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by dghf 12y ago
"I used to make jokes about Emacs just as Emacs users about Vim but actually it seems to be a pretty decent piece of software." BURN THE APOSTATE! [Will this do?]
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by dghf 12y ago
How do you re-sell an e-book without duplicating it, unless you sell your e-reader device with the e-book on it?
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by dghf 12y ago
"Project Adam"? Second Impact, anyone?
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by dghf 12y ago
Wol Wantok, Ken Campbell's project to promote Melanesian Pidgin English (specifically Bislama, according to Wikipedia) as a single global language ("wol wantok" = "world one-talk"), on the grounds that you can learn
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by dghf 12y ago
It got Ned Stark in 20 questions, and Jacques DeMolay in 22.
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by dghf 12y ago
Yes, I've never understood why dostuff(x) is considered so much more readable than (dostuff x)
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by dghf 12y ago
Clojure: (defn grade [student] (cond (excellent-work student) "A+" (okay-stuff student) (if (tried-hard student) "B" "B-") :else "C"))
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by dghf 12y ago
That definition of "comprise" is more or less the opposite of the British English definition, where "A comprises B, C and D" means "A includes B, C and D and nothing else." E.g Parliament comprises the House of
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by dghf 12y ago
To address some of the other replies to this comment ("it would more convincing with spelling errorrs" &c.), Dennet isn't directly concerned with the Turing Test itself here: he's attacking the Chinese Room argument
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by dghf 13y ago
This sounds a lot like Robert Shea's & Robert Anton Wilson's division of humanity into neophiles and neophobes in the Illuminatus! trilogy.
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by dghf 13y ago
I played this on an ICL One Per Desk ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Per_Desk ), sometime in the mid-80s. I loved it.
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by dghf 13y ago
I read a novel by a former SAS soldier about a former SAS soldier who's sent on deniable operations by the British government, and who uses what is clearly a one-time pad to communicate with his handlers. The detailed description o
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by dghf 13y ago
Perfect for dogescript ( https://github.com/remixz/dogescript ).
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by dghf 13y ago
"... perfect ... for ... writing passive aggressive office memos." Marvellous.
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by dghf 13y ago
Or just print everything in 75% grey?
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by dghf 13y ago
As "Joan", "Joanna" or "Jane", presumably. Slightly off-topic: I can't find a link, but I'm sure I read somewhere that Irish speakers in the nineteenth century would routinely anglicise their own name
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by dghf 13y ago
"You have reinvented PHP better, but that's still no justification": http://colinm.org/language_checklist.html
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by dghf 13y ago
> Verdana (the font of this very comment: "I") Weird. I'm seeing it in Adobe Source Sans Pro, where that "I" has no serifs.
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by dghf 13y ago
By that measure, having women priests/ministers (or just letting a woman conduct a reading, as even the Catholic Church does) is also a no-no: "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to spea
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by dghf 13y ago
> Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. But just discrimination, like trying to stop them marrying someone they love, even in a purely civil ceremony which objectively speaking is none of our damn busi
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by dghf 13y ago
> people who claim to uphold liberty of conscience simply will not allow Christians to express their views on marriage. That must be why you never hear anyone objecting to gay marriage any more. [/sarc]
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by dghf 13y ago
I still have my high-school dictionary, and it has this entry: quark n. (Phys.) one of several (orig. three) hypothetical components of elementary particles. That's from the 7th edition (1982, reprinted 1984) of the Concise Oxford Dic