rjknight

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by rjknight 14y ago
I tend to say "Sequel Server" but also "My S Q L". Am I weird?
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by rjknight 14y ago
Ah yes, but in a world where the USA is so important, its political problems care about you.
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by rjknight 14y ago
Very true. The figures are incredibly bad: http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=18161
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Ithkuil, an invented language (for humans)(newyorker.com)
22 points by rjknight 14y ago|2 comments
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by rjknight 14y ago
I assume you don't live in the USA (neither do I, in fact). However, the gun debate has a number of parallels with topics that hackers obviously do care about, irrespective of geography. It wasn't all that long ago that cryptography was co
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by rjknight 14y ago
The analogy between governments and people doesn't work, not least because governments are immortal and can print their own money. However, if we choose to ignore this for a moment, there's a good counter-argument: the way to get rid of deb
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by rjknight 14y ago
Discussing whether or not technology (guns, in this case) can be considered morally neutral? Whether freedom to own and operate any technology of your choice is a fundamental right? What kind of hacker isn't interested in those questions?
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by rjknight 14y ago
Not that Marc Andreessen is necessarily /right/, but the argument that the middle class "definitely exists" is, like any statement in sociology, rather difficult to prove. In fact, "middle class" means different things in different places.
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by rjknight 14y ago
Really? I found Backbone incredibly easy to learn because it is so simple. Compared to most other attempts at JavaScript MVC frameworks, Backbone has a very small number of 'classes' and each class has a fairly small number of methods. T
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by rjknight 14y ago
I wish skillsmatter would clean their web design up a bit :-(
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by rjknight 14y ago
There are 14 posters here, but the five I can see above the "fold" on my 1440-pixel high monitor are definitely the worst five. The last five posters are awesome because they say something that it's possible to disagree with, and is theref
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by rjknight 14y ago
I clicked in to this thread purely to post a despair.com link. You beat me to it, and you also posted the most appropriate link!
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by rjknight 14y ago
Very sad. His "Astronomy for the under-tens" was, for a while, my very favourite book. Every so often I think of getting a telescope and re-learning all of the things I learned from that book - perhaps now is the time?
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by rjknight 14y ago
And without access to the source!
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by rjknight 14y ago
Dude, I agree with your basic premise that it should be possible to discuss bias and double standards. I agree that sometimes bias against male opinions and experiences can happen and, when it does happen, it's not easy to get anyone to acc
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by rjknight 14y ago
It probably would be (assuming the ban on penis-related article titles could be circumvented). This is actually a seriously good article of the kind that frequently get upvoted and I don't think this case has much to do with gender.
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by rjknight 14y ago
Minor snark, but 'the Fed', as in 'The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States of America' is an abbreviation, not an acronym. If you really want to use a TLA, 'FRB' (Federal Reserve Bank) might work, but 'FED' is meaningless. This unde
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by rjknight 14y ago
Ok, I'll cop to the fact that I've given this a slightly sensational headline, and it's only part of the story, but I'm a bit worried by the idea that the concept of "predatory pricing" might be applied to open source software. I'd really l
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Regulators: open source software might constitute "predatory pricing"(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by rjknight 14y ago|1 comments
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by rjknight 14y ago
http://jensontaylor.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/similarities-betw...
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by rjknight 14y ago
So, no Clojure on iOS here?
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by rjknight 14y ago
The fact that JavaScript would break on networks that transparently rewrite JavaScript is a feature, not a bug. If hash codes were implemented by all major browsers, those networks which tamper with JavaScript would have to stop doing so p
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by rjknight 14y ago
Scrotwm is an open source Linux window manager. I'm struggling to think of too many other examples - "Back Orifice" was a script kiddie tool from about a decade ago, I guess that was a "provocative" name (iirc, it had a plugin system called
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New "university" from Marginal Revolution bloggers(marginalrevolution.com)
5 points by rjknight 14y ago|1 comments
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by rjknight 14y ago
I don't think there's a philosophical framework within which we can really assess which of two world religions is "more harmful". It sounds to me like you're picking the most salient examples to you personally, and choosing to generalise f
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by rjknight 14y ago
I think it's because Asylum were told (or assumed) that the prestige of the client would be available to them once the work has been released. Asylum would be able to take credit for the work by featuring it in their portfolio. Now they'r
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by rjknight 14y ago
To back you up on this, another parody, this time of conventional news: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHun58mz3vI
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by rjknight 14y ago
Obligatory parody link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg
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If Mark Zuckerberg were British(blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by rjknight 14y ago|0 comments
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by rjknight 14y ago
I think the issue is the lack of consent. The data is freely available and anyone who wants to use it to compile lists of Perl developers can do so, but if you're going to put up a list of female developers without a) asking them first and

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