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by hugh 18y ago
Accurate or not, that's a pretty good idea. Being able to detach the screen and plug the computer into a bigger monitor would suit perfectly the way I use my laptop at the moment. Plus, with the screen removed the "brick" is presumably a co
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by hugh 18y ago
You're not alone.
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by hugh 18y ago
I agree with most of that, but it was really annoying to read. One would think that if one has time to make every third word a link, put some words in red, and illustrate everything with random pieces of clip art, one could make the effort
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by hugh 18y ago
Now now, don't you think Iwana Jumpu has enough problems already without being discriminated against in employment situations?
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by hugh 18y ago
Indeed. If anyone has goog options that they think are "worthless" then I'll be happy to buy them at one cent each.
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by hugh 18y ago
It was terrible. People were forced to eat raw fish for sustenance. They couldn't get full-sized electronics, so they were forced to make tiny ones. Unable to afford proper entertainment, folks would make do by taking turns to get up and si
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by hugh 18y ago
That's a shame, because defining a "startup" is the most crucial part of the proposal, and I'm not convinced it can be done sensibly. I'm not sure I approve of the whole idea, but I have to admit it would have good consequences if it were i
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by hugh 18y ago
I don't think it makes sense to talk about "deregulation" as the problem. The problem is mis-regulation. No doubt some aspects of banking were over-regulated and others were under-regulated, but the real problem is that the regulations whic
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by hugh 18y ago
Except that all taxpayers are wealth creators, and this would just mean screwing the rest of 'em to benefit a small bunch.
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by hugh 18y ago
Duplicate of the one just above?
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by hugh 18y ago
Reminds me of those guys who have thought out every aspect of what they're going to do in a zombie apocalypse.
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by hugh 18y ago
I signed up, and have been using it faithfully for about six hours now. So far I'm pretty impressed. It remains to be seen whether I'll have the motivation to actually keep it going though. As an example of good design, though, it's hard to
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by hugh 18y ago
A 15-year secular bear market is not the same as a 15-year depression, or even a 15-year recession. It's fifteen years of overall crappy growth, not fifteen years of straight negative growth. The last fifteen years, you'll note, have been e
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by hugh 18y ago
I've recently more-or-less cut out weight training and started running, mostly because I've always sucked at running. Within a few weeks of seriously trying it, I no longer sucked at running and now I'm doing three-mile runs several times a
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by hugh 18y ago
Oh, for sure, but I'd hate to get drawn into the world's Nth general discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of programming languages. That would be dull.
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by hugh 18y ago
Eleven characters! Beats Fortran by four. We have a winner! (Counting only the loop-related characters, leaving out whitespace.) Unless anyone has a shorter way of doing something one hundred times?
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by hugh 18y ago
The way I see it, there are two big opportunities for startups in hard times. Firstly, some old businesses will be shutting their doors, and every time a business closes down it leaves behind a bunch of unserved customers, who presumably co
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by hugh 18y ago
Well, it's shorter by five characters, and you can type it without touching the shift key. Look, I'm only too familiar with the annoyances of Fortran, but let's allow it this one thing, okay?
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by hugh 18y ago
Wait, you couldn't stand the weirdness of perl, but you like Tcl? All I can remember about Tcl from my months of using it is the ugly, ugly loops: for {set i 1} { $i <= 100 } { incr i } { puts "Well, that wasn't ugly syntax!" }
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by hugh 18y ago
Well, all that proves is that some bastard has been handing out tents to the homeless.
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by hugh 18y ago
Shrug. He sweet-talked some guy on the internet into stupidly parting with ten bucks. Big fricking woop. Used car salesmen perform far more impressive (and lucrative) tricks of manipulation every day. I'm not sure why he's still straining h
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by hugh 18y ago
I don't think anyone defines a "free market" as meaning that there is no penalty for getting money by immoral means (e.g. stealing your neighbour's wallet). Polluting a river should, of course, also be penalized and/or priced appropriately.
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by hugh 18y ago
Your experiences aren't really typical, then, and neither are my own. It's probably a mistake to extrapolate from our own childhoods to try and figure out what will work best for the vast majority of people.
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by hugh 18y ago
I really can't stand the way the word "sustainable" is used. On a sufficiently short timescale, everything is sustainable. On a sufficiently long timescale, nothing is sustainable. More importantly, talking about sustainability only makes s
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by hugh 18y ago
Would have been much more interesting if they had any tips other than "use our product".
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by hugh 18y ago
Compared to what? As far as I can see, the only alternative to a free market is some kind of controlled market, and a controlled market requires some subset of the population to control it. If you're a controller, then holding that much pow
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by hugh 18y ago
Technically, Macs were the first Personal Computers Did you mean the Apple II?
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by hugh 18y ago
I don't expect Apple to sue them, but a sending a letter seems reasonable to me. Well, if they send a cease and desist, and the other party doesn't cease and desist, they won't have much choice other than to sue them. Nobody wants to deve
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by hugh 18y ago
Do you honestly think that's not a terrible idea? Replacing your company website with a wiki? Maybe there's a tiny minority of companies for which that would work -- they'd be small, obscure, have a loyal fanbase, and almost never piss anyo
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by hugh 18y ago
isn't it much better to get them interested in math without a need for games? The problem is: a lot of mathematics at this level is actually pretty boring but needs to be mastered anyway. The fun stuff doesn't come until late high schoo

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