mogrim

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by mogrim 14y ago
When it comes to individual rights (as opposed to corporate) better it goes too far, than come up short.
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by mogrim 14y ago
Inspired by robbiep's comment I clicked on your user, that's some pretty cool stuff you've worked on!
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by mogrim 14y ago
Depending where you live it can go by many names: lottery, powerball, loteria, etc. A rich, childless uncle dying may also work.
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by mogrim 14y ago
> Corporate America (and VC-istan is just as bad) is "a nation of social climbers." But (from what I see at least) it's still better than a lot of other countries. At least in the larger areas you can earn a decent wage, with a decent a
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by mogrim 14y ago
No, it's not science, it's human nature. (And I really hope you're being ironic using a Feynman quote there!)
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by mogrim 14y ago
Escherichia coli. Go look it up.
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by mogrim 14y ago
> In science, evidence means everything, reputation means nothing. That's a bit optimistic, in the long run it may be true, but over shorter time periods reputation and authority often discourage proper criticism.
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by mogrim 14y ago
Not heard of that before, thanks for the link - interesting problem!
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by mogrim 14y ago
Didn't realise that, although beyond reading pulp SF, I've not done any kind of investigation into the subject! How much carbon/coal would you need to support a colony of say, 5 people (+plants)?
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by mogrim 14y ago
Although if you've got water (and there is water on the moon) and a nuclear powerplant generating loads of electricity, getting oxygen's not a problem.
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by mogrim 14y ago
Out of interest, why do you go to Perl instead of Ruby?
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by mogrim 14y ago
I've nothing against a good textbook, but MOOCs are so much more than simply substituting a book for a video - there's the online community, the structure that weekly exercises bring, and the possibility of a (nearly worthless) certificate
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by mogrim 14y ago
I've seen this too, it's an interesting development. The virtual community is also pretty powerful in a lot of the courses.
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by mogrim 14y ago
I'd say the other big advantage - and to my mind even more important than the social aspect - is the access to the tutors and professors. Having done a number of online courses, they're fine as far as they go, but even a well run forum is n
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by mogrim 14y ago
Certainly the enterprise stuff at Spanish banks is run on Cobol, and there's still a fair amount of active Cobol development going on. (By enterprise I mean the bread and butter stuff, accounts etc.) No idea about the trading / derivatives
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by mogrim 14y ago
Go on then, tell me how I can uninstall Facebook and Google Goggles from my Nexus One? (Slightly tongue-in-cheek - my Nexus One is nothing like as bad as my Galaxy Tab for crapware that comes pre-installed.
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by mogrim 14y ago
There's the field of empirical computer science (for example http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~nasmith/erm/ ) - and I've seen a couple of articles recently pushing for a more evidence-based approach to methodology. No links, I'm afraid - can't find
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by mogrim 14y ago
Not sure how much of that is a problem - how many meetings do I go to that have iPad users busily taking notes? AFAIK they're not integrating directly into the enterprise network, as long as they've got access to mail they're happy. If you
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by mogrim 14y ago
They can also just legislate you out of existence: "You want to operate here? You comply with the law. And that means a backdoor." As long as this service is commercial (which apparently it is) it will have a payment gateway, and that point
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by mogrim 14y ago
So tune it, get it right, then release it.
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by mogrim 14y ago
Jobs, meh. Hardly up there with Ford or Rolls & Royce, for example. Far more inspiring, far greater creations, and much more interesting companies. Still, his products were ever so pretty.
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by mogrim 14y ago
Peter Hamilton's stuff is "classic" space opera, lots of nanotech, AIs, wormholes and what-have-you. Fairly optimistic vision of the future, with overlaid disaster and chaos :)
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by mogrim 14y ago
Don't read much SF, then?
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by mogrim 14y ago
I think the problem is patents without any implementation, or commercial use. Make a condition of patent defence to actually have brought to market a product that uses the patent. Licensing the technology to someone would also be a valid de
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by mogrim 14y ago
So you spend millions (or billions, even) on research, then someone can just come along and copy that work? Where's my incentive to do all that R&D?
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by mogrim 14y ago
Possibly, hadn't read it that way. (And if that's the case, my apologies.)
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by mogrim 14y ago
How would that work online? Cheating is already a problem - there's nothing to stop you googling for the answer to a given assignment, or getting your clever best friend to help you out.
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by mogrim 14y ago
My guess is that they're running it free as a sort of massive beta test, once they've got the format sorted they'll start including paying courses - quite possibly as follow up to free ones (for example Scala I is free, Scala II costs you m
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by mogrim 14y ago
sbt has been around a lot longer than the course, it hasn't been developed specifically for coursera.
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by mogrim 14y ago
Got to be said I like the ribbon, going back to LibreOffice on the home Linux box is like heading back to the last century.

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