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by m0skit0 11y ago
The glowing Apple logo has to have some mysterious purpose I don't understand besides drawing attention. Apple knows perfectly who their users are.
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by m0skit0 11y ago
I really cannot grasp what you're talking about. I power up my Ubuntu PC at work (I don't know about your Mac, but mine takes like 3-5 seconds to boot, it is 3 years-old and costed less than 1000$) and start working. Right now I h
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by m0skit0 11y ago
How is that an "inferiority complex" Inferior in that they can't afford it? Inferior in that they can't use it? Inferior in that they don't have the Apple logo? I can't figure out, can you please elaborate? Fac
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by m0skit0 11y ago
Yeah, you know why? Because developer is the new cool, and you can't be cool enough without an Apple logo. People that really don't care about cool don't use Apple, e.g. Stallman, Linus. One really good dev I knew for a coupl
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by m0skit0 11y ago
My baby has 11 months and can slide to unlock my wife's HTC Android phone. That point was useless, but yeah, Apple users are usually not hackish nor need all the customizations and power user options Android offers (without talking abo
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by m0skit0 11y ago
Not only because of Venezuela. As usual the simple yet effective "Qui bono" ("Who benefits") question can clear things up: The US and allies: - US and the EU are really not affected by low oil prices, you can even argue
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by m0skit0 11y ago
OPEC never was a tight group. They hardly agree on anything or consult each other for production strategies. Also OPEC has not that much weight on world oil production any more. And also most OPEC countries are more interested in better rel
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by m0skit0 11y ago
I'm not defending reliance on high oil price as a good long-term strategy. In any case the money was used to improve the living standard of a lot of people, and that's something I cannot disagree with. Still I would have used that
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by m0skit0 11y ago
I will do some Nostradamus here: when Venezuela stops being leftist, oil prices will suddenly and surprisingly rise.
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by m0skit0 11y ago
Can you provide examples on why Venezuela is a "weak" democracy or has poor rule of law, and specially compared to which other countries for example? Thanks.
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by m0skit0 11y ago
I'm really confused about what is the author intent with this article. At first read, it is pointless. The first paragraph pretty much resumes it: "These are my rules, but they're not good because I break them more often than
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by m0skit0 11y ago
>> knowing too much without the need How is knowing "too much" ever? One never knows enough.
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by m0skit0 11y ago
IMHO whoever wrote this article should change the title to "A philosophical difference between Haskell and Common Lisp". There are a lot of LISPs and not all of them follow Common Lisp's philosophy.
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by m0skit0 11y ago
I agree with most of this letter, but with all due respect, I don't think his geopolitical consequences analysis is correct. The war didn't leave Iran as the dominant player, even if the new Iraq is its ally. Iraq is so weak it is
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by m0skit0 11y ago
I don't. I even have been gifted one a couple of times but it just ends picking up dust. Laptop or smartphone seem more suitable for me in all circumstances for now. A tablet is either too big for the job or lacks a physical keyboard.
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by m0skit0 11y ago
Is this article actually serious? I can't help but think it is satirical.
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by m0skit0 11y ago
I disagree. Not for quick scripts.
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by m0skit0 11y ago
Sensationalist title (to say the least). They weren't even able to make a reliable AND gate.
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by m0skit0 11y ago
IMHO author is actually missing the point of RISC architecture: instruction homogeneity allows for a simpler (and cheaper) hardware. Of course for software developers RISC or CISC, it actually doesn't matter, that's what abstract
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by m0skit0 11y ago
It fails. The more symbols and syntax rules you have, the less readable it is. I think this is pretty straightforward to understand :) Human language has pretty much non-existant symbols besides the alphabet.
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by m0skit0 11y ago
We actually don't make a branch for each ticket because we need to expose the repositories to outside and so we use Gitolite, and having to reconfigure branch permissions each time... Ain't nobody got time for that.
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by m0skit0 11y ago
We use Redmine and just put the relevant issue number and the title of the issue. If more information is needed, you can go to Redmine to check more details or how to reproduce.
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by m0skit0 11y ago
The LISP + functional mind-set is not easy to get used to when you come from non-functional (specially bad is OOP), verbose, syntactically complex programming languages (e.g. C, C++, Java, C#...). I think you should focus on learning to thi
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by m0skit0 11y ago
No, it doesn't. In fact, you can avoid them if you wish and build everything from simple lists. Point being: I don't have to remember a specific syntax for "for" loop, or for equality (==)...
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by m0skit0 11y ago
I don't really see how having to remember more symbols and syntax rules makes anything more readable. It doesn't. You have to know what those symbols mean, and the more there are, the less readable it is by definition because you
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by m0skit0 11y ago
I disagree. You say so because you're used to Python. In Python you need to remember quite a few syntax rules. How many different symbols you need to write a relatively complex program? How many symbols/words are reserved? In LISP
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by m0skit0 11y ago
404 on some links
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by m0skit0 12y ago
One was in 1986 and the other in 2011, so I would expect the safety to be better in the second one. Both were INES Level 7. And Fukushima hasn't killed anyone... yet.
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by m0skit0 12y ago
You need tests everywhere, statically typed doesn't mean you don't need to test.
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by m0skit0 12y ago
I wonder, maybe someone can answer: why is Chernobyl still remembered while nobody talks about Fukushima anymore?

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