cbd1984

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by cbd1984 11y ago
Flagged for personal insult.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
This is why I think improved social safety nets (not necessarily any specific scheme such as mincome or negative income tax or similar, just guarantees that nobody lives worse than some minimum) will actually save capitalism: It will free b
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> thus shorter attention spans of readers Is there any actual evidence of this, or is it another O Tempora, O Mores rant?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> On the other hand, if you don't allow it, you don't lose anything. You can write the algorithm in another way, and it would be just as fast and easier to reason about. This is where we differ, then: Some algorithms are more n
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Recursion is prohibited in embedded contexts because it allows for, potentially, unbounded growth of the call stack. Only if you're sloppy about the inputs given to the recursive code. Recursion isn't magical. It's deter
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by cbd1984 11y ago
If it's ubiquitous, how is it an error? Where do you think the grammar of a living language comes from?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
I fully agee. My point is that it wasn't what the book meant to him.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> the situation is much worse than 1984 You never read the novel, I take it? Or else how do you compare the UK to the Stalinist USSR?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> This guy wrote Fahrenheit 451 According to him, that novel was not about censorship: > Now, Bradbury has decided to make news about the writing of his iconographic work and what he really meant. Fahrenheit 451 is not, he says firm
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by cbd1984 11y ago
"Work" until it devolves into a tyrannical dictatorship, because a government you refuse to recognize as a government is the most dangerous form of government of all.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> What do people think about wrapping a Natural Language Processing interface around the command line (for educational purposes)? Fragile, verbose, and actively hostile to learning why anyone would actually use a command line shell to be
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Other than the obvious (look who's backing them) O'Reilly and a bunch of VC firms? That's all I could find on their website.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> While I've never been part of the Windows world myself, it has always seemed to me that the DOS command line plays a much smaller role there than the shell does in the Unix world. Indeed. It was possible to meaningfully use the co
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by cbd1984 11y ago
The main reason C sucks is because it's the lingua franca for Real Systems Programming, and is therefore unavoidable. Had Pascal filled the role, we'd have long posts about Why the Pascal Programming Language Sucks. You know, as
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by cbd1984 11y ago
So OS X is unusably more expensive.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Flagged as blogspam. Original article: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/08/20/uk-sweden-politics-...
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Or they want people to think FreeBSD is more secure?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> I can absolutely avoid being affected in any way by Spotify's privacy policy. I can not use Spotify, and in fact I don't. How long will this be reasonable? If your friend uses it, and you're connected to that friend via
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Even when that was the original sole purpose of the TLD?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> "The company" was Julia Kurnia. No, the company was YC. I fixed my comment to improve clarity.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Why didn't YC offer a good childcare solution from day one?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
So OS X is unusably more expensive.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> GM crops being the only viable food source on the planet. They already are. Or do you think maize and the current varieties of wheat, fruit trees, rice, and so on are natural?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> the (near dead) chemist Work around enough H2S and it will take you the rest of the way. My point is, it has enough problems with flagrant toxicity that containment of non-trivial amounts of it will be either massively expensive, total
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> What the heck are you complaining about? That mindset. Like I said. Did you not read my post?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Is there an ethical issue with flooding the market with replica ivory? It might lead to people being killed for knowingly or unknowingly passing off fake ivory as the real thing.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DefinitionsForOo Given the above link, I deny there's any single useful definition for OO: It's been defined and redefined over and over again for decades, to the point people can'
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> the extra resources for OO Thinking like this annoys me, because it assumes a specific implementation for OO. Are people conflating OO with Java? Are they conflating it with Smalltalk? Are they unaware you can write C in an OO style? &
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Does it still phone home and give information to Google?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Feral humans You mean wild children? They're brain-damaged by lack of key stimulation in critical developmental periods. They're not healthy members of the species, so the species can't be judged by how they behave. Norm

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