motters

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961.
by motters 17y ago
It all boils down to whether you believe that activities in space should consist of a series of big grandstanding stunts, or whether you think that space should become just another place where people live and work - expanding human horizons
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by motters 17y ago
Personally, I don't believe that a proliferation of programming languages is really required. Most languages do the same sort of thing with slightly different syntax and degrees of efficiency. If you're really unhappy and frustrated about
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by motters 17y ago
Has anyone studied the relationship between doomsaying and economics? Perhaps there's a book in there somewhere, or at least a TED talk. Certainly for some, making protestations of doom - however implausible - appears to be a viable busin
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by motters 17y ago
Apple, who is primarily a computer hardware manufacturer, shouldn't be in the business of dictating what tools or languages software engineers use to create applications.
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by motters 17y ago
This just means that officials will use copyright to censor information which is embarrassing. For example, if something appears on Wikileaks which they don't approve of they can just claim that the leaked document is under copyright and b
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by motters 17y ago
So what actually happened with the Digital Economy Bill? Did it pass? What are the implications?
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by motters 17y ago
For anyone who watched the video, attempts to support the actions of the helicopter gunner seem to be on very shaky grounds indeed. The victims are mostly, or entirely, unarmed and attacking people trying to rescue the injured is an act of
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by motters 17y ago
At least partly it's about keeping people watching TV and away from the internet. In a recent interview that I had with a TV company they were quite fearful of the move away from TV and the loss of advertising revenue which that entails fo
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by motters 17y ago
It's ironic that I just installed Songbird to try it out. Oh well, it's no big loss.
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by motters 17y ago
It's not only in India where bribery of government officials and bureaucrats is commonplace, so this idea might spread elsewhere.
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by motters 17y ago
The way to think about this is that anyone can die unexpectedly at any time - even people who appear to be completely healthy. If you have an illness which is likely to end your life prematurely, this just gives you a degree of forewarning
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by motters 17y ago
I don't agree with most of this. Yes it is pointless to include the filename within the file itself, but it's still a good idea to retain the copyright statement and author names/email addresses. In an ideal world everyone would use versi
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The jets of Enceladus(ciclops.org)
2 points by motters 17y ago|0 comments
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by motters 17y ago
I think I perform poorly in these sorts of interview, because in the wild I never solve programming problems by writing things on a whiteboard or on paper (unless it's a geometry problem), and I also frequently use external references like
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by motters 17y ago
I've been using DuckDuckGo for a week or so, and it seems pretty good. I like their privacy terms, and it makes a change from using Google. Search results seem quite satisfactory, and there a few nice features which Google doesn't have, a
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by motters 17y ago
Yes. For software jobs it's really knowledge/skills or particular industry experience which employers are looking for rather than cultural match. Culture does matter to some extent, but in all the industries in which I've worked skills we
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by motters 17y ago
The usual incoherent/conspiratorial rant that you'd expect from a totalitarian state media. Google isn't trying to impose a political agenda, it's merely trying to provide access to the world's information, which may include things which t
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by motters 17y ago
Hah. Now there's a surprise. Just business as usual for Microsoft.
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by motters 17y ago
Are they still harping on about buttons on the left? I admit, from a usability point of view it's clearly a fail, but the good thing about Linux is that if you don't like it you can alter it and make a new release. Perhaps they could call
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Cat on demand(twitter.com)
1 points by motters 17y ago|0 comments
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by motters 17y ago
I've never had any difficulties in being able to stop thinking about work when off duty, but then I've been around computers for so long that perhaps I have a very binary psychology.
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by motters 17y ago
These dangers don't appear to be unique to IT, and apply to most jobs.
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by motters 17y ago
Nice, but as far as I'm concerned Google Wave still delivers quite a poor/terrible user experience. It's slow, crashes occasionally and navigating around large waves is fairly tortuous. I still think that Wave needs more work to improve i
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by motters 17y ago
Although I havn't seen the show, I doubt that it could be considered a scientific experiment. At best it highlights the Milgram result to a modern audience who may not be aware of it. Experiments like Milgram's would be unlikely to get pa
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Solargraphy: ultra long exposure photographs of the sun(solargraphy.com)
1 points by motters 17y ago|0 comments
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by motters 17y ago
Again I don't think this is about authority as much as it's about alignment with the perceived norm. People in positions of authority usually claim that they're merely upholding normal, necessary or desirable values, and others try to alig
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by motters 17y ago
Yes I agree that is isn't specifically about TV. It's about the power of peer pressure and the behavior of crowds. It's known that people try to align themselves with whatever they believe is "the norm" in any situation, even if this cont
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by motters 17y ago
Think I'll stick with DuckDuckGo.
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by motters 17y ago
Rather doomy for my taste, but I think we are heading towards a complex future something like this - closer to cyberpunk than to Star Trek. Even though the current recession is a temporary affair, there are good reasons to be concerned abo
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by motters 17y ago
The document is, as might be expected, fairly uninteresting. The main take home messages are: a) The US DoD classifies Wikileaks as a "threat", or potential threat. b) This seems to be primarily because troop sizes/equipment/movements migh

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