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by benbenolson 10y ago
Fair point. Surely my solution would not work against such an enemy, since there is no "head" to attack swiftly.
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by benbenolson 10y ago
The comment that you commented on didn't say that we should stay home from all wars; he/she said that the government should be decisive about when and where to attack. The final sentence, that we should just stay home, was referri
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by benbenolson 10y ago
Yeah, that's a good point: if force absolutely needs to be done, let it be swift and to the point. Drawing out a foreign war, and then griping about casualties, is no way to keep the peace. Let alone the unknown intentions of said war.
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by benbenolson 10y ago
I don't see any misplaced words. Care to explain?
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by benbenolson 10y ago
It would be the height of insanity to not read this piece and be wary of the combination of ideologies that can lead to fascism, and to draw parallels to modern times. I can't comment much on the individual points because I've nev
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by benbenolson 10y ago
There was another project that's extremely similar to this posted a week or so ago, and it got a lot of flak for existing; I don't think very many commenters agreed with its existence (except, perhaps, as an educational exercise f
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by benbenolson 10y ago
I agree with each and every one of your comments; in addition, I would like to know how this project was created: what language it was made in, why the author found it necessary to create it, etc.
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by benbenolson 10y ago
It's true that they use webkit (which is certainly not ideally minimalist), but even that is much lighter than using Chromium.
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by benbenolson 10y ago
The primary difference between the States and the EU is that the federal government is checked by the power of the state governments. The EU has no such check.
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by benbenolson 10y ago
My thinking was that it meant that Gawker's bankrupt, so you can't sue it in the future.
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by benbenolson 10y ago
This was in direct response to the article, in which Google Fiber's new policy strips users of their Constitutional rights.
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by benbenolson 10y ago
Does anybody care about the Constitution anymore? It seems like every day I read an article about someone either going against the Constitution, or getting very close to denying its importance in the United States.
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by benbenolson 10y ago
Finally! Someone had to say it. These sorts of situations (low percentage of women engineers) are not issues; they're just facts, and most likely caused by, generally enough, the way that women and men think/act/desire. It&#x
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by benbenolson 10y ago
I actually watched the majority of this, it's a very interesting talk. I'd imagine that all of us are going to need to use at least some statistics one day, so I consider it time well spent.
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by benbenolson 10y ago
> Converted source from Visual Basic to C Sharp The fact that this project was in Visual Basic already makes me wary. Nowadays, isn't that just a training language for youngsters?
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by benbenolson 10y ago
These are the sorts of buildings that I don't think anybody likes looking at. Take, for example, a building on my University's campus: http://media.jrn.com/images/940333_4397240_ver1.0_640_480.jp... The man w
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by benbenolson 10y ago
TIL Coda users are either female or homosexual. Never knew that choice of text editors was correlated with sexual preference.
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by benbenolson 10y ago
I'm not sure if this is illegal, but it's certainly cause for privacy concern. Did they have to willingly hand over their chat logs to be hired?
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by benbenolson 10y ago
Yeah, it does seem like that command is rather arbitrarily chosen. Most people don't type `ls -latr` over and over again.
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by benbenolson 10y ago
Great writeup, although it bothers me that he dismisses Dvorak so quickly. Although I've never personally used it, reading articles tells me that it's been regarded as the "best" layout for many use cases for a very long
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by benbenolson 10y ago
This is going against exactly what Doug is arguing, though: Unix taste includes having many small, perfectly-designed programs to achieve great power. Adding more and more features to something simple adds complexity, and therefore, in Doug
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by benbenolson 10y ago
Yes, it's extremely easy to link to packages in R, and even to include C++ programs to make your R package run faster. Mathematica, on the other hand, is a large proprietary package that involves a bit of effort to install and use. I&#
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by benbenolson 10y ago
Just noticed that this was posted by my old (half) boss! Finally! This is very encouraging, that such an excellent free software package is in such high demand. From what I've used it for, it worked very well. It's great for quick
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by benbenolson 10y ago
I'm the same as you, except that I'm still not convinced yet. The more that I see this idea being pushed, the more I'm convinced that people are going to want to add this to the list of the many government handouts, not repla
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by benbenolson 10y ago
I don't dispute that the Bible has violent verses, but Deuteronomy 20 is not inciting violence. It's saying "When you go to war...", not that the reader SHOULD go to war. It also has a paragraph "When you march up t
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by benbenolson 10y ago
I don't doubt that the author's story is correct, but I think that 80 is a perfectly reasonable number to have as a standard. It's very annoying when I read code that doesn't use the 80-character limit, because my termin
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by benbenolson 10y ago
What do you mean by "represent"?
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by benbenolson 10y ago
Use Linux. Problem solved. Of course, if you have special needs (games, proprietary Windows-only software, etc.), you might have to run Windows. My advice would be to simply use an Enterprise version of Windows 7, which doesn't "u
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by benbenolson 10y ago
Yeah, I don't think that many people are going to be able to run this. Java applets are deprecated at this point, unfortunately. I'd love to be able to compile and run it locally, though.
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by benbenolson 10y ago
It makes it more difficult for the user to leave the service, since they need to continue using Apple Music in order to stream their music, as opposed to simply launching a different music player.

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