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by ohyes 16y ago
"Sandwiches fall upon a continuum of tastiness, from the tastiest, all the way down to egg salad sandwiches, which themselves vary in tastiness"
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by ohyes 16y ago
I think that there is a distinction to be made here between /politically/ expedient solutions, and expedient solutions with regards to actual goals. The war on drugs, high incarceration rates, and trumpeting an ideology of low taxes are all
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by ohyes 16y ago
Picture too racy to be seen by millions on the internet? Don't post it to the internet. Websites get hacked, confidences are violated. (In fact, if you actually care, you shouldn't take the picture in the first place, as PCs can be hacked
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by ohyes 16y ago
His claim is that California is bottom of the barrel WRT the amount of money that it is reinvesting in its education system. (Hence the 'prime the pump' analogy)... This is true: http://www.statemaster.com/graph/edu_ele_sec_fin_cur_exp_per
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by ohyes 16y ago
The interesting thing about the peephole superoptimizer paper that he linked is that the actual peephole optimization process is not necessarily slower than a regular peephole optimizer, as all it is doing is looking up faster equivalent in
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by ohyes 16y ago
'This is why the corporations dominate: They know the "little guys" like us don't think it's worth it to disrupt their industries.' Also, huge advantages in terms of economies of scale, financing, lawyers, patent portfolios... and if you ar
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by ohyes 16y ago
I am not a Java developer, but how is this situation is too much different from the Java/J++/C# issues that were had between Sun and Microsoft? It is a different type lawsuit, and (arguably scary) patents are involved, but it seems to be si
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by ohyes 16y ago
The whole point of lisp is that it rolls around picking up new ideas. Haskell was originally implemented in lisp. Examples: Lexical scoping (ALGOL) The 'format' macro(I believe Fortran) The 'loop' macro (COBOL? Pascal? not sure?) Type syst
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by ohyes 16y ago
As a fellow American who takes walks,I disagree with the perceived antagonism. I think part of the point is that there is something deep-seeded in our culture that punishes idleness. That is the social anxiety he describes. I do have a litt
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by ohyes 16y ago
Well, as long as you don't release the application, you are certainly allowed to do that under the GPL. No one will sue you (furthermore how would they know?). I like the mind analogy, it is sufficiently weird. Lets say my friend Phil and h
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> Almost every freedom you enjoy came as an economic incentive first. bad_user, I'm sorry, I am not quite understanding your definition of 'almost every freedom'. There are plenty of freedoms that I enjoy which are not economically driv
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It is not currently financially viable for all software to be free. However, A society in which it is viable for all software to be free is not terribly difficult to imagine. (There are numerous possible scenarios, state funded works, high
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I think it is actually the opposite of that. > You have a choice between deserving a reward and not getting a material reward, and getting one but not deserving it. I think that RMS sees our current society as intrinsically flawed with
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by ohyes 16y ago
I'm guessing that this is not a disorder, because if it is, then we all have it. Every programmer has trouble sitting down to code at certain times. You say that when you are not at your computer you think about how to code it. Why not keep