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by entropy_ 14y ago
All that for a difference that would be negligible anyway. I'd say that's a premature optimization if I've ever seen one.
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by entropy_ 14y ago
The article you link doesn't really support your conclusion that copying code isn't that bad. The only example it cites on when copying is acceptable(and even good) is one that's already been solved by version control software and branches.
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by entropy_ 14y ago
No, indeed not, but to someone in whose culture this is not the norm that's how it seems, overly affectionate. What the OP was saying was that for him, he was acting just normal but people perceived it as very affectionate, and that's exact
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by entropy_ 14y ago
While that is true, people still don't factor the states into their everyday thoughts and calculations. Also, note that most of the author's examples weren't from west Europe, but rather more remote places and especially "third world" count
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by entropy_ 14y ago
On the personalization point, no you don't have to. Honestly, I find that all changes done to Android by manufacturers tend to make it worse and not better. Also, before iPhone and Android came along, Nokia was pretty much the only company
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by entropy_ 14y ago
The @facebook was always there and could always have been used to reach a person's FB messages via email. Also, most of that other information would probably be marked as only available to friends or friends of friends. So you wouldn't be a
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Couldn't this be construed as an abuse of a monopoly(antitrust)? They have a monopoly on social networking(there are alternatives, but they are very very small in comparison) and they are leveraging that to expand massively in another spher
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Well, I'm reading this from my GNex :-)
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Well, yes, but the trouble here is the particular patent for which this injunction was granted. If they had used patents that were actually innovative things which their competitors were copying then I'd be sympathetic. But a really vague p
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by entropy_ 14y ago
There are insecure people everywhere, not just in the valley
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by entropy_ 14y ago
The exact quote from "Mere Christianity": "Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call “humble” nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he
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by entropy_ 14y ago
And that is why you got downvoted. Obviously a lot of people find this post interesting (at 6th position on the front page with 87pts right now). Furthermore, a lot of people tend to find the "does this even matter" posts that show up on
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by entropy_ 14y ago
I don't understand why this got down-voted. Having read up about AI and looked into things like neural networks I can definitely tell that he's wrong. But surely the questions he asks are pertinent to the discussion, aren't they? For someon
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by entropy_ 14y ago
You always had that option by setting it to hidden. The issue is that if you wanted to expose your email to, say, your friends so that they could contact you in some non-Facebook way if they needed to, now you have to revert the changes tha
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Fermat's last theorem was proven in 1995 though, uber hard, yes, but not intractable :)
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by entropy_ 14y ago
"The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to preach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of
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by entropy_ 14y ago
As a drummer, I'd say you'd be surprised how fast people learn to sync feet with hands. It's really quite easy with a little practice.
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Well, chances are it'll get even harder now, not easier since they'll need to add further complexity to differentiate humans from bots.
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by entropy_ 14y ago
While it is true that OSX very probably accounts for more unix-on-the-desktop than linux, they are two very different desktop audiences. While OSX is indeed a unix, it hides this so well that unless you know what you're looking for you woul
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Wait, do you speak of the Eastern Orthodox Church[1]? I'm middle eastern(Lebanese to be precise) and a very large segment of the Christian population here belongs to various Orthodox churches(Greek, Antiochian, Armenian and Syriac) and none
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by entropy_ 14y ago
I don't think it helps much to explain Fermi's paradox since the estimation there is based on the size of the universe. If it turns out that the universe is massively bigger then so should the estimate of how many alien civilizations there
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Why would that be the case? It just seems stupid to do so. A security answer is pretty much functionally identical to a password. Doesn't make sense not to hash it(there are no uses of the answer where you would need it in non-hashed form)
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by entropy_ 14y ago
This place is finally turning into slashdot! Oh joy...
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by entropy_ 14y ago
That wouldn't be picking and choosing parts to interpret literally. Even though some parts aren't interpreted literally(the creation story in genesis for example) the message about morality still holds(otherwise let's just discard the who
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by entropy_ 14y ago
There's a reply to this comment that says "belief in god" != "belief in the literal truth of the Bible". I'll add to that "belief in Christianity" != "belief in the literal truth of the Bible", because somehow you seem to equate the two. In
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Yes, but equating these two things together is disingenuous. If you've ever been to a 3rd world country you'd know why. I'm Lebanese(small country sandwiched between Israel and Syria that specializes in fighting proxy wars) and I've been ar
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Then why oh why are variables global by default ? (this is not meant as an attack on your point, I fully agree, I just find this awfully frustrating about JS. Sane languages have scoped by default and a global keyword, not the other way ar
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You have made your bedrock, now lie in it(Foundations matter)(loper-os.org)
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Wow... Just wow... I always thought there should be something more intuitive than the subprocess module. This actually makes it practical to use python where I would usually use shell scripts.
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by entropy_ 14y ago
I'm no expert but I think the owner of the site in question can file a counter-notice and then GoDaddy has to put the site back up.

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