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by cbd1984 11y ago
Certainly not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Raffaello_Sanzio.jpg No selfies in the canon here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kirchner_1919_portrait.jp... Utterly unimaginable: https:&#
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Tell that to kids today, and they won't believe you.
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My HS CS class included learning about coaxial Ethernet cabling and dumb terminals (yes, actual amber screen Wyse terminals). I graduated high school in 2002.
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The comic you just thought of: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3105 The actual vegan response: http://ethicalvegan.net/read/will-animals-go-extinct-if-the-... It comes down to "Stop thinking about
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by cbd1984 11y ago
http://signallake.com/innovation/DysonMaxwell041989.pdf
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> They simply do not fathom the ruthlessness of the political or business world. You can be as ruthless as you want, you're not going to be able to fake the Apollo landings without the Soviets calling you on your bullshit. Conspirac
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by cbd1984 11y ago
The problem with your argument is that the existence of one conspiracy doesn't prove any others. The Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiment, as terrible as it was, doesn't prove that the CIA killed JFK, for example.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
My saved comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=cbd1984&comments=t Your saved comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=vosper&comments=t My saved stories: https://news.yco
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Using more characters/fewer distinct characters wouldn't make it any more readable. Similarly, COBOL is no more readable than Perl. Readability of texts written in programming languages comes from organization and knowing the defi
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Who's Mircosoft?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> If APIs are copywritable Is that distinct from being copyrightable? I'm sure that if it becomes a big enough problem, the problem will be buried in lawsuits once Microsoft or IBM or similar stub their toes on it.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Alice learns that problems can be solved by changing problem scope and re-using existing tools. She ends up fighting with her customers over what they really need and fighting with her tools over what they were designed to do. Someone who i
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by cbd1984 11y ago
It's amazing how attention spans have been declining for the entire history of the human race. It beggars belief that we could have declined so far and still have the ability to bemoan the young.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> How do we know pg's account is used by a real person Long history here. > or dang's Long history, plus a history of apparently being able to do things normal users can't do. Plus, of course, dang doesn't claim to
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> How many people do you know that have become addicted to nicotine gum or patches? Sweet Mother of Uncontrolled Confounding Factors. OK, let's do this. We're a weird and diverse crowd. Does anyone here other than the article&#
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> jack9, isn't it a privilege to be able to interact with folks such as Robert Virding (one of the co-developers of the Erlang language)? Or, at least, people who take on such names on pseudonymous message boards.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> (Mr. Virding is one of the co-inventors of Erlang.) And we know that this username is being used by the real person because... ?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
The downfall of Prolog's syntax is its weird rules surrounding whitespace and indentation. A few braces and a little more Algol or Lisp wouldn't have killed you, you know. Of course, Python followed the same strange ideas, so I gu
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Couldn't a rogue add-on unset the preference for you and keep it unset? I'm not entirely sure how much control add-ons have over internal browser preferences.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
How are unikernels unfit for production? CMS has been in production longer than most here have been alive.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> hypervisor is younger Younger than what? VM dates to the first half of the 1960s. The concept of the OS is older, but most OSes in active use now aren't.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Traditionally, a hypervisor provides no abstractions: It gives every guest a view of the raw hardware, as if they were running alone on the machine. You could run hypervisors under hypervisors, recursively, endlessly (to the limits of hardw
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by cbd1984 11y ago
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." — Adam Smith Of course, he also said: "No society can surely be flourishing and
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Says who? Obviously not the community.
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Can the link be replaced with one of these?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Do you disagree that Proposition 8 was anti-gay? More to the point, do people get flagged for saying it was anti-gay?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
We get, and upvote, ideological rants every day.
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Why?
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"This breaking news just in: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!" — Chevy Chase The archival properties of the Web are interesting and can have Vast Moral Implications, but usually those implications are more implication
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Nobody can agree on what OO is: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DefinitionsForOo http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?NobodyAgreesOnWhatOoIs (Of course, I mean that "Everyone knows precisely what OO is, but if you

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