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by danssig 15y ago
Or you can use AirVideo. It converts while it streams or you can have it just do the conversion and dump it in iTunes so it will sync to the ipad automatically for offline usage.
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by danssig 15y ago
Well, that's the thing: even in the US, as bad as it has become, saying vile racist comments on the internet wouldn't get you put in jail . Is the guy a scumbag? Obviously. Should people go to jail for speaking their mind? That's probab
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by danssig 15y ago
Don't forget; the UK also put someone in jail for tweeting.
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by danssig 15y ago
Seems like a proper time for civil disobedience.
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by danssig 15y ago
I would be good with getting rid of prisons entirely. If someone is violent and dangerous then they're probably insane and should be treated, not "punished". As far as your example, I find it bizarre that you find a person threatening to k
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by danssig 15y ago
It depends on what we're talking about. If a person stole money then they should have to pay that back with reasonable interest. So that wouldn't be tied to how much money the person has, they're basically giving back what they took. If i
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by danssig 15y ago
There are many options. Charge them money (and ensure you can force them to pay it back, e.g. wage garnishing), public service was suggested, etc. Looking them away from their life seems incredibly excessive.
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by danssig 15y ago
Or in Common Lisp you would be able to "signal" a condition and then handle the situation. Signal will just do nothing unless some higher level code has an explicit handler for it [1]. [1] I remember reading a MIME encoding library years a
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by danssig 15y ago
Or drive prices down. You would be cutting out a lot of middle men going this route.
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by danssig 15y ago
I find locking people away from their life for more than a day or two absolutely barbaric. I'm surprised a country often rated most democratic in the world locks people away for non-violent offenses.
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by danssig 15y ago
Wtf? Why hasn't this post blended into the background already? US healthcare inexpensive? Pretty much everyone who's ever looked into this disagrees. Worrying about about health insurance is silly? What a moronic attitude. Health care
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by danssig 15y ago
8??? The company I'm at is still on 6!
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by danssig 15y ago
Oh I agree with that. If Vista didn't kill them (or even hurt them, really) I can't imagine this will either.
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by danssig 15y ago
I have a MBP and I can install what ever I want. What are you talking about?
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by danssig 15y ago
That's not strictly true. People generally skip every other version of windows because somehow every other version sucks.
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by danssig 15y ago
We'll have to agree to disagree on that. Right now I'm a cog in a big company and I know what I do isn't as valuable as what entrepreneurs do. I came in to a team who had a horrible software system, replaced everything and brought running
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by danssig 15y ago
You think so? I think Gambling irresponsibly is considered bad, but Gambling if you can afford it is pretty fun.
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by danssig 15y ago
I don't know. But when choosing a system I wouldn't chose SVN for svn:externals. Git has submodules which I find nicer.
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by danssig 15y ago
I think you and the parent may be talking past each other. When most people talk about "un-ambitious" people they're talking about "cogs". People working in some generic job in a big company. Your dad sounds like he probably effectively h
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by danssig 15y ago
>Unlike the poster below thinks though I don't have 40 free hours a week these days. I am working to build the next big thing because this is in my blood, I suspect this is what the poster below meant by having 40 free hours a week.
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by danssig 15y ago
>I would not want to work for Facebook for any amount of money. For any amount? I'd even work for the Koch brothers for, say, $10m/yr. Of course I'll be gone from their company and the entire rat race after a year, but still.
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by danssig 15y ago
I disagree completely. I would say everyone should start with Smalltalk. Start with something beautiful and clean and then learn the messy stuff that makes it possible later.
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by danssig 15y ago
What about going onto, say, Linux and making your own graphical toolkit from the ground up?
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by danssig 15y ago
Ack, Darcs had a problem so you went with SVN? I hope you've at least switched to using git as your SVN client by now.
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by danssig 15y ago
The concept is quite awkward in any single dispatch language. The biggest WTF ever is Racket adding single dispatch OO! You actually have to say (send object 'message).
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by danssig 15y ago
It's a good, if fairly old [1] insight. The fact is, there are two kinds of patterns: architectural patterns (e.g. "message bus", "web service", etc.) and there are language deficiency patterns (e.g. factory, double dispatch/visitor, etc.)
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by danssig 15y ago
Not really because people were paying for this. They don't have to pay to play scamville.
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by danssig 15y ago
I don't know, things actually seem to be trending the opposite. Who would have thought that people would spend so much time in facebook playing games that have seemingly no point. I also disagree that HTML5 is any easier. After over 20 ye
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by danssig 15y ago
I think it very likely is the case. They can't put ads on the iOS app without giving Apple a cut so they are very likely making the App subtly worse as time goes by.
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by danssig 15y ago
Someone winning the lottery is more likely than someone getting hit by a bus while being struck by lightening. You specifically winning the lottery is probably less likely than you specifically getting hit by a bus at the same time

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