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by olifante 14y ago
I very much doubt that the Swedish school system can be seriously described as despicable or horrendous, even if it has fallen from its former glory. Would you care to elaborate?
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by olifante 14y ago
developer.apple.com looks down from here: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/developer.apple.com adc.apple.com looks down from here: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/adc.apple.com
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Jared Diamond: What makes countries rich or poor?(nybooks.com)
2 points by olifante 14y ago|0 comments
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by olifante 14y ago
I usually parse it as common-off-the-shelf
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by olifante 14y ago
Prefix the whole command with a space to avoid dumping your password into your bash history: " grep `echo -n yourpassword | shasum | cut -c6-40` SHA1.txt"
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by olifante 15y ago
Interesting, but not up to the usually stellar level of Rich Hickey's own presentations.
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by olifante 15y ago
I'm Portuguese too, and "mongo" is not even a word, let alone a nasty one. "Mongolóide" is a nasty insult, but is not usually reduced to "mongo".
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by olifante 15y ago
How about a link? "Share" is to vague a word to google.
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by olifante 15y ago
that sounds like the Labor Theory of Value espoused by Ricardo and later Marx. Although it may sound intuitive to some, it's just plain wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticisms_of_the_labour_theory... The price of a product is not d
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by olifante 15y ago
By that line of reasoning, you should be in favor of legalizing all forms of corruption. This is nonsense. Yes, money can always find a way, but some ways are harder and less effective than others.
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by olifante 15y ago
Democrats have been the ones balancing the budget in the last decades. Republicans are fiscal conservatives in name only: http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/07/why-the-gop-...
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by olifante 15y ago
Don't forget the military aid to Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Somalia, Chile, Nicaragua, most of central America, etc... </sarcasm>
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by olifante 15y ago
I want to agree, but it's hard to fight against ingrained human instincts. The need for social validation is very powerful. I would say instead: If you have to build your self-esteem by comparing to others, do it by looking at what you've c
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by olifante 15y ago
It's not really feasible? It's eminently feasible, as is demonstrated by the fact that even with no kind of central coordination, people daily pirate most of the world's digital artifacts. To add insult to injury, it's often more convenient
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by olifante 15y ago
sorry, that doesn't work for me with Chrome 16 on OS X Lion. I still get a google indirect link.
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by olifante 15y ago
This is the straw that broke the camel's back. I just migrated my 44 domains to NameCheap. Use the "sopasucks" discount code, it takes $1.99 off each .com domain. For some reason, .me transfers are much more expensive than .com transfers: $
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by olifante 15y ago
the Jante law is also central to life in Denmark. I wonder about Finland...
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by olifante 15y ago
even though this hasn't been officially announced yet, git can already be used for new projects: http://code.google.com/hosting/createProject
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Google Code now has native git support(code.google.com)
1 points by olifante 15y ago|1 comments
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Map shows social networking hotspots around the world(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by olifante 15y ago|0 comments
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Specialization is for insects, hyperspecialization is for... humans?(hbr.org)
1 points by olifante 15y ago|0 comments
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Why Scrum will never work(maurits.wordpress.com)
1 points by olifante 15y ago|0 comments
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by olifante 15y ago
This also means that technically there is no reason why Heroku Cedar couldn't support other JVM languages, such as Scala. It would be fun to watch Scala and Clojure fight it out on an even playing field.
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by olifante 15y ago
sweet but surprising. This would probably never have happened if the author of Ring didn't work for Heroku. Anyway, definitely a major milestone for the most elegant language of the last 5 years.
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by olifante 15y ago
The interview links to an interesting post by author Francisco Tolmasky: http://cappuccino.org/discuss/2008/12/08/on-leaky-abstractio... "Objective-J is our take on JavaScript 2.0. Now, this is usually the point at which someone chimes in
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Interview with author of Cappuccino and Objective-J(stateofcode.com)
49 points by olifante 15y ago|6 comments
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by olifante 15y ago
I live in Portugal and know many doctors. The fact that drug addicts are now able to use public health services without fear of arrest is huge.
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by olifante 15y ago
I should have linked to the 4th and latest edition of the book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1441930620/
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by olifante 15y ago
I thoroughly enjoyed Kai Lai Chung's "Elementary Probability Theory With Stochastic Processes" when I was in college: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0387903623/
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by olifante 15y ago
I don't know, I haven't had to do transactions. Another advantage of the web2py DAL is that it doesn't have any dependencies. It's just a single file which could be used by any other web framework to decouple from BigTable and enhance porta

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