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by jkn 14y ago
Can't listen to it right now, but this article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870346730457538... suggests that speakers of all these languages share the good spatial orientation abilities. Anyway it's true then that my argu
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by jkn 14y ago
Ah, thanks for the correction.
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More like they're acutely sensitive to external cues like their shadow (position of the sun) and other subtle details of the landscape. That's confusing how they achieve it (the cues) with why they developed the ability (need to know for
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by jkn 14y ago
Seems unlikely to me: there are many nomadic tribes, but this linguistic particularity and these abilities in spatial orientation were only reported for this tribe (AFAIK).
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by jkn 14y ago
You fail to address the point of the New York Times story referenced in the original post: There is a tribe that uses cardinal directions all the time, instead of left, right, front and back, and it does have a big effect on their spatial o
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by jkn 14y ago
They got it backwards, it should read: In recognition of his creation of a new open source kernel leading to the widely used Linux-based operating systems for computers.
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by jkn 14y ago
I don't see anything that fundamentally distinguishes google from these other companies other than their present strategic position. There is I think a difference in company culture. Sure, it is not something you can measure like market c
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by jkn 15y ago
Blame needs to be proportional to amount produced, not amount profited. But the profit margin is an important factor in your ability to make things better.
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by jkn 15y ago
Indeed the claim about where criminals get their guns is dubious, but that is not the essence of wisty's comment I think. He's making a good point about an important difference between guns and hacking tools (summarized in the third sentenc
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by jkn 15y ago
That makes sense. If you make copyright automatic for a short period before switching to your registration system, I'm in.
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by jkn 15y ago
Can you support these claims? Just because "it worked" doesn't mean it was better than the present system. The upside of automatic copyright is clear: you don't have to bother registering every blog post you write if you want to prevent peo
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by jkn 15y ago
You own the copyright. Unless of course you explicitly transferred it to the college newspaper, but then you would know. This is a good example why a registration based system is bad: as a student you would likely not have bothered register
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by jkn 15y ago
This will still favor sophisticated creators/content owners. I see the advantage of your system when coupled to an increasing price for maintaining registration (it would flatten the plot in the original submission). But I don't see the adv
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by jkn 15y ago
Also, we need to move towards a registration based copyright system. This post doesn't need copyright protection. This idea seems very wrong to me, for two reasons. First, you might not deem this particular comment of yours worthy of copy
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by jkn 15y ago
User space threads don't run in parallel, i.e. they don't take advantage of multi-core CPUs and can be blocking. Fibers are for cooperative multitasking so no parallelism either. Goroutines are multiplexed as needed onto system threads.
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by jkn 15y ago
How is better than 'D' for example. One thing I really like in Go is how small the language is.
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by jkn 15y ago
Threads are different from goroutines. A Go program can create 100'000 goroutines, if it makes sense for the algorithm. Try doing this with threads... Super-cheap threads open many possibilities, it's a significant change in how you think a
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by jkn 15y ago
From http://blog.golang.org/2011/03/c-go-cgo.html : package rand /* #include <stdlib.h> */ import "C" func Random() int { return int(C.random()) } func Seed(i int) { C.srandom(C.uint(i)) }
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by jkn 15y ago
Couldn't you use an empty interface to store arbitrary values? From the tutorial: Every type implements the empty interface, which makes it useful for things like containers. Unions are on the roadmap: http://golang.org/doc/devel/roadmap
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by jkn 15y ago
What do you mean? (seriously) FWIW, I felt the same, reaching the end of your post. To me, edw519's version says "I value being good", while your version says "I value being better than the others". The latter is a bit sad, as it means the
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by jkn 15y ago
I don't get it. The text has been public for a while now, e.g. on the website of the European Commission: http://ec.europa.eu/trade/tackling-unfair-trade/acta/index_e...
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by jkn 15y ago
"Doesn't make them immoral, either" Indeed. I was just expressing my point of view. "Next you'll be saying "property is theft"." No, this wild extrapolation doesn't reflect my views.
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by jkn 15y ago
Sure, most people don't think about the immorality of copyright laws when sharing files, but that doesn't make the laws moral. As for sticking it to the man, I was precisely trying to move the analogy from man-centered (the Amish) to the bi
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by jkn 15y ago
"I can't just steal something from an Amish person's business because "their business model is out-dated."" For a correct analogy, make the Amish a billionaire who makes money by exercising a monopoly. The monopoly is legal, it was even exp
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by jkn 15y ago
So the students were fed the original 50 questions from Socrates dialog... This is very different from the Socratic method as I understand it, which relies not on a static set of questions, but on the interactions between the teacher and th
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by jkn 15y ago
Your main concern seems to be that Google mixes personal and other (e.g. professional) data. Can't you just use different Google accounts for personal and professional work? To follow your example (Google buying Github and mixing client dat
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by jkn 15y ago
"Here is an idea: require all laws to be single subject, single focus." The problem is that this goes against a parliament's ability to make deals. Each party has its own priorities, and is willing to compromise on other issues to advance t
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by jkn 15y ago
I'm a bit surprised with the positive comments: don't you find the layout confusing? It's hard to scroll horizontally and vertically with the eyes especially with the diverse fonts, colors, etc. making up each app description.