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by jvdh 16y ago
The case has lots and lots of media attention. And it may be just me, but the whole thing seems to be a pretty easy case: The California law regarding lost items is pretty clear. If you think it's stolen, you have to report it. The website
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by jvdh 17y ago
I'm not sure whether this'll really work...Often when you need such a system it is when each of the participants is a little short on the money. These people may not want to use a system that is going to cost them money on each transaction.
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by jvdh 17y ago
nit-pick: shouldn't it be "I.B.M.'s Bid..." ? Also, who on earth still writes I.B.M. ?? The company itself certainly doesn't.
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by jvdh 17y ago
True, but the most relevant part for POSIX is always GNU/Linux, which is always the same in each of the Linux distributions.
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by jvdh 17y ago
FreeBSD is actively trying to get to POSIX and C99 conformance, see http://www.freebsd.org/projects/c99/index.html
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by jvdh 17y ago
each software package that uses autoconf prior to compiling writes their own set of tests.
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by jvdh 17y ago
I did some more research and digging through my books. A Universal Turing machine is one that can read programs from its own tape. Infinite tapes are necessary for the halting problem, to allow programs to run infintely on infinite memory.
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by jvdh 17y ago
I remember that the Universal Turing machine needs an infinite tape. But I don't think you'd need one in practice. Besides, memory and states in modern computers are finite too, and they're all Universal Turing machines.
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by jvdh 17y ago
since echo still worked, why would you need grep for that one?
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by jvdh 17y ago
Summary: Stop trying to do everything. Bit lame if you ask me.
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by jvdh 17y ago
I think banning powerpoints is going a bit too far. Not everyone is natural born presenter and many can be struggling. Presenting without slides is going to be a major hurdle for these people. What I would propose is that people are not all
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by jvdh 17y ago
Please. You're acting like Netflix did nothing wrong in releasing the dataset when they knew that they could be pretty easily de-anonimized. Thus providing a privacy risk.
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by jvdh 17y ago
would you care to elaborate on that? Needless to say I disagree with you, but I can hardly say why if I don't know about your arguments.
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by jvdh 17y ago
"1 line of LISP replaces 20 lines of C" Might be true. But in my experience that single line takes as much time to think up as the 20 lines in C. So it doesn't really work as an argument for either.
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by jvdh 17y ago
gtk failure is a problem with Snow Leopard, there's no stable gtk version that iscompatible with SL.
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by jvdh 17y ago
I went in the same way. Near the end my jaw just dropped, and all I could think was "Wow." (which is also a very short summary of what Philip K. Dick wrote).
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by jvdh 17y ago
Fiber can currently carry wavelengths up to 10Gbps in a standardized way. Standards for 40Gbps and 100Gbps are currently being written (and have been implemented). These wavelengths can then be multiplexed 8 at a time into carrier groups, w
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by jvdh 17y ago
You are a being very pessimistic. Europe and Japan declining in population? I find that hard to believe. Do you have figures to back that up? Greece bankrupt? Even if it were true, any negative consequences of that will be mitigated by the
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by jvdh 17y ago
My apologies, IMO self-medication would be taking medication or something that actually helps you. Sure, coffee/alcohol/tobacco all can help very temporarily. If you're using that over prolonged periods of time, I would call that substance
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by jvdh 17y ago
If over 30% of a group that were born in a three year period in the same hospital do heavy drug use (>3 years), then there must be a pretty big problem in that area.
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by jvdh 17y ago
"possibly correlated with feeling unhappy or off-kilter" Very likely, it's called puberty. To me that does not mean they are "self-medicating" though.
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by jvdh 17y ago
It is very unlikely that so many kids that are not even 21 years old are self-medicating. The article does not mention it very clearly, but these are actually results on a study following kids from birth, interviewed at roughly 5,14, and 21
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by jvdh 17y ago
directly from isbn.nl
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by jvdh 17y ago
How prevalent are anti-depressants? I get the impression that a large percentage of the american youth are on Prozac or others, and/or even medication for ADD. And also that the normal response for depression is medication. In the Netherlan
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by jvdh 17y ago
It would have behooved you to say that you agreed with what John Gruber said, instead of just paraphrasing what he said: "I think what Apple was getting squeamish about wasn’t the sexy apps themselves, but the cheesiness that the sexy apps
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by jvdh 17y ago
While I agree that this is probably what will happen, it is probably not going be as easy as you make it seem. There is a very good chance that in this case the entire conversation with the server will be encrypted. In order to emulate this
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by jvdh 17y ago
Did you even bother to read the linked article?
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by jvdh 17y ago
This really surprised me too. I just got one in the Netherlands, and it only cost me €10.
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by jvdh 17y ago
I really don't see why I would want to know that my significant other is drinking. There are tons of other ways of communicating. This one is subtle, I'll grant that, but it's a little too far out for me.
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by jvdh 17y ago
I believe most countries have a minimum depth that bodies have to be buried at. That is going to be hard to achieve with these kind of coffins.

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