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by narag 5y ago
One thing that I haven't seen mentioned in any language-related discussion is that understanding is often a matter of discarding possible "neighbouring" meanings. To do that, you need to have a comprehensive knowledge of the
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by narag 5y ago
I did use "irc." before and tried again now. No dice. Oh, the previous comment was downvoted. How nice!
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by narag 5y ago
I had not used IRC in a long time, just checked libera.chat... it doesn't work ("software caused connection abort")
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by narag 5y ago
I was going to comment without reading TFA. I'm happy I read it because it says the same I was going to write :) Just one nuance from experience: sometimes the micromanager tries hard not to seem like one, even to himself. I had a very
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by narag 5y ago
according to wiktionary, they both originate from Arabic اَلزَّهْر‎ (az-zahr, “the dice”). Just like Latin where Spanish "aleatorio" comes from: alea = dice. Caesar's famous words "alea jacta est" = "dice has
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by narag 5y ago
My mother had a small one removed from her face a couple of weeks ago. It was detected very early thanks to a cosmetic procedure.
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by narag 5y ago
In 1953 I seriously doubt there was so much concern about it, much less in an advertisment directed to consumers.
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by narag 5y ago
Is that what it means? I take that as "you won't need to dispose of waste"...
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by narag 6y ago
There are more than two in my country, I was just "translating"...
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by narag 6y ago
I agree but you also need to teach them that neither side of the political divide is right on everything. Good luck getting support for that.
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by narag 6y ago
>> Apple countered by arguing that “no reasonable consumer would believe” that content purchased through iTunes would be available on the platform indefinitely >Remember this sentence to change your mind for the next time you see s
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by narag 6y ago
Exactly. Google should get better at googling.
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by narag 6y ago
I guess it depends on the local culture. In Madrid, with a population of several millions, it's not too weird if you speak with a complete stranger, but some persons get startled easily. In my hometown, now 85 thousands, half of that w
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by narag 6y ago
Kings promoted cities as a tool to concentrate power and debilitate intermediate feudal lords. But that temporary alliance could not last, once the basic idea that the power comes from God was undermined and bourgeoisie raised. I wouldn&#x2
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by narag 6y ago
It's intended. Enlightment is the logical culmination of the changes started in the Renaissance.
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by narag 6y ago
But there was more: by claiming that the Renaissance—and all its glittering art and innovation—was caused by individualism, Burkhardt was really advancing a claim about the nature of modernity. All the text is an ellaborate argument again
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by narag 6y ago
Renaissance was a golden age for some things like arts, not necessarily for life conditions. Who said that? Commerce, liberation from the feudal lords and the Church are the staples of Renaissance that set the basis for the following west
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by narag 6y ago
Some tech appears before its time has come. It gets some popularity but stagnates because some complementary development isn't there yet. Some form of tablets and smartphones were there years before the iPhone or iPad.
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by narag 6y ago
I made a search in the page for "robots" and got to your comment. It's also appropiate to put this comment under some other mentioning old tech. Because robots have become steampunk. Very dear to first sci-fi writers, now the
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by narag 6y ago
This bit is pure genius: He has sincere regrets, especially at how anger toward him personally has negatively impacted the reputation and mission of FSF.
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by narag 6y ago
OR Maybe I'm just being an old curmudgeon. I guess we'll see. When predicting the future, ego gets involved. We invest at least a little of our pride. We want to be right. The problem is you could be both right and wrong at the
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by narag 6y ago
Wow, a lot of responses, this one will get buried, but here I go anyway. In my opinion, what makes most of the wrongs we see is that computing is very young and we haven't had the time to set up half decent solutions for anything. Ther
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by narag 6y ago
From what I understand his actual views aren't that horrible. But it's almost as if he goes out of his way to write things in the most provoking way possible. Stallman is an activist, the kind of person that intentionally provok
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by narag 6y ago
Delphi was first released in 1995. Screen real estate at the time was very different. When people started using measures other than pixels there was a huge codebase using them already. The translation systems were really atrocious. I had
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by narag 6y ago
I have no doubt that she would be able to block it if she wanted to. She must have a very strong determination to get where she is. My cousin is a quantity surveyor. Her mother wanted her to be a nurse and made a huge drama over what would
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by narag 6y ago
VB is older than Delphi. Anders went to Microsoft years later.
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by narag 6y ago
The punchline. That's exactly the reason I didn't want to get involved in this thread.
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by narag 6y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean not programming with it, but entering the discussion of why I don't trust the company management anymore. Free Pascal + Lazarus is a fine free alternative if the language suits you.
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by narag 6y ago
Of course, I only mentioned language-level goodies. But then there was the best database access, rich GUI applications, etc. And my favourite: compiling big projects in seconds.
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by narag 6y ago
I'd rather not comment on current popularity of Delphi, Free Pascal and family. I won't touch commercial situation with a ten feet pole either. But I would like to mention what exactly made Delphi so nice to work with: language en

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