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by elblanco 16y ago
The original penitentiaries were actually designed as all solitary -- the idea was that an inmate, isolated from the corruption of the world, would find their innate inner goodness and spend the time praying - hence the "penitent" part of
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by elblanco 16y ago
> Neither of these assumptions appear to be true, at least to me. It's been my observation that if you ask most people who espouse a particular philosophy couched in "morality", that they claim that following their particular moral code
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by elblanco 16y ago
No, but my Android phone is. In all seriousness, having migrated from a BB to a more modern phone architecture (iPhone or Android, take your pick), I feel like it is much more an extension of self than my BB ever was. Even if I have no part
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Apple quietly drops iOS jailbreak detection API(networkworld.com)
16 points by elblanco 16y ago|16 comments
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by elblanco 16y ago
You're welcome! :D http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1525865 (may have been me)
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The MSC and SunSolve Will Retire on December 10, 2010(sunsolve.sun.com)
1 points by elblanco 16y ago|0 comments
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Boom Samsung Sells 1 Million Galaxy Tabs(wired.com)
2 points by elblanco 16y ago|0 comments
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by elblanco 16y ago
I can hit the right arrow key on my keyboard hundreds of times a minute. Combined with a mousewheel for some spot checking and zooming, it only slows that down a hair. I'm an amateur photographer and after a week of taking photos I have tho
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's cool, but I'm pretty sure I can flick through hundreds of photos much more efficiently with my mouse and keyboard (and without the tired shoulders). I think gesture based interfaces may have some quick utility, like remotely operating
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by elblanco 16y ago
> Except that it would end up as 40+ planets I think that would be fantastic personally. The semantics of "planet" vs. "asteroid" is clearly far more motivational in terms of sending spacecraft to study them, plot stories around them, e
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Google Latitude makes brief appearance in App Store, gets yanked post-haste(engadget.com)
1 points by elblanco 16y ago|0 comments
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by elblanco 16y ago
Right, that's more or less what all the approaches I've seen use. It's not indexing in the sense of full-text indexing for fast retrieval, all of the data is more or less greped over. It's basically just a full-text search, not an index.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Probably just moved to freenet like they did during the business with the Church of Scientology.
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by elblanco 16y ago
> Even more interesting than a simple full-text search would be a regular-expression full-text search of the internet It would seem to me that indexing data in such a way as to support arbitrary regex would be difficult. Anybody know of
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by elblanco 16y ago
Which part doesn't make sense, running intermediate byte-code in a VM, or using LLVM to target Parrot? If it's the former, I'm not sure I can persuade you in this thread if a decade of enterprise software can't do that, if it's the latter,
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by elblanco 16y ago
What is Imperialism about then? It's always about resource acquisition. One can argue that some resources are not equal to money -- say China's imperialist expansion into non-resource rich areas as a method of buffer zone acquisition agai
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by elblanco 16y ago
Because sometimes compiling to an intermediate VM has advantages over compiling to native code. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1977956
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by elblanco 16y ago
https://www.salesforce.com/platform/ may service that need, but I'm not entirely sure of the capabilities of the platform w/r to web apps.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I'm wondering if it might be better suited in this context to producing byte-code for Parrot?
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by elblanco 16y ago
Since it seems that the concept of compiling code to an intermediate bytecode run in a JIT-VM seems to have proven itself pretty well (and the concept of compiling multiple languages to said VM a la Scala), perhaps it's time for the communi
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by elblanco 16y ago
Money. Or if you want to get precise, imperialist policies (which are about Money in the end).
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by elblanco 16y ago
Right. In the great rock-paper-scissors game of ideology-nationalism-money, money wins every time. South Korea is a much better trading partner than the black hole in the ground that is North Korea. A hole in which China has dumped billions
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by elblanco 16y ago
> The State Department doesn't know anything you can't learn in the newspaper This is the bit that has me the most mystified...none of the released cables reveals anything particularly surprising (or at least not surprising to anybody w
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by elblanco 16y ago
Great work! The output is beautiful. Looking forward to this being a standard library in the future. Do you know how well it might handle cases of text that already has some formatting? Also: It blows up in IE9 for me though, many of the li
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by elblanco 16y ago
So.... downside: books are more expensive, no support for the Kindle, "yet another eReader"(TM) for all my devices, minimal support for common formats, blah blah upside: it syncs where you are between all your devices! am I missing somethin
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Silicon bubble shows signs of reinflating(msnbc.msn.com)
2 points by elblanco 16y ago|0 comments
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by elblanco 16y ago
>I spend most of the time feeling uncomfortable in some way (temperature isn't right, have to use the bathroom, worried about getting robbed) and it costs money! That's exactly why you should travel to learn about the world outside of
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Angry Birds On Android Projected To Generate $1 Million Per Month In Advertising(techcrunch.com)
62 points by elblanco 16y ago|18 comments
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by elblanco 16y ago
> As a person-that-likes-to-walk-around-his-house-naked , I do not want a company to be able to come in to my house at any time to make sure I'm not violating any rules. I wonder if the TSA is going to be handed enforcement of anti-mod
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by elblanco 16y ago
I do wish the Chrome team would fix the inability to view local XML files.

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