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by opminion 13y ago
I can only agree with this, having spent my first 6 months of C#/.Net programming with only a highlighting text editor and the command-line compiler. And a browser window open to read the official .Net reference. Now that I have been u
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by opminion 13y ago
No. The debate is which rights should be universal and not linked to citizenship.
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by opminion 13y ago
Numeromancer suggested that you rewrite your sentence which uses "suppose" in passive voice, into active voice. It is a school exercise at least in some European countries. It is a syntactic transformation of the sentence. Dependi
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by opminion 13y ago
That's because probably most of their revenue comes not through direct marketing but through site-wide licensing. This is compounded with the fact that Mathematica's main advantage is in its combinatorial possibilities (just like
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by opminion 13y ago
If you must, try replacing every "I" with "some" and it will actually make some sense.
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by opminion 13y ago
This could have been invented by Raymond Smullyan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Smullyan#Logic_problems
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by opminion 13y ago
Those foreigners usually have those responsibilities in their own countries. The same works the other way around. Wouldn't it make sense to have reciprocity so it ends up being a game of citizen collaboration, rather than of competitio
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Spell of the Albino(aljazeera.com)
1 points by opminion 13y ago|0 comments
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by opminion 13y ago
Where's Stallman when we need him? Ah, here! He didn't have to spend much effort in predicting the future in 2001, he just had to be consistent.
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by opminion 13y ago
That's not, like, a slam on his family or a dig about his person. That's just a linguistic observation It is reasonable to expect that people with that family name might think otherwise. That's why it is usually considered very bad taste
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by opminion 13y ago
If what you are doing is essentially a diff for news, then you might be onto something very interesting. The way news are consumed is currently tiered by the temporal interval which they cover: breaking news, daily news, weekly, monthly, an
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by opminion 13y ago
I didn't see that link anywhere from the homepage, thanks. Very interesting. Are you guys planning video summarisation?
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by opminion 13y ago
The only difference is fuel. Minor. There is a world out there which is willing to go to great lengths in order to maintain an oil supply, and a main use of oil is for transportation.
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by opminion 13y ago
Assuming an open, liquid job market in which the working hours are an independent variable.
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by opminion 13y ago
Think Google without the privacy issues.
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by opminion 13y ago
Water pressure?
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by opminion 13y ago
TCP/IP packets made with building blocks, brilliant. They could also be used as cuisenaire rods. I would be interested if anyone has used them in a nontrivial way to represent computable expressions (if you can do with alligators and eggs,
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Ask HN: Why Posterous ignores Posthaven
5 points by opminion 13y ago|1 comments
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by opminion 13y ago
duct-taped together, so it all works fairly well in the end There is much talk about being worse than in the past. Of course, what they mean is being worse than what they expected from extrapolating past improvements . One example is emp
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by opminion 13y ago
May I suggest that you measure that, even by your own definition on "parts of the brain" (perhaps a choice of unrelated cognitive functions?) in a way that allows you to make predictions?
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by opminion 13y ago
Given the toll of road traffic in terms of human lives, removing the freedom to choose the precise driving speed and the distance from the preceding vehicles and adjacent lanes, is a no brainer.
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by opminion 13y ago
Agree, in fact driving a car on the road is a very questionable freedom. But some would like to exercise it in spite of restrictions, for a variety of reasons. I had hoped that self-driving cars prevented also others from driving their cars
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by opminion 13y ago
The intro of http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16095031W/Artificial_Intellig... discusses the variety of definitions.
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by opminion 13y ago
It is quite confusing that the "rules" do not seem to be set out explicitly as a list of rules, but that as those two paragraphs which seems to be written about rules (in plural) written elsewhere. Would a better name be "Crocker's approach
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by opminion 13y ago
Awesome. This kind of well designed personal site mixing tech with demos is very appealing, because if gives you something beautiful, potentially very useful, and chewable. Anyone knows a good "directory" or collection of such sites? Anothe
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by opminion 13y ago
Furthermore, it uses the term "open source" as meaning "deployment does not require a licence from the hardware manufacturer". Not a good sign.
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by opminion 14y ago
You are talking about judging intent, he (and Bruce Schneier) is talking about measuring a reaction. Those are two different things. The reason why you think that they are sociopaths is because you are conflating both of them. Their point i
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by opminion 14y ago
Org-mode is a package for Emacs which supports tree outlines in plain text mode, plus a ton of features. It is intended to cover the ground between what you would write in a notepad during a meeting, and a fully-fledged "reproducible scienc
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by opminion 14y ago
There is also the whole world of Jazz.
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by opminion 14y ago
Those wondering about the multiple ways this could be biased, keep in mind that by far the easiest way, in which everybody thinks that they are being honest, is by publication or "reporting" bias.

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