fmota

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by fmota 15y ago
> But lawmaking isn't fundamentally driven by logic, ever. Fixed that for you.
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by fmota 15y ago
On a global scale, a liberal arts curriculum is the exception, not the rule. I highly doubt that Chinese universities have liberal arts curricula.
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by fmota 15y ago
Programming language design and implementation is awesome and terrifying. I did exactly this for my senior project, a language called [fuga]( http://github.com/fmota/fuga ) that is based on [Io]( http://iolanguage.com/ ). I learned so much.
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by fmota 15y ago
Allow me to be cynical but, if SOPA passes and breaks the Internet, these software companies would gain a lot. Especially Microsoft. Remember the "good old days" of Microsoft Everything? I hope you're as fond of them as these software compa
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by fmota 15y ago
You need more foreign testers.
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by fmota 15y ago
This is way too complicated.
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by fmota 15y ago
The average of your n<5 closest friends, and 5-n nobodies.
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by fmota 15y ago
YouTube for me. Although I would have continued to stream Netflix if that was an option.
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by fmota 15y ago
Sleep paralysis is terrifying.
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by fmota 15y ago
It depends on your platform AND on your compiler, so just saying "Windows 64" isn't enough information. Conceivably, there are compilers for "Windows 64" such that sizeof(int) == 8. Your point (that int isn't a qword on all 64bit architectu
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by fmota 15y ago
In science there's a difference between "law" and "hypothesis" and "theory". A "law", in science, is typically a formula that fits the data. For example: Hubble's law states that the relative speed of some astral object is proportional to i
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by fmota 15y ago
A computer.
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by fmota 15y ago
Yeah, the 10% figures are greatly exaggerated. More like 5%.
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by fmota 15y ago
They volunteer their time anyway. They might as well do so for open access journals.
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by fmota 16y ago
> ... but I have some questions. There isn't a single question mark in your comment. There's a difference between questions and remarks.
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by fmota 16y ago
Also, because regular expressions are not the right tool for the job sometimes. ("No one should ever use regular expressions" is hyperbolic and wrong.)
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by fmota 17y ago
I knew it was going to come down to (fucking) Ayn Rand, when the author started discussing the primacy of senses. Anyway, I think the author makes a bit of a straw man argument when saying that Dawkins' "moral Zeitgeist" doesn't determine a