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811.
by pyre 11y ago
I get that it's not a physical good but the mathematics of: Made by <Creator> + Enjoyed By <Person> = Endless Money for <Creator> doesn't add up in the simplistic way that people like to make it seem. &quo
812.
by pyre 11y ago
When a contractor builds an addition on my house that addition could be enjoyed by people for years and years , yet that contractor was paid a one-time fee. Do you find this unfair?
813.
by pyre 11y ago
You could probably do something similar in Javascript or Python, there are many tools that provide you access to the AST, it's just that no one has written such a tool on top of it (or maybe they have, but they never gained traction).
814.
by pyre 11y ago
I think that the parent to your post is referring to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10793029 which already made the front-page.
815.
by pyre 11y ago
As someone that has spend significant time in Perl5, why would they use something like `$=pod`? I get that the name starts with '=' just like the pod syntax, but that doesn't mean it needs to be in the variable name. I woul
816.
by pyre 11y ago
I could craft you unreadable code in any language. Someone removing all of the whitespace between their operators is not going to be producing code that I want to be responsible for maintaining... in any language.
817.
by pyre 11y ago
Don't get ahead of yourself, Half-Life 2: Episode 3 needs to come out first. :P
818.
by pyre 11y ago
... and that there are interop modules (between Perl 6 and Perl 5.x), IIRC.
819.
by pyre 11y ago
You're not Google or Microsoft, so you don't matter as an email provider. -- The Yahoo! Mail Team
820.
by pyre 11y ago
Theoretically, a quantum computer could reduce brute force time to a minimal amount. But really there are no "general purpose" quantum computers at the moment (so far as I know).
821.
by pyre 11y ago
They are effective at getting people to falsely believe that they are effective. "Look! It's a 'scanner' just like on Star Track! 'Bet they can detect anything with one of those!"
822.
by pyre 11y ago
There was also that incident where the guy didn't want to go through the scanners, and tried to leave. They tried to prevent him from leaving and said that once he enters the line he has to go through the scanners (even though he was
823.
by pyre 11y ago
I think the idea that most law enforcement agencies try to paint everyone that they are taking action against as the "bad guys" is a dangerous road. This is how you end up using SWAT teams to serve warrants to unpaid parking ticke
824.
by pyre 11y ago
There's also stuff like MDL[1] (or Angular Material[2] if you're using AngularJS). [1] http://www.getmdl.io/ [2] https://material.angularjs.org/latest/#/
825.
by pyre 11y ago
In the GTA, the cost of gas is $1.00/L ~ $1.30/L over the past year or so. I converted the cost of gas in the US a month ago when I was visiting family (in the Detroit area) and it came to ~$0.70/L (also converted between USD
826.
by pyre 11y ago
> Why do people expend so much effort in regulating and outlawing? Well, snake oil salesmen for one.
827.
by pyre 11y ago
This discussion might be a little above my pay-grade, but you're seeming to conflate "unknown participants" with "untrusted participants" from this response. It's possible to know someone without trusting them.
828.
by pyre 11y ago
I think the real issue here is the idea that we need to check each and every one of these boxes before pot is legal. We didn't make sure to check each and every box, and think up contingencies for each and every situation that cou
829.
by pyre 11y ago
A bubble how? Are they saying that the value of the broadcasting rights are artificially inflated? Or the value of the sport in general (licensing, merchandising, ticket costs, etc)?
830.
by pyre 11y ago
> A wrt54g doesn't have gigabit ethernet You say this like GigE is required in every situation that might need a router. It really comes across like "that guy" who talks down at the (e.g.) Prius owner because they aren&#x2
831.
by pyre 11y ago
Your router is broken. Your router supplies your Internet connection. "Just hop on ye olde Internet and get an older browser." (Also, how exactly does this work if you are not one of the tech literate?)
832.
by pyre 11y ago
Don't worry. Everyone has upper-middle class levels of income to be constantly replacing everything that they own. It all works out in the end. /s
833.
by pyre 11y ago
> I'd argue that startup time is very low on the list of things you want from your development system. Depends on what part of your "development system" you're talking about. If your test suite takes a minute to load
834.
by pyre 11y ago
It actually loaded pretty fast for me on a less beefy system when I was using it. Even with SpaceMacs (which was a lot slower than my custom .emacs) loaded in 6 ~ 7 seconds.
835.
by pyre 11y ago
I switched back to Vim from Spacemacs, because many of the features that I like about Vim seem more "solid." In Emacs, the environment can vary widely depending on your major mode, and several times I would end up in states that I
836.
by pyre 11y ago
I'm guessing the parent post is saying that the numbers of dead would have been higher had the populations not been decimated by disease.
837.
by pyre 11y ago
It has less to do with ToS than it does with legal precedent, though I don't doubt that without legal precedent, it might fall back onto the ToS.
838.
by pyre 11y ago
> This article by the same article The singularity has arrived! The articles are writing themselves! ;)
839.
by pyre 11y ago
Just to note that it's not all puppies and unicorns. There are a lot of low-level commands that are all tied up in different modules in Perl. Like having to remember where what you want falls into the File::* namespace... or maybe what
840.
by pyre 11y ago
Where to your propose that the money for infrastructure repair/maintenance come from?

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