is on now. And each time Firefox has gotten more stable than the last. It's pretty snappy now and I can run it for days on end with no problems
739.
by astine 14y ago
By this line of reasoning, anything that is more popular among poor people is a tax on them? The argument is that gambling houses are taking advantage of people's poor education to bilk them out of money. In principle, everyone in develop
740.
by astine 15y ago
This is true. It's also why some regulatory legistlation, such as Sarbox for example, applies differently to companies beneath and above a certain size.
741.
by astine 15y ago
While those men did great things, who actually implemented their discoveries? Drug and biotech companies. Businesses have their place too.
742.
by astine 15y ago
Oh, you mean the payload. I'm not sure but I don't see why we couldn't quarantine that for a while and sit on it. I take it we've gotten other space rocks including meteorites and moon rocks. They haven't caused us much trouble so I don't s
743.
by astine 15y ago
Probably the same way they've been dealing with it so far. Send robots and shield any sensitive components.
744.
by astine 15y ago
Exactly. I happen to like ice cream, but if I ate nothing but ice cream everyday, I'd grow sick of it pretty quickly. I like to program and even do it in my free time. I'll even work longer hours if the problems at work are interesting enou
745.
by astine 15y ago
I'd argue that the economy was richer by two text messages, each valued at $10M by the recipients. Measuring the strength of an economy is a fundamentally hard thing to do because value itself is quite arbitrary.
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by astine 15y ago
"A convenient and fair comparison is the Corolla also made by Toyota." No a fair comparison would be a non-hybrid Prius. I don't know if Toyota makes such a vehicle, but Honda makes the Civic in both a hybrid and conventional model, so a di
747.
by astine 15y ago
"Make a living doing something you love." That is ideal, but it is not always feasible. There are some things nobody likes doing, but somebody's got to do them. I'm fortunate that I like programming and that people will pay me to do it, b
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by astine 15y ago
For most middle-class Americans, sexual misconduct among youngsters is a more pressing issue than violent misconduct. Kids having sex and getting pregnant is fairly common while kids going on shooting sprees is very uncommon. I can tell you
749.
by astine 15y ago
Holy crap. The interrobang is awesome! Why have I never heard of it before‽
750.
by astine 15y ago
I have cheat sheets hanging on the wall of my cubicle at work. They're printed out on regular letter sized paper; larger sheets are printed on multiple pages and taped together.

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