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by berntb 13y ago
Yegge "proved" someone insane literally by arguing as if a humorous speech was serious. If that isn't uncharitable or worse, I need a new dictionary. Also, this is an old, old rant. It must have been posted multiple times w
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by berntb 13y ago
Thanks! I missed that. (They should have "Desktop version" and "iPad version" bigger on the page you linked. I browsed a bit before finding those. Can you buy hardware somewhere?)
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by berntb 13y ago
I've always wondered about the usability of a chording keyboard with a smart phone's edge (or an xPad) and four areas under the fingers. (Four buttons is quite few combinations. You probably need the thumb too, with two-three alte
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by berntb 13y ago
Not for expensive operations costing 10K++ €. The administration of those payments is already set up for e.g. tourists that get sick. Since it seems I need to explain in more details: The problem is that potentially anyone which can get to
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by berntb 13y ago
I've lived in Scandinavia, with largely similar systems (they vary a bit, I've seen Sweden and a bit of Finland). The health care systems are centrally planned and administered, and hence have the typical problems doing the work i
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by berntb 13y ago
Your "classy" insults aren't exactly screaming non-troll. If you really are a non-troll wanting to seriously discuss a subject's pro/con, don't start with insults and then act innocent. I was polite to the firs
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by berntb 13y ago
>> surely you do not believe one must learn a language inside out before knowing whether it is appropriate to a domain. You had a hard opinion about something you admitted you don't know. That is just not a serious position. >
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by berntb 13y ago
>>That you can build an OO system comparable to what other languages have built-in My explicit point was that it is better [edit: which was an answer to your question about value from flexibility, compared to the cognitive cost], don&
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by berntb 13y ago
>>Perl [...] lack of formal function parameters http://search.cpan.org/~barefoot/Method-Signatures-20130222/... (And others on CPAN.) >> [C for suid flag] Afaik, you should be able to use anything for
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by berntb 13y ago
>>I do think that providing multiple options where most languages have one option built-in is unnecessary cognitive load. (I'll assume you're not a troll despite acknowledging that you talk about a subject you don't kno
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by berntb 13y ago
Sweden. Religious Muslim intolerance might not be the best asylum reason there. There are strange double standards, e.g. right now a comedian is getting shanghaied for a mild joke about Islam -- for generations many times worse jokes have b
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by berntb 13y ago
A recap seems correct here: 1. I point out that Chomsky's motivation for not engaging in Sudan's problems (no influence) are just not serious; his involvement would have very probably made a big difference and potentially saved ma
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by berntb 13y ago
>> one's own nation and government first, because that is where you have the highest possibility of influence. (Chomsky is probably bigger outside USA. E.g. the Milosevic regime was a big fan.) I don't really care why an a
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by berntb 13y ago
1. I wrote that I was from Europe, so your conspiracy theories about US mainstream media trying to make him look bad isn't applicable. 2. I discussed an interview with Chomsky, where he himself discussed why he didn't criticize
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by berntb 13y ago
I started to read up on Chomsky a couple of times but didn't get far. The first time, I saw his opinions re USA's/NATO's intervention in ex-Yugoslavia. It just seemed like conspiracy theories, especially when I googled a
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by berntb 13y ago
I would assume many/most of those emigrated people are in Scandinavia. It is a bit smaller step than moving to USA in the 19th century... (And much easier to move back, when the economy allows it.) A more relevant parallel might be man
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by berntb 13y ago
>>I could work in NYC but enjoy all the comfort of New England. The station cost will probably be high; it will be hard to have "side tracks". (No fan-out, you could say.) So if there is a station in e.g. NY/LA, the hou
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by berntb 13y ago
If this works, I wonder about the logic of making it a SF-LA thing? At least, there should be another use case. Why not go from Silicon Valley to a mountain area where you've bought a large area of land, ready to build on? You could ge
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by berntb 13y ago
I remember reading the arguments for reusability etc 1990 on usenet's sci.space (and later sci.space.tech). Henry Spencer et al made good points. You have to wonder how large a role is played by NASA not having a shuttle now -- and hen
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by berntb 13y ago
We are talking about the same (or a sister) organization that created the viruses in Iran and the Middle East. Civilian search companies aren't as high on the agenda as rouge states' nuclear weapon programs, but still.
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by berntb 13y ago
I did a year of Python. There are good and bad things with everything. Python was OK, the learning curve the first few weeks/months is really well planned. I prefer Perl given a competent team. Mostly because of the CPAN Testers and be
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by berntb 13y ago
How about the article writer test this before writing? Do DDG-searches about: - A violent political/religious subgroup. - Politician XXXX's opinions about said group - The future travel to your locality of XXXX - How to
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by berntb 13y ago
Don't go Steve Yegge and pretend you didn't understand that speech was at least 50% jokingly... :-)
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by berntb 13y ago
EVE I can see myself playing enough to destroy my life, money or no money. It scares me. Poker is a different kind of money game. Poker seems fascinating, but the problem is the money. If poker wasn't about money, the ideal players t
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by berntb 13y ago
>>So they're in a catch of their own: They know if they continue to produce, they'll flood the market and depress the price They only need to depress the prices until they kill off the non-Chinese competition, then they have
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by berntb 13y ago
Hey, it is a good book. (And I don't think Tanenbaum/Linus have much problems with each others, anyway.) On the subject: The problem with tools like VB is that they are hard to grow up in; something which both support the first st
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by berntb 13y ago
I'm not going to go over this guy's many and varied strange opinions, just note that they were conspiracy theories and that he thought people he didn't agree intellectually with were dishonest (e.g. AI researchers from before
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by berntb 13y ago
I'm not going to discuss arguments about one of the beliefs of a non-rational person. If you feel a pressing need to iron out the finer distinctions of such stuff, I'm certain there are multiple suitable sub-reddits. (But I'l
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by berntb 13y ago
I used to naively assume that intelligence implied rationality. An old work colleague taught me differently. My old work friend was really intelligent. He had been considering a PhD in philosophy and had problems to stop talking about Wittg
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by berntb 13y ago
I guess this particular problem might get better in the future. Microsoft had a monopolist strategy, so it was in their interest to e.g. make those monopolist products hard to interface with other companies' alternative software. This

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