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by berntb 14y ago
>>just too cumbersome If you're reading literature, yes. But for full size pdf docs, you generally want more than 7". (I've heard people claim they regularly read A4 documents on 7", but never seen it...) Also, my iPad 1 IPS screen
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by berntb 14y ago
What I wonder, is if sensitive agencies have started to seed emails with slightly wrong facts, like a golf hater which discuss their golf rounds, allergic people discussing dinners that would have killed them, homosexuals discussing mistres
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by berntb 14y ago
Doesn't the illegal use of monopoly powers seem new here, because it was in a newer field? (Thanks for reminding me of Spyglass, shudder.)
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by berntb 14y ago
What was innovative? Copying other's stuff and integrating a browser into the OS?
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by berntb 14y ago
See e.g. the second Chechnya war for a non-US example without much media coverage. The Russian army seems to have used artillery against cities, Syria/Hezbollah style.
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by berntb 14y ago
I'm from Europe and even I think this was so badly argued that I doubt your intellectual honesty here. Afaik about american statistics, the poorer, lower class groups, are more religious -- e.g. "white trash", latinos and black ghetto cultu
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by berntb 14y ago
I argued (a) electric cars would get popular without Musk anyway, like over a century ago (everyone and their dog in transportation is working on that) -- and (b) cheap launch costs is new and will change the world. If you wanted to do a s
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by berntb 14y ago
And toilet paper have a bigger impact than cars. I did not mention "cool", I mentioned lower launch prices. That is more important. The usual argument, since decades, is that with low launch costs, there will be new use cases and new market
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by berntb 14y ago
Electric cars have been done before, for over a century, and would be done without Musk. To drastically lower the costs of space launch so that Mars(!) expeditions can be done by "just" billionaires is new . Just add what is happening in d
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by berntb 14y ago
How about a sense of proportion? With due respect for electric cars and their great possible environmental impact, SpaceX is what is important of Musk's projects. It is what might make his name remembered in a few hundred years.
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by berntb 14y ago
Yes, but... All languages (like any system) will have cruft, after a while. Is the solution really to do a periodic break with backwards compatibility for purity reasons, Python 3 style? There should be a better way?! What about a low lev
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by berntb 14y ago
The GP argued functuonality, not taste. My use case: A4 documents. I've read arguments claiming fullsize pages can be read from 7" (or that the reflow of pdfs works well). I've never seen anyone do that regularly in real life and don't real
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by berntb 14y ago
I hope your eyes are much better than mine; good luck reading A4 documents on 7". :-( I got an iPad 3, it is like reading eInk with fast page changes, so I can browse documentation and not only read literature (cough, out of sunlight of cou
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by berntb 14y ago
>>any more than Perl excels at OO Check Moose and related on CPAN, modern Perl has probably the best OO among the usual scripting languages (Python, PHP, Ruby, etc).
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by berntb 14y ago
Obvious trolling from a karma 20 account. I'll enjoy Python when pypi doesn't frustrate me many times more than CPAN, there is some Python equivalent of Moose (Python 3.5, 4?) and the grammar is extensible like Perl 5 (using CPAN modules).
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by berntb 14y ago
Uh, light skin, blue eyes and blonde hair is just 6000 year old?! Sounds really weird to get so common so quickly. This should already be well known, by the mutation speed of the relevant genes? What about an alternative hypothesis, like se
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by berntb 14y ago
>> Putting all of Nokia's chips on Windows Phone was stupid no matter how it turned out. I agree, but hopefully/probably Nokia got something in the deal making, for shutting down a Linux based competing system.
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by berntb 14y ago
Good for you, re uninstall... (I really didn't expect Python users to admit that anything in any other environment could be better... :-) E.g. running tests at install by default is obviously bad? :-) ) So no comment about CPAN Testers --
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by berntb 14y ago
Specific? I already mentioned CPAN Testers. And that CPAN works... (I've seen people with years of Python experience that had problem doing simple things. Edit: Including uninstall of packages, which you mention.) Edit: Here you see a resul
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by berntb 14y ago
Why doesn't the Python world just copy CPAN and update it for Python? You can e.g. literally find stuff in CPAN with hundreds of dependencies -- which is a pain, but even that works. At least CPAN testers? Please... If Python people insist
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by berntb 14y ago
I think your logic misses he important factor here. There must be some serious conflict: Juntas need external enemies, so opposition becomes treachery. It is a pity, Iran would probably be a really cool place without the theocracy. I just
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by berntb 14y ago
I feel your pain. Russia really has a wonder in intellectuals with science and art to give to the world -- I wish all your oil disappear, so there isn't anything for the politicians to steal anymore :-( Besides, the problem there is hardly
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by berntb 14y ago
>>In my opinion the "biggest terror sponsor" has to be the US and other "leading" European countries such as my own: France. All recent large-scale wars have been perpetrated by these countries Wars != terror. Which you know, you're
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by berntb 14y ago
I misunderstood your defence of supporting groups that do terrorism against other countries. It was just too weird. (And when discussing Pakistan's terror support, it is hard not to talk about the groups infiltrating Kashmir.)
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by berntb 14y ago
I wrote neighboring countries. There is also a difference -- granted, sometimes quite small in civil wars -- between terror/guerilla. (Besides, most any case is from the cold war.) Also, if a country is the biggest terror sponsor on the p
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by berntb 14y ago
Do you have any supporting references for thinking it is just funny that ISI et al support terror groups, mainly for use against India? It is easy to infiltrate the militarised border to go into Indian Kashmir for the terrorists? The Pakist
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by berntb 14y ago
Oh please, 600 years?! The difference is the modernisation. 150 years ago in Sweden we had blasphemy laws not much better than Pakistan today. But sure, you might come from some civilised place. :-)
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by berntb 14y ago
Regarding the subject of denying crimes against humanity, how is the Pakistani education about the mass murders in Bangladesh 40 years ago -- by Pakistani troops? (Afaik, Pakistani students coming to western Europe haven't heard about them.
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by berntb 14y ago
I read another article about Pakistan, from a more-or-less US military perspective: http://strategypage.com/qnd/india/articles/20120622.aspx " The U.S. is openly accusing the Pakistani military of collaborating with Islamic terrorists, pa
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by berntb 14y ago
I've seen it argued -- from people that seem to know much more than I do on this -- that HR knows most people will grumble and not leave.

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