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by lolcraft 17y ago
I see your point, but I think that attitude of preserving your own financial freedom is much like an adhesive bandage: If you pull it out slowly, the pain will be bigger. To keep his financial freedom he'd have to: 1) be very careful in whi
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by lolcraft 17y ago
At 3:38 of the 17:47 video, you can clearly see an AK-47 in one of the mens hands. So, no one in Baghdad uses bodyguards? All Iraqi policemen must be at all the time in uniform, even for covert entry? I don't think an AK is any convincing
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by lolcraft 17y ago
"Could have been called", "I would do so and so", "it was unclear whether they were armed", "has used similar tactics"... If you were an USAA general, would you promote to commander someone who would gave permission to kill based on faint s
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by lolcraft 17y ago
There was the man crouching against the corner of the house, looking like he could possibly have an RPG to blow the shooter out of the sky. The helicopter was at very long range; no one of the guys on the ground looked at it. The "RPG" wa
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by lolcraft 17y ago
If we go on doing it [Google's] way, we end up with a wholly-owned list of digitized books, many stolen from their owners, totally controlled, managed, opened and closed to public use, by a profit-making corporation interested in furtherin
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by lolcraft 17y ago
The centrifugal (pseudo-)force is not mv^2/2 (kinetic energy), but mv^2/r (much less). And the centrifugal force must be orders of magnitude less than the gravitational pull: if not, the moon wouldn't be there in solid state, to start with,
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by lolcraft 17y ago
No rule says that arrays must be completely loaded on RAM; even more so in Google, where they probably have to spread them over thousands of machines. No excuse, sorry.
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by lolcraft 17y ago
I think that if you argue so, you must also admit that mathematical prowess isn't related to intelligence (and such, that your mathematician adversary being faster than you at symbolic logic didn't prove him or her smarter) or you would be
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by lolcraft 17y ago
Your users actually showed great foresight, I think. There are good reasons to avoid "intelligent" or hubristic interfaces: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/wolfram... Summary: "intelligent" interfaces will always fail
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by lolcraft 17y ago
I can't wait to get my copy of Murdoch's Newspeak Dictionary: 2º Edition . Doubleplusgood!
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by lolcraft 17y ago
Then, I asked if it was anti-competitive for companies to act in accordance with their own interests instead of aiding competitors, to which you say yes. No you didn't. The question you asked was, and I quote: " You're saying it's anti-co
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by lolcraft 17y ago
From experience I can tell you the lack of libraries in these languages kills off almost any code size advantage you get from using them. So I ask you all, be honest to yourself; is using such a language worth it? Save lines of code != ge
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by lolcraft 17y ago
Thought the same. It doesn't seem it has historical value either. For that, a microfilm would've been enough --the objective should be to preserve, not to fetishize; but this looks like a relic of the Secular Church of Science. Come to touc
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by lolcraft 17y ago
"Let us see the whole ACTA text or else... We will be very, very angry with you... And we will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are..."
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by lolcraft 17y ago
The free market runs on firm failure, not just firm success. To an outsider, the problem seems that the current establishment, posing as laissez-faire, has made an art of "privatizing the benefit, socializing the loss". With a bank, no on
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by lolcraft 17y ago
Why not make it easier if you can? Vagueness is hardly a virtue for a programming tool. Also, I don't think the ladies are impressed by your cryptic error fixing skills ;) What this feature needs now is code correction on the fly. Any error
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by lolcraft 17y ago
The solution is simple: just stop reading anything on the Daily Mail related to climate change. Or any conservative tabloid, since AGW is nowadays not a matter of science, but of left vs. right... and the right is getting more and more fana
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by lolcraft 17y ago
It's really that the message they want to send? "If you unsubscribe, it's like you kicked that guy in the nuts! Hope you're happy now (jerk)!" Even being satire, that has some creepy connotations of emotional blackmail. Well, at least it's
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by lolcraft 17y ago
people will begin to go directly to Wikipedia I doubt it. All people I know use Google as their URL entry field, as the concept of URL is too machine-oriented to be comfortably used by the average guy, when good search is available. Given
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by lolcraft 17y ago
If you are hiring for truly bullshit tasks, you are wasting your money. It's that simple. On the other hand, maybe you wanted to say "boring tasks which are necessary". But don't they stop being bullshit, by definition, when there's some
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by lolcraft 17y ago
“This is not your father’s quark-gluon plasma,” said Barbara V. [...] Indeed.
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by lolcraft 17y ago
Interesting exercise, but of little use: this is solving (well, trying to) a political problem with more technology. JVM is already on the table, let's use that.
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by lolcraft 17y ago
The Quixote 's prose is confusing and repetitive, but it is a great book. Why is style now more important than theme? And why the fuck is Joyce's Ulysses more important than 1984 ?
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by lolcraft 17y ago
From the article: "I would love to visit the United States." If people like him wanted so hard to travel to my country, I'd already be rallying my government to give those people a damn grant. Time for the USA to reconsider whether the TS
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by lolcraft 17y ago
(Maybe) he wants to send a clear message to Google: Buzz is crap.
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by lolcraft 17y ago
None, because that's what he's doing.
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by lolcraft 17y ago
Well, that would be the optimal solution, but, since the author of the post is asking for it... learning a well-chosen subset seems to me the most adequate answer. For further questions, refer to the C++ Frequently Questioned Answers.
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by lolcraft 17y ago
I think you are posing the wrong question. TV is not a particular series; it doesn't follow that people who hate TV must hate The Wire. TV as a whole, as a linear, inconvenient way of displaying content which doesn't allow an easy way to fi
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by lolcraft 17y ago
I'll add another argument for not releasing scientific code, specially of a matter so polarizing as climate change: programmers aren't scientists . We aren't familiar with neither the field's literature nor the science being used. For exam
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by lolcraft 17y ago
And C++ was a derivative of C and Simula. Apparently pragmatism is (and has been for a while) the new originality.

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