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by magpi3 12y ago
That would require the state giving up some measure of control, which is the opposite of how it generally tries to solve problems.
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by magpi3 12y ago
A wonderful project. Thank you. I have forked it and hope I am time to contribute to it.
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by magpi3 12y ago
I have never heard anyone say that the U.S. is at "war" in Pakistan. Instead Pakistan allows military strikes on terrorists that the U.S. is in a forever war with. That is part of what makes the use of drones there scary. If milit
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by magpi3 12y ago
A big issue I have with this "middleware as operating system" approach is that it invites, somewhat perversely in my opinion, throwing out your existing tools and replacing them with very, very, very similar ones that are better f
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by magpi3 12y ago
And let's be honest: VIM has been heading in this direction for a long time as well, especially now that it had a built in python interpreter.
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by magpi3 12y ago
Most triple AAA video games would qualify as well.
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by magpi3 12y ago
The Electronic Frontier Foundation appears to have done exactly that in this case: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-has-lavabits-back-con...
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by magpi3 12y ago
I imagine this is what the sysadmins conversations at Emory are like right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOkAyUmyQko
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by magpi3 12y ago
For anyone interested in this topic, this is a great, great book on the rise of Nintendo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Over_(book)
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by magpi3 12y ago
> People who favour systemd generally use it to get shit done [1], not write blog posts about 'freedom of choice' [2]. I appreciate most of your post, but this line really bugs me because I hear it so often. Relevant xkcd: htt
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by magpi3 12y ago
If I pick up a stone and move it six inches I have changed the world. Some kind of qualifier is necessary for a phrase that vague.
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by magpi3 12y ago
> When 23 million people are talking about your little weekend project, you have changed the world. How has 2048 changed the world?
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by magpi3 13y ago
As far as I can tell everything requested can (theoretically) be done. As many commenters noted in the original discussion ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7513182 ) if you increase the number of dimensions you can incr
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by magpi3 13y ago
Sure I am familiar with input streams, but we are talking about doing something from memory. One quick Google search leads to an "oh, of course that is what you would do" moment, but I am just noting that even in my Java hey day I
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by magpi3 13y ago
But how often do you read stdin in Java? It's a language that is used heavily to build web apps and (though less so) desktop GUI apps. I also programmed in Java for nearly a decade in the late nineties till about 2004 and have never us
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by magpi3 13y ago
Why not just use a piece (an old play for example) that is already in the commons? Or they could request permission from a short story writer that would probably love the exposure. There is no reason to try to be completely original. There
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by magpi3 13y ago
At this point, what is the rationale behind limiting .TLDs anyway? Is it simply a means to create artificial scarcity so that the companies who control .TLDs can make money? Or is there a legitimate technical reason?
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by magpi3 18y ago
Why I get nothing done: http://www.mentalfloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/nothin...
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by magpi3 19y ago
No Alan Turing? I am surprised. I always thought the cover of ANSI Common Lisp was a nod towards his life (and death). For those of you who do not know much about the Alan Turing man, I suggest that you check out one of the excellent biogra