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Thanks. It sounds like it might be more trouble than it's worth for me at this point, but I definitely appreciate the effort. Of course, the root of the problem is that HTML is not really a good basis for implementing hypermedia.
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Thanks for sharing your stylesheet. Skimming the code, am I not mistaken in concluding that the navigation bar will still be shoved to the top of the page?
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Hm. That guy writing the intro "That guy" was Pierre-Simon Laplace, and the book he was introducing was his own seminal Théorie analytique des probabilités !
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I just tried out uMatrix and disabled all CSS. Am I now expected to either write, or hunt down a stylesheet for every single host? Without the CSS, the navigation sidebar just goes at the top, which makes most sites unusable.
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Just to be clear, that article was posted on the Senator's website as "must read" material, but was not written by Bernie Sanders himself. The article was written by Ron Fournier, and published in the National Journal.
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Perhaps, but then "rip 999 of them out" doesn't just add a more sinister tinge, but also confirms the allusion for those who are aware of it. If memory of my history class serves, the quote of letting flowers bloom comes from
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I admire the combination of theoretical audacity and sweeping pragmatism taken by the authors of that paper. They mention Oz a few times. I am big fan of "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming" by Van Roy and H
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I'd been well familiar with the Fred Brooks quote, but that rather interesting linked essay by Guy Steele which quotes it was new to me. Thanks!
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Exactly. We've set up a system that punishes failure to the point of exclusion. Whereas, creativity and learning can only really flourish in an environment that allows (and hopefully encourages) one to try things which aren't nec
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Nobody who's ever seen the clip of him flipping the bird without realizing the camera was rolling.
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The same general principle applies to organizations. For example, employees who spend most of their time doing a good job will by definition have less free time to promote themselves politically within the company. If management is not of
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Point taken; you are right to defend the drug comparison, so long as we're talking about compulsive behavior with negative effects. I do feel the analogy is overused though, mostly because the notion that chemical reactions in the brai
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Can we please stop comparing any activity that our brain learns to enjoy to drug usage by saying that some neurotransmitter is involved? I'm sure one could just as easily say that getting the mail is like other addictions, because I
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The diagram would indeed be enormously complex, because that sentence draws upon a vast amount of existing human knowledge. You'd also have to invent a visual language for describing this knowledge, which at present probably doesn&#x2
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Natural language is a great querying tool for quickly combining existing knowledge in order to generate moderately intricate thoughts. It feels easy, but don't forget that it took many lifetimes of experience to accumulate the databas
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On the other hand, I would argue that engineering, architecture, and industry rely heavily on visual languages such as technical drawings, blueprints, control/process flow diagrams, etc. Text is a good bet, but it's inadequate fo
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(I stand corrected about the factual matter of public assault rates on men vs. women.)
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Great link. Taking the drug war into account, it does become painfully clear that the present system is morally reprehensible, arguably even amounting to a continuation of African-American slavery, in a modern form. In my original comment,
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> You do know that the private prison system is literally leaning on state governments and threatening them with breach of contract for not keeping prisons full, right? Assuming you are correct, I retract any sympathy my other comment di
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I will certainly accept that the qualifier fails; I am well aware of that our prisons have serious problems.
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It's voluntary. So long as prison conditions are humane enough to make remaining in jail a viable option, this can help prisoners. The real danger would be the possibility that this is incentivizing the government to increase the pris
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I doubt it. Not to mention that women are culturally more cautious about going out than are men when danger is perceived.
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It might make more sense to make the area boat friendly, if we're planning for the long term and take elevation into account.
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What's to say that the students who forgave themselves didn't do so as a result of some other underlying reason that happens to be correlated with a propensity to forgive oneself? At the very least, one could argue that inability
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Thanks for pointing this out--it brought my attention to the author's Irmin backend, based on the browser's implementation of IndexedDB: https://github.com/talex5/irmin-indexeddb That said, trying out this de
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For me, it's the quality of the submissions and comments (which are often better than the articles themselves). Funny, I remember reading this sentiment exactly in a Slashdot comment, circa 2003. HN is great because the site (for wha
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At any rate, your language does look rather interesting, and I should thank you for your blog post. It has made me think about how the syntax of Rebol (which was unknown to me) could possibly inform a language designed to combine ideas fro
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Interesting; I had not heard of OSv, thanks. I am still hoping that something as radical as MirageOS will eventually take off, since we really seem to need it--at the very least, from a security perspective, if not a complexity one. Just b
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As much as I have enjoyed 25 years of doing everything on an OS whose conceptual model is a 70s university department minicomputer, this era is coming to a close. We already know it's a poor match for existing hardware and use cases b
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From README.md: "Ni is meant to mix with Nim. The idea is to use Nim for heavylifting and binding with the outside world, and then let Ni be a 100% live dynamically typed scripting engine inside Nim. Ni will stay a very small language

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