lil_cain

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by lil_cain 17y ago
What do you mean by 'real UNIX'? OSX is a 'real' UNIX. And in practise, Linux is far more UNIXy than that is. The BSDs are still reasonably popular too. Are they not 'real' UNIX?
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by lil_cain 17y ago
We have a similar collection of tests used by one of the societies I was involved with in college, at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/exams/
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by lil_cain 17y ago
No, it took 6 months to buy an existing bank. There's at least one group who put in a request in 2008 for a license and is still jumping through hoops.
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by lil_cain 17y ago
Surely you could just get an account that doesn't allow an unauthorised overdraft? So if you need one, you need to actually go into the bank and talk to someone (or is this kind of account only common outside the US?)
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by lil_cain 17y ago
Seems like we should wait till we have some kind of actual confirmation of whether the UK government is planning on doing something like this before we jump to conclusions. Actual confirmation, not just someone on the internet syaing they
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by lil_cain 17y ago
Ishihara tests on your monitor are not going to be accurate. Get them on paper, the colours will be far better.
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by lil_cain 17y ago
Except, linux users don't use four platforms on the desktop. They use (nearly entirely) 1. Those use x86-64 are almost entirely clued in enough to grab the correct architecture. And even if they weren't, you could get around this simply by
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by lil_cain 17y ago
It doesn't necessarily solve the 'every distribution' thing. And most commercial developers don't support multiple architecture s in the first place.
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by lil_cain 17y ago
Yeah. I hear double clicking on an rpm/dpkg is really difficult.
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by lil_cain 17y ago
The ports system also doesn't do updates if you're following -stable, which is a really big deal for most people. Plus its SMP support is incredibly poor.
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by lil_cain 17y ago
I've never even thought of installing more than one package manager. I package CPAN modules when I need them. If I needed gems, I'd probably do the same thing.
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by lil_cain 17y ago
Depends on where you live. It's quite possible to live (albeit, not well) off the welfare state in most of Europe. And even were it not, a particular place of employment can still be left.
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by lil_cain 17y ago
Cool as behavioural economics (and santa fey school economics, while we're at is) are, they're not really up to predicting macro economic change yet. Although, it's easy to argue that neither is macroeconomics.
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by lil_cain 17y ago
Depends. Krugman's actual economics has been brilliant, for the most part. The problem is no one knows him for his economics. People know him for his New York Times column, and the two are only very tangentially related.
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by lil_cain 17y ago
I do a small amount of pen and paper roleplaying, and the odd bit of computer gaming. Mostly though, I'm a political economy nerd. I read a lot of industrial economics, and a pile of political/current affairs stuff. The Phoenix, the Village
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by lil_cain 17y ago
league, or union?
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by lil_cain 17y ago
No. Creationism is a bad theory because it is inherently unprovable either way, and because people have provided evidence for the alternatives. If you want to provide evidence that 'perl is a bad language' feel free. Of course, you'll be ha
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by lil_cain 17y ago
"One neck to choke" is a powerful reason to deal with more than their switches.
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by lil_cain 17y ago
When you're the guy with a B.A. and work experience in ISP call centres, Cisco certs are a handy way of not getting your C.V. thrown out by H.R. drones :-) (Not that I got any in the end, someone who didn't care employed me first. But they
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by lil_cain 17y ago
Obviously, people can't talk about what they want here. Only those articles which you deem kosher. Seriously. Get a life.
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by lil_cain 17y ago
I'm sure Erlang's cool and all, but there' no more justification for spamming us with that then there is for spamming us with Beatles links.
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by lil_cain 17y ago
I think, if he's posted up and said 'hey, I'm fed up with this internet thing. I'm taking everything down, can someone else host them', there'd have been a queue. Certainly, I'd have been very glad to host the Poignant Guide
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by lil_cain 17y ago
Not every challenge is meant to be taken up. Respect for people's wishes is important too. It's quite clear that _why didn't want people to know who he is. Fair enough, if you wanted to work that out. I don't think you should, but I could u
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by lil_cain 17y ago
Number of streams/user would give you a fair chance of telling which is which for most users.
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by lil_cain 17y ago
This reads like a text book architecture astronaut...
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by lil_cain 17y ago
Depends how much older. Does it affect debian/ubuntu/redhat current systems, with fixes backported? It's a pretty big deal if it does.
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by lil_cain 17y ago
Aye, I'd be the same as RiderOfGiraffes. The "How many generations from immigration" thing won't make any sense for large numbers of HN readers, who are from the UK/IE/Continental Europe. If anything, the question here would be how many gen