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by batista 14y ago
> Say what you want about America, but anti-government activists are not kept under house arrest. China does not have the moral high-ground to use this kind of ploy. Yes, they are murdered, like Malcom X and Dr. King. Or persecuted by
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by batista 14y ago
Whereas the "if the made it as easy as I want, very few people would pirate" is not?
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by batista 14y ago
> They will become a little more freer from the tyranny of the rich and their whims and fancies... but it is unlikely that their standard of living will improve at all. That's enough of an improvement for our standard of living for me.
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by batista 14y ago
> You are correct that humans may feel more charitable towards each other than towards horses. If History (and PETA) are any evidence, probably the opposite.
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by batista 14y ago
> As far as I'm aware you can't merge Apple IDs and it has been said a few times that it isn't likely to happen, I might be wrong however. Checking again, that feature does not exist. I was certain I has seen info about doing so, but t
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by batista 14y ago
As a photo / design professional or a casual user?
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by batista 14y ago
Which you can merge to the same account [edit: actually, no, you can just use in tandem]. But, really, how would that be different if the user ID was a random name? People could still have "numerous Apple IDs and content bought with all of
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by batista 14y ago
>And then, the nightmare began. I asked the support person when I should expect my serial number. Expecting an answer somewhere in the neighbourhood of 5-10 minutes, you can imagine my surprise when I was told “in the next 24–48 hours.
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by batista 14y ago
Are you on this internet thing? Many indicators such as things one can see with a naked eye. Book publications, article postings, HN mentions, new projects emerging, peak blog/media coverage, etc etc. Advocates of some language would like t
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by batista 14y ago
I've heard of that index before, and I'm skeptical of it. Ruby and Python waning? Not among any of the shops or programmers I know. That's the very definition of "anecdotal evidence". People working in the Smalltalk community could probab
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by batista 14y ago
It's extremely rare than any insight whatsoever is to be found in a comment containing the line: "I stopped reading at this point". Yes, you have reservations about the Tiobe index. So use them as an excuse to prevent you learning anything
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by batista 14y ago
> Not really. Nuclear disasters are bad for the environment, but considerably less bad than say... Building a city somewhere. Only you have to built a city to house people, whereas you don't have to build a nuclear reactor to give them
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> It's absurd. Coal is guaranteed to have costly negative health and environmental impacts on surrounding areas, while nuclear merely has the risk. Yes, but it has a much larger risk: the risk of tens or hundred of thousands of people
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> I am. It's pretty amazing. All performance benefits of C, none of the language drawbacks. (No offense to C.) Actually the "all performance benefits of C" is not quite true. Go ranks slightly slower than Java, and 2-3X the speed of C/
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by batista 14y ago
> Horrible idea. Can anyone explain what is motivating the Indian government to require such access? We all basically know what the deal is with China and certain oppressive regimes in the middle east, but India is an actual democracy (
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by batista 14y ago
> So you're saying people should give up on the idea of living to a millions years old and just suck it in by spending more time with the families/friends in the few years they have? People in general (as in "humanity") no. But individ
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by batista 14y ago
Well, it's for higher echelons, and in that level it's not even called a "bribe". You know, like having your company get huge commissions from the very business your war policies created, or having your friends in DC bail you out because yo
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by batista 14y ago
> You're all thinking about this as if it were a law the First World, where this would be enforced impartially. And I think you're overestimating the "impartiality" of the law in the First World.
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by batista 14y ago
I also frown upon aimless recital of the "rules" of what's frowned upon "these here parts".
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by batista 14y ago
> Drones over US to get weaponized – so far, non-lethally Yep, that would be great for the next time the general population thinks the government/big corps pair gets too self-complacent and dictatorship like. The next "Chicago '68" sty
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by batista 14y ago
> Actually, these aren't "hard" problems in the sense that physics disallows them. We have existence proofs of them. It's is just a search problem. You have to set up robotic systems that search the space. So the problem is really one o
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by batista 14y ago
> This is no criticism, but for an article on responsive type/design seeing the page being slightly off in terms of fluidity made me smile. Try resizing the article down as narrowly as you can, for me it brought up horizontal scroll bar
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by batista 14y ago
>I am not making a criticism, I am asking a question. I already know about plan 9, I don't need to "check it out". I would like to know how I can actually use it for something, rather than just play with it for a couple hours and go "y
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by batista 14y ago
> From a business perspective this makes sense. C++ is a slowly fading language. Most universities/colleges are abandoning it and those that still cling to it are in an anti-MS mindset. Don't know where you got that impression. No one
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by batista 14y ago
> Indeed - why not make a $2500 MSDN subscription compulsory to develop for the Windows desktop. After all if you are writing apps you can afford it. You're being sarcastic, but it would a possible move too. And yes, if you're writing
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by batista 14y ago
> The 'service' equivalent is: service httpd configtest Yep, typo-ed it. > What does 'going ghetto' mean exactly? The slang meaning of the term in this case: a low level, jury rigged solution.
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by batista 14y ago
Oops, sorry, meant: service httpd configtest I.e run the proper init script (which might also do other checks), not just test the apache config, as you wouldn't also just start apache with apachectl. Even if you have your own version
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by batista 14y ago
> A further thought: PG talks about Blub languages and Blub programmers (in both cases, those at level X can look down at level X-3 and see what it's missing, but those at level X-3 look up at level X and just thing "WT ?").* Which I fi
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by batista 14y ago
This assumes that the "That is an idiotic thing to say;" is unimportant. On the contrary. 1) It gives a lot of pleasure to respond with it to idiotic ideas. 2) It adds emphasis and a sense of proportions to the error, ie. it's not just a
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by batista 14y ago
> Why would you say that? It works well enough here. Well, both projects are rather new and changing. So not a very stable base to base a business on. Node.js is best suited for long-running, evented type web apps (games, chat, interac

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