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by cgore 13y ago
I'll use a C example, GUI toolkits. Look at the code example for GTK+ at: http://zetcode.com/tutorials/gtktutorial/gtklayoutmanagement... All of the calls to gtk_fixed_put are of the form: gtk_fixed_
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by cgore 13y ago
I kind of relate it to modern music. Modern "academic" music is typically quite complicated and dissonant, and requires a great deal of skill on the part of the musicians to play: it sounds like crap. Modern "popular"
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by cgore 13y ago
Probably for the same reason you wouldn't want to ping your personal webpage from a remote computer you just hacked.
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by cgore 13y ago
If by "real world", you mean the world of things, then I would agree with you. But the world is the totality of all facts, not the totality of all things.
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by cgore 13y ago
Infinity. 80-ish years might not seem like much to you, but to an insect that only lives a few days it might as well be a trillion years. The point I'm trying to make is that living a really long time is not living forever, and even
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by cgore 13y ago
The universe still dies, so you still die. A trillion years is still quite finite and small.
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by cgore 13y ago
I grew up in the area too, and moved back a few years ago. People often give me weird looks when I say I live on the Illinois side, assuming I'm living next to Pop's or something. The Illinois side is all really nice farmland if
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by cgore 13y ago
Slow emacs startup ... people restart their emacs?
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by cgore 13y ago
I've had a few returns with them over the years and they all went well.
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by cgore 13y ago
I've typically bought computer stuff from Tiger Direct. About half of my computer parts have came from there for about the last 10 years or so. They aren't the absolute cheapest site online, but I've never had any problem w
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by cgore 13y ago
$40k isn't much anywhere in the US, not just in San Fransisco. Mississippi is the poorest state in the US, with a median household income at $37,095. Cite: http://www.parade.com/166996/viannguyen/what-are-the
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by cgore 13y ago
Take a look at the Faker Rubygem: http://rubygems.org/gems/faker https://github.com/stympy/faker
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by cgore 13y ago
Someone with a tattoo didn't consider things fully beforehand? I don't believe it.
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by cgore 13y ago
I'm not sexist because my wife is a woman?
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by cgore 13y ago
That's pretty cool actually.
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by cgore 13y ago
Perhaps coming from a region where you can't produce any food at all for several months out of the year, and can't live without a large supply of firewood during that time too, weeds out some of the more short sighted?
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by cgore 13y ago
It is clearly visible in the satellite views on Google Maps, but the map view only shows the main road going through it. I wonder how many other such places could be found just by browsing the web? This seems to be what this guy is doing.
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by cgore 13y ago
Perhaps if you are a political enemy of $political_party_in_power.
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by cgore 13y ago
In my mind that is the only reason, because the USSR made a whole lot of them, and then shipped them out to every third-world country. It is for a similar reason AR-15s are so popular here in the USA, because the US Military mostly uses M16
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by cgore 13y ago
I've been with them since 2006 and I've generally been happy. The only problem is their coverage in rural areas is spotty, and I like being in rural areas as much as possible.
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by cgore 13y ago
America's vices of choice are greed and violence. England's are sex and drugs.
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by cgore 13y ago
I went to Slashdot for the first time in about a year or two. It still sucks.
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by cgore 13y ago
Vanilla creme ale sounds good. I know where I'm going next time I'm over on that side of the river.
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by cgore 13y ago
I think there is a sizable minority that wants anybody who isn't in jail to be well armed, whether or not they agree with me politically, and I'm in that minority. I think it benefits society. I sort of vacillate between conserv
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by cgore 13y ago
I think the Godwin rule is good for stuff that is extreme hyperbole, and typically just examples of attacks on character. The 'Soup Nazi' from Seinfeld being a good example: it was one of my favorite episodes, but really, the sou
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by cgore 13y ago
The problem with gun registration versus car registration is that there is no real use to having a list of car owners, other than legitimate ones. But, a list of people with weapons would be the first thing any would-be dictator would love
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by cgore 13y ago
"And, in religion, debates turn into bloody warfare, ..." Seriously? You sure do know how to keep discussion polite.
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by cgore 13y ago
Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Oneness Pentacostals, various others. Being all-inclusive isn't the point, nor should it be. If you want my personal definition of "Christian", it's this: 1. There is a god. 2. I'
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by cgore 13y ago
I really like Winston and Horn's Lisp. It actually is written assuming you don't know how to program at all, but quickly moves along into more complex stuff, really showing off what Lisp can do. Winston teaches (taught?) at MIT,
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by cgore 13y ago
It isn't intractable but it can be quite complicated. This is true of theology in specific and philosophy in general. It isn't ever going to be an easy top-down hierarchy. As for "defining Christianity", this is a probl

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