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by olavk 13y ago
Hope you understand that this is not an actual law, but a piece of satire describing social norms in a smaller provincial town in the beginning of the twentieth century. This was a very different and much more traditional and hierarchical s
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by olavk 13y ago
Askhistorians have the policy that you have to be able to provide sources if requested.
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by olavk 13y ago
Complex organs have developed from simpler organs in a series of small incremental improvements, while the organ all the way have been fully functional. Think of it like iterative developing a program by adding or modifying one line at a ti
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by olavk 13y ago
Do you have a link to "the truth"?
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by olavk 13y ago
It is two distinct concepts, both important. The one concept is the use of a positional or "place-value" notation for numbers. Place-value notation means you use a base set of symbols, and then the position when using multiple digits is a m
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by olavk 13y ago
In other communities, new tools and abstractions are generally "sold" by explaining how they are useful for solving specific problems. Not so in the Haskell community though. The Haskell community has a longstanding tradition of using conde
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by olavk 13y ago
Haskell and Java are not the only language in the world. The poster might prefer an OO-language without the HelloWorld-overhead as Java. Like, say, Python where hello world is literally print "Hello World" And in the case of Java, it
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by olavk 14y ago
The joke is: - How do you know if someone doesn't own a television? They tell you. The Onion article is just an elaborate version of the joke. The joke here is people making a big deal about not knowing who Jay-Z is, to the extent they post
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by olavk 14y ago
Why shouldn't HTML be used for defining input forms? You are just stating that it shouldn't. CSS should be used for styling the input form and widgets because it is a styling language, but HTML is perfectly fine for defining the semantics o
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by olavk 14y ago
Religion and science becomes at odds if religion makes falsifiable claims about the natural world which is contradicted by scientific evidence. Many religions does that. Liberal theology tries to explain such claims away as metaphorical. Th
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by olavk 14y ago
It would be a lot simpler just to use a-elements though :-)
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by olavk 14y ago
Only HTML5 compliant in the sense that it is not illegal. There is no standard semantics for data-attributes, so e.g. Google will not index your links.
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by olavk 14y ago
Semantics are non-obvious with href on a lot of elements like tr/td/form/input/textarea/button/head/script/style for example. A lot of work would go into specifying and implementing the interactions of combinations of href on table/colgroup
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by olavk 14y ago
What was so special? 1) It was deliberate extermination of ethnic groups. Not killings as part of fighting a war, but deliberate extermination. 2) It was enormous in scale and took place over just a few years. Sure there have been lots of a
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by olavk 14y ago
Judaism is a religion - it is the name of the religion of the jewish people. But you can be jewish without adhering to judaism. And I suppose you can follow the traditions and rituals of Judaism without believing in the existence of God.
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by olavk 14y ago
Well, the link in the parent is to a TV-channel new item, so it is not intended as serious statistics. It is probably intended to highlight a legitimate problem ("baby boom"-generation getting retired and life expectancy increasing, leading
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by olavk 14y ago
The heroic pose may be timeless, but in Friedrichs painting it has a novel (I believe) interpretation in that we see the hero from the back, and he is dark and unspecific, while the vista is bright. So rather than focus on the hero as an ob
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by olavk 14y ago
Technically correct, but also very misleading in a discussion concerning sustainability of the welfare system. Obviously a working couple with three kids is not a problem in the same way that e.g. three unemployed people per two working.
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by olavk 14y ago
Denmark have an unemployment rate of 6% which is not good, but certainly better than many European countries - and better than the US, as far as I can tell. Furthermore, Denmark have a comparatively large workforce because it has relatively
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by olavk 14y ago
CSS was not based on any specific theory, but rather on the actual rendering model of browsers at the time. This in turn was presumably based on ad-hoc decisions by Netscape when they added features. For example, the float/clear model were
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by olavk 14y ago
The CSS layout model (with float/clear, display:block|inline|table-cell, vertical align and so on) was based closely on how browsers already rendered layout. For example float, clear and align were attributes on image and table tags before
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by olavk 14y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean with sane compiler support in this context?
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by olavk 14y ago
Mascara ( http://www.mascaraengine.com ) supports a bunch of the proposed ECMAScript extensions, including classes, destructuring assignments, generators, getters/setters and array comprehensions.
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by olavk 14y ago
There are no realistic alternative to JavaScript which is not based on JavaScript in the end. Some of them provide very powerful abstractions on top of JavaScript though. There is nothing weird about abstractions. All modern languages are b
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by olavk 14y ago
Some features typical of VM languages, like "goto" makes it more appropriate as a compilation target, because lots of higher-level control structures kan be compiled to gotos. Of course goto could also be added to the JavaScript language as
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by olavk 14y ago
A VM is still a specific language, it just has a binary syntax. All VM's make tradeoffs which means they are a better fit for some languages than others. The fully language neutral VM does not exist. Given that, we might as well consider Ja
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by olavk 14y ago
The list forgot Mascara ( http://www.mascaraengine.com/ ) which adds features like classes, type inference, array comprehensions and so on, but is backwards compatible with JavaScript. (Disclosure: I made it. Hope it's not considered spam t
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by olavk 14y ago
How is 1 relevant? Christianity didn't invent charity.
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by olavk 14y ago
> Which brings me to real salespeople, the ones who actually make sales in the real world, rather than in fantasy plays.... > Mythological salesmen like Ricky Roma, who are really highly skilled scammers, have given the sales profe
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by olavk 14y ago
It's hilarious that the writer uses subtly flawed logic to convince the reader that shady and unethical salespeople simply doesn't exist in the real world.

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