cobrausn

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by cobrausn 15y ago
Idealistically sound, but not realistic. Roads and cars exist to meet a need (individual mobility and mass transit, primarily). At this time, that need also serves the public, and it is disingenuous to say that roads only benefit those wi
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Emscripten - LLVM to JavaScript Compiler(github.com)
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by cobrausn 15y ago
I think it's actually a bit more selfish to want people to give up their earned conveniences to satisfy your own particular desires, in this case, making the city 'how it should be', when it clearly works fairly well the way it is. Saying
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Id Software's Main Linux Game Developer Resigns(phoronix.com)
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Railroad Association Says TSA Hack Memo Was Inaccurate(wired.com)
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Well, I would argue that the traffic problems arise because of a failure on the part of city planners to design their roadways to accommodate the amount of traffic that they receive (not a problem unique to Toronto), but yes, the traffic pr
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by cobrausn 15y ago
See, I lived in upstate NY for a while in Saratoga Springs. You can walk all the way across that town very easily (I did a few times). But with my car I was able to drive up to the Adirondacks and go hiking on a whim, or drive myself and
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Maybe this is my inner American Biker showing through here, but to me access to the roadway and the freedom to go where I want to, when I want to, without being dependent on the competency of others to get me there is a huge feeling of free
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by cobrausn 15y ago
IBM was the first company to successfully release a commercial USB flash drive back in 2000.
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The World's Worst Privacy Policy(skipity.com)
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States Allow Voting via Cloud for Citizens Overseas(informationweek.com)
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Avoiding the Debugger(programmers.stackexchange.com)
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by cobrausn 15y ago
'It makes lobbyists having to deal with 50 separate state legislatures rather than 100 individuals.' This is precisely why I tend to be very libertarian at a federal level and not so much at the state level. I consider having a powerful si
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by cobrausn 15y ago
For those interested who don't care to read the kotaku summary, the link to the FedBizOps page with the proposal is here: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id...
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DARPA Crowd Sourced Formal Verifications for Weapons System Code(kotaku.com)
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by cobrausn 15y ago
I tend to think technology and IT are more pragmatic than liberal, but I believe it doesn't matter anyway - it probably has more to do with the social norms of a generation. Technology and IT are full of young people. There is higher supp
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by cobrausn 15y ago
This has little to do with religion and more to do with power. There are secular regimes that have done equivalent (or worse).
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Scott Adams on SOPA(dilbert.com)
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Or akin to criticizing C for not being an expressive, high-level language. Also, in response to your first point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine
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Programmer Competency Matrix(starling-software.com)
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Tricks With the Floating Point Format(altdevblogaday.com)
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by cobrausn 15y ago
She worked and paid our rent and grocery bills while I finished up my CS degree. She can call it whatever she wants. :-)
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A Brief History of SIMD(altdevblogaday.com)
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by cobrausn 15y ago
As my fiance is so fond of telling me when I say "I'm off to do some work!" when going to work on my programming side projects (which includes open source development with plans for future closed source commercial projects as well), she rep
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by cobrausn 15y ago
It needed to be on HN at least twice.
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by cobrausn 15y ago
I agree completely with the second statement (and it is a big reason why I support NASA and space exploration in general), but Uranium, Hydrogen, bacteria... these are all things we can study easily and interact with all the time, and study
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Out of curiosity, then, what potential applications could be had from these physical measurements of the Higgs, i.e., where could we see any real-world benefits of our newfound knowledge? Everything I have ever read about it never divulges
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by cobrausn 15y ago
I might get downvoted for this, but so be it. What value does the LHC have outside of the scientific community? It's not, as you say, 'progressing our understanding', it's more or less just giving us empirical evidence that the long-dead g
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Implementing Someone Else's Algorithm(altdevblogaday.com)
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Actually, there is, just not as many upvotes as the others. http://stackoverflow.com/a/2026849 Basically, it is possible to inherit a random class in ruby. class RandomSubclass < [Array, Hash, String, Fixnum, Float, TrueClass].s

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