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by douglasisshiny 13y ago
While I haven't heard the term burner phone outside of The Wire, I assumed it had been a real term since the writers were so close to these subjects. What I meant (more precisely) was that, from my perspective, The Wire popularized the
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by douglasisshiny 13y ago
Did you get the idea for the name of the product from The Wire?
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by douglasisshiny 13y ago
Spain's government finances were not unsustainable prior to the recession. In fact, they were in pretty good shape. Spain did, however, face a crippling housing bubble due to the surge of outside investment.
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by douglasisshiny 13y ago
Considering that Germany is essentially the ECB -- no, it's not. As a lender of last resort, the ECB has failed. It has failed to acknowledge to lessons taught by history; and it has failed to look itself in the mirror now. Germany reaped t
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by douglasisshiny 13y ago
this was the issue I had with using a Linux OS (ubuntu, mint) full time and why I switched back to Windows (and run a VM). many of the distros are focused on replicating basic OS features over and over again.
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
I see. I was not aware that this was the case. Thank you.
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
I'm curious why Java isn't customer neutral. Clojure (and Scala) both seem to be more mature, and concurrency is a core part of clojure (with a rich ecosystem and runtime in the JVM).
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
It is unfortunate. You're right, logistically it's impossible to screen people. Technically you could do criminal background checks, but I don't know if animal rescues have the resources for that; or what the blow back would be. And even th
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
In addition to the points I made below (pit bull isn't a breed, but an umbrella term for six different breeds, et al.), a few paragraphs under the portion you pasted on wikipedia: Several studies determined that pit bull owners, and owners
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
Hah. Great argument. Especially when you consider that 'pit bulls' are not a breed, but an umbrella term for six breeds. So, yes, if you combine the bite statistics for six different breeds of dog (a few of which are very popular; all combi
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
That's a good point, although i believe it is natural for pitbulls to be well behaved (in our eyes), but your point is taken. As far as pitbull biting stats: 1. Pitbull is not a breed; it's an umbrella term for six different breeds. 2. Ther
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
Many breeds actually have this behavior. It's common in play.
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
unrelated note: As an owner and advocate for pitbulls, I think this analogy is inaccurate and perpetuates the stereotype that pitbulls are aggressive animals. As a result of breeding, pitbulls are wonderful with people, despite their reputa
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
Does the JVM get 'owned every other week'? Or are you thinking of the JRE?
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
Clojure has agents which work asynchronously, too.
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
I would love to see a comparison between Erlang and Clojure. I do Rails stuff but eventually want to try a functional language in which concurrency isn't an afterthought. I know Erlang achieves concurrency through message passing / message
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
This is your defense in the 'China is not repressive' argument?
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
It is ridiculous. This is endemic to the entertainment industry. And you're right, they (companies that the MPAA represents) have had a long time and plenty of great examples to create a service and charge for it. Pirates aren't costing the
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
Clojure is not Java. It runs on the JVM. It can use Java methods. But it is not Java.
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
You may want to check out Clojure.
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
Maybe I'm an idiot, but I don't see a link for video lectures on that page. Edit: But they are here: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
I haven't tried it. It does look like a great service. One thing, however, that I don't think it provides is auto-scaling (i.e. provisioning additional servers or removing servers when they are (not) needed). If they were able to provide th
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
I had heard of Elastic Beanstalk but not OpsWorks. Thank you for mentioning that. I haven't tried it, but Cloud66 is another provider in this middle ground (they don't host, but provide you the devops tools to do so on amazon, digital ocean
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
Really? I would love see some citations. (And by the way, I don't think this one counts; feel free to read the entire letter)
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
I think it's important to note that the Washington Examiner has little credibility. The letter quoted in the article omits the first two-thirds of the letter (which, by the way, contain quite a bit of context for the final one-third). Whil
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
Yeah, I've been reading about clojure's performance a bit today -- the slow JVM startup is mentioned a bunch. I've been reading that it's not always trivial to get clojure to perform on par with java itself. From a web application backgroun
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
Will do. Thank you.
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
Thanks!
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
I haven't learned a Lisp. And ClojureScript does look interesting. Thank you.
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by douglasisshiny 14y ago
Thank you!

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