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by berntb 14y ago
>> Would you believe that he's a well-known programmer I don't believe I see intelligent people, like you, use someone's programming credentials as support for an ideologically motivated axe job in a non-programming subject. :-( The
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by berntb 14y ago
Dawkins' main problem with your criticism of Christianity would probably be that it is too short... As other comments have noted, he has criticized Christianity more than Islam. For a less well known counter example, this is from a not so e
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by berntb 14y ago
As far as I can tell about the blog comment: Some left wing guy do personal attacks. The post was from 2011 -- I thought most left wing people had stopped claiming evolutionary psychology was like frenology from racist right wingers? Especi
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by berntb 14y ago
SQL Alchemy doesn't have an SQL parser, which I asked for. See http://search.cpan.org/~rehsack/SQL-Statement/ It contains a parser and evaluates SQL expressions on lots of data sources(!). The testing tools on Perl use a common infrastruc
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by berntb 14y ago
Off the top of my head -- a serious sql parser and the whole TAP test ecosystem. After a while I stopped checking cpan for what I needed, since I just got angry. Another difference: In the Perl world, you can find and have dependency trees
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by berntb 14y ago
>> EVERY OTHER LANGUAGE DOES THAT Do you really know about this? I've done a bit of Python lately. The infrastructure isn't close (see e.g. Perl Testers, chromatic had a blog post about it quite recently). Also, CPAN is much richer
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by berntb 14y ago
I pointed out unreasonsble claims that disagree both with Wikipedia and with media that have serious fact checking -- he keeps arguing. (I stopped checking after the three top results on Google) All that without any real point. Now you clai
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by berntb 14y ago
>>you cited a different number Sigh, it is not my number -- it is Washington Post's number (and the remaining top hits on Google). And if you're not familiar with the US news market and Washington Post [Edit: Removed wikipedia lin
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by berntb 14y ago
>>43% of "industry revenue" not smartphone/tablet revenue. You're not touching the "6%" number, which was what I showed wrong? In what you comments on... Edit: Removed discussion of the revenue percentage, which wasn't so obviously
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by berntb 14y ago
Please note that this should be a high quality web site. Don't "argue" by finding a random web page that claims something. I Googled market share smart phones 2012 quarter and got 16.9% for Apple in multiple sources, including Washington
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by berntb 14y ago
You might be new here? Welcome. Your quotes look strange, you need to give a reference. "Ships 6%" and "gets 43% of revenue" implies that the price point of Apple products are 7+ times larger than the competition's products. That look unlik
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by berntb 14y ago
>>Not like anyone can do follow-ups on this research any more. A modest proposal: Places like Syria seems to not only torture dissidents but also their children -- and the regime need cash because of all the sanctions. The Syrian Ba
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by berntb 14y ago
Perl discussions historically tended to be trolled mercilessly on HN, seemingly from adherents of certain competing language environments, so I assume people don't like to post discussions of Perl here.
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by berntb 14y ago
The problem with the Swedish police and legal system is seldom that they do bad things. The problem is rather that the employees doesn't get much done except drink coffee and administrate. There is another possibility: Theoretically, both t
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by berntb 14y ago
... but is still very, very backwards compatible. (Just to be complete.)
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by berntb 14y ago
>>Easy things should be easy, while hard things should be hard :-) "Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible " Please don't link to illegal copies of books. (Besides, the fourth edition of "Programming Perl" is
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by berntb 14y ago
>>for people that aren't near [an Apple Store], an option to fax or mail could exist. Almost ten years ago, I asked an old friend (that got rich doing security for online gambling companies) about verifying identity with VISA cards.
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by berntb 14y ago
Same goes for proteins, fats, sugars and vitamins. I meant drug, I was writing from a pub listening to Irish music. Sorry about being inexact.
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by berntb 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_coffee From that we learn that coffe is linked to increased levels of smoking and lack of exercise -- AND: A May 2012 study by the New England Journal of Medicine found that, during the cour
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by berntb 14y ago
I realised why people started arguing with me. :-) I wrote that Europe has few right wing crazies in the last few decades. I meant Scandinavia , I have no real interest/clue where different types of extremists are numerous. Hrm, sorry abou
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by berntb 14y ago
A "viking" was historically someone that went out and traded/plundered/pirated/etc in the ice free part of the year. As a business. (There are historical documents of a Danish king recruiting in Uppsala for an English vacation.) No need to
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by berntb 14y ago
Sigh, you can find neonazis in Israel(!), that doesn't imply those idiots are numerous. (The left wing idiots (AFA et al) seems to be more numerous.) The Norwegians, for good reason, doesn't expect repeated attempts by right wing extremists
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by berntb 14y ago
Which I acknowledged. There are no suburbs, in Scandinavia at least, filled with young rightwing extremists getting radicalized.
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by berntb 14y ago
Race isn't the problem, I believe. If Breivik was a convert to Islam, then the reaction would have been different: He would have been taken seriously, not seen as a crazy "one hit wonder". Because of, well, the few right wing crazies in Eur
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by berntb 14y ago
>>Programming computers for money is the single greatest profession in the 21st century. He he, the kids never learn, even when the discussed article covers the crashes of this roller coaster job market... :-) That said, an insightf
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by berntb 14y ago
I can see two game changing practical use cases directly: Releasing computer people (and most others) from slavery to a desk when working -- including meetings. For personal interaction, you would need to stay inside ca 50-100 milli seconds
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by berntb 14y ago
That is like saying: Since we can't cool something to absolute 0 Kelvin, all termometers are valueless. You have to look at how wrong things are, too.. If I wrote a review of a game in my favorite sport where my home team played, it would
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by berntb 14y ago
(I shouldn't comment on karma 18 accounts, I'm probably being trolled, but a couple of links should be ok...) See the Synopsises here: http://search.cpan.org/~flora/MooseX-Declare-0.35/lib/MooseX... http://search.cpan.org/~ether/MooseX-M
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by berntb 14y ago
Lisp people might enjoy this short specification for Perl 6: http://perlcabal.org/syn/S06.html#Macros "Real" macros in a non-lisp language [edit: I mean, a language without the parse tree explicitly in the syntax]? Well, it'd be wonderful
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by berntb 14y ago
I got a really good workgroup printer, paid more than twice as much as for a cheap one. I loved it but had to leave it when I moved -- just too heavy. (And anyway, the Mac support wasn't good a couple of O/S versions later, but it still wor

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