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by etfb 13y ago
This deep underlying assumption that nudity = scandal is amusing. I'm Australian, and I thought my culture was pretty similar to the US in a lot of ways, but the puritanical terror of nudity that pervades ever word of the article seems
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by etfb 13y ago
Still no Klingon? Quvatlh!
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by etfb 13y ago
Definitely - but then, McDonalds Big Macs are more popular than hamburgers with beetroot and pineapple on them, and my tastes are again at odds with the mainstream. I can't help it - I'm a geek hipster (and a burger snob).
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by etfb 13y ago
Perl 6 has $x.bytes, $x.codes and $x.graphs, but no $x.length for this exact reason.
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by etfb 13y ago
Nice. I wish it well. Sadly, it has one feature I hate from PHP (the ability to interweave PHP and HTML, instead of using the HTML as a template or generating it in code) and lacks one feature I absolutely need, which is all the code I&#x2
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by etfb 13y ago
You want to know old? I'll tell you old. I just downloaded a copy (never mind where from) of Borland Pascal 7.0, the last version of Turbo Pascal for MSDOS. I have my own legal copy, with 5¼" disks, but no disk drives. But I als
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by etfb 13y ago
I came here to say that. In fact, bugger it, I don't care about originality! I'm going to say it too! Oh gods, I'm so old.
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by etfb 13y ago
Hmmm... could you add a simple edit field, <input type="text">, that sent anything typed in it directly to the emulated console? That would make it work on a phone browser.
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by etfb 13y ago
My gods. It runs on my phone. In a web browser. Now, if only I knew how to make the onscreen keyboard pop up...
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by etfb 13y ago
When I first saw DOOM running on a bog-standard 386, I declared it to be utter nonsense. I'm no fool! I know what's possible and what's impossible, and that was clearly the latter. Sure, I knew it wasn't impossible, an
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by etfb 13y ago
Only to a first approximation. The exceptions are increasing as more people realise that ethics and marketing are not incompatible. But I believe it's reasonable to be suspicious of email marketing by default, and look for reasons to
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by etfb 13y ago
Reply to all but the last clause of the last sentence: good for you! I was going to add to my original comment that nothing else about your site felt shady or unethical, so the chances were very good that you were one of the non-shonky emai
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by etfb 13y ago
I'm having trouble getting past the fact that this guy was, basically, running a spam business. Email marketing is spam, to a first approximation, and while there are ethical email marketers out there, I don't know enough to be s
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by etfb 13y ago
The only danger is if the drone happens to fly over a wedding, and has to stop and bomb it. Old habits die hard.
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by etfb 13y ago
Ruby has a reputation for slowness ([citation needed]?) so is the cryptographic stuff implemented in the language itself or via C-or-equivalent foreign library? I could understand the "too slow, must avoid" kneejerk reaction if i
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by etfb 13y ago
I have to declare Inigo Montoya on the use of the word "trivially" in that article, though I see from a comment here that someone's already issued a patch that I presume will get included in the next version, so perhaps it wi
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by etfb 13y ago
Tloewald has the gist of it (see his comment at this level) though I think the racism is mainly toward our own aboriginals. The response to asylum seekers is more complex than "just" racism. Still stupid though.
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by etfb 13y ago
Add a teaspoon of wine to a barrel of sewage: you get a barrel of sewage. Add a teaspoon of sewage to a barrel of wine: you get a barrel of sewage. Which is to say that some factors kind of overshadow all the others, quite disproportionatel
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by etfb 13y ago
Lovely place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit here -- especially if you're not white and anglophone. We (speaking as an Aussie here!) used to be a lot friendlier, but the last dozen years have seen a serious degradation. It&
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by etfb 13y ago
An intriguing idea! Can you suggest some language that would set off alarms for you? Related: Douglas Hofstadter's satirical article on exactly that topic, which you reminded me of and which I'm glad I could remember enough of to
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by etfb 13y ago
Some of the stuff in PEP8 is pretty subjective. What's the state of play for fixing that with an automated tool? Does is spit out advisories, or has some effort been put into the Small Matter Of Programming of interpreting the intent
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by etfb 13y ago
I saw an early review of Windows 8 that described it as an excellent advertisement for Windows 9. Every one of my customers (I do IT support in a rural area) has told me they hate Windows 8. One of my biggest jobs is getting hold of legal
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by etfb 13y ago
Oh dear. No help for you either, is there?
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by etfb 13y ago
Not at all! My goal is to respond to someone who is unkind with something close to kindness. If he goes on the way he has been, he'll do himself as much damage as he does to the people around him. The reasonable response to that sort
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by etfb 13y ago
This is a learning moment for you, Mr stefantalpalaru. What you've just said, although I know you meant it sanely and sensibly, has been interpreted as lacking in compassion. This is not your fault; what happened is you have made a c
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by etfb 13y ago
It took them fifteen years to make the eTax tax return preparation software available for Macintosh. It still doesn't work on Linux. This despite it being, essentially, a collection of form pages with minimal logic -- I could whip it u
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by etfb 13y ago
Is that a problem? I presume you're not offering prizes.
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by etfb 13y ago
It's interesting how quickly that went from "duh, dead easy" to "no frakking idea". I don't even now what Amharic is, let alone how it sounds...
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by etfb 13y ago
My standards for Good Guys are pretty low when it comes to this sort of thing. Compared to who else is out there, I wouldn't nitpick.
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by etfb 13y ago
It's worth posting this to the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse at http://www.chillingeffects.org/ (go to http://www.chillingeffects.org/input.cgi to submit). They're run by the EFF, so they are in

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