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by coolestuk 14y ago
This is the nearest thing that I've come across in python: http://sandbox.pocoo.org/clevercss/ http://jaredforsyth.com/blog/2010/jun/17/clevercss-reloaded/
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by coolestuk 15y ago
other: hypertalk http://www.runrev.com/
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by coolestuk 15y ago
It should be a criminal offence to have top secret national information or 3rd party personal information stored in an unencrypted format. Even the much-hated Lotus Notes was encrypting databases back in the 1980s. http://www.ibm.com/devel
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by coolestuk 15y ago
Zionism was a secular movement. I'm not a jew, and I'm an atheist. I believe in religion being removed from the public sphere. And I'm also a zionist.
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by coolestuk 15y ago
Where did the "Palestinian arabs" come from? Arabia. What is their language? Arabic. What were they doing outside Arabia? Like the muslim conquest of north Africa, Spain, Persia, India, etc., the area of Palestine was taken by violent c
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by coolestuk 15y ago
You are wrong on so many levels (and I'm not a jew). When zionism was created in the late 19th century, most jews in the world had NO interest in moving to Palestine or being zionists. Ask yourself the question: why if they believe that t
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by coolestuk 15y ago
That is the kind of ignorant idea I used to have. It is time you got beyond the media failing to provide a true historical context for what is probably the most over-reported region of the planet. Already in 1929 in Hebron "Palestinian" Ara
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by coolestuk 15y ago
"At a certain stage of life, aggressive medical treatment can become sanctioned torture. " I just went through a month with a 90 year old friend whose life ended almost exactly like the story in that story. He had one lucid 30 mins when I
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by coolestuk 15y ago
It's not just about the relative costs of transporting overweight people. I am 180cm tall, and 70kgs in weight. On a non-stop flight between SF and London, I was sandwiched between two massively overweight men. I could not even eat a mea
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by coolestuk 15y ago
In Britain jurors can ask questions of witnesses and the accused. At the end of a trial day, the judge will ask if the jury has any questions. When I was on a 3 week trial, I had a page-full of questions every day. I identified issues th
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by coolestuk 15y ago
It is truly offensive to what black africans endured under apartheid, to compare Israel with South Africa. My guess is that the people who say such things have never visited Israel and never visited South Africa under apartheid. 'African-A
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by coolestuk 15y ago
I hope I can give people some context. I have never thought I would feel so down that I would consider ending my life. I don't mind poverty, I'm very flexible in relationships, lots of things in my life have not turned out the way I hoped
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by coolestuk 15y ago
Einstein only wore identical suits to occasions requiring suits. For the rest of it, he was laid back. Maybe Jobs will also be included in this account of famous people with Asperger's syndrome. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PM
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by coolestuk 15y ago
http://testyourvocab.com/?r=55953 37,100 I'm ashamed I didn't do better. I'm considerably older than the average HN reader. I did degrees in 4 different subjects (mind you, I was classed officially as retarded at my high school - in t
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by coolestuk 17y ago
Antirez does not seem at all arrogant to me. He's just looked around at the technologies he needs and found that there was something missing, then set about filling that gap. We all do that in our own way (even if we can't do it in our day
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by coolestuk 17y ago
The International Federation of the Red Cross is a hypocritical organization. In Muslim countries it is called The Red Crescent (and any aid packages/vehicles are marked with a crescent moon). Yet only one muslim country (Kuwait) figures (
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by coolestuk 17y ago
You are saying terrorism works. You are saying that one of the most important companies in the world should discriminate in favour of one religion, because the adherents of that religion will use violence to get their way. Google has chose
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by coolestuk 17y ago
why would they even risk it at all? So, you're saying terrorism works. It's ok to offend groups who don't resort to terrorism to destroy freedom of speech. That Google operates censorship in China and India is bad enough. Now you're sayin
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by coolestuk 17y ago
There is an elephant in the room. The threat to US/Western Europe/Australasia is coming from muslims. They are by far the biggest terrorist threat to these areas. So we should have a 'no-fly' rule for muslims. A minority of current flyer
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by coolestuk 17y ago
If you are running a site that is used by others and you don't have a system to automatically rebuild your server on another host, I'd say you have bigger problems than the relative performance of your provider's architecture.
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by coolestuk 17y ago
I don't think that Wittgenstein's observations on "language games" has been absorbed and taken for granted. His interest in games was part of his exposition of the nature of universals (forms, essences). Considering that for at least 25 y
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by coolestuk 17y ago
I used OS X for about 7 years, but finally decided to give up on the Apple Tax. I bought the first refurbished laptop that met my specs (cheap, lots of ram) and installed Mandriva (as I'd read that it would enable me to use my Windows Mobi
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by coolestuk 17y ago
WM on HTC is pretty good. One of my major requirements is that a cellphone should be able to share its internet connection with my laptop. On the HTC that's easy (using bluetooth or USB, and it works with Vista,OS X,Linux). I'm in the ma
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by coolestuk 17y ago
When I complained about the temperature in the library, the staff agreed, but said there was nothing they could do about it, as the heating was broken. However, I was there last week and even though it was warm outside, it felt like the he
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by coolestuk 17y ago
I tried my local library. It was impossible. The building so over-heated, that even with snow on the ground and me wearing a thin cotton shirt, I thought I was going to pass out. Then there were the "students" who spent their time laughi
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by coolestuk 17y ago
His experience at Leeds is not uncommon. I originally graduated from one of the better known universities in 1983, and returned to post-graduate study and teaching in 1989. I experienced an even worse scenario then he - teaching as a part-
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by coolestuk 17y ago
I assumed Alan Kay was going to be in the list, somewhere in the top 3. After all, the mac UI concept (and hence Windows) could be traced back to him. He invented OO, and Smalltalk is still in use and his free IDE Squeak has produced one o
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by coolestuk 17y ago
Lotus Notes has been doing multi-master replication for over 20 years. The very architecture is built on it. Replication can be push-pull, push or just pull. And can be scheduled or user-initiated. It automatically merges changed document
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by coolestuk 17y ago
I've been making the same points for a decade. The Bank of England was given the task of keeping inflation low, and their means of doing this was interest rates. When inflation was getting close to the acceptable ceiling, they increased i
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by coolestuk 18y ago
I'm really appalling at maths, and yet I love programming, and have been doing it full-time for over 10 years now. I came to programming very late in life, and almost had to claw my way into the industry. I was almost 30 before I even tou

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