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by jordanpg 12y ago
MS has announced that .NET will be supported by "all big platforms". We all anxiously await the download page that contains an MS-branded OS X CLR.
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What is the utility of advancing a theory that is unfalsifiable in the Popperian sense? This category of theory, even if on strong philosophical footing, seems to be quite apart from theories that can be used to build devices that won&#x27
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Has anyone seen analysis that covers Adblock in addition to Adblock Plus? Do the same findings still obtain?
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Glad to see this point of view represented. I have never found the indignant reaction to the use of ad blockers very believable. Advertising is predicated on lies, by definition, and I am only interested in making consumer decisions as far
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Wanderers: a short film imagines the day when we conquer the solar system(erikwernquist.com)
2 points by jordanpg 12y ago|0 comments
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This has a lot more to do with your personality than travel, I think. To me, genuinely being myself is the thing that's liberating; the added stressors of travel do little to with finding clarity in this realm.
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Great to hear this said out loud. Travel without context is absurd. It's institutionalized syphoning of money away from tourists, under the guise of some sort of transformative experience with lots of photo-ops. In order for travel to
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I like this enough that it prompted me to whittle my FB account down to nothing except a login provider for things like this.
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This highlights how crossword puzzles are a valuable way to stretch the mind laterally. This is a way to think about regexes that rarely comes up in practice: comparing one regex against another unrelated one.
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No, I mean 12.75NM. If you can take a picture of a submarine with your phone from the shore, it's within a few hundred yards.
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I don't know how the classification was made, but the first picture suggests that the sub was operating in broad daylight, within a few hundred meters of the coast, with masts and possibly the sail visible to the naked eye from shore??
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My guess is that they have set up some pattern matching or keyword matching against search queries for some particular programming questions related to whatever they are hiring for. NLP, maybe?
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It is surreal reading this. The geographic connections between ccTLDs and their associated 2-letter pairs with their English connotations are completely arbitrary . ICANN could have just as easily decided to issue all 26*26 two-letter T
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by jordanpg 12y ago
No, it took much more than a billion dollars to develop a rocket. You are just ignoring huge swathes of the cost to support your claim. If you estimate the aggregate cost of SpaceX launches, including 50 years of work by NASA, it will be
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I don't know, it was just the first thing I thought of. Here are dozens of projects that make me chuckle about the naivete of the $6B figure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_megaprojects
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SpaceX benefited from a great many years of experience, technology, knowledge, and lessons learned in blood from NASA, which is priceless. Comparing SpaceX outlays to a corporate acquisition pricetag is a weak analogy, at best. NASA (fede
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I think the point is not that it is technologically infeasible to live in deserts, but that doing it years with only what you can fit in a capsule the size of a U-Haul or dig out of the ground (with a drill you brought with you in the U-H
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I agree. Barring some economic windfall that hasn't yet been discovered, it will require a national (world?) crisis and a Manhattan/Apollo project for a project on this scale. And the $6B pricetag is ludicrous. To put this in co
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by jordanpg 12y ago
2-3 months for a new order according to the site. 1-2 weeks for re-ups.
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by jordanpg 12y ago
> Our name was inspired by Harry Harrison's 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room!, which explores the impact massive population growth could have on world resources. According to WP [1], this somewhat (?) obscure book was
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What the Republican Takeover Means for American Nuclear Waste(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by jordanpg 12y ago|0 comments
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No great fan of DRM myself, but I don't think the economic case is very strong here. If strong DRM so obviously reduces sales, then are the publishers just ignorant of that? Of course not. It's because DRM is mostly about legal
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I assume that there are and that they are all individually fantasizing about being the company that builds that standard. So long as health care is a product needed by every individual in the country and remains the beneficiary of some $1T
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Sort of a 25¢ answer to a $1B question, no? Yes, I put together the bit about reusable rockets on my own. The author doesn't really close the loop on the imagination problem, also known as the political problem. How much of the power
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by jordanpg 12y ago
One thing this piece highlights for me is the importance of really learning the language you're coding in or the system you're operating. Many take the very practical approach of learning what is needed and no more, using googl
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I'm sure we've all worked somewhere that banned gmail or youtube, etc. It's interesting that, in the context of this piece, those bans are addressing symptoms and not root causes. The bans are trying to enforce what you&#x2
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by jordanpg 12y ago
A domain-specific WYSIWYG editor is a long, long way away from a future that doesn't involve any coding. Unless by "coding" you mean HTML/CSS/JS in e-Commerce web apps. The point is that there are infinitely many i
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by jordanpg 12y ago
> For instance, to turn a button red, we shouldn't have to write code. We should just be able point to the button and select a shade of red. Instead of talking about concepts the computer cares about (like variables and servers), pr
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SCOTUS: Are sawed-off shotguns are inherently violent?(scotusblog.com)
4 points by jordanpg 12y ago|1 comments
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I went to look at some of the amazing zsh plugins, and found this endorsement flashing in front of me: "I just can't imagine not using oh-my-zsh. I can believe I won't have to mess around with .bashrc again." And then

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