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US revokes Venezuela ambassador's visa(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by linuxhansl 16y ago|0 comments
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
While this is of course sensational all I hear and read supports this. (California department of corrections outspending department of education, etc, etc). I think the problem in most of the western world is more general. We cultured socie
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
14. I had a ZX81 with 1k of memory. Programmed in "assembler" in Hex with a handwritten sheet of the opcodes. As an aside, it is amazing how we are able to adapt to new technology. I find it quite normal these days to program in Java and Li
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
You also do not need it in JavaScript. var x = function y() { ... y(); ... } 'y' is only bound within the function and allows the function to refer to itself. I.e. you can have anonymous, recursive functions, which i
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
Nope not by California law. Work you do in your own time on your own hardware is yours. Period.
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
Oh please. This is a completely specious argument. (Like Glen Beck saying that national health care necessarily leads to fascism). Of course some things need to be secret for practical reasons. The problem here would be secret nuclear weapo
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
I tried Chrome (well Chromium) a few months back. I found that apart from startup and (very) Javascript heavy sites most pages actually render slower in Chromium as compared to Firefox (3.5 and 3.6).
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
Upvoted, not because I agree but because you have a good point (as all upvoting should go anyway). To your point, though, I do not think the government has a general expectation of privacy. On the other hand some of these cables might have
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
I respectfully disagree. This is my government, working on my behalf, with my money, and I want to know what this government is doing. If public release of this information is damaging to US interest, the answer should not be to suppress th
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
I went to a 10 day meditation retreat a few years ago. As you can imagine I met a lot of interesting people there. One guy actually was a body builder and vegetarian. He told me that he had problems with being anemic as well. So his docto
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
Good job Facebook. I had never heard of Lamebook before... today.
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
As much as I believe that Oracle squandered a unique opportunity to generate a lot of good will without much cost, this is not all bad news. If I read this correctly the jRocket VM will be part of the OpenJDK and hence be open source.
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
I see your point. Where does it end though? If the government can regulate what I do with my own body when it comes to drugs, why stop there? What about dangerous sports? Dangerous eating habits? Should the governments prescribe a set of "s
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
Wait... It seems to me that the Federal Controlled Substances Act itself is on quite shaky constitutional grounds. It is only enforceable under Congress' authority to regulate interstate commerce. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonz
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
Sad day indeed. I never had much interest in pot, but I find the general populations stance w.r.t. to Marijuana irrational. 1. A lot of tax money is wasted in prosecuting non-violent recreational users. 2. Most studies place Marijuana as le
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Fun with Java NIO and Javascript (with node.js-like API), benchmarks(github.com)
3 points by linuxhansl 16y ago|0 comments
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
Generally I like the idea. I wonder, though, whether the Mac App Store will eventually become the only way to install apps on a Mac. (I.e. you'd have to jail break your Mac to install alternative apps). This seems far fetched now, but as
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
Agreed too. The Android is not open unless I can easily modify/recompile/deploy code to it. GPLv3 would fix that, incidentally.
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
Yes, I could have stated it more friendly: I disagree with Apple's policies so I do not buy their products. On some level I also do not understand why not more people are bothered by Apple.
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
Not a single cent of my money. I stopped using Apple products when they started to lock down the iPods (by using encryption) and tied devices to a specific installation of iTunes. And do not even get me started on the closed platforms that
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
A German here living in the US for about 10 years... I found that I my line of work (software engineering), this is not generally true. I used to work more daily hours when I was still in Germany, and there was a culture of "You have to be
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
Goodwill is part of the value of company. Oracle had the chance to produce goodwill for the company with relatively little cost. The backlash that this and other actions will cause will cost Oracle real money. Some customers at least will b
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by linuxhansl 16y ago
I will be forever grateful, that my University taught Scheme/Lisp with this book (and others) as introduction to programming. While I have never used Lisp or Scheme in my professional life, that set of undergrad courses more or less defined