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by astine 15y ago
High income inequality is not at odds with the ability for folks lift themselves out of poverty or social mobility in general.
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by astine 15y ago
I didn't downvote you. But you should be aware that Firefox is still a substantial platform and it's market-share isn't shrinking very rapidly.
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by astine 15y ago
On the plus side, this move will push more people to replace Flash with other technologies and I may never have to use it again. It's been consistently the buggiest piece of software on my computer for years. I won't be sad to see it go.
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by astine 15y ago
"But who uses firefox these days anyways?" I am writing this reply from within Firefox.
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by astine 15y ago
So I read the entire debate and while I generally agree Schneier on this topic one of Mr Hawley's arguments gave me a few second thoughts about the efficacy of reactive security. Bruce's argument is like this: There are two kinds attackers,
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Ask HN: Aside from parallelism, what applications are there for concurency?
1 points by astine 15y ago|0 comments
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by astine 15y ago
she would constantly feel like a fraud, Nonsense. Americans today are trained from a young age to have a sense of entitlement. People who are promoted above their ability are quite capable of blaming their inability to perform on prejudic
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by astine 15y ago
Neat, but not quite the same thing as Slime. Slime also, provides hinting and autocompletion based on the running Lisp image, debugging restarts, namespace resolution and other features. This seems more general though, and clearly has the b
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by astine 15y ago
Not to put too fine a point on it but, forthrightness always makes one vulnerable. I'd say that's part of the reason it's valuable and part of the reason people are sometimes afraid to be so. When you openly (and kindly) share your grievanc
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by astine 15y ago
"In the workplace, open competitiveness and overt displays of hierarchical dominance (boy's game) are perfectly acceptable, but figuring out the motives of your enemy's friends, observing when he breaks them and subtly informing those frien
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by astine 15y ago
You know, I didn't get that vibe. I felt that the author brought up a lot of legitimate complaints about EmacsWiki. Having used EmacsWiki, I agree with a lot of them, especially the stuff about the advice on the wiki usually being very date
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by astine 15y ago
You either need to get a bigger database or better search. I typed in "The Who" and got Modest Mouse. Not quite what I was looking for.
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by astine 15y ago
I wonder what it would be worth in 40 years?
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by astine 15y ago
Agreed. It's pretty clear that PG is actually advocating a pragmatic approach to moral reasoning. Natural Law, as I understand it, advocates a moral order which is evident from the natural order and which exists before any human understandi
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by astine 15y ago
That sounds like good progress to me. Much better than what I had to go through to install Ubuntu for the first time not too long ago. I think the obvious solution here would be to replace those cryptic errors with clearer ones which explai
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by astine 15y ago
To be fair, it rule one of persuasive writing to put your thesis at the beginning of your argument and follow with your supporting arguments. As it is, you're changing your entire argument in the second to last sentence.
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by astine 15y ago
At any given moment there's probably a vanishingly small number of HN news readers who are unfamiliar with who 37Signals are. So I suspect that for them, gaining the front page on HN is less profitable than gaining traction in nearly any ot
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by astine 15y ago
If you click on the icons they give you more detail as the the nature of each crime. Most of the ski-masks seem to be "STRONGARM ROB." which implies a mugging to my mind. The gun symbol means weapon, and most of them seem to be knives.
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by astine 15y ago
Author here. It would seem "understanding" might be the wrong word. If I were to write something like: (+ 'foo 1) I wouldn't have to know how "+" is implemented to find the bug in my code. I would if I were to write: (with-
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Leaky Clojure Macros(theatticlight.net)
47 points by astine 15y ago|11 comments
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by astine 15y ago
If you're self sufficient, it doesn't matter how the economy is doing.
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by astine 15y ago
The Pepsi corporation ownes some fast food chains in the US, so you're not going to find Coca-Cola at a Taco Bell for example. Aside from that, I've never really had trouble finding Coca-Cola in any kind of restaurant. Then again, I don't u
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by astine 15y ago
One wonders how a planet like Courscant, with a population exceeding a trillion, could possibly import enough food to maintain its population. Sure, in Star Wars we have cheap space travel, but there's still the difficulty of distributing e
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by astine 15y ago
' None of that makes it OK to write a bashful title that should've read "Stop paying your ASP MVC JS tax" or something. ' "Bashful" means "shy," not "full of bash," as you seem to think. Actually, I wonder if you speak English natively as
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by astine 15y ago
I can only speculate but my thought would be implementation complexity. Bitmaps work fine for say 99% of interface elements and graphic elements and they are a lot simpler to implement. Vector graphics just aren't a high priority I suppose.
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by astine 15y ago
"I don't think that these a 'security cameras' as in corporation/government-owned." At least some of them are. I saw a few which were watching storefronts and barber shops. They looked like CCTV footage.
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by astine 15y ago
There's not a lot of explanation as to what''s going on here. Are these security cameras which are exposed to the Internet for some reason or other? If so, I'm glad none are watching me. It might be fun to figure where some of them are.
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by astine 15y ago
If by "all dictionaries" you mean no dictionary I've ever read, nor the one quoted for you right here. You're wrong.
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by astine 15y ago
"The problem, then, is that once the "suffering" is gone, or sufficiently lessened, there is no real reason to keep building." Then how is the project incomplete? If it's not a product that you're planning to sell, put your code on Github o
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by astine 15y ago
Whats the different between example two and this: //FIXME: This code is a shitty hack to work around $issue. I don't know of a better way, but suggestions welcome. This contains the same information but uses a swearword. I think th

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