dleslie

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by dleslie 10y ago
They give it up for free photo storage and a like button.
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by dleslie 10y ago
I think you vastly over-estimate our ability to have monitored the earth throughout its entire history.
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by dleslie 10y ago
As though America is the only meaningful nation advocating for freedom in the world; or that Americans are themselves living lives of liberty, free from the shackles of systemic oppression.
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by dleslie 10y ago
As it goes, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I have never in my life seen a mountain gorilla. I am aware of evidence that shows that they exist, but at my age my grand parents did not have access to that same evidence; does t
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by dleslie 10y ago
My apologies, Mulroney was worse[0]; as a conservative I tend to block Mulroney from my memory. At the time of Harper's 2008 budget, a deficit budget and the first of his majority government, the Canadian economy was being lauded inter
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by dleslie 10y ago
How does the GPL gag developers?
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by dleslie 10y ago
What about the GPLv3 prevents them from using GNU user space tools?
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by dleslie 10y ago
This is why "interrupted" and "incomplete" are often valid error states.
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by dleslie 10y ago
And then every "good engineer" who adopts this means of defining success is in part responsible for the unresponsive UIs and spotty battery lives of devices running anything other than stock software. "Why is my phone running
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by dleslie 10y ago
... And the inefficiency of delivering services to a large, low-density population; and the societal burdens of municipalities designed around automobiles as the primary mode of transportation. Air quality, sedentary lifestyles, loss of wil
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by dleslie 10y ago
I've not used Plan9; but one ought to consider that any IO may not be successful, and this is regardless of the device. It may generally be less likely to encounter disk read errors than it is to encounter network timeouts, but both wi
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by dleslie 10y ago
I use org-capture. [0] 0: http://orgmode.org/manual/Capture.html
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by dleslie 10y ago
It happened again, already. Harper contributed the largest deficits and the biggest total new debt of any PM; and he started -before- the 2008 crisis.
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by dleslie 10y ago
In a historical sense, Canadian dollar isn't particularly low, at least not so low that I would call it "massive flooring". [0][1] Canada's unemployment rate of 7.1% is normal. [2] 0: The 80s were turbulent: http:/
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by dleslie 10y ago
I wrote the netcode, among other things, for Army of Two: 40th day. I suppose so long as the matchmaking servers are up then the code is available to be run. Last I checked for active games was well over five years ago, but there were sever
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by dleslie 11y ago
I maintain a number of Chicken packages and am a contributor to Geiser. With standardized libraries in R7RS-small the opportunity has existed for sometime for a community-created package manager to come into existence. There are several in