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by jqm 11y ago
The quietest nature place I've experienced is the Sonoran Desert in mid summer mid afternoon. With the temperature approaching 120F nothing stirs (wildlife and insects are all hiding from the sun waiting for it to cool a bit). If you a
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by jqm 11y ago
All languages no doubt have that problem. But I firmly believe some have it worse than others and Perl is at the top of that list in my opinion.
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by jqm 11y ago
"100 year language..." God I sure hope not. (Only if it's a lot easier to maintain than Perl 5 maybe...) I have bad feelings about Perl after having to parse and cleanup a bunch of abominably written multi-thousand line pages
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by jqm 11y ago
That's but _one_ of the problems....
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by jqm 11y ago
That seems a little high. In the real world it seems that 4 years of hands on experience is often worth more than 4 years of school. For certain things anyway. I have a degree. I'm not sure the education was really worth the money but
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by jqm 11y ago
Building those facilities would probably be very expensive. Maybe we should start by renting mini storage units:)
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by jqm 11y ago
I thought the UI was a command prompt. At least it has been for me. Shows you what I know:)
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by jqm 11y ago
I've been using Transmission on Linux for years. Need another example of an app that's better on Mac (I have no doubt there are plenty:)
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by jqm 11y ago
chmod 500 Because it's certain he could execute as well.... (In fact, let's make it 510. The group can't read or write but they don't have problem executing either.)
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by jqm 11y ago
I'm surprised to see the amount of negative comments. Widespread adoption of this kind of technology will likely to be one of the best things to ever happen to the human race. The author might be off on timeline but I'm pretty sur
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by jqm 11y ago
That's not really "cute" code though. Short list comprehension isn't any less readable (and certainly not less maintainable WTF?) than a multi-line "for" loop. In fact, I find short list comprehension more read
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by jqm 11y ago
The problems with the European Social Democracy model are becoming apparent even as we speak. It works really well with a small, homogenous, educated, basically peaceable population and assumes plentiful resources and that the population re
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by jqm 11y ago
Tax land use and tax raw material use. (i.e. aluminum in a can). Eliminate just about all other taxes. Don't tax "capital" in the form of money, certainly don't tax labor. Why punish productive effort? Punish use of reso
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by jqm 11y ago
That sounds like a form of prostitution.
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by jqm 11y ago
Roads and bridges are fine. 700 hammers for the military maybe not. I worked as project manager for a contractor doing public works at one point. The government (at least in the US and probably everywhere) wastes a staggering amount of mone
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by jqm 11y ago
Except...... I'm not a leftist. Not sure how you got that from the post. I in no way think all affluent people got their money by illegal means nor did I even slightly imply that. But some affluent people did get their money by illegal
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by jqm 11y ago
There are all kinds of criminals. Hi IQ adults probably don't (generally) shoplift $3 worth of beauty products nor hold up gas stations for $56. Bernie Madoff was probably pretty smart though don't you think? And there are no doub
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by jqm 11y ago
I picked and ate mushrooms as a kid frequently. I had some books and very quickly learned to identify the poisonous and edible kinds. It wasn't that hard and I never got sick. But I was careful and did research first and if there was a
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by jqm 11y ago
This article may (or may not:) be a little short sighted. Basically it claims the inventions of what it terms "The third industrial revolution" (computers) affect a much narrower slice of life than the proceeding industrial revolu
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by jqm 11y ago
Agreed, but writing tests isn't necessarily the same as TDD.
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by jqm 11y ago
I still run Slackware on my home/work machines. I find that setting it up once every couple of years and moving my home directory is about all I need. On the rare occasion software needs to be installed yes, it has to be built from sou
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by jqm 11y ago
It's Slackware. You have to put systemd in yourself:)
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by jqm 11y ago
I suppose we should also be appreciative he hasn't instituted gulags... that we know of anyway. But that's really beside the point for this discussion.
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by jqm 11y ago
I've found 6 hours to be about the right amount day in and day out.
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by jqm 11y ago
Could be that. Or, it could be that they are flat out cynically lying to the public. Not sure which it is, but too much of it going on lately. If there is really a need, give us more information. Everything doesn't have to be top secre
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by jqm 11y ago
how are you so sure that's not the case? :)
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by jqm 11y ago
And fruit. It leaves fruit also. Fruit is produced to be consumed and doesn't take life in consumption.
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by jqm 11y ago
At what point does sentience end? Whales? Rats? Birds? Fish? Insects? Plants? Bacteria? Because something has a higher order nervous system does that mean we have to assign it equal rights? How high an order of system would be required to h
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by jqm 11y ago
I don't think that will be a problem. Gorillas probably aren't going to be able to keep a drone fleet running.
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by jqm 11y ago
I'm sorry, I don't see any denigration. Just an example of human nature being human nature. I'm sure you can think of plenty more if the term "hipster" bothers you.

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