mjgoins

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   by mjgoins 17y ago

   Let's just hope they're not patented.
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   by mjgoins 17y ago

   My understanding of what he said was - to paraphrase and re-interpret a bit - "Free software is BS, because nothing is (as you put it) 'free economically'." That's two meanings of the word 'free' in one proposition. The first refers to the
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   by mjgoins 17y ago

   And to make his rant painful on top of unconvincing, he confuses free-as-in-speech with gratis.
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   by mjgoins 17y ago

   I hope others will join me in not having any faith. Just ignore the kindle (a.k.a. the swindle) until an open alternative comes along. That's my plan. Faith doesn't really go too far in maintaining a free society. You have to have legal rig
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   by mjgoins 17y ago

   If everyone in the world was an investment banker, no one would have anything to eat. Ditto hackers, unless they were hackers with an eye towards agriculture.
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   by mjgoins 17y ago

   Oh if I could upvote this comment more times I would. The example code here made me immediately think of the lines of code that caused the Debian SSL catastrophe.
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   by mjgoins 17y ago

   You realize that unless you have a trust path via keys that you've signed (preferably by meeting the people holding them) that that verification isn't verifying much, right? It's pretty easy to create a key that has that key id (since it's
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   by mjgoins 17y ago

   I agree that this release provides some much-needed missing features, but I fear that the culture of php, when presented with these new features, will use them to build even more crufty, difficult-to-read code. As a coder and debugger of mu
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   by mjgoins 17y ago

   Can someone explain why? I assume the link got changed a long time ago by now.
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    by mjgoins 17y ago

    Can someone patch it to bring good pizza instead of domino's?
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    by mjgoins 17y ago

    Could someone explain what would motivate a newspaper to limit other sites linking to it? I can't think of a single reason it would be harmful to their business.
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    by mjgoins 17y ago

    Seems slow (maybe it's busy), and also has the wrong (for me) keybindings, but I really respect the effort of actually doing it!
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    by mjgoins 17y ago

    Just a little warning: The "for i in..." paradigm breaks if the strings you're iterating over have spaces in them. The way around that is to either use find and/or xargs instead of "for i in", or to first set the IFS variable to a value tha
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    by mjgoins 17y ago

    These kids are essentially the victims of a crime. When they get to college and/or the workforce they will have two skills: being quiet and taking tests.
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    by mjgoins 17y ago

    Yes, it runs under wine, but in my experience you have to turn off sound.
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    by mjgoins 17y ago

    While I will take your word that crawl gets good later in the game, I've always found it to be really monotonous to start, so I never got into it, and have never played it long enough to see past the first level or two. Nethack was intrigui
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    by mjgoins 18y ago

    1) install debian on server, making sure to include openssh-server and privoxy. (ok, ok, maybe you use some other OS, doesn't matter) 2) Run this from your laptop/desktop: ssh -f -L8118:localhost:8118 my_username@my_remote_server sleep
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    by mjgoins 18y ago

    I highly recommend reading "Concsciousness Explained" by Dan Dennett. After reading that it will be very easy to see how one's self can be identical to one's brain.
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    by mjgoins 18y ago

    I use plain text files encrypted via gpg. There's a gpg plugin for vim. If you don't like vim, you can probably find one for your preferred editor.
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    by mjgoins 18y ago

    Groceries are (usually) free, meaning if you buy an apple, you're legally allowed to use it to grow yourself an apple tree. I assume you didn't mean free in some other way, right?
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    by mjgoins 18y ago

    I have a feeling I'm going to be stuck between stages 2 and 3 for the rest of my life.
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    by mjgoins 18y ago

    In high school (at least here in the USA) teachers focus on math that will help students with the natural sciences, namely calculus and a bit of statistics. For programming, what you need to read about are Logic and Discrete Mathematics. An
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    by mjgoins 18y ago

    I agree with all this, but still haven't seen any large games in scheme. Some folks made a first person shooter in haskell, however, apparently for a school project: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Frag
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    by mjgoins 18y ago

    I saw a talk by a woman who worked at a PKI auditing firm. She said they have a special hardware appliance that stores the keys, which of course costs an exorbitant amount, and has a redundant copy or three. I don't remember the details, bu
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    by mjgoins 18y ago

    And much like nukes, having them in the first place was a backward idea.
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    by mjgoins 18y ago

    If you're not happy about how "one sided" this is, I'd suggest http://questioncopyright.org if you want a more reasoned argument. The gist of it is that if we all abandoned copyright, we'd lose a few things, but the gains would outweigh t
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    by mjgoins 18y ago

    Grimaldi's is for tourists.
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    by mjgoins 18y ago

    Part of me thinks this site is like showing people a slaughterhouse video and then saying "Hey, still want to eat meat?" Admittedly, I'm a vegetarian.
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    by mjgoins 18y ago

    Funny you mention it, because when I hear "obsession with formal proofs" I immediately think of Anselm and Plantinga.
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    by mjgoins 18y ago

    I believe this was posted for the humor value, no? I mean, the writer doesn't even realize that the word "qualia" is plural.