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by norswap 9y ago
> Are there examples of countries that have embraced socialism, and thereby improved their lot? Just about most of Europe, by the American definition of socialism. And it's quite clearly much better to be poor in Europe than in the
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by norswap 9y ago
After glancing through this document, I'm still not sure what they are. The document seems to describe a use of regular expression rather than a new form of regular expression. Am I mistaken?
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by norswap 9y ago
The rich spend a lesser percentage of their revenue than the poor scroungers, your argument seems pretty flawed.
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by norswap 9y ago
I'm noticing it, but it was abnormally slow for me before the update. My installation was quite old, which might have something to do with it. The number of addons was reasonable (like 10ish or so), and nothing crazy (most thing shou
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by norswap 9y ago
That was my interpretation too, until the end of the article when they said the military men who seized national TV actually spoke harshly of the general close to number 2. Those were the same military men who said that the military had cus
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by norswap 9y ago
Counterpoint: as a longtime Firefox user, I have to restart it every couple day. It still hemmorhages memory and just gets unusable after a while. Even if it's the extension fault, why they aren't sandboxed properly, or even why t
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by norswap 9y ago
Sounds almost like a joke doesn't it? I feel like many people won't be super comfortable with Facebook having their nudes on top of everything else.
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by norswap 9y ago
Makes sense. I guess I was a bit biased because I saw it used in projects that didn't need HTTP at all (can't unfortunately remember them).
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by norswap 9y ago
Future work :) But probably what you already expect: very strict birth control. People would still die from accidents, etc. For sure, a thorny issue, although not one can make us dismiss the idea of extending human lifes out of hand.
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by norswap 9y ago
Can someone illuminate me on the necessity/benefits of embedding Jetty? I can never seem to understand what it offers that java.nio does not on a fundamental plumbing level (for sure, Jetty provides a lot of convenience classes on top
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by norswap 9y ago
While I'm totally on board with the idea of making humans live longer or even forever, wishing hard won't make it so.
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by norswap 9y ago
> As we have seen, when the vector of differentiation shifts, market leaders tend to fall by the wayside. In the brave new world of AI, Google and Amazon have the clear edge over Apple. Many people seem to believe this meme of AI changin
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by norswap 9y ago
What's so ridiculous about that? That's pretty much how it works in many "welfare" states across Europe (I'm from Belgium). I don't find the thought of not being able to afford healthcare if bad luck strikes ve
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by norswap 9y ago
I think it says exactly the opposite. > Wait, what? Make no mistake: This vegan avocado chocolate bar is candy. With nearly 600 calories and 43 grams of fat per 100-gram serving, the bar packs more fat and calories than Cadbury Dairy Mil
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by norswap 9y ago
But should a language based on C -- of all things, be taught? I suspect they do this to transition students to real C later... Won't that give them bad habits later down the line? Seems like a lot of work just to avoid going with Java
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by norswap 9y ago
> Cadbury Jr.’s newest confection loaded just about every buzzy health trend into a fresh green-and-white package: vegan, ethically sourced, organic dark chocolate and creamy, superfood avocado. Hardly incompatible with it being candy. A
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by norswap 9y ago
Tangential to the article, but I'm still waiting to see how these self-driving cars fare in European villages (& elsewhere), which are, shall we say, more challenging to navigate than Californian roads.
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by norswap 9y ago
Really? I think the documentation is up to par: http://mozart.github.io/mozart-v1/doc-1.4.0/ Clearly, it's possible to do better. It's also possible to do much worse, and it is often done.
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by norswap 9y ago
As much as I hate to say this, I think untyped functional programming is the way to go to teach about the virtues of functional programming. We do this at my university using the obscure but awesome Oz programming language (1). But then stu
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by norswap 9y ago
I'm not too convinced by the relevance of these groupings (GAFA vs Wintel). For one, Intel is a hardware company. And Microsoft seems to do well in a lot of key areas. Also, isn't Oracle on the same scale as the other that are men
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by norswap 9y ago
I find the parallels between Xi and Putin fascinating: both had "modest" origins (or modest spells in the case of Xi) and much publicize them. Both were not really accounted for much, simply managing to rise through the ranks with
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by norswap 9y ago
PHP worse from what I've seen. JS I would say better. Most of what people complain about are wonky implicit conversions -- easily avoided. The retro-fitting of classes onto the prototype is not super elegant (the "Javascript: The
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by norswap 9y ago
Compared to most everything (PHP is probably worse, and there might some that I don't know). I'm not saying it's surprising because it's different, rather it's surprising because it doesn't seem to be very inte
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by norswap 9y ago
I actually have a whole series of posts up: http://norswap.com/ruby-dark-corners/ The three topics (module linearization, scope lookups and method parameters) are constant source of wtfs as soon as you go beyond someth
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by norswap 9y ago
16 years ago, but just 6 years after the language was released, and 4 years before Rails came on the scene. In retrospect, I'm not sure how successful Matz has been in upholding the principle of least surprise. In many ways, Ruby is on
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by norswap 9y ago
I'm more interested in what he will use for the UI. The popular option nowadays seems to embed WebKit, but that has obvious drawbacks. On the other hand, having scouted the grounds myself a year ago, it is one of the easiest option to
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by norswap 9y ago
About 80% of my addons might stop working with Firefox 57, seeing as they are plastered with the "legacy" label currently. If that happens, it's bye bye Firefox for me. This matters far more than some tiny rendering speed imp
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by norswap 9y ago
The answer to excess of marketing is censorship of the small accounts? This does not make any sense.
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by norswap 9y ago
I'm somewhat fascinated by Peterson, but also somewhat wary. Many of what he says is well reasoned, often backed by research, and not an affront to common sense. This is not what you would expect when you look at the people who sometim

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