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by chris_j 12y ago
Do not forget that, whatever the strength of Russia's conventional forces, Russia also possesses nuclear weapons. For that reason, it would be unthinkable for the West to fight a head on war against Russia.
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by chris_j 12y ago
To get round the paywall, do a Google search for "More Officers Wearing Body Cameras" and then click on the link to the article in the search results.
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by chris_j 12y ago
That's still not quite right. It's not lazy evaluation that makes it feasible to "make a new tree" in Haskell (although it doesn't hurt), it's the fact that the new tree shares most of the state of the old tree
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by chris_j 13y ago
I interpret geocar's point as being that the (L)GPL is the reason that Apple had to contribute the improvements that they made to Konqueror/KHTML back to the community in the form of WebKit: sure, they chose KHTML because of its
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by chris_j 13y ago
One thing that I really like about Python is the interactive style of development that it encourages, at least for me. I tend to do Python development in emacs with source code in one buffer and a repl in another buffer, building my program
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by chris_j 13y ago
The term that I've heard used for this is sterile transit. I'm not aware of any US airports having it.
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by chris_j 13y ago
Would you mind expanding on that? What exaggerated perceptions do a lot of people have and in what way do they not match reality?
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by chris_j 13y ago
It's been a while since I used Windows so I can't really comment on the current state of Cygwin but the one thing that I still recommend Cygwin for is to use the X server if you want to log on to a *nix box and run something graph
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by chris_j 13y ago
I've not tried Vagrant on Windows (or indeed used Windows for a while). Is it easy.to give the VM full access to the Windows filesystem, the way that Cygwin has?
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by chris_j 13y ago
Regarding point 1, my favourite solution to the problem of users forgetting the account name is to use the email address to log in, rather than forcing the user to make up an account name. Are there any reasons for not doing that?
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by chris_j 13y ago
What makes you think that Mozilla are obliged to cooperate with the NSA any less than Google are?
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by chris_j 13y ago
What could nikatwork have changed about the original comment in order to make the intended meaning more clear here?
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by chris_j 13y ago
When creating a poll like this, it would be useful to specify the question in a bit more detail. Do you mean what is your primary OS or do you mean responders to upvote every OS that they use even only rarely? I use OS X and Fedora at home
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by chris_j 13y ago
If a president could only serve one six year term then wouldn't you get the unaccountable second term crap for the whole of that six year term? Surely one thing that keeps a politician accountable to the electorate is the prospect of h
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by chris_j 13y ago
Would you mind spelling out what is meant by "PMC"s?
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by chris_j 13y ago
What does the T stand for in RTFT?
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by chris_j 13y ago
Which web hosts are they and what advantages do they have over web hosts that do grant ssh access?
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by chris_j 13y ago
Would you mind precisely defining what you mean by "republic"? Growing up in the UK, I was taught that a republic is a country with a non-hereditary head of state. Under that definition, the USA would be a republic, as would China
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by chris_j 13y ago
I don't understand what you mean. Would you mind expanding on that?
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by chris_j 13y ago
I agree; that's one thing that I notice, especially in an email chain with a lot of people in it. What would you like to see Gmail do about it?
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by chris_j 14y ago
EDIT: As mietek points out below, the site does provide precisely this information. I guess that every answer that the site gives could link back to an authoritative source (such as a site run by the government of the destination country)
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by chris_j 14y ago
Thanks very much for the information; I had completely missed that particular meme until now.
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by chris_j 14y ago
What does "1.5+" mean in the context of being a great engineer?
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by chris_j 14y ago
What is it about RSS that is broken and what would you like to see replace it?
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by chris_j 14y ago
The article and his Wikipedia page state that he was born and raised in Worcestershire so it looks like he is British.
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by chris_j 14y ago
I received a similar email a few months ago. I was rather annoyed to receive it, to be honest, because I had been reading the emails. Just with images disabled.
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by chris_j 14y ago
What makes you say that?
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by chris_j 14y ago
Could you expand a little on what sort of impact you would like to see the FSF make in this area?
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by chris_j 14y ago
What issues did you have with the LGPL that made it necessary to expunge all LGPL code?
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Nginx Requests/Second – RaspberryPi vs Amazon EC2(evilsoapbox.com)
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