nathanwdavis

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by nathanwdavis 17y ago
I think the positive sentiment around Perl is because Perl 6 is getting closer to usable and so there is that "new thing" hype with Perl right now which generally start to go away when it starts to get put to use in real programs where the
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What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?
3 points by nathanwdavis 17y ago|2 comments
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Lithium-ion battery makers anticipate billions in clean-energy subsidies(siteselection.com)
1 points by nathanwdavis 17y ago|0 comments
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by nathanwdavis 18y ago
What is the overwhelming evidence? I don't know of any on either side - please enlighten me. I don't count theories or the volume of theories explaining something as evidence so don't bother if that is all there is.
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by nathanwdavis 18y ago
This argument just doesn't hold. The atheist believes that the assertions of theists are incorrect and have faith that they are correct in that belief. The mere fact that you have replied to my post says that you <i>do</li>
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by nathanwdavis 18y ago
I guess I touched a nerve there. Much of science is still theory, and theories are a very valuable way to help explain things, but they are not 'overwhelming evidence'. Also, this thinking that religion has been forced into a corner is dep
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by nathanwdavis 18y ago
"I came to the conclusion that some genuine, sincere Christians were genuinely and sincerely delusional. " Seems like this is something you could say about humans in general. My feeling is that if religion is a drug, then atheism is
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by nathanwdavis 18y ago
This really isn't big news. Asp.Net MVC framework has been under and Open Source license (a custom license - http://aspnet.codeplex.com/license ) for a long time now. This news is just that they switched to the common MS-PL license. I have
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by nathanwdavis 18y ago
The term 'Seasonally Adjusted' means they even these seasonal tendencies out- thus giving meaning to month-over-month % changes. So it is not the same as your Pumpkin Sales example.