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by opminion 12y ago
> Wait, what? Electric kettles aren't in every house there? That's insane! Anywhere people don't drink that much tea, use a Moka pot for coffee, and boil the milk.
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by opminion 13y ago
This is a note about editing a program as part of the state of the system running it (the "system image"). It is not about processing programs as pictures :-)
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by opminion 13y ago
For math equations, WordPress.com now supports LaTeX by default: http://en.support.wordpress.com/latex/
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by opminion 13y ago
I only see using imperial units as an advantage Out of genuine curiosity, what's the advantage from your point of view, other than being able to communicate to other people who use the same system, at the cost of not being understood
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by opminion 13y ago
3. Correct, and not knowing anything about the author I would venture that the reason is that he uses imperial in his everyday life, and thus it has been a concession to the wider world to do this in metric, for which I am grateful :-) Cita
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by opminion 13y ago
I think articles like this, honestly, are a disservice The article does not explicitly blame them for the financial crisis. It describes a party and makes judgements on the participants based on the contrast between their role in society
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by opminion 13y ago
Bill Gates does not come across as an asshole at all in that article.
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by opminion 13y ago
And for those still left clueless: in Britain, around this time of the year, it is common to see people wear a "remembrance poppy" pin, to commemorate soldiers who have died in war. One way of getting it is by donation to the Brit
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by opminion 13y ago
The object of the film's satire became front page all around the world in 2001. Until then it was easier to take it at face value. For example, in the 80s it was common to portray torture as a suitable, non controversial means of war i
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by opminion 13y ago
It is a feature-length documentary about hacks on top of hacks. Farmer and beekeeper hacks, to the extreme of just pollinating trees by hand, flower by flower, as a workaround against bees not doing the job. I see it criticised for its lack
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More than honey: the movie(ciber.science.uwa.edu.au)
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by opminion 13y ago
I thought that the primary use of most roads is to provide transport and access, and only as a sort of side effect they are available as a means of sport and entertainment. So, regardless of whether one is driving a car or riding a bicycle,
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by opminion 13y ago
If the purpose were that the collection is minimal, which is not stated explicitly, it would be interesting to know which criteria to use when deciding which works to replace. For example, how to decide when a modern unifying textbook makes
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by opminion 13y ago
Also, it's sort of condescending. No Western professor teaches Heidegger or Schopenhauer by breaking them up into easy-to-digest, feel-good aphorisms for better living. That might explain Hegel's obscurity.
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by opminion 13y ago
There was no link to the actual words each wrote in their conversation, so the whole brouhaha might be artificially amplified (eg. One party might have been rude or arrogant, the other might have just reacted). Besides, there is a confusion
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by opminion 13y ago
And with a title in metric units, which is more informative to those outside the US.
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by opminion 13y ago
> Drugs in contemporary America are like prostitutes in Victorian Europe Victorian Britain?
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by opminion 13y ago
Agreed, and here's the cooking metaphor. A math degree in a job where the outcome is software is like a chemistry degree in Antony Bourdain's archetypical restaurant kitchen: amongst the sharp knives and hot tempers, you will be a
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by opminion 13y ago
"Seizing" is: 1. Taking control of them 2. Removing control of them from anyone else The second point is specific to a digital asset which can be duplicated (in this case we are also talking about any passwords). Bitcoin, by defin
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by opminion 13y ago
Someone found 1. a common denominator of a family of Sokoban-like games, encoded them in the form of 2. a simple pattern-matching language, and implemented 3. a game engine on top of it. So read this if you are interested in either 1 or 2 o
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by opminion 13y ago
If they offered cardboard postcard print, like moo.com but simpler, and a backing legal entity, I'd be coding against it today.
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by opminion 13y ago
This is discussed by Steven Pinker in The Blank Slate.
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by opminion 13y ago
How do you want to deal with asynchronous tasks which have to be dealt with within the day? Synchronous communication is not a solution for that when interruptions are undesirable.
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by opminion 13y ago
The first episodes of Fringe felt like a leftover script from Alias, with some car chase action, a mild sex scene and X-file monsters dropped in. (Thinking of it, maybe that combination is the reason why I got hooked... :-)
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by opminion 13y ago
Note that the book is freely available, but the game unfortunately is not (or at least [1] says "distribution denied"). http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004256 I remember that the Spectrum version
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by opminion 13y ago
The so called (in English) "siesta", which in Spanish would be just "the lunch break", is a compulsory long break in many professions. Many would rather close shop at 5 or 6 than at 9pm, but everyone has to do it at once
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by opminion 13y ago
Yet nobody I know in Spain likes the compulsory 2 hour lunch breaks.
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by opminion 13y ago
If you're not testing the code you are refactoring how do you know it still works or even worked in the first place? There are other ways, different than testing, to convince yourself and others that a program does what it is meant t
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by opminion 13y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
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by opminion 13y ago
The interesting bit is at the end: the threat to good collective outcomes doesn't come only from free riders and predators, as mainstream social sciences teach us, but also from well-organized norms of Kakonomics that regulate exchang

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