glymor

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by glymor 18y ago
The title's some kind of mixed metaphor about medieval weaponry. It's terrifying. What's wrong with fraying? It would have worked better anyway.
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by glymor 18y ago
You're factually inaccurate. Android being released under the Apache licence, it's taking it's sweet time about it but that's what it should all be licenced under: http://code.google.com/android/kb/licensingandoss.html
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by glymor 18y ago
How is many-worlds a scientific theory ie how is it testable?
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by glymor 18y ago
Better reporting of the result: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080813-bohms-bummed-w...
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by glymor 18y ago
It's ironic that notes on a talk about ethics should be disingenuous - about the only thing he really writes about is how you can click here to read other things he has written. Although I did learn that RMS likes budgies which makes it wor
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by glymor 18y ago
Wow. I suppose I should take the article to task for being one sided. But then there are more than enough wholly negative articles out there; one leaning the other way is past time. If OLPC really has sold that much, in the hundreds of thou
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by glymor 18y ago
Both examples of lies about death don't seem to be lies about death. They would both seem to be an examples of lies designed to protect from details that would otherwise only cause pain. Doctors frequently tell both types of lie to adults.
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by glymor 18y ago
Stephan Pinker has argued that swear words cause a involuntary negative emotional response similar to the slight of an angry face: http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/books/stuff/media_articles/TNR... (1%20of%203)%20(print).htm So parents not wa
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by glymor 18y ago
I don't believe that you and Microsoft are suggesting the same thing at all. My guess is you want to give everybody what programmers have been able to do for years with distributed VCS, publicly addressable computers and rsync. And presumab
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by glymor 18y ago
Well, I agree that everything sucks, particularly the article, it had almost nothing to redeem it. It not a new problem, thinking of new things is hard, trying to convince people to want new things is harder. I'm pretty sure there's a pg es
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by glymor 18y ago
> most talented software developers tend to not stick around at one place for too long If this is true then it's a recent development caused by changes in companies behaviour rather than anything intrinsic to engineers. If you look at B
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by glymor 18y ago
Is Pandora like last.fm? It's US only so I can't access it.