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by colomon 13y ago
I read that same quote and come up with the exact opposite of your conclusion. Note "especially in combination", which doesn't make any sense if the author thinks those two things always go together.
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by colomon 13y ago
More to the point, can anyone argue that extending the royalties from works created 83 years ago makes the author more likely to have written them back them?
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by colomon 13y ago
Suggest you look at these figures -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6394464 -- and reconsider. (Or counter with better figures, if you have them.)
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by colomon 13y ago
Env A has $20 (we have it and know). Env B has $10 or $40 (equal chance). We swap. Now we hold Env B, which has $10 or $40 in it. We know the other envelope (Env A) is $20. Why would we switch again?
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by colomon 13y ago
For me, it reached the point where I several times fell asleep sitting up in my office chair -- in the middle of a conversation!
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by colomon 13y ago
https://github.com/TimToady?tab=activity
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by colomon 13y ago
Here's my question. Every comment I read here seems to assume that the roaming charges will be eliminated and that is that. Isn't it more likely the companies will raise prices elsewhere to compensate for the lost revenue?
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by colomon 13y ago
My hometown example: http://www.bluewaterferry.com/ At the same time, isn't crossing the border firmly established as a "privilege"? In the good old days (ie a decade ago) you could just hop across the borde
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by colomon 13y ago
I know everyone has their own tastes. Certainly when I'm on the command line, I prefer Linux. But for my money, the interface between me and the computer is drastically better for the MacBook Pro than it has been for any other compu
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by colomon 13y ago
Odd title, interesting article. Almost didn't read it, glad I did.
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by colomon 13y ago
There's been no such penetration at all. Because current Perl 6 implementations cannot run Perl 5 code, everyone sticks to some version of Perl 5 for "perl" and uses "perl6" when that is wanted. (That said, there
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by colomon 13y ago
The former. The tests which have never worked on any Perl 6 implementation have not magically started working recently. For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure Rakudo JVM passes more tests today than any p6 implementation did at the
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by colomon 13y ago
As one of the Perl 6 developers, my suggestion would be to wait a couple of months. There have been some very exciting developments with the new JVM backend for Rakudo Perl 6, like new work on threads and very significant speedups on longe
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by colomon 13y ago
And it's pretty easy to move any of them over to the Kindle. (Or whatever eBook platform you use, I assume -- the Kindle is just the one I have experience with.)
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by colomon 13y ago
In 1970, a glass of wine a day was what the doctor suggested my mother should drink during her pregnancy.
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by colomon 13y ago
Avatar also owes a lot to Disney's Pocahontas, which is itself a blend of an old American legend with West Side Story, which is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet, which was based on an old Italian story....
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by colomon 13y ago
Yeah, there was a lackluster movie adaption of the first book a few years back, and there's a second movie due out next month. Hmmm... fun adventurous non-fantasy YA, first that comes to mind is Kenneth Oppel's Airborn, etc. Old-
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by colomon 13y ago
Assuming you implicitly wanted to add "in roughly the same genre", the books that instantly jump to mind are Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson books. The first one really feels like he asked "How can I copy the Harry Potter
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by colomon 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicXML Disclaimer: I have no experience with MusicXML. The vast majority of the music I want to notate fits on a single staff, and ABC is brilliant for that -- it's a well-establish
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by colomon 13y ago
You know, if your algorithm worked on the first few test cases you threw at it but after that you kept on finding holes in it, you wouldn't say it had solved the problem, would you? 12 years ago, I lost 55 pounds in six months. All I
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by colomon 13y ago
I use the github app on my smartphone, it's quite handy though I don't know that I'd what to do hardcore source browsing or editing on it.
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by colomon 13y ago
That's not how I've usually seen the term side effect used in CS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_effect_(computer_science) In jasonlotito's example, he's definitely modifying state. (Mind you, I don't think side effects should be banne
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by colomon 13y ago
Isn't that a side effect?
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by colomon 13y ago
Last line is the Best Example Ever of median and mean not agreeing. Did you come up with it yourself?
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by colomon 13y ago
It seems to me that the use of the word "swipes" in the headline (which comes from the article, mind you) is utterly unjustified by the article. It implies there is a fixed Android market share which Samsung somehow took. And it suggests
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by colomon 13y ago
And is fairly active there: https://github.com/TimToady
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by colomon 13y ago
I don't know of any automated solutions, but I routinely use QuickSSHd to wirelessly scp photos to my computer from my Android phone. It will also let you get a shell on the phone and delete the old photos.
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by colomon 13y ago
But this is a pretty darned standard use case, isn't it? It's not like he's asking for the sun and the moon; he's just asking for a way to easily organize photos taken with multiple Apple devices, without using up all the storage in those
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by colomon 13y ago
The thing is, the article does not say "There are many circumstances where logging is a great tool." Who would object to that? However, what the article says is "One of the differences between a great programmer and a bad programmer is tha
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by colomon 13y ago
In my first semester (I think, might have been second) honors calculus class, the (great) teacher got carried away on one midterm. I got something like 40%, and that was the second highest grade in the class, the average was more like 30%.

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