gloob

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by gloob 17y ago
Pipe Dream on my old Windows 3.1 was the first incarnation I saw.
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by gloob 17y ago
Your requirement that there be no external libraries is unfair. If the question being discussed is "How likely is an 8-year-old to randomly discover programming", it's not unfair in the slightest. Installation of anything is a huge bar
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by gloob 17y ago
While you are correct that we don't have any actual information to show that in this thread, it would seem plausible (if you compare the amount of money that the U.S. spends on research and the air force vs. e.g. Iran) that America's doing
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by gloob 17y ago
In the extreme case, it can be argued that it is philosophically impossible to establish causation beyond any doubt. What I'm trying to say here is "correlation != causation"-type comments are boring. Everyone on this site already knows th
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by gloob 17y ago
True, but some sort of heuristic is necessary. Without a heuristic for guessing what would be important ahead of time, we wouldn't have paging on computers, and then where would we be? If the heuristic is right more often than not, at lea
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by gloob 17y ago
Romania's society isn't especially healthy (life expectancy is lower than the U.S.). Neither is its economy, with a per capita GDP of less than $12,000 a year. Two possible reasons spring to mind: 1) this is the fault of public health
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by gloob 17y ago
Heh. I'm about the opposite. Even when I have to work in an IDE (or pretty much anything that's not vim or a roguelike, for that matter), I become annoyed quite quickly that I can't navigate "properly" and how limited (in the case of many I
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by gloob 17y ago
(I never understood the point of Octal) Some early architectures had 9-bit bytes. Octal math works cleanly for those, much as hexadecimal math works cleanly for processors with 8-bit bytes.
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by gloob 17y ago
sure, how are you going to link computers together? One Big Mesh. Mind you, getting it set up would be a, um, non-trivial exercise.
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by gloob 17y ago
I'm aware. I'm thinking more along the lines of Brazil. Not first world, but it's not like we're talking about Somalia either.
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by gloob 17y ago
A second option is to get out of the first world. It's not so much that developing countries won't pass these laws, but rather that they'll have a somewhat tougher time enforcing them (if they even bother to try).
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by gloob 17y ago
As with most other things, it depends on the person. I have a suspicion, for instance, that your definition of "day to day basis" is very different than mine. The majority of my time on my computers is spent in a screen session in a termin
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by gloob 17y ago
How is that paradoxical?
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by gloob 17y ago
"The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous." - Lord Chesterfield
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by gloob 17y ago
Actually, being able to ssh from a phone would be about the only thing that would convince me to get one. But I suspect I'm not exactly representative of the potential customer base.
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by gloob 17y ago
A matter of time is plenty good enough for the time being. It's an email account, not a bank account.
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by gloob 17y ago
For what it's worth, he didn't say nothing was wrong with it. He just said he doesn't really consider it to be a scam. Similarly, I doubt he would consider it to be murder (even though murder is presumably also wrong). If something isn't
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by gloob 17y ago
This reminds me of a story. A couple years ago, some university friends and I went to an engineering competition in Ontario. It was an event spread over four or five days, and on the last night a dance was held. This information was given
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by gloob 17y ago
I owe him no such thing, nor did I attack him. I spoke of my own state of mind, that his comment made me think he was dishonest; I did not say that he was. Saying things like that makes me think you're a sophist. See?
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by gloob 17y ago
Forgive me my lack of insight, but I'm not entirely certain what that has to do with this particular case. What you are listing is a mechanism for copyright protection - while the numbers themselves cannot be copyrighted, the book containi
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by gloob 17y ago
Given that the balloons are in the US, I'm not sure that's much of a restriction.
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by gloob 17y ago
Sometimes I get the feeling that if I got a needle and was hit by a car two weeks later, I could convince people it was a side-effect. I had my ribcage sawn open by the medical system so they could cut out a piece of my heart and replace it
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by gloob 17y ago
Imagine a world that has always been populated entirely by p-zombies. By definition, that world should be indistinguishable from this world, so how on earth did they get started talking about consciousness and qualia? The answer to the qu
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by gloob 17y ago
I can see three plausible options: i) The government throws its hands in the air and gives up. ii) The government cuts off the entire building/complex. iii) The government cuts off people entirely at random. Knowing the way most
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by gloob 17y ago
I can't speak for others, but here's the issues I have with it. Firstly, as you suggest, I dislike the notion of the government monitoring the Internet use of private individuals. Fortunately for me, I do not live in the UK, which is (to m
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by gloob 17y ago
Ah, that makes sense. My apologies for misinterpreting your first post.
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by gloob 17y ago
One data point is a good example, but hardly a good way to back up an argument. I will concede that I'm unaware as to whether any serious analysis has been done of the efficiency of publicly-run corporations vs. privately-run corporations
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by gloob 17y ago
I would suggest that if he's worried, he's not content.
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by gloob 17y ago
will it live up to the hype and replace a wide swath of other communications protocols It's not like POP killed IRC, or HTTP killed SMTP. Different protocols do different things. What serious candidates would there be for Wave to kill?
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by gloob 17y ago
That said, in a world where there are degrees in video game design and journalism, theoretical purity is probably not the defining characteristic of subjects that are taught at university.

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