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by jpd 17y ago
C: Procedural language Python: (Batteries included) Scripting language Scheme: Functional/LISP language Looks like you should learn either an OO language (Smalltalk, OCaml, Scala) or a Logic language (Prolog).
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by jpd 17y ago
Discworld's Going Postal and Making Money by Terry Pratchett are worth checking out. They are sort-of about startups; the main character has to re-organize the Post Office and the Banking system.
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by jpd 17y ago
Kindle DX can handle them natively; On K2, they have to be converted first, a service which Amazon provides.
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by jpd 17y ago
The results for "Fertility vs. per capita GDP for continents" is significantly less useful though. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Fertil...
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by jpd 17y ago
The best sword-fighting game I've come across has been Defenders of the Crown. Very quick little fights, mess up three times and you die. For an example of an original martial arts fighting game, Toribash is worth checking out and seems ver
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by jpd 17y ago
The carrier is really matter of where you are. Where I am, refusing to switch from AT&T makes no sense. AT&T are by far the worst carrier to have around here, with their service seldom having coverage at all; Sprint has good service
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by jpd 17y ago
As a debugger, I always browse source code without ever editing it.
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by jpd 17y ago
You are saying that if the G1 were any thinner, you would like it less. Is this what you intended to say?
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by jpd 17y ago
It would make more sense if the button was labeled, "I can't; I'm under 18!" I can't imagine many working people would be thrilled at the latest Pinnochio news.
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by jpd 17y ago
Looks nice, but the best way to go into competition with Apple is to release their phone for a different service provider, like Sprint or Verizon. We know Pre is for Sprint, so why is this one likely to be for AT&T? This would be a bad
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by jpd 17y ago
> Is it a battered old hat used for canvas fishing? No, that would be his battered old canvas-fishing hat. > Does he have two battered canvas fishing hats of which this one is the older of the two? No, that would be his old battered
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by jpd 18y ago
If Linus had kept Linux closed source, people would have still been perfectly within their rights to write a manual about how to write programs for that operating system as long as they didn't sign a NDA. I doubt anyone who read HP signed a
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by jpd 18y ago
But Sparknotes are not just a summary, they are also an analysis of the work. Consider the following table of contents for the Sparknotes of Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone: Context Plot Overview Character List Analysi
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by jpd 18y ago
The Sparknotes are not you're creation though, so why should you be able to control it?
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by jpd 18y ago
Well, Miles Automotive is working on a sub $40,000 car. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/02/xs500_electric_car_m...
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by jpd 18y ago
Amiga, Inc./Hyperion VOF has already released Amiga OS 4.0, and it's sequel Amiga OS 4.1. It runs on the Sam 440ep, as well as the classic Amiga, and AmigaOne computers (and Pegasus now as well if I recall correctly). The OS has been rewri
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by jpd 18y ago
To quote the article: And, oh, by the way, don’t rant about not having background processes (or any other feature, for that matter); I really don’t think that the lack of support for them will hinder the development of this plat
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by jpd 18y ago
It'd be nice if it saved old to-dos so you can retrieve your history and remember what you've done.
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by jpd 18y ago
I tried JEdit like two years ago or so and found it to be an excellent editor, but that the startup time of approx. 10 seconds was unbearable. Have they fixed that yet?
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by jpd 18y ago
Pretty sure the opportunity to get a "Fail Whale" tuxedo makes up for the premium accounts.
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by jpd 18y ago
Oh, woops! Misread TextEdit for TextMate! That said, I find that Wordpad is a fantastic simplistic tool for creating school papers. For Linux I tend to use the slightly more complex (yet still very clean) LyX.
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by jpd 18y ago
My policy is, until I see a text editor as good as TextEdit on another operating system, I won't even consider a comparison between the two. You forgot to mention your first axiom: 1) Nothing is as good as TextMate.
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by jpd 18y ago
Photography is strange; it exists solely to please the eye. One can say that the act of looking at it, is similar to how one would USE other sorts of information, and although that's not quite right either it serves well-enough (in reality
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by jpd 18y ago
Yes, though I find that the process takes a bit more than an hour, mostly because a native speaker isn't conveniently placed in front of you and because language books are simply not organized in this manner. It's a shame that they aren't.
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by jpd 18y ago
Are shoplifters banned from shopping?
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by jpd 18y ago
I think you skipped a sentence: Apparently, the operators are "venting their anger" at high-level executive meetings with Nokia, whom they believe are trying to wrest away control of their customers and offering easy access to
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by jpd 18y ago
Would be nice if there were comments so you could use this as a learning tool.
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by jpd 18y ago
But Amazon is neither selling nor giving away audio books. They are giving away a general text-to-speech solution which may conveniently be used on a book. Arguing that this is violating copyrights is the same thing as saying that text-to-s
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by jpd 18y ago
They aren't notified about it, but they can see if anyone has replied by going to their past comments list (linked from their profile) and looking for any changes.
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by jpd 18y ago
But regular expressions are not neat tricks, they're basic features of Perl, and are immediately understandable once you've learned about them.

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