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by mseebach 8y ago
I don't think "identify" in your quote is meant in the same sense as GP. I read the quote as meaning merely that they weren't confused about their sexuality, but weren't willing to let that define them any more than
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by mseebach 8y ago
You're projecting a narrow, contemporary artefact of how these groups happen to be organised, but "freedom to live the way I want to live" has always been a very strong meme on the right-libertarian side. Also, as norm-brea
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by mseebach 8y ago
> Are computer generated headlines anywhere near matching human generated headlines such as these? No, but neither are any but a very, very few of the human-written ones. Headline: Local team scores goal Teaser: In recent game, the local
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by mseebach 8y ago
> That's in print . In olden times there'd be an address you could write to for a copy of the code on tape. It's an old problem without an obvious solution.
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by mseebach 8y ago
That's because we predominantly build software, which has the distinct benefit that it can be changed. If ten-pin bowling goes out of fashion in favour of eleven-pin bowling, your three-decade system goes in the landfill. Your six-mo
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by mseebach 8y ago
Never mind the enormous amounts of throwaway work that had no direct practical applications outside that single vanity project.
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by mseebach 8y ago
It's easy to be nostalgic for past grandeur, but remember that the vast majority of 19th and 20th century engineers spend all their time working on mediocre solutions to uninteresting problems, and being complacent about, then getting
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by mseebach 8y ago
Exactly. And I think it's safe to stop after the first statement. OP made no mention of offering to go on their own time and dime, and being rejected.
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by mseebach 8y ago
I think my point is that you can look at friend-closeness as a spectrum, and there will naturally be more people on the less close end, and very few in the very close end. But to jump from that insight, to a slogan like "most of your f
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by mseebach 8y ago
It's easy to be cynical, but it's important to avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Of course you can make friends at work, but no, they're not going to be the kind of friends whose shoulders you can cry on when a
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by mseebach 8y ago
Parent obviously meant "history of computer -technology".
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by mseebach 8y ago
OP isn't perfectly unambiguous on the subject, but it's an industry conference, and since asking the manager is a thing, I think it's fair to assume that it's a work conference and that the manager actually has a legit
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by mseebach 8y ago
Meh. It's not real overkill if you don't have fail-over hardware.
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by mseebach 8y ago
My wife had a refurbished X40 for the longest time. One time, the fan gave in, I tried to clean it, but couldn't get it to move. I figured it couldn't hurt to Google the part-number, and quickly ended up on IBMs country-local webs
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by mseebach 8y ago
> Many folks don't get treatment for alcoholism in their early 20's, quit, and drink normally the rest of their life. If they don't get treatment, were they ever properly diagnosed? As I understand it, "drinking (way)
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by mseebach 8y ago
Also: our understanding of physics has evolved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_(force)#Alternative_expla...
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by mseebach 8y ago
The article you linked to is 21 years old. Microkernels is the fusion power of software, always 50 years in the future. They're great in theory, it's just that nobody got them to work outside the lab. As for security, yes, there a
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by mseebach 8y ago
Tanenbaum is criticising Linux for not being designed for portability - yet it was ported to DEC Alpha and SUN Sparc (a RISC processor) already in 1995. And (almost) all these smartphone RISC CPUs are indeed running a Linux kernel today.
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by mseebach 8y ago
> Isn't this a rationalization borne from the premise that sugar already is everywhere? I don't think our current societies' rush to outlaw everything that's unhealthy if used immoderately is a particular high ideal.
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by mseebach 8y ago
The irony is that heroin probably is fine in moderation (provided that it's clean product, known concentration etc). And sugar certainly is fine in moderation. We're relatively mature and thoughtful people. We can be cognisant
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by mseebach 8y ago
Organic sugar isn't a panacea, it's still almost completely sucrose and organic sucrose is absolutely chemically identical to non-organic. It often tastes way better, but it's a stretch to assign significant health benefits t
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by mseebach 8y ago
There's also potential reality distortion in the other direction: how much of the early-apple lore has survived untainted by three decades of mythology, never mind the general haze of time (I know I'm telling a story from 2013 tha
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by mseebach 8y ago
No, the aggregate isn't important: the thought experiment is the same as if everybody earned $251k and spend $1k on rent -- but the percentage of income spend on rent would be radically different. But yes, if everybody suddenly had $25
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by mseebach 8y ago
I think the significance of "just acting" is the knowledge that the suffering inflicted isn't real. That obviously has ramifications for the experiment: what people are willing to act out in a theatre isn't very indicati
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by mseebach 8y ago
It's a question of keeping track of which is the map and which is the territory. The point, I believe, is to be continually and relentlessly introspective, asking yourself how you can do better today than yesterday (and having a realis
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by mseebach 8y ago
You seem to be comparing a well-written, large for-loop (that has complexities dictated by true constraints, rather than programmer skill) with a poorly written functional chain. This isn't quite fair. The functional style nudges the p
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by mseebach 8y ago
Nobody makes money on Linux by selling it as a stand-alone product, obviously. Even RedHat sells support, not software. But Linux makes some of the world's most successful companies possible in the first place: Imagine either of the FA
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by mseebach 8y ago
You can find wallpaper in paint shops, or at least the people there can point you to a shop. You should probably aim to visit a physical shop to see the paper at scale and feel it (there are more aspects to wallpaper than merely an image on
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by mseebach 8y ago
I think there's an inflection point somewhere between painting or wallpapering, and then doing floors and replacing the kitchen. The former can be done on your own in a weekend with help from friends and family, or relatively cheap, ce
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by mseebach 8y ago
Unused, in original complete packaging. And you have to pay for shipping.

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