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by cbd1984 11y ago
Historically, Smalltalk was used to explore the GUI design space, so a non-GUI Smalltalk is somewhere between anachronistic and oxymoronic. GNU Smalltalk has an Emacs interface: http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk&#x2
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by cbd1984 11y ago
He "doesn't believe in" vaccines. Keep that in mind.
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He "doesn't believe in" vaccines.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Otherwise, he's not really hurting anyone with it It's like not being comfortable about giving publicity to a racist, except racism usually doesn't cause outbreaks of a vaccine-preventable disease at Disneyland. > and
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by cbd1984 11y ago
I feel conflicted about giving publicity to someone who "doesn't believe in" vaccination.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
There's a GNU Octave PPA for Ubuntu but it's still at 3.8. Is there a plan to update this to 4.0? https://launchpad.net/~octave/+archive/ubuntu/stable
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Is there some deep reason all of this functionality is jammed into one binary?
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> I think we all have experience of fascism. Saying this is spitting in the fact of everyone who actually survived a fascist regime.
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My point is that coding can be used to help teach logic and math.
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Coding can be used to give a context for other skills, logic most obviously but also things like ethics ("When is it right to use the code of others?") and persuasive writing and speaking ("Convince me you have a good program
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> It could be argued that kids should be receiving a liberal education at that age and not hard job skills. They motivate each other, and build on each other. Admittedly, some more than others, but I firmly think that math and logic are
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... and therefore, anyone peddling a perpetual motion machine must be scientifically illiterate or believe that their audience is, because what they claim to have goes against all of the physical theories which get verified every time we la
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Noether’s Theorem is something I wish was introduced a lot earlier than it ever seems to be: I think a simple, restricted, but still enlightening form of it can be introduced as soon as students have a basic mastery of derivatives and the i
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by cbd1984 11y ago
I'm pretty sure old-fashioned would be using Yggdrasil.
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You're glossing over a lot of details, and details are what most of usability comes down to.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Is there no such thing as a `problem solved, let's not touch it again' in the FOSS world ? Is there such a thing in the closed-source world? Because Windows 1... err, Windows 3 (now with tiling windows!), uhhh... Windows 95 (
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by cbd1984 11y ago
The part at the end amused me, so quick poll: How many people thought the Better Business Bureau was an actual (that is, governmental) bureau until I asked this question? How many people were unaware that the BBB sold good ratings until I
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And therefore less credibility/more plausible deniability. "Lying on the Internet" is harder to pull off when the voice is recognizably yours. So far, anyway.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Wow. You'd think the market regulators would have noticed such an obvious race condition and moved to fix it. Maybe atomic buy-sell transactions could be the future of finance. /s
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This page is so narrow, and the text so small, it's unreadable.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
It's interesting, but it opens up a rather unsettling counter-countermeasure: If I'm Mallet, I don't want people using passwords I can't quickly force out of them. Therefore, I pretend I don't know about this, or do
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Just for the edification of the masses: pthread_create(3) looks something like this: clone(child_stack=0x7f79d754bff0, flags=CLONE_VM|CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_SETTLS|CLONE_PARENT_SETTID|C
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> (Not sure if that's how fork() and friends are actually implemented under the hood.) If you use strace you can see that it is. fork(2) and pthread_create(3) both show up as calls to clone(2).
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> Hell, parts of Brooklyn have streets upon streets of single family homes with large yards that wouldn't look out of place in quaint Connecticut towns. I hear a tree even grows there! No, that's really interesting. It would be
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There most likely are explanations. On mailing lists. Where the developers are. Because absolutely none of this is in any way end-user-oriented software. Nobody takes the time to package them up and summarize them like Linux Weekly News doe
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> call it "C" for convenience As distinct from C, I take it.
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They've already done this, in fact. Computer-assisted proofs are well-known, such as the proof of the four-color theorem.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Can you explain why your website requires JS?
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test
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by cbd1984 11y ago
If they can't write a page without useless frills, they can't write a shell without useless frills. Useless frills are buggy and slow.

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