chbarts

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by chbarts 16y ago
> For comparison cocaine is a schedule II drug because dentists use it. That would explain all the kleenexes.
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by chbarts 16y ago
> will adopt medical marijuana Or, you know, stuff like Marinol, which is apparently as effective without the harmful effects of smoking. Hell, even the DEA likes Marinol: http://www.justice.gov/dea/ongoing/marinol.html I'm fully in f
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by chbarts 16y ago
> Think of it as a DSL I can't let this stand as a blanket defense of crappy languages. We have Lua. We have Python. We have Scheme. We have multiple other languages that can be used as a good way to access the goodies provided by your
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by chbarts 16y ago
CS people might be put off by the fact R is really a pretty lousy language if you've seen any other language (like, for example, Python). It's obvious that it wasn't a programmer who designed the language R uses. This blog posts points out
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by chbarts 16y ago
Is architecture art? Look at it this way: It is fundamentally constrained by not only the laws of physics, but building codes and the prosaic demands of those who have to live there. (Well, Frank Lloyd Wright could probably claim to have sh
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by chbarts 16y ago
> I was not a pornographer How certain are you of this? Would you be able to successfully defend every photograph or email you have ever produced against obscenity charges? I think, if it came down to it, the courts could find a hell
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by chbarts 16y ago
> There'd be no way to keep pornographic or sexual content constrained to a .xxx domain even if regulations were implemented to try to make it so. But how much harm could they do in trying? That is the question you should ask. Look up
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by chbarts 16y ago
tcgrep is good, too.
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by chbarts 16y ago
Hm. I thought a thought experiment required some thought on the part of the person proposing it.
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by chbarts 16y ago
> What about Conkeror? Never heard of it.
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by chbarts 16y ago
Also, Windows doesn't have an App Store. How would Gates ban anything from the Windows platform?
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by chbarts 16y ago
But isn't Linux already on mobile and embedded platforms? What makes the Android so special in this regard?
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by chbarts 16y ago
Emacs users already have emacs-w3m, but it would be nice to have something better. http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/
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by chbarts 16y ago
> The reason for mentioning the $16k in the title isn't to say "look how much money I turned down" but to say "look how much money they offered me for this". Right. It's to emphasize the fact that not only were they morally corrupt and
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by chbarts 16y ago
If I knew where to buy an alot, I'd give them one.
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by chbarts 16y ago
It should have been that way from the beginning. This 'cascade of error messages' style is pretty damn bad. Also, the compiler must quit on the first error: Continuing with the known-bad state is not only asking for trouble, it's inviting
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by chbarts 16y ago
Interesting that those things are missing from C as well, but nobody seems to mention that... (Common Lisp has mature FFI and wrappers around things like DBI and graphics libraries. Clojure gives you the JVM libraries for your sins, and I d
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by chbarts 16y ago
> Blas, for those of you not from the West of Ireland, is the polish a hurley gets from the sliothar when used by a player of unusual skill, a patina on the surface of the wood testifying to the depth of talent of the player that had us
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by chbarts 16y ago
> It may be somewhat funny now, but someday we'll say this was ahead of its time. Things are usually only 'ahead of their time' if you ignore a lot of the implementation and operational details. For example, Vannevar Bush's famous Memex
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by chbarts 16y ago
Read this message board thread. It lays it all out: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=... This post is the standout: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=1147211&#...
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by chbarts 17y ago
> However, I also think Apple is doing the right thing by banning "meta-platforms" from the App store. But didn't Apple also ban writing apps in, say, Haskell and all other non-C-family languages that compile to machine code? Writing in
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by chbarts 17y ago
This article seems to make the claim that rewriting the work of others is somehow not plagiarism. Interesting.
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by chbarts 17y ago
> Yes, but a self-obsessed jerk who created truly great work. That is certainly a popular notion. Funny how other good authors are also prolific authors.
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by chbarts 17y ago
Fifteen years does not guarantee competence, just like being CEO or CTO does not. Besides, if he were successful in business, why would he be in government? Warren Buffet has never held a cabinet position, to my knowledge.
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by chbarts 17y ago
Do you think policy-makers should have knowledge about the things they make policy regarding?
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by chbarts 17y ago
> So apparently native look 'n feel isn't all that for some people in their choice of applications. Heresy in Mac-land. This is contrary to just about everything the Mac GUI has historically tried to support/enforce.
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by chbarts 17y ago
> Their robots.txt is password protected now. (?) It lets you in regardless of the username/password combination. I just logged in with this: username: you morons password: this defeats the whole damn purpose I wonder if any of this get
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by chbarts 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-up_technique http://cpedia.com/search?q=william+s+burroughs Had they positioned this as an art project applying the cut-up technique to the Web as a whole, it would be seen as a real success. cpedia itse
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by chbarts 17y ago
Don't forget the free peanuts. They're different enough to serve as a hook to make sure people remember the business.
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by chbarts 17y ago
My point is that people might be subject to a rude shock when they realize their data produced by and for their business processes is subject to the laws of a foreign country.

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