foljs

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by foljs 16y ago
Yes, some kind of "art objects" I can see selling (speaking as an electronica artist), but t-shirts and typical rock memorabilia seem too gimmicky, like something a hair metal band would do. I would also consider artistic/theatrical type sh
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by foljs 16y ago
> "And while the "record" business is dying, music isn't going anywhere. Satisfy a core customer need, work your ass of, and you have a viable business." Well, for some of us, music is what's RECORDED, not live shoes. I can accept: "we
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by foljs 16y ago
You must have checked a loooong time ago...
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by foljs 16y ago
"This site gave me mental stress" Take it easy, man! I mean, whatever...
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by foljs 16y ago
Nope, you were just plain wrong. The odds would have been in your favor if you have said "odds are a search engine chosen at random does this too". But, instead, you said: "odds are DDG does this too", thus binding the odds to DDG. Since th
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by foljs 16y ago
Nowadays, and the last 2.5 decades, yes, but originally it used to use C as an intermediate language.
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by foljs 16y ago
It's worth every discount!
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by foljs 16y ago
As if we care...
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by foljs 16y ago
> Yes, I am not sure why you are continuing to argue - I got it already. No, you sure didn't. > Will it help if I admitted that Apple invented sliced bread? It sure would. That kind of "irony" would place you firmly in the delusiona
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by foljs 16y ago
Emm, this is China. There are lines 2 times like these for the salad bar stand at most restaurants.
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by foljs 16y ago
Yep, but you cannot argue with pedants.
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by foljs 16y ago
"""Yep - Microsoft has closed shop""" Yes. In the portable music and mobile market it has tried to compete with Apple and closed shop many times --only in MS case it is called "canceled a project" or "closed a department". As for the OS/API
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by foljs 16y ago
Actually, that's 93%.
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by foljs 16y ago
Creating a market equals popularizing it. A market of 10 people is not much of a market at all.
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by foljs 16y ago
"""Marco Arment, John Gruber and company are so obnoxiously biased against anything that is not Apple that it isn't worth clicking on any links pointing to their sites. It's deja vu all the times if you do - no one can compete with Apple, e
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by foljs 16y ago
Judging from the general instability of node.js and company, I say, it's not.
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by foljs 16y ago
I would! (switching to Cute Overload).
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by foljs 16y ago
A pg quote AND a pg styled references list? Really? (Downvote freely)
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by foljs 16y ago
Practical chances of having something done affects the sense of "urgency to do it". Even more urgent than colonization is the achievement of immortality, but I don't see people urging to achieve it for the same reason, i.e they think it's n
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by foljs 16y ago
> 1. Erlang has a funky syntax; deal with it. If you can't or won't learn the language b/c of the syntax that is your loss. I'm sorry, but I can't really find this a valid argument as it basically sounds like "Erlang syntax scares me. M
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by foljs 16y ago
Yes, actually because "national foreign literacy programs" are, more often than not, just covers for foreign government and foreign interests intervention. It's not "public awareness" they raise (how condescending to think it takes a nation
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by foljs 16y ago
> Funny you mention that -- one programming language that's been "protect[ed]" from "decay and dilution" a lot is Java, and look what a boring, unimaginative cesspool that's become. Huh? Java "protected from decay and dilution"? Witch t
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by foljs 16y ago
A language is not only letters and words and syntax. It is also a cultural heritage. It is a way of thinking and a way of life codified. > I was wondering recently if it would be interesting to argue that forcibly teaching children a gl
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by foljs 16y ago
You study it further ? Crazy, I know.
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by foljs 16y ago
And who said he compared 3-5 cups of tea with ONE cup of coffee? Also (from the wild intertubes): amount of caffeine in an 8oz cup of various teas and coffee: Coffee: 100 mg Black Tea: 40 to 50 mg Oolong Tea: 25 to 35 mg Green Tea: 20 to 30
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by foljs 16y ago
> Do you have a logical or empirical basis for this statement, or is this an axiom for you? Ignoring the passive-aggressiveness, yes, I have an empirical basis for this statement. Don't you? Ever heard of the "broken window" theory? Ev
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by foljs 16y ago
> Mac displays are not very good. Yes, most designers do just fine with them. Most workspaces of high end design firms I've seen, or you can see photographed on the intertubes, are using Macs with Mac displays. And they tend to do just
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by foljs 16y ago
> Software such as Aperture is an amateur version of Photoshop. And it's Apple that "doesn't get designers"? Aperture is a photography workflow app, it's not an image editor. If you want to compare it to something, compare it to Adobe's
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by foljs 16y ago
> It's ludicrous to think that laws need to be created to help protect the language of Shakespeare. While a nice line, it is wrong. Everything needs protection. Especially great things, like the "language of Shakespeare". Now, this prot
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by foljs 16y ago
> Xetex + \usepackage{fontspec} No fiddling required! I'm not in an ASCII-english speaking country, and it's not like that at all. And all projects that started to rectify TeX with regards to unicode text, have fallen behind or are tota

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