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by derleth 13y ago
> In some countries public broadcasters don't have to stop the program every 15 minutes to beg for money, like the PBS does. PBS only does this during short periods.
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by derleth 13y ago
> voice quality beats cell phones hollow Really? Not in my experience. > Why not believe that the Media Monopoly (ABC, NBC, CBS) used their monopoly rents to make programming with lots of flourishes and quality? It did for a certain
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by derleth 13y ago
> you'll offset the entire effect of this workout by eating a cookie Hm. I dealt with this problem by radical diet change and no change in activity level. I lost more than 100 lbs in a year by going essentially vegetarian for a couple m
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by derleth 13y ago
> Bill Joy was convinced that it was possible to give the class loader the ability to statically analyze a class and determine whether or not it would work with the code that was trying to invoke it. Here, 'work' must mean 'has the meth
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by derleth 13y ago
TV is culture for the same reasons books are culture. Neither is inherently better.
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by derleth 13y ago
> Will the compiler figure this out? Maybe, maybe not. Does your compiler not generate assembly? Does your platform not have objdump or a similar tool you can use as a disassembler? I suppose asking you to profile is too much, but you
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by derleth 13y ago
According to this, Vim isn't modal: > The definition of modes given by Jef Raskin in the Humane Interface (Page 42): >>"An human-machine interface is modal with respect to a given gesture when (1) the current state of the interf
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by derleth 13y ago
> "The Humane Interface" by Jef Raskin Thoroughly debunked. The fact you keep citing to it shows the depth of your ignorance. Now do your own research instead of citing to debunked nonsense.
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by derleth 13y ago
> LISP, the write-only language. Utterly wrong, which discredits a lot of the other things you said. In particular, it discredits any claim you have to objectivity. Hey, I have opinions, too. I don't claim they're objective fact, which
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by derleth 13y ago
> I'd also like it if "costOfPieInDollars = distanceInMiles + angleInDegrees" would be an error Type tagging.
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by derleth 13y ago
And how did Raskin, who I have never met and who is dead now anyway, know my mind well enough to know how I work best?
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by derleth 13y ago
So humans who do that don't know their own minds? They're too stupid to know what a good UI for their style of thinking is?
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by derleth 13y ago
> Jef Raskin Isn't he the one who thought configurability was always bad? > You guys stand in the way of UI progress. And here we go. You think we're so stupid that we can't know what's best for us, and need to be condescended to by
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by derleth 13y ago
Raskin... wasn't he the one who said configurability is evil and shouldn't be allowed?
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by derleth 13y ago
> But there are piles of UI design research studies that show modal interfaces are, in fact, bad. Then how do Vim users work? If they're doing something that doesn't let them work, how do they work? Or is that not what you were saying?
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by derleth 13y ago
To amplify what another has said, the emphasis of functional programming is side-effect-free code, where the default assumption is that functions don't have side effects, and so can be treated as components in a pipeline that modifies data
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by derleth 13y ago
Heck, I've had times when I simply clicked the wrong arrow because my mouse or finger (on my phone) slipped.
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by derleth 13y ago
> Off campus, however, it's less clear. Off campus, 'bullying' is harassment and possibly assault. Or are those not actually crimes when the victim is a child?
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by derleth 13y ago
Unions defend workers against companies. Who defends workers against unions?
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by derleth 13y ago
I was talking about private sector unions.
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by derleth 13y ago
> Most of those same people also hate unions because they don't realize how many of their "rights" were earned and secured by them. Were earned. Were secured. Continuing to harp on the past is not a convincing argument for current r
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by derleth 13y ago
If you replaced the O with 0, why not replace the I with 1?
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by derleth 13y ago
> Also, there is the wrong use of 'begs the question' in the same paragraph :) That was a bad translation from day one, and people are now using the phrase in a way that makes more sense.
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by derleth 13y ago
Is C training wheels on assembly?
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by derleth 13y ago
> I cannot help but think that some fickle readers will draw some association between inorganic and poisonous. Which is exactly the intended reaction. The Organic Industry is big business now.
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by derleth 13y ago
> It's telling when writing a 3-4 paragraph article requires a ;TLDR section. You mean humans are still lazy mammals as opposed to being industrious insects? Say it isn't so! The rest of your post has nothing to do with the Internet. Pe
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by derleth 13y ago
"That's my hole, boy. What the fuck is your dirt doing in my hole? Get your fucking dirt out of my hole right fucking now!" Anyone can claim ownership of anything. Doesn't make it so.
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by derleth 13y ago
> I'll also point out that it's hard to write about the roaring '20s before the Copyright act of 1909. Through Copyright, All Things Are Possible! Hail Copyright!
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by derleth 13y ago
> Queue the land grab! The use of the word 'cue' in this context is really dead, isn't it?
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by derleth 13y ago
> most folks nowadays don't really read books or novels anymore, what with TV, movies, and the Internet. Reading off of a screen is still reading. I don't know why some people think paper is magical.

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