draaglom

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   by draaglom 11y ago

   If you want an example of genuinely valuable philosophy, I found "Kinds of Minds" by Daniel Dennett to be a compelling discussion of the origins of consciousness. It's not "fact" but it does provide interesting ways
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   by draaglom 11y ago

   It's a shame that philosophy has gained such a poor reputation in certain circles. I mean, it's understandable: the extent of most people's interaction with philosophy is with cartesian-style "but can we even know we exi
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   by draaglom 11y ago

   Yeah, I remember reading about them planning it a couple years ago and just kinda assumed someone would've done it by now.
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   by draaglom 11y ago

   >As an example which has been annoying me the last few days, "database/sql" doesn't automatically prepare statements; so preparing is a separate step Not exactly. All the "database/sql" functions actual
5. 65.▲
   by draaglom 11y ago

   "figlet" might be what you're looking for.
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   by draaglom 11y ago

   I agree, the article should probably expand on - What "control" means specifically / what kinds of control a user should have - What the difference is, in practice, between interoperability and portability - What is the s
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   by draaglom 11y ago

   But you still need a protocol for the app and the host to talk to each other - and that needs designing. And you need a way for the app to find the host; that needs to be designed too.
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   by draaglom 11y ago

   I'm not sure what your objection is. Why shouldn't one Harvard/MIT person design it? I mean, somebody has to.
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   by draaglom 12y ago

   Native french speakers often leave a space before their punctuation. (Not commas though! usually sentence-ending punctuation like ?,!,.)
10. 70.▲
    by draaglom 12y ago

    And then someone could create a site to exchange the (bitcoin-backed) cards! But what could we call such a site?
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    by draaglom 13y ago

    Good idea (I think?) but your page isn't very good. Some pointers: The name appears to imply btc to altcoin trading, but nowhere on the page does it say anything about which currencies it supports. Is it BTC-LTC-*? BTC-USD? I don'
12. 72.▲
    by draaglom 13y ago

    On the other hand, lying that there's £4M buried under a pile of rubbish would be highly entertaining.
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    by draaglom 13y ago

    I've developed/am developing an API in Go. Go's not quite mature, and it shows at times. For example, if the tcp connection underlying your database connection dies, it won't reconnect automatically. The standard library
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    by draaglom 13y ago

    I disagree. I think that if everyone adopted the author's attitude, we get innovation where it is needed most... Which is exactly what is happening: there has been a shift in the focus of processor development over the last ten years o
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    by draaglom 13y ago

    There are only two ways I know of. One is just having social skills. You should be able to tell when someone isn't happy; you should notice when someone doesn't fully engage in a debate in which they should; and when they don&#x27
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    by draaglom 13y ago

    Quite often, but much less thoroughly.
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    by draaglom 13y ago

    A significant factor is the "newsfeed" behaviour everywhere which discourages continued conversations - posts have a very short visibility decay period.
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    by draaglom 13y ago

    http://www.bitcoinplus.com/miner/embeddable It exists. It's not fair to do it to your visitors, though; the cost to them in increased power consumption is going to be significantly more than the value of the bitcoins you mine (virtually n