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by placebo 10y ago
When turtles evolve they become ninja turtles, and if they go bad, well... do I really need to paint you a picture? Seriously though, the level of evil that can be perpetrated as technology evolves is scary and I ask myself sometimes whet
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by placebo 10y ago
You might want to check out Framework 7 ( http://framework7.io/ ). Discovered it only a few months ago and it's the best work I've seen so far to achieve a native look when using Cordova
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by placebo 10y ago
Heard good things about it - thanks for pointing the connection
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by placebo 10y ago
It is mentioned in the article
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by placebo 10y ago
There's a 0% chance that it will pay off in the long-term is true only if you assume that the current method of agriculture is sustainable in the long term, an assumption which I think is a bit of a stretch given the growing challenges
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by placebo 10y ago
The point is not whether to comment or not - it is just to do whatever it takes to make what is happening on every level more understandable whenever there's the slightest doubt that it might appear unclear to anyone else (including th
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by placebo 10y ago
Very true. Totally hits the nail on the head. But what happens when you take this all the way? Is there anything you can think of that does not ultimately fall under the "cause and effect" clause? If not, then this makes everythi
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by placebo 10y ago
Another good cross-platform GUI for SQLite that I've been using for years is TkSQLite ( http://reddog.s35.xrea.com/wiki/TkSQLite.html )
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by placebo 10y ago
Would this also include deleting records that this ruling ever took place, thereby nullifying it?
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by placebo 10y ago
Interesting to note the long post-Commodore history of the brand name. The Wikipedia entry does not even mention Polabe Holding NV from which the rights were licensed. Anyway, brings back some fond memories - I was a VIC20 kid...
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by placebo 10y ago
I understand where your hostility comes from, but dismissing consciousness on the terms that there are so many people who use that term to make stupid claims and crazy theories is just taking the easy way out. Has any materialist seriously
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by placebo 10y ago
I created something similar a couple of years ago: http://www.nocurve.com/musicmap/ If anyone is interested in how it was implemented: http://nocurve.com/fun-with-data/data-mining-on-freedb/
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by placebo 10y ago
Agree. Occam's razor isn't always adhered to in the software world. Often a tool that is more hyped will be used instead of a tool that is more suitable, but I'd be careful to blame the tool - the problem is usually the choic
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by placebo 10y ago
I think it's a bit premature to conclude we have uncovered what the fabric of existence is made of. History has repeatedly shown we have no idea how much we don't know (just until recently we thought we understood more or less wha
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by placebo 10y ago
While it's definitely true that many a time certain crowds tend to have lost touch with reality regarding the potential of a specific activity (as illustrated in repeated economic bubbles), to say that economic growth is limited sugges
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by placebo 10y ago
You seriously think history books will show how Google and Apple won eternal market domination because of Pokémon Go? Even if it wasn't just another passing craze (and I have every reason to believe it is), one thing you can learn fro
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by placebo 10y ago
Just in case I was misunderstood, I'm definitely not calling them idiots for doing this. This generalization is part of why I oppose the argument.
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by placebo 10y ago
While I'm in agreement with everything you've said, I'd like to try and play devil's advocate: You could expand this to say that not wearing a seat-belt should be made legal or that all drugs should be made legal or many
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by placebo 10y ago
Nice. I've used Simulated Annealing to achieve good results in problems were the solution space was too large for constraint programming, but for this specific sort of problems I've had good experience using constraint programmin
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by placebo 10y ago
Guess I pity his wife then, being both unenlightened and cheated on.
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by placebo 10y ago
The rat doesn't know that...
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by placebo 10y ago
I also asked myself whether I've seen it here a few days ago or perhaps it was on some other site - seems like this alone suggests how I'd handle a higher dose of information overload... :-) Perhaps it's the generation gap -
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by placebo 10y ago
> (btw, your 'I' key is about to break; you should replace it asap). haha - touché, point taken :-) Deadlines seem like a great excuse for compromising quality. Sure, life is complicated, the boss is demanding, the mortgage has
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by placebo 10y ago
I usually don't respond to anything which I feel is just another "language war" provocation, but whenever I see these type of reviews I'm mystified. I've developed in many languages and frameworks, both well known a
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by placebo 11y ago
Ok, I made an unnecessary leap from knowing that many people do feel threatened by the increasing problem solving abilities of computers to assuming you are one of them. so I stand corrected, and in light of your response understand that my
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by placebo 11y ago
I find people using various tricks to somehow console themselves of the fact that a machine beat a human to be quite funny. What is it exactly that they're trying to protect? Perhaps at the core is a fear that if someone or some thing
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by placebo 11y ago
The "stupid determination of novelty" as you correctly mentioned is just one factor of what is sick about the patent system. The fact that in many cases damages due to infringement are ridiculously larger than the harm caused to p
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by placebo 11y ago
I doubt that will ever happen. What I'm curious about though is the extent stupidity or greed of a few can kill freedom and creativity of the many without the masses revolting. I guess it depends on a large number of factors, including
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by placebo 11y ago
I just thought of what might be a silly question: In a situation where we can't prove that a probability distribution converges to some theoretical assumed limit, can we assume it even converges to anything? All we have is circumstanti
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by placebo 11y ago
In my earlier response, note that I didn't say that hate doesn't exist or that it isn't real. Neither did I say that it was the same as fear. I said it is an emotion that is derived from fear. Usually the connection is easy

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