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konad
16y ago
> Unless, IQ increase dramatically. 100 IQ is defined as the average in the population under study, therefore increase / decrease is impossible.
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konad
16y ago
No, I'm not implying that at all. I don't doubt they are good products.
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konad
16y ago
The Big Bang didn't happen. Climate change is natural. The top rate of income tax should be 90%. Root is a design fault.
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konad
16y ago
When everyone is a superman, who will clean the toilets?
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16y ago
Surely can't last long. Simply repeatedly accuse public officials of infringement while working at govt. offices.
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konad
16y ago
Or using the dumping of stuff they don't care about to gain positive press from people who will never use them.
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konad
16y ago
He means "code drop model" http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=code+drop+model Most of the 16 results are linkbacks to this announcement
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konad
16y ago
At their core, computers are boolean logic, not arithmetic. Ironically, math is one of the things they are bad at, they are just quick.
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konad
16y ago
The Plan9 debugger, ACID is awesome, even in Unix. http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man1/acid.html You can debug a kernel on a remote machine with a different architecture. Shame that we've got to go back to the dark ages of GDB for Go.
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16y ago
C coders manage easily enough.
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16y ago
So 1993 The first program to be converted to UTF was the C Compiler. There are two levels of conversion. On the syntactic level, input to the C compiler is UTF; on the semantic level, the C language needs to define how compiled programs man
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konad
16y ago
I got strip searched on the French -> Swiss border one time. It's more fun than one imagines. I'd prefer it to a crotch fondling pat-down. I think I shall demand to strip naked next time I fly to the US.
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16y ago
Declaring variables isn't hard. However, in Postgresql one can use many languages to write stored procs. I prefer plpgsl but TCL, Python and Perl are also available in the stock distribution.
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konad
16y ago
I'm with you bhiggins
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konad
16y ago
Or just let the kernel tell you via inotify http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify
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16y ago
Ah, the larval stage, how cute. When I want to monitor a directory, I let the kernel tell me via inotify.
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16y ago
In the US, 14 people a day die in the workplace.
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16y ago
The VNC implementation on OSX is particularly poor. It crashes and I have to manually restart it. On Linux the VNC is an X client so one can have multiple instances running each exposing with their own graphical shell. Does Windows RDP do t
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konad
16y ago
No, I'm highlighting that saying "a lot of people in Europe" is hearsay.
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konad
16y ago
Let me re-iterate, he's speaking for 731 million people in 50 territories. So what constitiutes "a lot", plucked from bad_user's thin air. Lets have a look at some actual figures "Android's share of the UK mobile contract market has grown
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konad
16y ago
which pronoun should one use ?
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konad
16y ago
?? You talk like the 731 million people in Europe are homogenous. In my social group there are more Android phones than iPhones. Perhaps you are talking bollocks.
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konad
16y ago
Plan9 - no modern web browser or media player.
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16y ago
OSX comes with remote desktop, it's in System preferences, sharing .., remote desktop (I think). I don't have osx available to get the exact words. It's just VNC. It also has an SSH server in the same section so you can tunnel through secur
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konad
16y ago
we could call it nori or agar http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botanytextbooks/economicbot...
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16y ago
The last one was the most surprising, burglar smash ..... Even with those losses I'm still up from never buying home insurance :)
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16y ago
I, for one, welcome our new Arch Overlord. I kind of agree with him. But I bet he wrapped his "select count(*) from ..." in some sort of function like get_row_count(table). Add a few more and before you know it, you're half way to a new fra
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konad
16y ago
concur, hiding the http is annoying to me
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16y ago
I've been late for two meetings in my life. pppppp
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konad
16y ago
Here's a crazy idea instead of eating fish, eat soy-and-corn mixture
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