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by jksmith 18y ago
Let's just couch it as an intellectual exercise - no assault on religions or followers intended. Having said that, people of faith spend varying degrees of time trying to know some deity, through study, meditation, revelation, whatever. Wha
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by jksmith 18y ago
Technology introduces another dilemma for people of faith. To know God, we become God.
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by jksmith 18y ago
The MSFT business scheme all along has been to fuel new PC sales by selling new versions of Windows. Producing a great piece of software was never the intent. The PC manufacturers held up their end of the deal by licensing Windows in large
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by jksmith 18y ago
I thought it was already understood that imperative/mutable won't work in any concurrent environment.
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by jksmith 18y ago
Absolutely. My deal was going along pretty well until all this crap made the investors look like a herd of spooked wildebeests. My deal includes a mix of startup and acquisition (with cash flow). The M&A investors I've worked with are h
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by jksmith 18y ago
That black roadster is a black swan. 1) We've been duped into thinking the technology was not practical, 2) The only reason it's not massively disruptive is its price, and 3) Years from now new drivers will find what we have to do to mainta
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by jksmith 18y ago
What I read out of it is the tyranny of the "one truth," which is inculcated in many religious people. You know, I believe in the Holy Ghost, but not ghosts, or Islam produces fanatics, but let's proselytize around the world fanatically. It
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by jksmith 18y ago
"Whether due to pride or stubbornness, Microsoft's refusal to create a more accessible migration path from XP to Windows 7 is simply inexcusable." I'm amazed that industry mouthpieces still don't get this. It has nothing to do with pride or
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by jksmith 18y ago
Sorry, I'm calling bs on your lifts. Additionally, you don't know what you're talking about. The sports athlete lifts (correctly) to enhance his/her body's ability to generate force for a particular sport, that's all. If the athlete does no
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by jksmith 18y ago
Even more obvious, if you want to relive the native experience, then you've got to simulate the hunt before eating. In modern terms, get your cardio in the morning before eating breakfast. Many believe as I do that this keeps your meta rate
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by jksmith 18y ago
Damn straight. Supporting OSX look or iPhone look only helps Apple sell more stuff; it doesn't directly help the internet fully realize itself, and a fully realized internet must be the future of computing.
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by jksmith 18y ago
IO (iolanguage.com) is very cool. The Qi layer over CL (lambdassociates.org) is also worth looking at. q/kdb+ (kx.com) is very interesting, but needs a more complete toolset for a commercial product. What if your language was nothing but ma
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by jksmith 18y ago
Here's the catch tho'. Governments and corporations don't like decentralization, because this means a loss of control. So this will be a problem with what some will propose for electricity generation, which is a localized and decentralized
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by jksmith 18y ago
They don't appear to support GSM 1900, which will limit which carries they can be used with in the US.
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by jksmith 18y ago
What if the Administration asked a company to go kill somebody in the name of fighting terrorism, somebody gets killed, but the company is exonerated? These American companies (incl ATT) had every right to refuse to support this, and could
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by jksmith 18y ago
The moral issue can be separated out. The issue for me is just the liability. He notes that he did not seek legal advice.
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by jksmith 18y ago
The examples show circumstances separated by a matter of degrees regarding application of trust. >It's a simple case of the system working as planned to protect innocent victims. I'm not going to be a yahoo about this, but that's just p
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by jksmith 18y ago
Missing the point. No matter what the crime being committed, he trusted the authorities without reciprocation. Huge liability for him and Atari. Consider: 1) Would you help a stranger recover a stolen item from the perpetrator? 2) If you we
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by jksmith 18y ago
Try a descendant in q/kdb+ at kx.com. No special symbol set required. For reference, "Q for Mortals" is a good read, and Joel at wagerlabs.com blogs about q/kdb+ occasionally. q/kdb+ could turn into something really useful, and has some nic
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by jksmith 18y ago
I got it. Downmodding your original post was silly.
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by jksmith 18y ago
Yegge has just addressed this, and I think he has a beautiful point: Compiled apps are dead, unfeeling, unable to adjust. Compiled apps are like the ones you buy in a box at the computer store and install on the piece of plastic in front of
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by jksmith 18y ago
This task does seem to have Erlang written all over it, but of course we're not intimately familiar with all the details. The mindset for selecting tools to build apps which need to scale seems be similar to the one we all had back in early
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by jksmith 18y ago
That's the increasingly fragile business model though. MSFT and generic PC makers are like siamese twins who can't be separated. The makers depend on MSFT to create new versions which require new hardware. In turn, MSFT gets exclusive distr
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by jksmith 18y ago
Slight drift: Tarver's current project accompanied by a fascinating read. www.lambdassociates.org/FPQi.pdf
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by jksmith 18y ago
The comments by a real veteran Dan Weinreb are a nice read.
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by jksmith 18y ago
For those who catch the reference, i'll throw Steve a porkchop. The piece is an easy target for ridicule and jokes, but read something like "The Fountainhead" or at least watch the fairly faithful movie. You might soften your opinion a
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by jksmith 18y ago
+1 Orig PS2 is what I'm typing on right now. I started out on orig XT/AT keyboards, which have an even stiffer click, but I had to quit using them because they're missing F11-F12 keys. IMO, the orig IBM keyboards are still the best keyboard
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by jksmith 18y ago
These articles always end up discussing the UI api. After having been in the shrinkwrapped industry since DOS, and thanks to MSFT using the UI as a cheap gimmick to keep programmers hooked, I can tell you from experience that the latest and
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by jksmith 19y ago
Damn straight. His "Thinking Forth" also. Abrash's "Zen of Assembly" was also another memorable book.
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by jksmith 19y ago
Well, countries will commit war on behalf of oil (and infrastructure) corporations, so doing the right thing won't happen until all the wrong incentives dry up. One interesting development out of Petrobras though is Lua, which is a great sc

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