raffaelc

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by raffaelc 15y ago
"If you think about it, the dot com bubble never burst." the NASDAQ went from over 5000 to under 2000. how can this be characterized as anything other than a bubble bursting?
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by raffaelc 15y ago
"It's what separates kings from bums lying around on the side of the road." Since kingship is, by definition, hereditary, I'm pretty sure that what separates kings from bums is largely a mere accident of birth. Just as we have evolved with
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by raffaelc 15y ago
Just to be clear, the article is written by someone associated with Sophos, a commercial anti-malware firm. ClamXav for Mac OS X is free, the engine is open source, it has regular malware definition updates, and monitors any directory or di
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by raffaelc 15y ago
To summarize the link "CLOS is not as limited in its functionality as the lame language I learned first (i.e., Java, C++, etc.) and since the lame language I learned first is the very definition of OO, CLOS isn't OO." Such people see OO pri
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by raffaelc 15y ago
The whole article is based on three premises about human cognition. All three are false. What is clear to me is that many people who engage in "web thinking" as the author calls it have an absurdly caricaturish notion of human thought and i
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by raffaelc 15y ago
"Anyway, running a country on eloquence alone hasn’t worked out disastrously – or at least not yet" The largest empire the world has ever seen whittled down to its homeland, a naval base in the med, and some godforsaken islands in the south