danparsonson

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LHC sets new record – accelerates beam to 3.5 TeV(press.web.cern.ch)
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by danparsonson 17y ago
My point was that the protocols could in theory be used across connections other than serial ports.
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by danparsonson 17y ago
>But if I were trying to solve the problem one reader sent to me as a canonical example of an OO problem, I wouldn't. Suppose you have n serial ports, each of which may speak one of k protocols, and this must be configurable at run-time
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by danparsonson 17y ago
... sometime over the next 1.5 million years. Probably.
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by danparsonson 17y ago
I'm not certain exactly where your incisive satire is aimed, but "this whole thread" was not the right phrase for me to have used - I was really referring to the portion of the discussion starting from the immediate parent to my first comme
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by danparsonson 17y ago
> I think your assumption, that valuing human life more than trees instantly implies we should kill trees without end, is wrong.... were I forced to make a choice between shooting a human and cutting down 150,000 trees, I'd chop the tre
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by danparsonson 17y ago
> Placing us on the same level as trees is backwards, and it is not very useful thinking in those terms. My turn to ask for some definitions - what do you mean by 'backwards', and 'useful'? > We need to understand our place in the u
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by danparsonson 17y ago
An excellent point. This whole thread is (I think necessarily) subjective, but I will do my best. I would also be interested to hear what the parents of this post mean when they refer to 'value'. What inspired me to comment in the first p
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by danparsonson 17y ago
> Having some ecological sensitivity doesn't imply valuing trees (even 150'000 of them) more than human beings I didn't say that, you misread me I'm afraid. My point was that trees (as an example) are no less NOR more valuable than hum
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by danparsonson 17y ago
Well, not all of us elevate humanity above the other life on this planet; indeed, some of the important problems we humans face today are a direct result of the kind of attitude that one human being is worth at least 150,000 trees - that is
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by danparsonson 17y ago
>With each delay, the theory becomes a hair less fanciful I've been searching the list to try and classify this correctly, and I think it's this one: http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#co...
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by danparsonson 17y ago
Well you obviously missed this part: "The scientists are also experimenting with the possibility of exploiting the bug using lasers or natural radiation sources, they said." Where once I could bring my laser or a large piece of radioactive
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by danparsonson 17y ago
It's not specific to Rails, only his example URL is - Rails listens on port 3000 by default. You could equally try http://iwishyouwouldnt.smackaho.st:80/ and get your local web server.
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by danparsonson 17y ago
Actually, I thought the cattle analogy missed the point - surely the reason we don't give names to each of our 10,000 cattle is that we don't care which one is which? I don't find that to be true of data. Also, file names are often used t
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by danparsonson 17y ago
Have a look at the other articles linked in the comments - perhaps they will present the same information in a more balanced way for you. The subject under discussion is very serious, even if this particular write-up of it does not suit yo
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by danparsonson 17y ago
> Are my hackercomrades weak for this kind of manipulation...? Did you intend that to be self-referential or is it just a happy accident? :-)
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by danparsonson 17y ago
To clarify: by 'concerns' I meant 'is relevant to', not 'causes to worry'. IMHO, Hacker News is a site for discussing issues relevant to its readership; my point was that this article is indeed relevant, even though it's not explicitly tec
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by danparsonson 17y ago
Non-tech stories are hardly unprecedented: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1155108 If you're an inhabitant of Earth then large-scale environmental damage driven by global spending habits concerns you too. Sorry about that!
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by danparsonson 17y ago
For further comparison, BBC article about the Polish farms operated by the same company here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4035081.stm .
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by danparsonson 17y ago
I can recommend SoundCloud ( http://soundcloud.com/tracks )
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by danparsonson 17y ago
> it wouldn't be hard to work out what is just content (textures, geometry, sound), and what are the variables (player location, progress, etc) and just save/load that As the saying goes - I'd love to see you try it! In order to captur
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by danparsonson 17y ago
I guess the boxes that eBay and Google are using have hamsters inside them instead?
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by danparsonson 17y ago
You get the intro page with a button at the bottom ("Sweet! Check out Buzz!") but the feature is automatically enabled.
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by danparsonson 17y ago
Some information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earths_atmosp... Also have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#Global_warming_p... : "Carbon dioxide has a variable atmospheric lifetime, and cannot
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by danparsonson 17y ago
Actually it looks like casting (being a unary operator) takes precedence over multiplication: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/op... http://www.cs.uwf.edu/~eelsheik/cop2253/resources/op_precede...
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by danparsonson 17y ago
How about this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Concise-48-Laws-Power/dp/1861974043/...