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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Supporting a monoculture is trading future potential in the name of short-term convenience. By supporting lots of rendering engines to do the exact same thing in various degrees of brokeness we haven't seen any "future potential" and
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Do you really think complete control over another human being is morally acceptable, even if it prevents that person from becoming a drug addict? Do you really think a complex political system like in a former socialist country, can
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Impossible to memorize? I wrote all these examples from memory. Yes. And people can site Pi to the 10.000 digit. Doesn't make it any less useless.
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> I took every single example from your README, and show you below how everything can be reimplemented with sed -r (nice extended regex syntax, mostly like js regexs), and find/xargs: And why assume a POSIX command line?
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Wow. From this list of issues some of which are "fixed at 4.x", and from the fact that --based on Google's own stats-- very few people have 4.x (only around 10% of all Android devices have it or have upgraded to it), the whole Android vs iO
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
People don't just come in when you can serve more of them. McDonalds are working with a certain flow of customers mostly based on location, time, etc, not on "ability to serve". Now, if they start throwing people off because they are just t
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Polls suggest there is a real yearning in some areas to go back to the days where the secret police and rationing of basic goods were real things. It's bizarre. Not very bizarre. Other things were also "real things", like job securit
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Well, any pointers? Because, I for one, question it.
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Most of the account sounds overblown (and specially crafted in the model of 1984, Nazi camps and such). Any corroboration for this story? Because "escaped" people are known to say anything, especially since it can be very profitable outside
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> What's stopping North Korea from making these demands? That they are an actual country, and not some comic book villain's brotherhood? I mean, WTF? People in the West really believe those kind of things can be demands or that those k
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> From this, I understood that in a larger program, most programmers wouldn't be doing the kind of micro-optimizations that they do for the Benchmarks Game. The TL;DR; is wrong too. It doesn't require micro-optimizations for a large re
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> It doesn't seem like you are really in disagreement. Oh, I'm very, very much in disagreement. It's not just about "preference" as if preference is arbitrary. Superficial syntactic preference IS arbitrary. Substancial syntax issues ar
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Stop right there. Before colonization those lands were dominated by the ottoman empire, which exported "black gold" from there. By which I mean that they'd ride into the villages on horseback, kidnap the young into slavery, to be expo
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> That's bullshit anti-Western propaganda. You don't get to have colonies all other the world, exploit people, invade their countries, have millions of black slaves, and then dimiss the effects of this as "anti-Western propaganda". &#6
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Overly dramatic sensationalism - ripped straight from a first year college pamphlet on how to be angry at the man - at its best. No, actually pretty much pragmatic and casual. That's how the work works (at least as it is). Unlike you
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Precisely. The whole "my language is better" argument is completely void. Syntax is mostly a matter of preference. Semantic will make the structure of your program different but in the end there is no actual difference on what you can
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> If people treated C++ as a maintenance-only language and used it only for legacy code -- like COBOL -- the world would be a better place. The world would also save billions of dollars. Citation needed. This is a wishful thinking idea
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
Not that irrational. Lots of filesystems slow down with tons of files on the same folder. And your window manager has to draw all their icons and potentially render (and hopefully cache) previews when you see your Desktop, which is also cos
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> This isn't a question that already doesn't have an answer. Researchers showed at the Common Cold Centre in London that body temperature has an impact on the likelihood of catching flu. That research was far from conclusive or scienti
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Religion and ignorance go a long way. You can't throw money to the problem Those places have been far more tolerant before they had colonial overlords and post-colonial interventions. Islam in particular was nowhere as strict and eve
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> All of these "100 richest people" probably give away more than 100x what you earn in a year already. Are you honestly going to call them selfish? Yes. Charity is a feel-good hypocrisy (or worse, just a tax saving measure). Nobody mad
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Dire poverty is self-inflicted. Self-inflicted? That is a bullshit western justification. Those poor peoples have been milked to extinction by colonial overlords and left do die. Not to mention that their very countries were designed
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
So what? The annual income of the rest of the world is distributed among 7 billion people -- not 100 people. So even if it could "end world poverty more than four times over" the amount per person gets negligible. You cannot get much from t
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> But the changes in human societies that are commonly called "progress" are the result of purposeful decisions by individual human beings. Purposeful doesn't translate to "progress" any more that "natural determination by the laws of
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> They tried to halt progress because they thought progress was taking their jobs and making their lives worse. They didn't just "thought it". The experienced it objectively. They were out of a job. > And if we gave in to that sort
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> Not so, Bell labs was a special place at the time and provided significant advantages (like access to computers for one). If the likes of Thompson and Ritchie came about 15 years later where they could develop Unix independently and t
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> 200 years ago, the Luddites tried to stop technological progress. They didn’t succeed. The luddites could not care less about technological progress, succeeding or not. What they tried to do is keep their jobs to be able to feed thei
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> The overwhelming majority of vim/emacs developers use it in a terminal, and are pretty happy with it. When you mentioned open source editors catching up, it isn't going to happen because your requirements are not universal. "Only if i
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
So, I assume you have considered all the aspects of the problem to come to that conclusion right? Not merely pondered upon it for 2 minutes and decided that Apple programmers were idiots for doing so, right?
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by pretoriusB 14y ago
> What I'm trying to say is that Orkut was less passonate about it and had his creativity and motivation stifled compared to Mark. Mark obsessed over his project and had everything to gain. Orkut on the other hand - What advantage was t

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