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by berntb 14y ago
Because the main use of the Palestinian weapons are to target civilians?
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by berntb 14y ago
A PDP-10 in a FPGA!? I used TOPS-20 at Uni, a long time ago. Loved the architecture, the assembler was like a high level programming language. Like being reminded of an old girl friend you'll never really get over. If I get time, I should g
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by berntb 14y ago
You write as if you weren't aware of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact I don't know how it is where you live, but where I grew up (Sweden), the left has never supported a democratic country against a dictatorship... Th
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by berntb 14y ago
I am still primarily on Ubuntu. My differences are: - KDE. There are probably better solutions, but it works. - I bought my computer after reading up on supported hardware. - My Mac has had more problems with latest printer installs than my
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by berntb 14y ago
First, yeah, I can't mention any modern environment without lots of good points -- and bad points. Most everyone agrees, except... Second, this trolling attitude seems built in with the Python purity philosophy. It reminds me more of isla
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by berntb 14y ago
>>I want to punch Guido or whoever else has a saying in language's design for not "stealing" this and adopting it into Python Please relax... no tool is perfect for all situations. It is always a trade off.
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by berntb 14y ago
I got a Dell Latitude E5520 ( http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201011-6894/ ) about 18 months ago. The screen is better than what I could get from Apple at the time. I wish I had gotten a Mac Pro instead, mostly for stupid hardw
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by berntb 14y ago
>> NY Times is just making bullshit... 50 cent army? :-)
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by berntb 14y ago
>>The inclusion of multi-line lambdas in a language is what makes it 'normal'? All the scripting languages are very, very similar (see data structures, etc). In short, you don't argue against my point. My point was that Python stops
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by berntb 14y ago
>>My argument was just You made specific claims (regarding map recommendations in Python and that white space has nothing to do with one instruction lambdas). I asked for references. I assume you have none? Note that with significan
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by berntb 14y ago
>>Ruby code to Haskell Uh... different paradigms. The scripting languages, which we are talking about here, are generally very similar. >> I welcome examples of where anonymous functions are unable to be replaced by local
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by berntb 14y ago
Considering the way Python people have been trolling most every Perl discussion for the last few years when I've been on HN, I feel like I'm in orbit compared to people in the mud... I might also note that I got two non sequitur answers in
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by berntb 14y ago
You have no relevant comment on what I wrote either, I take it? Here I asked for references about the GP's claims. Also, welcome to HN (or are the prepared troll accounts with a few hundreds of Karma running out? :-) ).
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by berntb 14y ago
>>... is viewed as ... The GP argued why a tech choice is good, you answer by arguing the reality -- of the fud ! That was quite funny. Edit: OK, I was talking about the first part, CPAN. You only made claims about jobs (that there
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by berntb 14y ago
My argument was that a lack of real anonymous functions (> 1 instruction) is a problem in some quite common and useful scenarios. If you REALLY can give good references that show this is wrong, I'm very interested (like, I would guess
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by berntb 14y ago
There are some problems with the whitespace in Python. I wrote some code with lots of nameless functions as input parameters (think JavaScript style or Ruby blocks), which of course was an ugly pain to port to Python with no multi-line la
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by berntb 14y ago
As I understand, it has been going on for as long as Python 3 -- which is starting to be used in a few places now. (The difference is that Perl 6 is really, really, really ambitious. Let's see if it ever gets production-ready.)
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by berntb 14y ago
>>Egos [among Python programmers] are kept in check [compared to the Ruby community] That is a really fun -- and typical! -- claim when your GP is a Python troll arguing that another open source language should just die... :-) Frank
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by berntb 14y ago
>>I think [the article is] the product of microsoft marketing. You're probably correct, re this sell out. Consider: The article noted that " The Surface RT sold out of the $500 32GB model within one day ". Analysts have noted (a goo
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by berntb 14y ago
>>Now, where I get stuck: Regular Expressions Read Mastering Regular Expressions. I thought I understood regexps before I read that book. Now I can use them -- and am, at a minimum, confused on a higher plane... :-)
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by berntb 14y ago
Many years ago, I had a bookmark in my Harbinson-Steele's C book, for the precedence of operators. After a while, I decided that was stupid and removed the bookmark -- if I ever needed to look at operator precedence, then I should use par
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by berntb 14y ago
Check the resource curse on Wikipedia, regarding other oil countries. Tl;dr: A country with lots of income from natural resources won't become a democracy -- Norway already was a democracy when the oil money started flowing. It is too lucra
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by berntb 14y ago
How easy/cheap is it to get a small apartment...?
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by berntb 14y ago
>>For US intervention in the Libyan revolution, after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Rice said "I swore to myself that if I ever faced such a crisis again, I would come down on the side of dramatic action, going down in flames if that w
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by berntb 14y ago
>> I see only one pig here ... and I see accounts (with davidpayne11) with just enough comments/karma to be useful for trolling -- and insults from them. Please get a life or at least take this pathetic shit to some other place than
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by berntb 14y ago
>>Method length should be 1 to 3 lines. I've read that claim. The only time I really had to work with code like that was horrible. It was like a book where the sentences were in random order, with the next sentence number appended,
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by berntb 14y ago
Can MEGA really be free for e.g. tens of millions using a few GB of bandwidth/month to backup their video diary logging? That is not an unrealistic scenario in a few years. (I'd do backup to MEGA for my personal stuff, if I could at the sam
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by berntb 14y ago
50 GB free at MEGA?! That can't be viable. Consider: If you can write an rsync-variant with the API, then movie pirating will pay for the Internet population's backup system...
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by berntb 14y ago
The discussion noted all the specialities needed in education. The point I was trying to make is that a maker revolution has a potential to drastically cut down the number of specialized people needed; consider just e.g. logistics. (Not tal
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by berntb 14y ago
Uhh... you went of in some weird orthogonal direction. The Stross reference were about the minimum number of people needed for a technological civilization. (Didn't you read it? Are you defending some belief system as an excuse for being re

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