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by jmilkbal 13y ago
I hadn't considered just how radically different a quantum computer would look. That is really something else, like the gauss gun from Half Life.
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by jmilkbal 13y ago
I don't have much faith in the patent or global food system to create something with "ineffable 'quality'". Once the local food conglomerates are able to produce this, it's all about a price point and most frequently that price point is so
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by jmilkbal 13y ago
I said mixed feelings because that exactly how I feel. It's more hesitant, but I suppose you could say I'm cautiously optimistic.
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by jmilkbal 13y ago
I have a lot of mixed feelings about developments like this. On one hand, I'll tell people that food for me is about quality and flavor. I'm not opposed to pink slime for what it is, but because it just makes for a poor result. I'm in favor
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by jmilkbal 13y ago
I use Ada (a proper noun) regularly. It is not a functional language, but encourages a lot of the same things that functional people like to talk about. Ada is a wonderful language to use. It's rather boring and uneventful and is not accomp
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by jmilkbal 14y ago
We can get high performance coupled with safer ways to deal with locks. You don't need to be afraid of locks so much as find something that handles them well along with whatever else you need. In Ada there exist "protected" objects and type
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by jmilkbal 14y ago
They barely care about FeedBurner as it is. They've discontinued all of the advertising intergration, not updated the blog in any amount of time nor do you really get that much of the product itself. There's some pretty basic Google Analyti
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by jmilkbal 14y ago
I'll give an anecdote. I've spent the last 7 years using Ada, a language that is /both/ interesting and obscure, almost exclusively. It's really a fantastic language that is frequently neglected much like poor Go, but with more merit. Anywa
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by jmilkbal 14y ago
It could also be said that developers who use established languages are excited to get things done rather than reinvent wheels continuously.
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by jmilkbal 14y ago
In the 1970s, the US DoD had what one could parallel to SOA. They had hundreds of languages; they'd start a new project and with it came a new programming language, stack and toolset. They created the High Order Language Working Group which
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by jmilkbal 14y ago
Another day another headline of a closed repository rejecting something. In this case, it's information for an open source project. Nevermind that these repositories are not beholden to us, as a FLOSS proselytizer, it pains me that my peers
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by jmilkbal 14y ago
The paranoid, tin foil hat wearing part of me has always put post Google acquisition Recaptcha in the must-be-part-of-the-long-arm-of-Google-tracking category of services encouraging me to do my very best to avoid allowing it to run in my n
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by jmilkbal 15y ago
Ada's verbosity is one of it's best qualities making it perfectly suited for our large, geographically distant team. There are far less questions about the purpose and meaning of code when its in Ada. Seriously! And to boot the documenta
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by jmilkbal 15y ago
Ada wants to catch as much as it can before runtime. To that end, it is one strict beast when you're used to all the willy nilly (and unsafe) constructs that we can beat C into doing. Ada absolutely is harder; it's built for hard problems
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by jmilkbal 15y ago
I feel like I'm beating a dead horse, but I really can not grasp what the catalysts are for creating Rust or Go or Julia or other new languages that want to be safe, reliable, readable, etc.. 30 years ago these problems were solved in a la
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by jmilkbal 15y ago
No, but a privacy conscious user would prefer to use Chromium which doesn't come with the Google privacy invasion built-in.
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by jmilkbal 15y ago
Good work, but I feel obligated to mention that, of course, this is all already built in to emacs.
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by jmilkbal 15y ago
Aye. What mothership? I'm not a fucking slave to the retardation that is this entire company. They regularly show they can't manage anything properly.
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by jmilkbal 15y ago
Most countries IP laws are not as obnoxious as ours so they don't have to give minor concessions to pretend to care.
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by jmilkbal 15y ago
Subway became the largest restaurant chain in the world recently. Is it, perhaps, more apt to ask how far one can get from one of them?
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by jmilkbal 15y ago
If you use emacs, it has org-mode which is very capable. It'll handle task organization, prioritizing, time clock, scheduling, invoicing and more. Look here at http://orgmode.org/ and http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html for brief and i
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by jmilkbal 15y ago
I was listening until he started condescending Obama about socialist "spreading the wealth around" policies like the British government of the 1970's. It's totally out of place; he mentions the Labour party so might as well take a crack at
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by jmilkbal 15y ago
I agree with the article, but I can't decide if sugar is should be the catalyzing factor or the plethora of other toxic chemicals they put in food.
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by jmilkbal 15y ago
I find the use of FOSS operating systems to be the best form of antivirus, but if you must use MS Windows, I've heard that AVG Free (as in beer) is top notch.
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by jmilkbal 15y ago
It's been said many times over: email is inherently not secure. You can secure access to it as much as you like, but it's still going over the wire in plain text unless you are encrypting all of your messages.
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by jmilkbal 15y ago
Sounds like you've been reeducated by the RIAA.
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by jmilkbal 15y ago
That's rich.
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by jmilkbal 15y ago
I'd like to think that the evil chocolate factory is so scared of DDG such that they would buy up a related domain name, but the domain was owned by On2 technologies which, as you may recall, was bought by Google for their video codec. Of
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by jmilkbal 15y ago
The key is to recognize that when you're getting something for free that you are not the customer. Fastmail provides a great product at a reasonable price. Spam protection and support are both top notch.
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by jmilkbal 15y ago
The Wayback machine shows me that the current design is nearly 11 years old. http://web.archive.org/web/20010401091809/http://php.net/

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