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by jballanc 12y ago
Given that most classical composers also wrote operas, they pretty much were movie composers.
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by jballanc 12y ago
"Thick as a Brick" by Jethro Tull is the first thing that comes to mind. It has the length and variety of style that you'd expect from any classical symphony.
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by jballanc 12y ago
If you're following the instructions here: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/146849/how-do-i-rec... ...then this patch needs to be modified (different line numbers) before it can be applied to the Appl
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by jballanc 12y ago
> - We live in Turkey. Merhaba Bodrum'dan! I'm reminded of a refrain that seems to be going around recently: the computer revolution is just getting started . When people today talk of how computers can empower change, often t
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by jballanc 12y ago
Here's a great article on what's required to get a freelance visa in Germany (i.e. you don't actually even need a German company to employ you before you move): https://medium.com/@imcatnoone/how-to-get-y
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by jballanc 12y ago
Same for my peninsula: https://mvexel.github.io/thenandnow/#15/37.0381/27.4293 ...though they still don't have the street I live on. Looks like I have something to do the next time I need a weekend proje
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Startup Winter is Coming(unicornfree.com)
15 points by jballanc 12y ago|6 comments
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by jballanc 12y ago
Or don't wait...the neovim team is taking a very incremental approach so that (at least for my fairly complex setup) everything still works as expected.
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by jballanc 12y ago
Howdy neighbor! (I can literally see Greece from my front porch.)
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by jballanc 12y ago
Hah! Oh man...this is so classic I just had to laugh. In case you weren't aware, the rivalry between Turks and Greeks has been going on for literally centuries. What makes this all the more laughable is that the word "yogurt"
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by jballanc 12y ago
While it's cool to see this technique applied to consumer video, the general idea has been used in international espionage for a while now. In fact, Léon Theremin (yes, of the musical instrument) invented an early device capable of eav
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by jballanc 12y ago
Out-of-body experiences have already been studied quite extensively by the airforce, where such experiences have led to a number of accidents or near accidents. RadioLab did a nice piece on this a while back. Give it a listen: http:/&
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A Conference Stole My Identity(futurestack.com)
237 points by jballanc 12y ago|142 comments
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by jballanc 12y ago
Dozen! I remember when Slackware fit on a single 3.5" floppy. There was a second disk, but you only needed that if you wanted to install X, and why would you want X when you had virtual terminals you could just switch between?
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by jballanc 12y ago
Right, but it's also much simpler and faster for the programmer to write one function with one return type, and later modify it to add a return type if the requirements change. I think this is obviously why dynamic languages rose in pr
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by jballanc 12y ago
I don't necessarily think they are wrong, but I also think that (as with most "silver bullets") type-safety is not without it's shortcomings. For example, consider the exponentiation function. When we raise an Integer to
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by jballanc 12y ago
Look further up in the article where it's mentioned that women make up 60% of the undergraduate population in general. In this case, 58% is just approaching gender parity adjusted for base-line admissions.
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by jballanc 12y ago
It seems to me that Gittip is making the same mistake that Gnu/FSF have made: the most effective change comes one step at a time. Ostensibly, the primary goal of Gittip is to create an economy of Open Source work. But instead of focu
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by jballanc 12y ago
Re: 3)... Look at the bottom of the page. There's a link to the swift-lang site...from an Apple web property. That's probably more publicity than the swift-lang folks could have hoped for in a million years.
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by jballanc 12y ago
> They wanted to hire Jimmy Iovine. Apple needs to make more deals with the entertainment industry, and by all accounts, having Iovine on team Apple will help. When Apple was putting together the iTunes music store, Steve Jobs bought a c
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by jballanc 12y ago
"Runtime" generally refers to the library routines that handle the creating and keeping track of objects, adding methods and/or ivars to those objects, and calling methods. How you call those library routines can vary. In a t
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by jballanc 12y ago
It may sounds trite, but there is a solution: very strong family structures. Where I live, homelessness is essentially unheard of. Yes, many people live in dirt-floor huts, but they live together, often as large extended-family units. The l
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by jballanc 12y ago
If we're going to pull on evolutionary biology metaphors, I think the "Red Queen Hypothesis" is the more apt one for this situation...
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by jballanc 12y ago
Right, that's why I said we're adding one layer (not two). Still, if TCP is the transport layer, and HTTP/SMTP/etc. are the application layer, then what do we call WebSockets when we implement an application layer protoc
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by jballanc 12y ago
Humans thought their strength and agility was superior until John Henry lost to the steam drill. Humans thought their intellect and intuition was superior until Gary Kasparov lost to Deep Blue. Today, we still hold to the notion that our bi
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by jballanc 12y ago
I think this ( http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2014AprJun/... ) follow-up makes a valid point: > In the old days we had different protocols for different use cases. We had FTP and SSH
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by jballanc 12y ago
Wikipedia is, at this point, truly "encyclopedic" in that it covers all manner of topics, but I think it still has a loooong way to go before it can consider itself the universal reference. The primary problem, as I see it, is c
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by jballanc 12y ago
Yes, but unlike a gamma-ray burst, there is literally no hope of survival. With a gamma-ray burst one could, in theory, survive given an ultra-shielded structure with full life support (to offset the lack of atmosphere and any other life
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by jballanc 12y ago
If you're into worrying about catastrophic existential threats, you'd be hard pressed to do better than Vacuum Instability: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_instability#Vacuum_metas... ...especially worryi
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by jballanc 12y ago
Realistically, how frequently to you hear the infamous 20th century leader referred to as "Adolph Hitler" today, as opposed to just "Hitler" (or, "literally Hitler")? I think by 2029 the fact that his first nam

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