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by berntb 14y ago
Half the point of CPAN is "installability", it is trivial to d/l and install lots of modules. There is also CPAN Testing which drastically helps portability. Can Java really compete with a Perl module that has a long list of dependencies (5
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by berntb 14y ago
>> The language is so permissive that it allows newbs to write bad code but still obtain results I can't see any relevance for a professional choice if newbies can shoot bigger holes in their foot with a certain tool. That is a na
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by berntb 14y ago
A karma 3 account. Where are the Perl-hating trolls coming from on HN? (I thought Guido said that it was time to stop trolling, so it isn't Python people now?)
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by berntb 14y ago
As an Android newbie -- how easy is it to get out kernel patches to [all these millions of users'] phones? (No, I'm not a black hat -- I don't have a hat of any colour.)
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by berntb 14y ago
You're arguing with a Karma 30 account. It took some time before the trolls woke up in this thread. (I'd love to get access to the HN logs and check IPs, to see if the trolls where sloppy with using alternative access and can be identified.
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by berntb 14y ago
If the Orion project in the 1960s hadn't been stopped, we might have viable interplanetary colonies already. Also, if NASA hadn't poured most money into the shuttle (and hence had a reason to kill competing projects, for job security) the s
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by berntb 14y ago
According to Wikipedia, it seems to be a perfect storm of incompetence, weather and (understandable) preoccupation with WW II. Also, your reference doesn't fare to good there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
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by berntb 14y ago
Nuclear weapons have fallen out of the sky before. No, they won't explode -- it isn't easy to make one go boom . But I would not be surprised if Green political parties argue that risking a few km^2 contamination is worse than a certain di
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by berntb 14y ago
>>You'll see the the above is not incompatible with Human Rights[1] From your original comment: >> [Democracy] is a biproduct of individualism, and individual rights... These are not universally agreed concepts and a lot of
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by berntb 14y ago
I called you dishonest -- and showed how. I saw no reason to touch your comment after that. You lack references. If this is what you talk about, I don't see the problem with democracy (or relevance to what I originally wrote): http://en.
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by berntb 14y ago
First you wrote: "[Democracy] is a biproduct of individualism, and individual rights... These are not universally agreed concepts and a lot of people don't agree with them." For individual rights I brought up human rights from UN etc. You
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by berntb 14y ago
Democracy is, more or less, the only way to get human rights for citizens (a little simplified, but not by much). So you're saying that rule of law, women's right, etc (see e.g. the UN declarations) are just Western propaganda -- other peop
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by berntb 14y ago
You could tell people about statistics for rule of law, protection of human rights and economic development in different types of societies -- that is, informed decisions in a secret voting process?
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by berntb 14y ago
See it as (a very simplified model in) game theory: What is the interest of some game players, given their positions on the board? Here is an interesting take: http://reason.com/archives/2006/03/01/why-poor-countries-are...
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by berntb 14y ago
Singapore is weird, quite autocratic and not that corrupt. Maybe the city state should be seen as a corporation? I can't give three more counter examples, can you? (I might add -- the problem with kings are that even if the present one is
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by berntb 14y ago
>>the US brings democracy to countries if those countries want or not Per definition -- when a country is not a democracy, it is controlled by a junta that steals lots of resources and control the information to the citizens. So, ju
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by berntb 14y ago
Oh please, everything new from any company is named by the marketing department. And you make a point of condemning that?! Please not on HN... :-(
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by berntb 14y ago
>>Retina branding [...] is not significantly about competing on productivity. I am far from a UI/UX expert, but I (and many others I've read about [e.g. see cstross in another comment]) have the experience that "retina displays" mak
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by berntb 14y ago
How fast are those memory cards? Another argument you could use is that the Surface doesn't have so many apps to install anyway... :-) Edit: I might add re quality of arguments -- I answered someone that claimed real users didn't bother abo
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by berntb 14y ago
>>[Storage size is] a nice line item on a spec sheet [...] but how many users actually care? Ah, that is why there are never any buyers for more than the 16 GB iPads? Oh, wait... (Meta: Could these fan boy wars at least use some min
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by berntb 14y ago
These sales figures are really to customers and not delivered to stores -- like the first sales reports of the first generation of Samsung (et al) tablets?
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by berntb 14y ago
Yeah, the colour range is much better on the iPad 3 than on the iPad 1. That is a bit irrelevant. I'd rather have 256 levels of grey on a retina than a good colour non-retina. I can't get good readability of text (both web and A4 documentat
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by berntb 14y ago
>>IPS 1366x768 on a 12.5" screen and it looks great Some money advice: Don't use a retina display. :-) I recently saw my old iPad 1 at my ex gf. It was the best screen I had ever used -- now after an iPad 3, it was just horrible.
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by berntb 14y ago
I do think there are parallels between when mainstream magazines write about X as a good profession and when mainstream magazines write about investment and shares. (The latter case is infamous for predicting bubbles.) But sure, the work ma
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by berntb 14y ago
Just a note: In 1999, before the jobs disappeared, it was the same articles...
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by berntb 14y ago
I asked for arguments against the content of the article. You lack that? Edit: The criticism of the Surface is echoed here: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/10/microsoft-surface-rt-revie... (I'm not going to bother to read more about non
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by berntb 14y ago
Ok, enough is enough. I have read too much of this. The author made serious points (even the store uniforms(!) are copied, bad animation handling, office apps are slow, etc, etc). Why are the anti-Apple fan boys just complaining that the ar
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by berntb 14y ago
The retina display made me a bit disappointed, until I realised how easy it is to read, compared to most any screen (my Linux portable has 15" 1920x1080, but even that is blown away). I can read literature on a screen now! I have documentat
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by berntb 14y ago
I look forward to the social experiment. Assume these cameras that takes photos every X seconds (probably checking e.g. pulse/blood pressure to increase/decrease X or going into video mode). Personal violence will be hard to get away with,
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by berntb 14y ago
As multiple people have pointed out above -- no retina display. It isn't cheaper than iPad 2, which seems to have roughly a similar screen.

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