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   Amazon Appstore Digital Rights Management (amazonappstoredev.com)

   2 points by kevbin 16y ago|0 comments
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   by kevbin 16y ago

   The apollo/manhattan approach that government tends toward doesn't seem a very good way to do research. In 1971 Nixon started a "war" on cancer, hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent. That's mis-allocated money because of the cent
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   by kevbin 16y ago

   If I embarked on a "clean-up" project like this and found others' reactions weren't as I predicted, I'd consider that maybe I'm not representative of others; that others may use Wikipedia differently from myself. I would undo what others se
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   by kevbin 16y ago

   It reduces the overall usefulness and quality of Wikipedia to delete leaves that are referenced from other Wikipedia pages. Nemerle is an example: there are several references to it from other PL pages, that before your "improvement" could
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   by kevbin 16y ago

   Bathroom Scale HD: shows a single footprint; users stand on one foot on their iPad, see their weight. Lots of opportunity for evolution/addl features: time series, weight by time of day, etc. Just one little problem.
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   by kevbin 16y ago

   "The integer prompt shows that you are in the read-evaluate-pint loop." How very British. Every development environment should have a read-eval-pint loop... and feature Alan Davies as side-kick.
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   US Supreme Court Discusses Mortal Kombat(volokh.com)

   1 points by kevbin 16y ago|0 comments
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   by kevbin 16y ago

   Thanks, I hadn't heard that opinion on clojure. It is a weird lisp, but I like that. The energy and interest around clojure, its fresh ideas, and frenemy relationship w/ java are the reasons I think it's the best way to play on the jvm as
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   by kevbin 16y ago

   module Comment where import Control.Exception (assert) class Loveable thing where loves :: Person -> thing -> Bool instance Loveable ScrewDriver where _ `loves` PhillipsHead = False instance Loveable Program
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    by kevbin 16y ago

    Swap Oracle for Sun, Google for Microsoft, Dalvik for the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine, 2010 for 1997 and I don't see the difference: one big-ass company with a lot of money going after another big-ass company with a lot of money. After a
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    by kevbin 16y ago

    I admire and respect Dr. Gosling. But I don't think he's reached the acceptance stage vis a vis Sun's great sickness unto death: Java. As technology, java is an adequate synthesis (and advancement) of bracey-block syntax and UCSD-p system p
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    by kevbin 16y ago

    Totally agree about GEB. But I never understood what I was supposed to get out of Pirsig's Zen and the Art of... I always felt like I was missing something that everyone else connected with. Do you remember what you connected with in it?
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    by kevbin 16y ago

    Gödel, Escher, Bach is a prog rock concept album: 70s, deeply focused on consciousness, indulgent, holistic/synthetic, great displays of technical virtuosity, three-letter acronym, umlaut. Even if you love it, were changed by it, hear selec
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    by kevbin 16y ago

    Slate is partisan ideology packaged as Kinsley-ism: "the common wisdom is right, but not for the reason everyone thinks!" He brought that shtick over from The New Republic and it seems to have taken root, even Jack Shafer can't fix it. If
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    by kevbin 16y ago

    According to the indictment, he wasn't charged with securities fraud (§1348) but with mail fraud (§1341), wire fraud (§1343), and honest services fraud (§1346). Black's lawyers have an interesting note about the appeal here: http://www.gi
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    by kevbin 16y ago

    Prisons are a dark corner of American politics where everyone's uninformed preferences produced a system that's bloated, expensive, inefficient and doesn't meet its stated goals. California's prisons are a good example: law and order on the
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    by kevbin 16y ago

    What I wouldn't give for damp, 3ft-thick sandstone walls here in California :)
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    by kevbin 16y ago

    (1) simple, declarative project descriptions in clojure (2) straightforward swanking (3) dependency resolution e.g., $ lein new scratch/itch $ cd itch $ emacs project.clj ... // add swank-clojure deps $ cat project.clj (defpro
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    by kevbin 16y ago

    Company: Humble Oil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humble_Oil , Micro Soft, Borland, SMEG Product: * For dummies, dilbert, crack, SCSI Project: Butt-head astronomer, operation enduring freedom (when emphasis on 2nd instead of 3rd word), unix
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    by kevbin 16y ago

    So what. I do this with "javac" every day.
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    by kevbin 16y ago

    I bought a Saeco from Premier Appliance for around ~$430. They don't have the machine I bought, but the Giro is a great little coffee robot, too: http://www.premierappliance.com/storefrontprofiles/deluxeSFs... The Saeco machine I bought h
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    by kevbin 16y ago

    Once upon a time Java was a "co-equal" with its own colored box. But Apple's been pretty mercurial when it comes to languages: Clascal, Object Pascal, AppleScript, ScriptX, SK8, NewtonScript, HyperTalk, Dylan, MCL, {AppleSoft|Integer|Mac} B
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    by kevbin 16y ago

    I don't know the histories of the items you mention, but I imagine at some point in time somebody was screwing around (i.e., playing) with a predecessor technology when they "should" have been doing "productive work". I remember the days wh
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    by kevbin 16y ago

    I haven't had good success making epubs from PDFs (especially technical books w/ lots of diagrams, pictures, etc.) using Calibre. I like Papers, which does a pretty good job organizing, syncing, and displaying PDFs on the Mac, iPhone, and i
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    by kevbin 16y ago

    What's the distinction between productive work and play? between a toy and a tool? Even if you think the distinction isn't purely subjective, you have to consider that every tool starts out as a toy, that a lot of tools are way more fun to
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    by kevbin 16y ago

    The President's speech is the educational industrial complex's standard paen to itself. It is uttered at appropriate "levelling-up" ceremonies by certified members of the cabal to customers seeking justification of their expenditures and va
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    Google Ventures' Investment Team(blogs.wsj.com)

    1 points by kevbin 16y ago|0 comments
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    Supreme Court to rule on violent video games(scotusblog.com)

    5 points by kevbin 16y ago|1 comments
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    Is it a crime To receive an item that you know belongs to a third party?(volokh.com)

    2 points by kevbin 16y ago|0 comments
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    Thoughts on the Legality of the Gizmodo Warrant(volokh.com)

    2 points by kevbin 16y ago|0 comments