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by jpablo 17y ago
What's bad about giving programmers a standard API to store config settings so they are in a central place and can be tweaked by administrators and users using gui tools (for other people you can still grep ~\.gconf or use they command line
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by jpablo 17y ago
Yeah, I saw that. My point is that the registry wasn't designed for that. I'll be the same as complaining that the format of the /etc files is not well document, is not standard across different flavors of UNIX and everyone sticks whatever
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by jpablo 17y ago
I agree that the registry is a mess and probably badly implemented as well. But a few of the criticism coming from the linked blog seems of the form "the Windows Registry is only compatible with Windows". Since the Registry is very specific
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by jpablo 17y ago
If you can break it then it wasn't really a law.
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by jpablo 17y ago
While this certainly looks very cool (almost like a real Babel Fish out of Douglas Adams books) Google would have to come up with some amazing breakthroughs to both translation and voice recognition technology for this to work acceptably. T
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by jpablo 17y ago
Gold is money only because most people agree on that. If our civilization collapses the only 'money' people will take will be corn and rise. Said that, I agree that gold has value, it has it's uses. But when it's get used as a 'safe' curren
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by jpablo 17y ago
Aren't those applications the perfect use for artificial diamonds ?
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by jpablo 17y ago
This Warren Buffett quote on gold could very easily be changed to apply to diamonds: "Gold gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it.
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by jpablo 17y ago
This post completely misses the difference between money and wealth. National debt is payed with the wealth of a nation, actual money is only a representation of that wealth. PG explained it better here: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.ht
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by jpablo 17y ago
Could be nice if the poster could said if the jobs are US-only. Begin in Mexico I know I would appreciate it.