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by jscn 14y ago
I keep seeing 'PaintContext' as 'PainContext'.
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by jscn 14y ago
Not so much a loophole as just lying to get a discount you're not entitled to. Does thenextweb even have editorial staff?
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by jscn 14y ago
I think you're better off picking the technology stack based on the community around it. With only 9 months of Python under your belt, it wouldn't be much of a loss if you switched now. Try to get a feel for the Ruby/Rails and Python/Django
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by jscn 14y ago
I get a 502 error at that URL.
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by jscn 14y ago
It seems like the article is talking about close, meaningful friendships as though they're the only kind[1]. But you'd be lucky to have a handful of such friendships over a lifetime. Most friendships will be based on mutual-advantage or sim
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by jscn 14y ago
Not only does the logo look like Adobe's, it also looks suspiciously like AXIS Jiu Jitsu's logo (see http://www.axisjj.com/ -- take the central triangle, rotate it left and mirror it on the y-axis.)
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by jscn 14y ago
I've never heard the pen cap thing before. That, sir, is genius.
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by jscn 14y ago
HN is owned privately and everyone's ability to use it is at pg's discretion. pg has no duty, implied or otherwise, to provide a platform on which the principles of free speech hold. This is not true of society at large. You seem to be conf
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by jscn 14y ago
I second this, would love to hear more. I'm really interested in alternative organisational structures of this kind.
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by jscn 15y ago
Western medicine is nothing more than medicine being tested scientifically before being accepted. If you know anything better than the scientific method to test medicine than please do tell. There is no such thing as the scientific metho
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by jscn 15y ago
Hence why OP mentioned the need for a scifi novel and some court cases to create a market. I'm not sure that would work, it doesn't seem to have done so in other domains.
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by jscn 15y ago
I don't understand. Wouldn't LEGO Minecraft just be...LEGO?
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by jscn 15y ago
josh.crompton@gmail.com - I'm looking for a full time gig in Perth (Australia). Most of my experience is with web stuff (Python/Django) and test automation (Python). I'm currently located in Christchuch, New Zealand and I'll be in Perth fro
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by jscn 15y ago
It seems unlikely that all (or even a significant proportion) of OP's audience would be familiar with that particular episode, let alone it's name.
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by jscn 15y ago
tldr; To mitigate existential risks. There are at least a couple reasons: 1) A lot of the conflict that destroys so many lives is motivated by limited resources such as land. Getting off this planet could make that kind of conflict disappea
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by jscn 15y ago
On the other hand, protein and fat increase satiety better than carbohydrates, so if you want to feel fuller on fewer calories, protein is a good bet.
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Leaks, riots, and monocles: how a $60 in-game item almost destroyed EVE Online(arstechnica.com)
3 points by jscn 15y ago|0 comments
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by jscn 15y ago
OP points out a real issue, though. If you didn't already know that, how would you? Perhaps some alt text could be added to the arrows.
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by jscn 16y ago
"Free people create free markets. Free markets do not necessarily create free people.” - Gupta’s Libertarian Observation
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by jscn 16y ago
Yeah, I must say that programming web apps and battling with CSS is pretty dull after studying philosophy.
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by jscn 16y ago
Philosophy is a necessary condition for science (which I take it is the process you have in mind for 'actually discover[ing] something').
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by jscn 16y ago
I sympathise with your position that philosophy is a kind of meta-science, with the caveat that that is only one kind of philosophy. But Karl Popper did not define what science is. That's an ongoing question (and one to which I think there
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by jscn 16y ago
Instead you learn the latest 'correct' answers, which you can then write on a test and receive a grade for. I'm not disputing that modern physics is our best understanding of how the physical world works, but you do lose an important aspect
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by jscn 16y ago
I don't think that's what is being proposed. Philosophy is not bad science. But you can't always know which questions to ask with science, especially in a new field. One of the things which philosophy does (and has done) is to clarify which
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by jscn 16y ago
I've had similar issues with Ubuntu upgrades in the past. I went to Debian (stable) instead, figuring the longer upgrade cycles would mean fewer problems. That was all well and good until I needed to enable backports to upgrade Firefox to &
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by jscn 16y ago
I think you're conflating two ideas here: negative and positive freedom. Negative freedom, freedom from having to do things you don't want, can be had by quitting your job and living in a cardboard box. Don't want to go to work? That's cool
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by jscn 16y ago
the most overpriced for the value they deliver. For some values of 'value'. Because you can't put a dollar sign on everything, right? I feel much better about the value I got from my humanities classes than I ever did about my com
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by jscn 16y ago
When I heard RMS speak a few years ago, he made the distinction between devices like microwaves, and general purpose computing devices. The latter you want to be running Free Software. But for the former it's not really an issue. Unfortunat
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by jscn 16y ago
Warning: irrelevant grammar nazism below. > Many fewer lines of code than This grammar bugs me. I feel like this should be "Much fewer" or similar, but I'm not totally sure it's wrong as posted. Opinions?
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by jscn 17y ago
One minor design related thing: the diagonal stripes behind the search box on the front page create an optical illusion where the boxes get warped. I do not find it pleasant to look at.

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