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by grav1tas 16y ago
Galois makes some pretty cool stuff, and it's full of smart people. Buzzing through the slides I felt like it wasn't so much the case that Haskell was essential for building a business, but rather it was the right tool for the kinds of thi
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Printer friendly format at the bottom. 2600 doesn't care about readability or design really, it's not their MO and they're cool with it. The site has looked like that for at least 10 years now. I think if a lot of them had their way, you
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I think American values are an evolving thing across generations. The baby boomers grew up in a time where getting a home and all its effects were the thing to do because people were moving to a time of common homeownership. The boomlets
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by grav1tas 16y ago
That or its creators aren't concerned with the applications running on it as much as the maintainers of the JVM are. Sometimes I think open source projects can have an advantage in this respect. If they're not financially bound to their c
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by grav1tas 16y ago
If you wanted to relate to the topic in the article you should have said Anthem. It gets most of Rand's ideas on collectivism into digestible form (which is surprising, considering Rand might be one of the most long-winded writers I've rea
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Can you link us on some studies disproving a link between Marijuana and some long-term health risk? I find it hard to believe that smoking something ISN'T bad for you, though am aware that there are other uses of it, as well..but a lot of
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I poke in on Mono from time to time to see what's new there, and I probably don't do it enough. It seems like every time I show up they've finished what they were doing previously and a rolling into a host of other new things. These guys
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by grav1tas 16y ago
That's a really interesting way of thinking about it. I've recently been thinking about it as people's thinking in terms of Breadth First thinking vs Depth First thinking, though I like your thoughts a lot. From my (albeit limited, this i
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I'm glad the author could take away the story of what it feels like to be slow vs quick. I'd probably be overly caught up on the "almost dying" aspect of the story to hover over much else, to be honest. It's great to see this level of int
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I think he's means it as in compare it to someone who's stoned day in day out for X years, and then decides to quit and then their mental function returns to normal. Compare those two differences. Actually I don't think what he says contr
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I think he's meaning it more in the sense of "brightness" or quickness as in "mental agility". The idea is that some people are able to think and process things to a good conclusion more quickly than others on a consistent basis. It may n
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Then how difficult would it be to create a new Java that has the features (syntactical and whatever else) that everybody's been clamoring for and calling it a different name? C# basically did that, and it's still around....
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I have an older HTC Sprint Hero, and it is root-able in the sense that rooting the phone is possible. However, doing so requires me to download old firmware for the phone from sources (ie files posted to Mediafire or the like) that I don't
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by grav1tas 16y ago
If it's anything like the Android App Store search on my phone, I think I'll stick with my Kindle, or real books. I'm confused how a company that made search work so well has such poor offerings for things like my apps or these books. Wha
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by grav1tas 16y ago
This is crazy if it's true. Is there any corroborating story from a (I hate to put it this way) more mainstream/trusted source? I'm not sure about this Debka. There's some spelling errors and I've never heard of them.
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Judging by the people listed in the friends list in the Facebook page, the Facebook account seems genuine to me, but you don't have to take my word for it.
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by grav1tas 16y ago
The word is ill-defined...it basically boils down to "one who assumes risk for starting a new venture". Not much more to it than that. My view is that TONS of people are entrepreneurs even if I don't care to read about them. They're stil
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by grav1tas 16y ago
It does not counter his argument, but this doesn't mean he's right, either. His argument states that given a platform function, developers have historically used/exploited said function in ways that its creator had not intended. In terms
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Care to link me?
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by grav1tas 16y ago
That may be the case, but if the peer made a contractual agreement that limited the peering to symmetrical traffic, then Comcast should be free to renegotiate or straight up sever the peering under the terms of any contractual agreements...
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by grav1tas 16y ago
In case your wondering, a funding paper trail for a non-profit doesn't entail bias in a writer for (or employed by) said organization. Bias in a writer doesn't entail factually incorrect information or invalidate a writer's arguments. This
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I think you may have confused Presbyterianism with Protestantism. The former being a subset of the latter....oh and also...the IO monad kinda throws that off, doesn't it :-P
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I was curious where the 'pythonic' coding style played into being unrestrictive when it comes to how everybody writes in that language.
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by grav1tas 16y ago
My school created an IT program and funneled the practical/programming only students through it. Seemed to make sense to me. The IT program is huge now, and the CS program has remained about the same size. A lot of students will get a du
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by grav1tas 16y ago
"E.g., something based on Javascript, with a fully dynamic remote IDE/editor (along the lines of SLIME)?" What about WebOS? It will get you at least halfway there. Unfortunately, it doesn't have the reach that Android or iOS have. It's s
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by grav1tas 16y ago
Analyze the firmware. If it doesn't pass a checksum, it could be compromised. If the software doesn't pass a checksum, it's compromised. Strange traffic coming out of the router is a bad sign. If the router is running analysis on your p
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by grav1tas 16y ago
WWJD was a pretty hot pseudo brand for awhile! Is there a way to truly quantify one's religiosity? I mean it's not too surprising to see people who claim asceticism as a good thing to be a little list impressed by branding, but to draw th
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I think you're right. I think it's unfortunate that it's come down to this point where the degree is making itself less and less relevant by getting away from its own roots. Glad to hear you like it too :-D!
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by grav1tas 16y ago
I agree. It's a faith vs. good works type of argument. If you love your field, it's not necessary that you put the footwork in to land a degree in it....but typically a degree can be considered a sign of one's drive to learn more about a
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by grav1tas 16y ago
"A degree in computer science is probably among the easiest to do without, career wise: solid coders are employable without a degree..." That's like saying an MD is easiest to do without if you're looking to be something other than a doctor

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