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by m0nty 16y ago
> If they were indeed colluding, do you think any of them would come out and say "mike's right, we are colluding"? And if they weren't colluding, would they say "mike's right, we are colluding"? It's a non-observation to say "they wou
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by m0nty 16y ago
"This ain't pretty but neither are you."
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"The game will be released ... sometime in 2011."
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The key quotation from this piece is "the most important function of human language is to protect the smart from the strong". He's talking (in a very tongue-in-cheek manner) about how ethics very often override self-interest. Seriously, I t
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by m0nty 16y ago
This is very nice. Would help if you used colours on the buttons, moved the button at the top-left so it wasn't touching the edge of the window, stuff like that. Black everywhere is not the answer ;) But it's very usable and does what it's
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Universities lead the way in developing UK start-up firms(guardian.co.uk)
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by m0nty 16y ago
> Maybe it is just hard to grasp for people who don't understand the concept of "pay forward"? So ... so I'm a bad person if I don't use Twitter? Seriously?
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> You check those sites My apologies if I was unclear: I don't check those sites. Also, this insight you have that people are basically social animals, that's not exactly a revelation. But I would contend, along with OP, that our natura
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by m0nty 16y ago
Because you'd actually end up writing web apps with real value rather than just the next killer "social media app"?
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"we wouldn't ever even comment in HN, right m0nty?" I guessed someone would try to make that point :) You'll notice I rarely do comment here, and I don't on reddit, youtube, Digg, etc. At least here, there is something approaching a convers
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by m0nty 16y ago
I've never understood the appeal of Twitter and I think it would help if more "social media people" (and web app developers) could try to understand why. They are obscure little techie tools that a huge percentage of the population will nev
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by m0nty 16y ago
Kurzweil, I think, comes off better in that respect, using phrases like "some of my critics claim that I underestimate the complexity of the problem" which neatly remove the personal jabs while still responding directly to the argument. Mye
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by m0nty 16y ago
Sent email, rather than doing our correspondence here :] Left Dorset last year, now in Hampshire again.
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What, that Ralph Corderoy, one-time of the PCG? You should be able to work out who I am from my username ;) Anyway, I can't remember when I last heard someone use "whom" outside of slightly cheesy television series like Morse...
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by m0nty 16y ago
To come back with a predictable response: everyone says "who" even if they mean "whom". Using "whom", even if it is grammatically correct, is perceived to be wrong in most conversational situations, or other informal situations like Twitter
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by m0nty 16y ago
> The perl community have been searching for the best way to overcome the perception that "perl is dead" Release. Perl. 6.
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by m0nty 16y ago
I used to deal with pr0n in the same way. The kids would just go to another site if I outright blocked their current "interest", but making it way slower using Squid just meant they sat around watching a pic appear pixel by pixel. Between t
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by m0nty 16y ago
I have an HTC Hero on T-Mobile at UKP20 per month, which compares very well to the iPhone offering which is UKP35 per month, slightly less if you accept a lower offering in terms of calls and texts. So for a little more than the price of an
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by m0nty 16y ago
> Where is the magical divide between "art" and "science" in the field? We need to revive the word "artisan" which has connotations both of technical ability and artistic sensibility. Look at it like that, and programmers are no differe
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by m0nty 16y ago
Ack! I meant 6lbs, 3Kg!! My understanding is it tails off after a few weeks, but thank you for the advice. I think it has something to do with fluid loss in the early stages or something like that.
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by m0nty 16y ago
I went low-carb three weeks ago and have lost c. 6lbs (edited!) since. I gave up alcohol a week later (still have the occasional one though). Feeling much better, sleeping better, more energy, etc. I have always been skeptical of "fad" diet
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by m0nty 16y ago
Well, my current strategy is to migrate users when we give them new PCs this summer, then only tell them about the change later. Much later. Initially they'll be using Outlook to access email; they can use the web interface later if they wa
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by m0nty 16y ago
That article is fairly info-lite, even after visiting the source article (linked from OP). So "members of the faculty were concerned that it wouldn’t keep their correspondence private enough" but they don't say why they feel that way or s
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by m0nty 17y ago
Free == Freedom to walk away from maintaining the damn thing. If other people can't be bothered to contribute, that's tough. A few dollars in the tip jar hardly counts, given what most coders could charge for their time and expertise. I've
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by m0nty 17y ago
"pressured into opening the skies too early" It's not just their own regulations they'd have to break, it would be the terms of sale of the aircraft (Boeing sayeth "thou shalt not fly the big shiny bird through clouds of volcanic ash") and
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This wingnut is the UK corollary to Comstock, long gone now but her legacy still bothers us: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse
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What's the point, then, of a walled garden if it doesn't have a wall around it? cookiecaper says "There's nothing to fear from a .xxx domain" but if that's the case then, de facto, there's nothing to be gained from it either except a bit of
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by m0nty 17y ago
What goes in the .xxx domain? Who decides? One man's pornography is another man's art, unless you have a burning conviction that you should decide what other people get to look at. One woman's abortion advice is another woman's gross obscen
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by m0nty 17y ago
I'm not too sure about the name of that website: "He rain-made you. A guy says if you pay him, he can make it rain. You pay him. If and when it rains, he takes the credit. If and when it doesn't, he finds reasons for you to pay him more. Cl
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by m0nty 17y ago
"Should I have a more positive outlook?" Yes, I believe you should and I apologise if I came off a bit snippy. The campaign I was involved with (the PCG, opposing IR35) was ultimately unsuccessful in parliament but won some victories on a c

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