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by cturner 15y ago
I'd say the opposite. We spend vast amounts of money prolonging the life of people who we know in advance are extremely unlikely to generate quantifiable benefit. How do you suppport what you've said?
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by cturner 15y ago
I'm using firefox. For some reason when I'm on the text editor page, text navigation like space, pageup, pagedown and end don't work.
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by cturner 15y ago
Ability to communicate your ideas is an important skill. Why do you disagree?
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by cturner 15y ago
Until I'd read that I'd not realised what a powerful play the royal we is. It's an attempt to craft the identity of the listener into the project of the speaker. In its own way a hack - it makes for our reasoning via our language processing
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by cturner 15y ago
I found this one extremely thin. There's a title that says we're "hard-wired" for rc. Then makes claim that our aversion to corners is a result of socialisation (i.e. not hard-wired). The case is simply ridiculous. Do parents not mind when
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A real-estate bubble with Chinese characteristics(thedailybeast.com)
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by cturner 15y ago
Very cool. I've been working on a 1d roguelike for a while, similar approach. Although a bit easier to know what's going on there because you get symbols rather than shadows.
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by cturner 15y ago
I get the impression that it's becoming easier to knock together a linux system on a custom motherboard build around ARM. I have a project where I'm trying to get USB-to-ethernet to work for pandaboard. But I'd prefer to have two ethernet a
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by cturner 15y ago
I have a poor understanding of the toolchain, as my next question may make clear. What obstacles would there be to running Borland C++ in this, and developing from here?
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by cturner 15y ago
It might discriminate in their favour. On average, foreign students I studied with had much better basic grammar than native English speakers.
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by cturner 15y ago
I've been using britcoin and find the guy pretty responsive. Last payment was received and handled within 24 hours.
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by cturner 15y ago
If anyone has been looking to get into bitcoin, the spot price is a lot lower at the moment than it was a few weeks ago when all the media was focussed on it. (I increased my position over last few days at slightly lower prices.)
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by cturner 15y ago
That's a rose-tinted view. All of the things you list as investor-friendly involve exceptions whereby the government fails to swipe money from you. The effect of policies that tax most investment scenarios is to discourage investment becaus
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by cturner 15y ago
I'm reading this ( http://www.amazon.com/68000-assembly-language-programming-Ge... ), and messing about with it on EASy68k: http://www.easy68k.com . I'm using that book because it seems to be a gentle start into assembly language. If you r
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by cturner 15y ago
Use of a computer shouldn't be a visual experience for most tasks. You have a mental model of what's going on, and then poke stuff to verify the model and to affect state. > However, teaching the average person to use a new &#
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by cturner 15y ago
Sensible defaults. Sure, it's a polish issue. Polish is a good thing, particularly for racket which aspires to and is succeeding at making scheme accessible. When you fire up rebol, perl, ruby, python, awk for the first time, they don't sen
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by cturner 15y ago
Racket makes it easy to fire up a Scheme and start doing work. It's the flexible, usable lisp with libraries that I was waiting for. There's less cause to drop SICP from the curriculum when you can get a high-quality scheme distribution and
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by cturner 15y ago
Do you have ideas for features for some new oddball architectures? An obstacle is that you need both the hardware, and an operating system, making for a much larger undertaking. Whereas if you were to clone an Atari ST you'd get both mindsh
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by cturner 15y ago
This is working. I think in your first comment you merged the idea contract and property into a single idea - and were calling that thing property. To put my position another way, while you can have a contract to exchange property, not all
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by cturner 15y ago
I'd guess you've been voted you down because you're talking in philosophy and not connecting it to practical matters. For what it's worth, I'd recommend you do this: find a way to make your case in a practical way. Then explain that this si
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by cturner 15y ago
I'm having trouble grasping what you're trying to say, and read your sentences as contradicting one other in two separate places. I read back through your first posting, and can't understand how you can be on the one hand saying that people
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by cturner 15y ago
Your first paragraph is incorrect. Ideas are not property, except through "intellectual property" law. There's a similar but separate issue - you wouldn't have the right to sell someone else's work and claim it as your own - this would be m
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by cturner 15y ago
I'm having lots of thoughts about climates within the rings. I'd expect the temperature ranges to change at different distances frmo the centre. It may be that you could do agriculture at some points underneath. On the other hand, it's like
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by cturner 15y ago
haha I can see why we disagree. Same problems, different solutions. Often there are dozens of applications (or independent modules) using the database I know! I always assume that someone will try to pull this on me, some short
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by cturner 15y ago
Could you use a table design of id|fk_a_id|fk_b_id, and then complement with indexes to get equiv. performance of the direct composite primary key? Assuming so, I think composite key is premature optimisation.
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by cturner 15y ago
Thanks to you and others for respectful responses on what I didn't realise was a hot-button issue. You ask, "In general, if you have an entity with a well-defined natural key (users and their logins, shipments and their tracking codes), why
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by cturner 15y ago
If I'm designing a schema, I always have a primary key column called "id" with an autoincrement sequence against it. Sometimes I'll have a domain table, with key varchar, description varchar. Perhaps you deal with existing systems you didn'
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by cturner 15y ago
This section of wp article is a good start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-materialism#Measuring_post... "If you had to choose among the following things, which are the two that seem the most desirable to you? Maintaining order i
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by cturner 15y ago
It's just dumb luck and path dependence. If Netscape had put scheme into Navigator we'd be using that instead.
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by cturner 15y ago
If you wanted to be able to mount one monitor or several on a flexible arms so you can drag it around a room, it would be good to reduce cable clutter. This is a project I've been thinking for my space.

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