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by ralfn 13y ago
Is this because of the drug, or because of cultural values about that drug? In the latter case, i could rephrase it the other way around. Some people thoroughly enjoy their drugs, bringing them great satisfaction. And it is certainly true t
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by ralfn 13y ago
Sure. Im just suggesting it isnt the only metric or the only path to fullfillment and it can be taken too far. There are many more people suffering from pressure to "achieve" than that society is pressuring people to relax and take care of
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by ralfn 13y ago
The interaction escalated, but you were as much to blame for that as well. The problem is the ban hammer. An independent judge would either ban you both or neither. This is supposed to be a profesionally run project, not scriptkiddies in do
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by ralfn 13y ago
Because the purpose of life is to work, produce as much as possible? Talk about an addiction, an unhealthy dependence, obsession with a metric that has nothing to do with either happyness or fullfilment. Almost as if we're actually craving
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by ralfn 13y ago
>Reading through the comments I am glad I am not the only one who finds over the top profanity upsetting It upsets you? Do we need to call a doctor? Millions of people are dying from war, but this upsets you? Some people hate others for
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by ralfn 13y ago
>The Americans, by contrast, seem a lot more upset about the swearing. I wonder why that is? Some cultures apply morals in their actual life choices, where other cultures apply them in their pretend politeness. Some of them seem to beli
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by ralfn 13y ago
You seem to assume a relationship between price and quality/skill. You are wrong. Price is always in favor of who is better organised. In terms of negotiation, it often resembles a mexican standoff. Who wins a mexican standoff? Well, you do
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by ralfn 13y ago
Too bad no application in the world implements it. Oh, and "implement as MS product X" isnt actually a specification. We often complain when source code is the only real spec. But unless you are an MS employee, "implement as MS product X" c
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by ralfn 13y ago
> That doesn't really seem like it would be "easier to work with". 1. You dont need monadic versions of all non monadic functions. You dont need fmap, you can just use map. 2. It means there is a well defined order of execution (i.e. Th
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by ralfn 14y ago
Neither. Less friendly ("language complexity") than Python, and less performant than Java (not in the same league). Its just another trade off. Beyond the hype, it has interesting choices, and some very poor ones. (No algebraic datatypes, c
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by ralfn 14y ago
Are we looking at the same results? I dont see crunchbang even listed for servers (which woudnt make any sense, cause its just debian). I do see RHEL (the expensive version" as well as CentOS (the "gratis" version) in the list. Just the nam
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by ralfn 14y ago
Some of your statements pretty much contradict what Gabe has been stating in talks and interviews the last few months.
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by ralfn 14y ago
Bingo. We have a winner.
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by ralfn 14y ago
I dont think its about blame. It is about how people experience the ecosystem as a whole. The average windows computer may consist of hardware and software from tens of different vendors, but for the end user something eiher works or it doe
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by ralfn 14y ago
They have not became touch ready. Their desktop shells have, the actual applications all still have cascading menu's for god sake's. As a platform they are ready, as an ecosystem, not even close. And few if any of the stakeholders are focus
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by ralfn 14y ago
You do realize both Microsoft as well as Apple are trying to separate the consumer market from the high end, professional market. The cheapest Apple device that allows side-loading costs 999 euro's. The cheapest win8 device that allows side
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by ralfn 14y ago
It is my understanding the chance of complications is lower on a 64 bit system. But it is very likely, that well crafted requests can make any server application written in Go, trigger this complication, and essentially result in a DOS atta
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by ralfn 14y ago
Exactly. But conservative GC sounds like a dumb idea in the first place. Im not the expert these people designing these languages are, but i can not understand how memory leaks can ever be acceptable just because the probability of it serio
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by ralfn 14y ago
I cant speak for the world, but i have a personal, irrational dislike for Java ever since my university standarized on it for almost every subject and assignment. This was before we even had things like generics. People hate on Java, likely
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by ralfn 14y ago
They are not competing against first generation offering. This is not some child thats needs love and support. This is a commercial product from a for-profit company at a high price. As for your phrasing of his complaints as "the smallest i
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by ralfn 14y ago
That no longer works either. Dropbox is not a good way to share pics to potentially large groups of people. Just use imgur.
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by ralfn 14y ago
>A good example would be an electricity provider that owns the only power transmission lines in a given area The only legal implementation of the win32 api. The only legal implementation of FAT. The only legal implementation of doc'95.
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by ralfn 14y ago
>Microsoft may have had a dominant share in the PC operating systems market, but I don't think they were ever a monopoly. Thats the definition of a monopoly. At least in my language. (Dutch).. Dominant market share. Not all monopolies a
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by ralfn 14y ago
His interactive demonstrations almost feel like he is reinventing Excel. And i like it. This kind of symbiose between IDE and program code isnt just usefull for teaching, nor large scale software development.... It seems extremely usefull f
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by ralfn 14y ago
Didnt the old iOS app only use googles data? So, the features have always been in Apples hand.
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by ralfn 14y ago
>I'd be willing to pay extra to be able to run a full OS, specifically...Windows, on my iPad instead of iOS. That version is going to cost 800 dollars according to the article, and thats without a keyboard/dock. Also, the "full OS" expe
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by ralfn 14y ago
You seem to assume an existential difference between "native" and "not-native" that does not actually exist. Is Objective C native? Not yet. Is the ARM executable native? Yes. Is javascript native? No. Is the executable code generated by th
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by ralfn 14y ago
"informed" does not mean what you think it means, you speculate, and then point and slander a group of people. If you were informed, you would have relevant information, not unsubstaniated accusations. What gives you the right to just publi
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by ralfn 14y ago
Sure. I don't know what's really going on. But neither do you. Yet you speculate the worst scenario and start slandering half of your nation. Here in Holland we have a saying, where the literal translation in English would be "The inkeeper
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by ralfn 14y ago
I'm not too familiar with Azure, and that's mostly because of bias from my side. I have this idea in my head, that Microsoft never ever just sells a development tool on its own merits. As if any product created used Microsoft tools automati

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