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by derleth 13y ago
> the idea that government is the sole entity that can be relied upon to solve it, as claimed earlier post I presented my argument wrong. My position is that the government is the only entity that can be relied upon to solve it entirely
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by derleth 13y ago
> ".NET applications only run (officially)" -- what's that even mean? If MS feels threatened by Mono, it changes its runtime and kills interoperability. From that point on, Mono is playing catch-up and who knows what happe
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by derleth 13y ago
> The government has shown that it, too, cannot be relied upon to solve it. Except governments in other countries have a better solution for it than the US government does. Denmark, for example, has a very low homelessness rate: http:&#
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by derleth 13y ago
> but can't everyone agree that no child should be in this situation? The problem is that you'll never get everyone to agree that the government needs to be involved in fixing the situation, even though there is no other entity
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by derleth 13y ago
> So, yes, according to the theocratic alternative, the one who has the right to further restrict our freedom may not even exist. Except in every theocracy, this isn't how it works. The people who have the right to further restrict
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by derleth 13y ago
> Google threw the gauntlet when it took a billion dollar investment into a mobile OS and gave it away for free. Seeing as how MS sold Xbox consoles at a loss so they could sell expensive games, I doubt MS has much of a leg to stand on w
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by derleth 13y ago
> can contain a backslash in a multibyte character This is potentially confusing but, ultimately, fine. The problem is slash (byte 0x2f, in ASCII '/') in multibyte characters.
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by derleth 13y ago
Your character set's control character is another character set's perfectly normal printable character. As for making the kernel enforce a single character set for the filesystem: No. No. No. Put another way: No. http:/&#x2F
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by derleth 13y ago
> into the dustbin The irony being that this is one of the worst kind of cliches, proving that Orwell had no idea what he was talking about.
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by derleth 13y ago
> Pascal is a pretty good pseudocode.. Pascal is pretty much directly derived from early dialects of Algol, which is where most modern programming language syntaxes derive; it's the original block-structured syntax, as opposed to li
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by derleth 13y ago
He's lucky he had an 80-column card! ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_80-Column_Text_Card
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by derleth 13y ago
> JAVA Why did you spell it in all-caps here?
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by derleth 13y ago
I'm pretty certain I don't have a soul, either.
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by derleth 13y ago
Osama bin Laden's war aim, which he himself stated, was to get US soldiers out of Saudi Arabia. He's dead, and there are still US soldiers in Saudi Arabia. I'd say he lost. What happened in the US after 9/11 was wrong, b
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by derleth 13y ago
> I do not rely on /dev/null. > I make my own null character devices as I need them. Why? Is there ever a reason to have more than one file on your system which acts as a /dev/null?
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by derleth 13y ago
Only if you have JS enabled. Which means they went to explicit trouble to make their site not work without JS, which never ceases to amaze me.
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by derleth 13y ago
> By replacing boy/girl/child with "person"? Humanism. Obviously idiotic.
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by derleth 13y ago
Because it's important for us to root out sexism where we find it, for the same reasons we pull up any obnoxious weed. The fact it wasn't intentional makes it all the more obnoxious.
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by derleth 13y ago
> schools are always going to teach and require the status quo. Rephrase this: "Schools are always going to teach and require the mathematics that most people use, especially given that most people are going into fields where math i
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by derleth 13y ago
It would be nice if I could find a non-OSX download on that page.
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by derleth 13y ago
Why get a nice car and customize it when you know you'll eventually have to drive someone else's shitbox Ford Focus? Your seat warmer and ergonomic gearshift handle will help you not a whit in that testament to True Detroit Stee
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by derleth 13y ago
> It's supposed to be the art of taking away until nothing unnecessary left. Except if I can't understand your use case, none of the complexity related to it is needed, so it's all excess and must be removed. After all, we
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by derleth 13y ago
You'd think that McAfee developers would be smart enough to hard-code a list of essential system files into their AV such that it will at least prompt you to get an install disk so it can replace them instead of just deleting them if i
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by derleth 13y ago
Every language has grammar by definition. We're just trying to discover it. It's like the laws of physics: We have laws which seem to work, but we know they're not the whole story, so we observe more of what happens and try t
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by derleth 13y ago
> An SUV is not necessary in the winter. Assuming you live in Europe. It's different in the US.
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by derleth 13y ago
> I'm a a big fan of The Black Knight "It's only a flesh wound!"
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by derleth 13y ago
> I'm quite sick of the trend that things have to be dumbed down for the average user so that things look "slick." This has been one of the primary complaints about the One Macintosh Way since the first Mac proved that 198
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by derleth 13y ago
If the requirements don't change and the domain really is well-known, why are you writing new software? Why isn't there pre-existing software you can reuse?
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by derleth 13y ago
> Why port the Linux kernel to Lisp? For many of the same reasons people started writing OS kernels in C rather than assembly: Less scut work, wrong code looks wrong more often, and more opportunity for code reuse. Other reasons include
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by derleth 13y ago
In Montana, depending on the season, looking out the window can be a really lousy way to gauge the temperature. When the temperature can swing more than 20 degrees Fahrenheit in a day, it can easily mean the difference between needing a jac

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