pohl

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by pohl 17y ago
Was the MacBook one of the newer ones with the aluminum unibody frame? (Probably not if it only had 10.4) apparently they feel more solid now. I could tell the difference between my old 17" MBP and a newer unibody 17" MBP.
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by pohl 17y ago
That's an interesting perspective. What you're saying is that marriage is a mode of communication for that one sentiment. Are there other modes of communicating the same sentiment? (an epic poem, breaking into heartfelt song, getting tatt
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by pohl 17y ago
I think that what women want is to raise a child with a partner. Neither a wedding nor a state-enforced contract is required for a committed, long-term, loving relationship. There is an increasing phenomenon of women choosing to give birth
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by pohl 17y ago
If only it were that easy. Pre-nuptial agreements are routinely invalidated by judges at the precise moment one needs them to be enforced.
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by pohl 17y ago
This feels like the beginning of the end.
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by pohl 17y ago
If you wish to understand, I highly recommend Jonathan Rauch's excellent and amusing essay in The Atlantic (March 2003) -- very easy to google for -- "Caring for Your Introvert". One of his opinions in the essay is that introverts tend to t
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by pohl 17y ago
A jar is a packaging mechanism. It is not required step in most builds that I've encountered. Nor is it required to run (test) the code. Java classes can also be linked into a CLASSPATH from an unpackaged directory. Infrequent packagi
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by pohl 17y ago
While you are correct regarding the current clinical interpretation of "schizophrenic", the root of the word is the greek "skhizein", which literally means "to split". When the word was introduced into psychology, then, it meant "to split
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by pohl 18y ago
The brain has an automation feature called "practice". It's easy to access: just repeat good forms until they become permanent. Once they have, your brain power is freed up to do other things. Jazz musicians use this a lot. There's noth
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by pohl 18y ago
Yeah, when I typed 'ancient' I thought someone would mention that. Can I be saved by assuming that it descended from older forms? ;-)
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by pohl 18y ago
Interesting. I did find such a video on youtube, and the stretches appear to be similar to the ones I encountered in Butler's book. The one video that I sampled, though, was entirely focused on the wrists. One interesting thing about the
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by pohl 18y ago
Interesting article. The thing that stood out the most, though, is that the author is so focused on solving the RSI problem through changing his tools (hardware & software) that I could not find any mention of the single most effective
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by pohl 18y ago
This sounds like it had less to do with Java and more to do with a large number of short-lived allocations in your design. A garbage collector can be abused in any language that has one.
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by pohl 18y ago
From reading the article, the phrase "bordering on harassment" came about when a single individual sent 22 emails within a 2-day timespan. (Perhaps they forgot to take their meds?) It makes no sense to compare this to a collection of spam f
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by pohl 18y ago
I take 'purpose' to be a 'reason' or 'justification' for being. Therefore the question presupposes a reasoner or justifier, which one might assume to be a creator who needs a reason or justification. So 'no'. ;-)
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by pohl 18y ago
NetBeans, using the GWT4NB plugin for a GWT-based project. It's funny you should ask, as I've started looking, longingly, over at the better GWT support in the Eclipse world. (Google writes the plugin for Eclipse, so it's a well-worn path
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by pohl 18y ago
That's an excellent example of a false dichotomy (or the N==2 case of the Fallacy of Exhaustive Hypotheses). I offer a third hypothesis as an existence-proof of said fallaciousness: another possible good that can come from it is that a se
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by pohl 18y ago
I used to live in emacs, so the startup time was a one-time penalty in the morning. All subsequent interactions were opening new buffers from within that one instance. (This was the X11 version of the interface, not the one that runs in
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by pohl 18y ago
What's with the retro jwz fetish as of late?
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by pohl 18y ago
I started using Linux in 94, mostly as a way of riding out the dark ages when operating system diversity all but vanished from the face of the earth. I'm a developer, and my primary development system was several years old, running Debia
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by pohl 18y ago
Regulation and spending are orthogonal concepts. Your link does nothing to address the question.
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by pohl 18y ago
They document their tradeoff analysis here: http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/DVCSAnalysis
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by pohl 18y ago
Perhaps someone not able to navigate the waters of social pressure isn't that bright to begin with. After all, IQ is only one metric, and it's not like there is a dearth of literature on the subject of living in a social world. What use is
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by pohl 18y ago
"...one of the founding geniuses of this new computer technology..."