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by chris_j 16y ago
I was going to say the same thing. When I first visited the page, I quickly scrolled down to the bottom of the page, thinking "I hope I get past this huge ad and on to the text of the article." Luckily, I realised my mistake and moved close
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by chris_j 16y ago
Just curious, what for you are the shortcomings of Python? By the way, I completely agree with your main point here. When programming in Clojure, the availability of the Java libs is a very useful thing and that makes Clojure itself useable
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by chris_j 16y ago
Agreed. In reality, there's a balance to be made between the cost of maintaining the status quo (in the event that the status quo sucks) and the cost of making changes. One thing that really frustrated me when I started my career is that th
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by chris_j 16y ago
You adopt two attitudes towards "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" in two similar ways: 1) Don't try to fix it or you might break it! 2) If it ain't broke then you can still try to improve it. The reality is that there is a balancing act bet
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by chris_j 16y ago
That's awesome :-) I had a similar experience. I'm based in the UK so I have my computer set up to use a UK keyboard layout. One time, I decided to use the # symbol in my Windows password. The next time I tried to log in to Windows, my pass
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by chris_j 16y ago
The title asks "Who's to Blame?" That's regrettable wording. We could apportion blame in a number of ways but that wouldn't really help prevent a situation like this arising again. There are three main actors in this case: - The university
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by chris_j 16y ago
The last page is very poignant. "Is this too much to ask?" My fear that it might be. A cynic would suggest that a newspaper's primary responsibility is not to report the news accurately to its readers but to make as much money as possible f
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We7 shows ad-funded model can work for online music(guardian.co.uk)
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Case dropped against Simon Singh (news.bbc.co.uk)
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Icelandic volcanic ash alert grounds UK flights(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by chris_j 17y ago
> Ok. So how does an Apple fan respond to something they intensely dislike? It's very difficult to respond in an objective manner to something that you feel emotional about. Some of the best advice that I have heard over the years is to