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by mmjaa 8y ago
This is a great reference - but I confess to being mightily disappointed at the state of the industry with regards to this issue. Sadly, it seems like its going to need a major incident before people start to pay attention. I can't be
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by mmjaa 8y ago
It just should not be there unless requested by the customer. Period.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
You are correct - the NS* stands for "Next/Sun" ...
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by mmjaa 8y ago
They disabled the feature. Its still there if you know how to enable it. But that's the point: why disable it, if they're going to include it anyway? Because they made a sexist decision to not market it to that version of the p
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Yeah, I personally think this feature-removal is just plain sexism. Lots of girls enjoy learning new and interesting things to do with math and science, and crypto is an especially great way to introduce kids to abstract thinking. Not to m
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by mmjaa 8y ago
No, its farmers and their monoculture: https://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/19/europe/insect-decline-ger... Also, quite relevant to the topic at hand ..
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Yes indeed, I meant PROGRESS 4GL, which was sort of around before all the "RDBMS" hoopla congealed all this wonderful info into a single art. Its just that your last paragraph really sounded like a quote, near-verbatim, from the
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Why? Because this hurts your sense of national pride?
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by mmjaa 8y ago
You still do, its just given itself a more palatable name..
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Not any more they don't.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
>Yes. But the press didn't simply publish them in their entirety without comment or context, did they? Even better - Senator Gravel, doing his job, brought them into Congress .. something that was necessary, because the press was c
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I imagine you've written more than your fair share of PROGRESS 4GL code in the past .. your qualifications questions are pretty much straight out of the PROGRESS 4GL user guide .. ;)
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Speculative fiction .. or religion? Because if there were some way we could access the sum total of all human experience, wouldn't that method be as close to "God" as it was ever described? One wonders if this is, indeed, th
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by mmjaa 8y ago
A lot of these forgotten technologies are revived in various contemporary green movements - such as Permaculture and Earthship, for example. Permaculture attempts to learn as much forgotten technology as possible and re-apply it in a modern
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by mmjaa 8y ago
>You can create elaborate class systems using metatables in Lua; the problem is that there are hundreds of them. I have done quite a few Lua projects, and I can tell you've not quite gotten it right. The Class system you use is the
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by mmjaa 8y ago
The difference is, when you ran out of quarters, you were done. There was no further impulse to play for days and days. However in the modern era, once you start - there is nothing stopping you.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
The answer is, of course, that the 0-page is a full set of 255 registers.. you just have to know how to use the X/Y/Accumulator to access them properly ... ;)
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Sometimes its necessary to return to the past to remember the things we've abandoned in the rush to modernity. I'm speaking, of course, of the wonderful Prince of Persia and its delights. So many treasures to be discovered for an
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I stopped playing mainstream video games last century when, after a 'quick network game of Starcraft and maybe a bit of Quake on a Friday afternoon at the end of the work week', I emerged from the dungeon we'd made at work fo
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Very nice! My only thought is that I wish you'd update it every week with new designs, and then sort of open it up so others can contribute their logo's for others to use, something like a logo-bazaar with regular updates. I thi
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by mmjaa 8y ago
If life were only about making claims one can fulfil, it'd be entirely boring and hardly worth any effort at all. This predilection towards 'maximum correctness, always' seems to me to be a thinly veiled attempt at justifying
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I totally agree with you. There is an occlusion of the collective will in all of these arguments. Its like, a surefire way to win any argument is to invoke the collective against an individual, since the collective whole is greater than th
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I'm not at all interested in the Musk cult factor, but I think that all the critics are far too easily blinded by their own position and fail to see the incredible results that have already been attained, in spite of incredible odds ag
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I think the real story here is what does a person do when they've accomplished so much, that the jealousy levels around them are so damn high? I mean, I read this thread to gain some insight into what other technology/innovation
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Its also true of long investors: they also do a better job of identifying, researching and flagging top-performing companies than government agencies charged with the task. The key thing is, motivation. Both long and short investors have m
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by mmjaa 8y ago
True that. Plus, there is a great deal of jealousy involved in Musk criticism these days. He has pushed things far further than a lot of anyone in this particular crowd ever will, and there is no indication that the Musk event horizon has
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by mmjaa 8y ago
If you think Musk has a cult, why do the media get a free pass? There's nothing honourable about the media that means they aren't susceptible to the same impulses that the Musk cult manifest. Or, is the media some sort of holy in
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by mmjaa 8y ago
You seem too easily persuaded that Elon Musk is a con man. Have you taken into account the massive empire he has already built - if he were truly as nefarious as you seem to imply, its hardly likely that he would've been able to effect
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by mmjaa 8y ago
No, the logic is that just calling something a conspiracy theory doesn't make it any less true. The term "conspiracy theory" has been socially engineered to automatically produce an 'ok, no need to think about it any mo
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by mmjaa 8y ago
It is precisely because we cannot trust the US government, that those of us still living outside of the purview of the 5-eyes nations are utterly unwilling to put up with the heinous powers granted the NSA, which services its 'customer

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