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by goggles99 13y ago
> For many years I've resisted temptations to put out a hasty electronic version of The Art of Computer Programming, because the samples sent to me were not well made Not well made? It's a book that is a PDF at some point befo
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by goggles99 13y ago
Probiotics will form the future of medical and dental preventative care. That and Epigenetics.
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You are overestimating the power that the standards board has over what browser vendors choose to include in their software. Mozilla and Google already want a VM as evidenced by their work. It would not take any convincing to get them the
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by goggles99 13y ago
Am I in a time warp? Nimrod is over 5 years old. Yet most comments here think it's new and groundbreaking with statements like nimrod sounds even better than google go . Nimrod is a cool language, but am I missing something here? Orig
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by goggles99 13y ago
What would it take to get a standards board to approve a common VM for browsers? I don't see this ever happening. They would in effect be eliminating themselves. They would have to find new jobs or even careers. Once the VM is standard
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by goggles99 13y ago
Being poor is all relative, in many countries, poor means you will likely starve to death, in the wealthiest countries, the poor eat relatively well, are educated (if they choose to be), have housing, electricity, running water and Cable Te
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by goggles99 13y ago
From what I remember reading about the Swiss giveaway, some thought that it would actually save money overall because people would get this money, but the plan was to cut away welfare and other social services at the same time. The reductio
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by goggles99 13y ago
> Many welfare recipients are required to undergo drug tests, despite the fact that many Americans take illegal drugs while still being good parents and holding down a job. Had to stop here and evaluate if I should read any further. The
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WOW, really? Startups come and startups go, but family you will always have (unless you blow all their money in a failed startup) This is a very bad idea.
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Worse than goto?
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LOL... sorry to laugh, but casual perception should tell you that if you have a startup and your first product's release is a PC game with a date that is four years out (Four YEARS?) - You are going to need more than just luck to be s
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by goggles99 13y ago
I used to watch a fair amount of TV, now I have three young kids and watch less than an hour per month. I wonder what I actually got out of those 30+ hours a week of watching television. What a waste of life. how many people on their death
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by goggles99 13y ago
IMO, most critics of FP or OOP do so because they lack a full understanding of one or the other. Either paradigm can be applied incorrectly and cause plenty of problems. Both have their merits and strong points. Each fits a different type o
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by goggles99 13y ago
Article points out missing features or presumed flaws in Android, but not The inverse (IOS flaws and missing features). How does this add value for anyone thinking of switching? or wanting to debate which phone is better for whom and why. A
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by goggles99 13y ago
Looks like a nice place to visit. Too bad this is the "Elysium" (Pyongyang) of North Korea. Where are all the pictures of the political camps and people literally starving to death (including children) and living in complete filth
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by goggles99 13y ago
> A good researcher would have the cash to hire hundreds of people and intentionally randomly assign them to different work environments, I guess. Wrong, you lack the same basic, problem solving logic that I am referring to. A good rese
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by goggles99 13y ago
This guy WAS one of the I've got mine people. He is self described as a rock star type. He made many millions of dollars. I have knows middle class families who have not only raised 8 kids, but have retired and maintain the same stan
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by goggles99 13y ago
> step one is to not have 8 kids Having 8 kids does not have to be as expensive as you think. You can get clothes for next to nothing (or free if you are really poor), rooms can be shared, hand-me-down toys and clothes. Food is really t
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> The major takeaway from the article is that he fell into the same trap that a lot of us did in the 90s, that the future was so bright you had to wear shades. I had no idea the 2000s were going to be so dang BLEAK. I don't buy thi
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This is a very sad story. Even more sadly, it reflects many similar stories. All this calamity for this family of 10 came from bad planning. This guy had a career that would have likely lasted until retirement, but he took a risk and quit i
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> The bottom line: workers in enclosed offices were by far the happiest, reporting the least amount of frustration on all 15 of the factors surveyed. Workers in cubicles with high partitions were the most miserable, reporting the lowest
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by goggles99 13y ago
You use a naive argument to attempt to refute one point of my whole comment (which contains several reasons this will not work) and call the whole thing garbage? Yours is the typical HN top comment dismissal , not mine. On top of this, you
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>The current options in those cases are forceps — large, rounded pliers — or suction cups attached to the baby’s scalp. In untrained hands, either can cause hemorrhages, crush the baby’s head or twist its spine. Really? you mean these
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So if someone reputable started an anti gravity tech company, you would write the same blog about them? The point is, most don't think that the design would even work. The specs defy many laws of physics. It is more of a concept or dre
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>Windows XP & IE 6 – although the number of people using ancient Microsoft software is rapidly decreasing there are still a fair number of people using these dinosaurs, especially in corporate environments. Enough said. Wow, this
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Debt collection agencies hounding you for years. Re-possessing assets if possible, garnishing wages, placing levy's on your property ETC. Of course if you file bankruptcy, this all changes. IMO people should have to pay back money they
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by goggles99 13y ago
Yeah, crazy. If this was a law, everyone would run up a bunch of debt and settle it for pennies on the dollar (nearly free money). How could a credit system survive if there is little consequence for being a dead beat? Why don't I just
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Is this just a POC to prove that JavaScript can be fast? This is a serious question. I am having a difficult time thinking of practical uses for this.
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>Man, the iPhone 5 really is not a very good example here. The iPhone 5 is a great example. The iPhone 3gs or 4 is hardly distinguishable and costs 1/5 the price. You cannot play some high end games with those phones, but that s
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by goggles99 13y ago
There is a big fallacy with the reasoning behind this article. I grew up in impoverished areas (both the inner city, and in rural areas) with the typical high minority population. I have observed a LOT of poor people and their spending habi

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