ngvrnd

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   by ngvrnd 16y ago

   Same here.
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   by ngvrnd 16y ago

   Also, he's clearly in the "zero-sum game" camp -- I like the "let a thousand flowers bloom" notion myself. If there's anything to Go, it will eventually become widely used. If not, ... it may at least influence the development of anothe
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   by ngvrnd 16y ago

   I've noticed problems lately with Gmail in Safari on the iPod Touch, and the Reader app has always had problems on the Touch. For what it's worth, I'm in the US Northeast.
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   by ngvrnd 16y ago

   I think the performance of the touch screen is critical to the experience of using a tablet. This device has a resistive touch screen. I've used a number of different touch screens, and all of them were hateful, except for the Apple iPhon
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   by ngvrnd 17y ago

   Read it, highly recommended. Loved it.
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   by ngvrnd 17y ago

   Um... what? More of a villain than Bertrand Russell himself? I liked the vignette where Cantor was thrilled that Russell had destroyed set theory, as it fit into his current mental illness nicely.
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   by ngvrnd 17y ago

   Reading it right now -- recommended.
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   by ngvrnd 17y ago

   This is an excellent point. It annoys me daily.
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   by ngvrnd 17y ago

   The author does indeed describe what is "wrong", but perhaps not explicitly.
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    by ngvrnd 17y ago

    high degrees of optimization lead to fragility. look at the current financial situation for an example.
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    by ngvrnd 18y ago

    This presumes someone (the government? you?) can figure out what to do with that labor. Traditionally, in a capitalist economy, we let the market figure that out. Right now, the market's in a bit of a state.
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    by ngvrnd 18y ago

    He means that if the companies aren't allowed to fail, they'll keep employing the labor that ought to be reallocated.
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    by ngvrnd 18y ago

    Damn. You beat me to it.
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    by ngvrnd 18y ago

    I suggest Germanium. (ducks)
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    by ngvrnd 18y ago

    1) no 2) yes, or if it isn't, facebook is. In the first case, you can't kill blogging short of destroying modern civilization utterly. This is silly. Consider that AM radio is still around, and if you look a little bit harder, you can find
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    Hot or not: subtext programming language(subtextual.org)

    9 points by ngvrnd 18y ago|7 comments
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    by ngvrnd 18y ago

    PBF is definitely edgy. It often makes me feel that I shouldn't be laughing at it.
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    by ngvrnd 18y ago

    Well put.
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    by ngvrnd 18y ago

    You're right; deleted.
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    by ngvrnd 18y ago

    Methane doesn't come from volcanoes, or from organic life; it comes from primordial deposits of hydrocarbons from the formation of the planet, released by heating of the deposits or sublimation, or whatnot. If there is life, and it is car
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    by ngvrnd 18y ago

    And, perhaps someone has pointed this out, but once gov't begins to regulate economic activity, the existing corporate players inevitably start to game the system. Who was it who said that truly free trade is great because it's the only wa
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    by ngvrnd 18y ago

    _Why is a very clever and subtle fellow. And to add insult to injury, he gets things done! Huzzah for _Why!
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    Old drug slows cellular clock, treats multiple neurodegenerative diseases(physorg.com)

    7 points by ngvrnd 18y ago|1 comments
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    by ngvrnd 18y ago

    I counsel hopeful skepticism. Engineers (and these guys are doing engineering, better if they realize it, worse if they don't) always underestimate the time to completion on projects which are breaking new ground. I have no real doubt t
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    by ngvrnd 18y ago

    In fact, when I went hunting for SC, not knowing the name, I first found BitC -- which I agree sounds quite interesting, but seems very heavyweight. I had heard the description "It's just C, written in S-expressions.", and BitC is decided
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    SC, an s-expression based front end to C(yuasa.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp)

    34 points by ngvrnd 18y ago|16 comments
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    by ngvrnd 18y ago

    Well put.
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    by ngvrnd 18y ago

    Yeah. Now if they would fix my macbook's itunes crash... Off to the "Genius bar", I suppose.
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    by ngvrnd 18y ago

    Yes, this upgrade is the reason I upgraded iTunes to 8.0, as the installer said I had to in order to get the iPhone upgrade. Sadly, as noted elsewhere, my itunes install is now borked. Thanks, Apple!
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    by ngvrnd 18y ago

    I should add, for anyone else who's seeing this, I found that if you hold down some combination of alt-command-ctrl (play around, it's not hard to find, and I can't remember exactly what it was) when you click on itunes to start it up, you'