jemfinch

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by jemfinch 16y ago
Conventions: excusing language design flaws since 1956.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> It certainly seems to me this would work for software, probably even better than it does for fashion. Arguably it already does. Yes, it would work better for software! I'm unsure why you and my other interlocutor considered this an i
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> How does this not apply? How about AutoDesk, Apple, HP, Dell, Sony Vaio? All those names create a different and unique mental image and perception. The name matters just as much in software as in fashion. And in the world I propose wh
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by jemfinch 16y ago
There's a reason Aristotle is known primarily as a philosopher and only secondarily as a scientist.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> Why don't we just abolish patents? The fashion and food industries seem to get by without them. There are several things wrong with your proposition. First, the food and beverage industries get by without patents because they leverage
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by jemfinch 16y ago
The page would be regenerated on each new comment, of course. Votes should be done the same way friends' lists are: on the client side, via javascript. The cached page with its comments would include Javascript to grab the most current sco
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by jemfinch 16y ago
No, the scientific method is fundamental to scientific endeavor. Everything else is just gravy. A man working alone is doing science, he's just not benefiting society as well as he might. Science isn't "pushing the bounds of human knowled
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> With no peer review or replication, you are no longer doing science. Science can be done in isolation. Robinson Crusoe could do science on his small island in the tropics. Without peer review or replication, you're just not doing th
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by jemfinch 16y ago
The comments page would be cached globally; the json friends list would just be inserted as the cached page is served to the user.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> how did the developers come up with 66 gigabytes of ram to use for these instances in the first place? The high-memory quadruple extra large (no, I'm not making that name up) instance offers 68.4GB of ram. Presumably they left the re
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Entomologists don't do bee autopsies, they do bee necropsies. The only animal that can be autopsied is a human. </pedant>
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by jemfinch 16y ago
I think the statement that his answers may seem impolite is more a commentary on many people's inability to distinguish terseness from impoliteness. It's not saying that he's rude.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> Oracle was probably hoping for an out of court resolution, similarly to how Microsoft was able to do with HTC. Really? Who has Google settled out of court with on patent litigation?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Nested tags can't be matched by fsms.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Touché ;)
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by jemfinch 16y ago
I think you're confusing "reasonable doubt" with "any doubt at all." Postulating malicious data-encrypting malfeasance is not reasonable doubt, it's conspiracy theory.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Can you provide some citations for your claims here? I'd really like to review them.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Read closer. "The characters '<' and '>' are unsafe because they are used as the delimiters around URLs in free text". The RFC itself uses "<URL:...>" because it already uses "<...>" for BNF non-terminals, which are
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> when your culture treats your elderly relatives - your own family! - so horrifically, shipping them off to be ignored in a home for the rest of their lives?" Have they considered that perhaps it's the American individualism manifested
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by jemfinch 16y ago
I must have misunderstood you, and now I'm intrigued: what connector does an iDevice have other than the dock connector and the headphone connector?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Nothing about this article explains how it happened, only that it happened.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
That "convention" is one of the only standards-compliant ways to delimit URLs. Fix your copy-and-paste mechanism.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Obviously there are at least four people smarter than me here, because I can't for the life of me figure out what in the world you're trying to say.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
I can't imagine it's accomplished very much differently than any radio-transmitting iPod attachment for a car.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
I can't remember the last time I used a screen whose native resolution was 1024x768.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
That there are not many clever hacks to be made in the language is a feature, not a bug.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Do people really go into web design to get "fuck you" money?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Chalk me up as someone who disagrees. Personally, I find recursive transformations of immutable structures far easier to reason about than iterative modifications to mutable structures. At least in some cases, I think that's the expected r
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by jemfinch 16y ago
As long as <10 airports satisfies your domestic needs, more power to you ;)
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> You take a one time large hit in performance to page out some data as opposed to many small continual hits in performance going across the interconnect between nodes. You misunderstand the OP. He's not saying "Just put it in Node 1 a

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