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Google insisting Android licensees abide by non-fragmentation clauses?(engadget.com)
5 points by kwantam 16y ago|0 comments
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by kwantam 16y ago
No. Building a replicant would be awesome. Even more so if more of this audience were old enough to remember when Daryl Hannah was hot. VVV ahh indeed! Why then we're in violent agreement!
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by kwantam 16y ago
The problem is that they do the exact same thing for people that they reach out to. As someone who does technical interviews for a technology company, your "they"s have two different antecedents. HR goes through resumes and reac
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by kwantam 16y ago
A full list of the people who voted against the measure is presented here: http://stopthecap.com/2011/03/29/house-republicans-sell-out-... If there is a concerted effort to fight this legislation to which people (including those of us out
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by kwantam 16y ago
Chrome 9.0.597.83 beta for Linux does not do a very good job with the kerning on that page. Not sure if it's bad hinting or just poor rendering, though.
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by kwantam 16y ago
In some cases I am experiencing trouble when using the hello() function call. It would appear that certain high performance instances are optimized to only accept() hello()s from other high performance instances, and will not respond to som
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by kwantam 16y ago
It feels to me like a lot of people who are complaining so bitterly about this just lack the relevant experience in corporate politics to understand what's going on here. I am not saying this to be inflammatory; please read on and I'll try
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by kwantam 16y ago
Gaiman does a reasonable job with this argument, but in my mind fails to address the most pernicious thought in the letter: The question, for me, is even if we only save ONE child from rape or attempted rape, or even just lots of uncomfort
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by kwantam 16y ago
Note also that the Prius engine employs the Atkinson cycle rather than the Otto.
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by kwantam 16y ago
[glibc includes kernel header] + [glibc is legal] -> [including kernel headers in any non-GPL project is legal] Either you're not responding to my comment, or you are misunderstanding me very badly. This is not what I'm saying in th
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by kwantam 16y ago
According to the author's reasoning, glibc is also an illegal derivative work of the Linux kernel. The latter part of your statement doesn't follow from the former, since glibc was written from scratch by its GNU authors. If half of glibc
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by kwantam 16y ago
You just... don't get it, do you Scott? (There is no way to win this game by giving the best solution to it. The better you get, the worse you get. In other words: the only way to win is not to play the game.)
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by kwantam 16y ago
Think of it this way: he's not attacking the politician for her opinion. He's attacking her for attempting to make her stupid opinion into a matter of public policy. Everyone is welcome to have their opinions. When one attempts to act on th
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by kwantam 16y ago
marketing excellence (we talk the talk) / operations excellence (we walk the walk) Groupon does one of those well.
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by kwantam 16y ago
In lisp, this sort of thing could be handled by a macro. So why not apples-to-apples and use Template Haskell to do it?
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by kwantam 16y ago
The difference is that by taking data from a dating site, you're restricting yourself to the intersection of "uses dating site" and "is/is not atheist." In order to argue that these people are representative of their self-reported religious
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by kwantam 16y ago
To this end: we can (WLOG) make the degenerate observation that a property of all doctors is that they are doctors. Then the original chart just shorthands away whatever conjugation of "to be" is proper in the outermost bubbles, and does in
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by kwantam 16y ago
I've generally had good luck with the AT&T customer service. I play the "standard customer" role to navigate first-level troubleshooting, get escalated, then talk to the tech about my actual debugging results. (It helps that, in additio
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Mass Mirror Wikileaks(46.59.1.2)
6 points by kwantam 16y ago|1 comments
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by kwantam 16y ago
Excellent Khrushchev quote in the article: > Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev called the neutron bomb the > ultimate capitalist weapon, built “to kill a man in such a way that his > suit will not be stained with b
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by kwantam 16y ago
Sure, it's completely fair. We all reinvent the wheel sometimes. That hilarious part is that this paper was published in a peer-reviewed journal--- and none of the reviewers realized that he'd rediscovered some 17th century math.
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by kwantam 16y ago
Depends on how far back you go. For a Roman, mental multiplication was exceedingly difficult. Clearly this implies that there was a period of upward trend. If we believe that we're dumber than some of our forefathers, then there must have b
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by kwantam 16y ago
> That seems to indicate that they wouldn't be able to compete with > their cousins outside of a controlled environment. Not clear. They only grew more slowly when in a less friendly environment than they're used to
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by kwantam 16y ago
Seems reasonable to me. It's pretty clear that inasmuch as the Manhattan Declaration is openly anti-gay (or, at least, widely perceived as such by the gay community no matter how much its purveyors would protest otherwise), it's just as muc
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by kwantam 16y ago
You absolutely can, if only you're willing to break the rules. :) (Note that this does NOT break referential transparency as long as you're not dependent on the program's debug output for correctness of the rest of the program.) inclu
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by kwantam 16y ago
Also, Standard ML. I learned Standard ML and created a couple toy systems in it before becoming utterly frustrated with the insane state of the "standard" library[1] and fleeing to Haskell. I briefly considered OCaml, but of the MLish langu
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HaLVM 1.0: The Haskell Lightweight Virtual Machine(halvm.org)
2 points by kwantam 16y ago|0 comments
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by kwantam 16y ago
I'm honestly surprised at all the downvoting for this. It's quite literally a powerful command for linux, and let's be honest, you deserve what you get if you type random crap from the internet into your computer. People who have seen it ge
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by kwantam 16y ago
Well, brace and semicolon is considered "not idiomatic," though of course lisk as an alternative is even less so. Regarding "where," it seems like most of the time "let" is an acceptable substitute. "where" is most convenient in conjunction
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by kwantam 16y ago
How strange. I was just thinking about doing this as a toy project earlier today. I honestly don't share the OP's hatred of Haskell syntax, nor do I find it categorically worse than lispish languages. It's entertaining that he's gone from

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