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by berntb 14y ago
>>play with [Xpads] once or twice a week, but otherwise they gather dust at the expense of smartphones and laptops. For the first time in my life, I happily read books on a screen -- on my iPad 3. I literally read from it for at lea
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by berntb 14y ago
That Elop was the one to announce the Microsoft strategy doesn't really prove he invented the idea since going there. Why else hire Elop specifically? The guys hiring him could have found a lot of CEOs with more telecom background.
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by berntb 14y ago
It is fully possible Elop was hired after the decision to go to the dar... cough ... to go Microsoft.
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by berntb 14y ago
Sweden is certainly one of the most politically correct countries around; there is just one "good" way of thinking. In short, just another stupid moral panic in Sweden. Nothing to see here, move along.
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by berntb 14y ago
If this is a strategy you guys have to keep away competition for jobs in Portland, it is working. :-) (Not that I have a green card anyway.)
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by berntb 14y ago
I got your point, I wrote that according to my personal experience the other cases are quite a bit worse. Which is worth as much as your personal stories.
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by berntb 14y ago
>>the rabid Java fans I've worked with [closed mindedness] It is hard to argue against anecdotal evidence, but of the cases you mention -- java, Rails, Django -- imho, it is not exactly the Java people who seem to be the worst langu
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by berntb 14y ago
The war laws are specifying when/how you can risk civilians -- there will always be dead civilians in a war, you are required to try to minimise that. If you would want to be serious (somehow I doubt it), either (a) argue against the war la
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by berntb 14y ago
I'm not going to copy/paste the content/source from links I've given. :-) (There are easy-to-read abstracts/"synopsis" at the start of both pages.)
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by berntb 14y ago
>>how do you accurately hint to linters, in a language that encourages duck typing, the type a method parameter is likely to take? You didn't check the Method::Signatures link or do I misunderstand your position? Also check Moose@CP
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by berntb 14y ago
Otoh, the scripting languages generate so much less code that many systems just aren't "large" in them... If I understand your position, the only thing really needed should be optional typing of parameters (and possibly variables) that ar
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by berntb 14y ago
Please educate me. From a 1980s perspective, what is the difference between having a smartphone and being a cyborg? With some consumer electronics I can do most stuff Steve Mann could when he was at MIT. (One difference is that the cyborg w
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by berntb 14y ago
Thanks! Annotations have the disadvantage of needing a recompile to reconfigure?
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by berntb 14y ago
Could you elaborate(/give references) about your claim? (I don't know anything about the GP, but I really haven't looked at Java development in 5++ years. (-: If nothing else, I might need to update my jokes :-) )
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by berntb 14y ago
(I don't think you should have too high expectations of facts and logic from ucee054, at least re politics. :-) ) Thanks for the link, I didn't know the name of the law. Also, there were some ... cough ... controversial interrogation method
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by berntb 14y ago
Hello again! Do you still believe in Jewish conspiracies controlling media? Or that T-shirts of some individuals prove something about a heterogeneous country -- and are as bad as official policies in another state?! Ah wait, you refused
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by berntb 14y ago
I loved my Harbinson/Steele C book, a long time ago. Google says the last version came 2002 with additions on the web. Good memories, I'll buy a copy and read just for nostalgia. Thanks.
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by berntb 14y ago
If I understand right: You argue that no war is worth high collateral damage, even if involved democracies (more or less) follow the laws of war? How about if a junta relies on that a democracy don't want to pay those prices and creates a
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by berntb 14y ago
I'm not American, from my viewpoint you are applying totally different standards to two sides. A few levels up, I noted that democracies in general tend to go bat-shit crazy at terrorism -- and that it is probably built into the concept of
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by berntb 14y ago
>>You place a lot of emphasis on intentionality. It is quite unusual in not seeing a difference with killing someone by losing control of your car on the way to hospital with a hurt child -- and shooting an unarmed civilian in the f
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by berntb 14y ago
A nation state might have access to the antivirus source code (and maybe some of the ex-programmers (or present!) as consultants). What was it the guy said, who was poisoned with Polonium in London? Something like "Spy organisations are mad
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by berntb 14y ago
Thanks, now I understood what the gp wrote. :-) I have too little experience with conspiracy theories.
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by berntb 14y ago
I wrote: To explicitly target civilians is serious because it breaks the laws of war Got the answer: "kill many innocent civilians" Sigh, it is illegal to target . In a war, civilians will die. My point was that some sides do try to avo
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by berntb 14y ago
The parallel comment by salimmadjd has a point about Pakistan maybe being even worse than Iran, when it comes to terror support (I do doubt that Saudi A as a country is worse). I might stand corrected, there. >>Every powerful coun
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by berntb 14y ago
Do these media also, like Iran and the Arab world, support Sudan and claim that HRW etc are conspiracies about the mass murder and mass rapes? (It would be easy to continue with examples like this.) Edit: A karma 33 account. I've probably b
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by berntb 14y ago
>>somehow the US government is finding it even easier to erode civil liberties now than it ever did during the Cold War. Iran is probably the worst country on the planet when it comes to supporting terrorism. Consider that democraci
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by berntb 14y ago
A karma 16 account with some fast and wrong insults. It is old enough not to be green colored. Yet another language war troll account on HN. Edit: I'd guess the troll's main account votes the troll posts up... maybe a heuristic can be made
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by berntb 14y ago
Most of your life's problems can be solved at CPAN. :-) Just write: use Method::Signatures::Simple; http://search.cpan.org/~rhesa/Method-Signatures-Simple-1.02/... But you might instead want to look at this (or similar with Moose s
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by berntb 14y ago
Steam punk fusion is ridiculously cool. :-) Google for the funded Tri Alpha, too. And then there is Lerner and team. I hope at least one of the groups succeed, the world will change. (If you check talk-polywell.org, there is some positive i
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by berntb 14y ago
You didn't check out General Fusion or Polywell, I take it. There are others, too. One of these dark horses might come in. Here are a couple of links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Fusion

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