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by rauljara 15y ago
While I do prefer text configuration over guis, I had two thoughts that kind of run counter to his point: 1) There's nothing inherent about guis that prevents them from having a space for comments. Perhaps gui designers should consider lea
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I love ultra high speed video. Just about any motion is more interesting at that speed, even simple walking. But my favorite is watching water balloons explode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sLxuSN2UnQ
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by rauljara 15y ago
If mozilla genuinely does not consider enterprise a priority, would you really prefer them to give you some bullshit where they pretended it was? I think the explicit honesty would be pretty helpful for a sysadmin who needs to make decision
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He made his statement in the general sense, and I responded in the general sense. I don't know scala and can't speak to it. But I've heard that exact same sentiment applied to ruby (rails, specifically). But ruby has enabled huge increase
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by rauljara 15y ago
If you care about shipping products, it is worth it to care about the tools you use to ship the products with. Some languages are fashionable because they are neat. Some languages are fashionable because they have allowed people to ship pr
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Most of them are companies, and most of the very earliest are tech companies. So looking over the list was not much of a surprise. Except for the very first one: SYMBOLICS.COM. They were a computer manufacturer, though I'd never heard of
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by rauljara 15y ago
I believe (though I obviously can't know) the reason you are getting down votes is that you are making an explicit appeal to authority ("An economist from 1935 disagrees") against another appeal to authority (the "Many economists" from the
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That is not so easy an argument to make as you seem to think it is. Several of the major sources of the recent financial crisis (the derivatives market, the rating of junk financial products as AAA, and the over leveraging of major financi
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by rauljara 15y ago
From the comments: "Pretty sure Mt. Gox would have legal responsibility for coins/funds lost due to the exploit. Allowing users who haven't read this thread to lose funds is negligent." IANAL, but pretty sure this is completely wrong. Tha
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by rauljara 15y ago
Cool survey. I can't help but feel like pie charts are a terrible choice for portraying the information, because they imply that a respondent falls into one (and only one) category, and that all the slices add up to 100%. But I have a sne
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LulzSec's activities are about as entertaining to me as watching third graders write "poop" on the black board when the teacher isn't watching. That said, I wish there were a "No" response other than "Hacking into companies and launching DD
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Why are you so sure that it isn't happening already? How would you be able to tell if it was?
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edit- I see now that I completely misread dollars as bitcoins. My response actually makes sense in that context, and not so much to the question you actually asked. My understanding is that it would be impossible to know. How could you te
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by rauljara 15y ago
While I do think it's a good deal if you like the iTunes ecosystem, keep in mind you are paying $25 for music you already have, and you are also more fully committing yourself to iTunes. I expect Apple is losing some money on the service,
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by rauljara 15y ago
Oh yeah. You are correct. I forgot because I included a partition on my time machine disk that is an OSX dvd, and so have restored from nothing but my time machine drive. Hmm.. it wouldn't be too hard for them to include a bootable set o
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The download is 4 gb.
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Interesting question. If you could get the app-store on your computer, you could just redownload the OS (buy once, install on any number of computers). But how do you get the app store on your fresh hard drive? A time machine restore wou
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by rauljara 15y ago
I haven't posted anything bad about sourceforge, had missed the controversy they referred to. I totally agree with everything the author said (and thought she said it very well). However, I have to admit that when I saw the title of the a
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by rauljara 15y ago
To be clear, I was specifically arguing against the quoted statement, and the idea that because something is profitable, it must be valuable. That idea has implications far beyond spam. I would argue against spam, as well, but differently.
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by rauljara 15y ago
"If it was not of value, it would not be profitable and hence, would not exist." Thievery, blackmail, extortion, etc. are all profitable, and yet, I would argue not of value. So is legally tricking people into paying for services they do n
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by rauljara 15y ago
Thank you. Completely stupid just missed it on my part.
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All I could think while reading through the getting started was: that is an awful lot of added text. After a little more thought: that is an awful lot of added work. And while it won't be hard to have tools that make the process easier, t
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Here is a nine page investigative piece by the New York Times on the organ trade (the opening anecdote is about a kidney). http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/world/organ-trade-global-b... It's a little dated (2004), but this certainly isn'
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I like most of your post a lot, and upvoted it. But under no cicumstances should apple send this kid stuff. It would be publicized and there might be copy cats. "Sell your organs. Get money + shiny Apple objects!" I debated with myself
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by rauljara 15y ago
Excellent post, but I wouldn't have distilled quite the same catch phrase -- "You don't get shit you don't ask for" -- from that anecdote. It's more like, "When someone offers you help, take them up on it."
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"...they finally assembled the pieces to create an incredible, epic and cohesive gameplay experience." Most game manufacturers don't tout cohesive as a feature... it's supposed to be a given. I hope I'm wrong, but given what I know about
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Free to register plus complementary breakfast/lunch? I can't tell if it is just a very nice community or if Sam Tobin-Hochstadt is an evil witch, luring programmers to his conferance like so many Hansels and Grettels.
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Preface: Something I've noticed about jerks/assholes: they're convinced that they're surrounded by jerks and/or assholes. Almost none of them are jerks for no reason. They're almost always jerks in response to some slight (either imagin
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In what way do you think human consciousness is detached from the physical operation of the brain?
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There are dozens of ethical concerns involved with created an artificial human conscious. A completely selfish concern of mine is this: Once the hard work of emulating a human brain is done, what's to stop the emulation from running at 10

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