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by rplacd 13y ago
Rather tangential to the point of individual artistic freedom , but still rather related to artistic deviation in general (didn't think this worthy of a top-level comment - so it's got little to do with you, sorry): I don't
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by rplacd 13y ago
"publicly" seems to be a prominent omission from the title.
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by rplacd 13y ago
Tangential to the actual post's content, but I'm a bit miffed at the "Microsoft is the victim of bad messaging" trope: what distinguishes "bad messaging" from the argument not made (deliberately or not) is, app
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by rplacd 13y ago
A side matter, but handing the BBC's governance over to Ofcom? They haven't held the Independent Television programme contractors to their remits since 2001 under the threat of any sanction - or, for that matter, put their contrac
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by rplacd 13y ago
I was tempted to read another opinion into it - but cturner's clarification puts us in a less tired place to tread - thanks.
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by rplacd 13y ago
Still the go-to browser for the diehards on NS/OS, I hear. I remember figuring out how to plumb in SSL and JS support just so I could access a butchered Dropbox...
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by rplacd 13y ago
> I wrote a new login manager with Bash and Zenity and Expect (and Script) that fully runs on a Wayland server (weston). (!)
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by rplacd 13y ago
I'm convinced he makes what is at the very least an articulated argument for the first (but never specifically attempts the second) - although I'm forced to use capstone statements here. He specifically says: > There is no unified Googl
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by rplacd 13y ago
You don't have to identify with anything to recoil at the abstract thought of Capita. Eurgh.
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by rplacd 13y ago
Macros aren't solely used to implement high-level features, mind you - in CL they're introduced without much hassle to work out gruntwork as well precisely because an elided form in s-expressions seems just as natural as the original forms.
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by rplacd 13y ago
> But I assume the application side of this software will live on a server somewhere and you may only access via a web browser or some kind of client application. I'd argue that's not as simple a change to turn around - not without doin
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by rplacd 13y ago
Oh god, the amount of glowering envy I'm currently projecting could just about lift my table and everything on it two feet in the air.
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by rplacd 13y ago
> prank-art-projects-via-post are no longer possible because the machines will have fully taken over. I'm not convinced that'll be the case - there are only so many heuristics one can plan with ahead of time. At the very least I'd hope
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by rplacd 13y ago
I suspect it's true in general - it's the one thing that still draws me to /. No point of view doesn't get an impassioned defense thrown at it no matter the individual merit.
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by rplacd 13y ago
Christ I've just tried out helm and it's simultaneously blowing me away and surprising me by exposing emacs builtins I'd never known about. It's far easier to recall objects to act on than named functions.
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by rplacd 13y ago
I feel a bit filthy now after realizing my knowledge of named functions to M-x far outnumber the keybindings I've got down pat by a 10:1 ratio. And yet I don't feel particularly encumbered. Call it a case of the customer only being able to
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by rplacd 13y ago
I wonder how long the list of exceptions to the rules we've managed to come up with are.
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by rplacd 14y ago
> The government is the entity which created the problem. And it acts as an extension of "the people" as the entity providing oversight and regulation in this example as well. That it doesn't happen in real life is evidence of subversio
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by rplacd 14y ago
Since the OP wasn't originally raised to be specifically responded to, I'll post my thoughts here as well - - there are plenty of ways to distribute "less taxes", and if "mafiaesque government" remains constant, then that implies that taxes
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by rplacd 14y ago
Textbook authors assume mathematical maturity after a point - rather abruptly, actually, since there's a marked difference in pedagogical style you can't leaven in.
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by rplacd 14y ago
I think the second point's moot, anyway, considering the fact that the the leader photo implies that as it is the only way you're going to whip some up is with non-ubiquitous-and-therefore-processed ingredients.
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by rplacd 14y ago
To be fair, he's never said anything about abstract defense or justification - rather, he's talking about government dealing with the consequences . Edit: so I suppose the distinction's that that the first implies self-contradiction, and t
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by rplacd 14y ago
You're in luck - your guesses are just a bit too pessimistic! It's the method prescribed by my school's curriculum - they take the thing whole from a standards body. You're entirely right, though, to figure that isn't the baseline - there a
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by rplacd 14y ago
"their own apps" + "the best apps from their competitors" minus "their own apps" does not correspond to a single competitor's offerings - which is Apple's advantage, according to Mossberg's logic. His argument's got little to do with Appl
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by rplacd 14y ago
Huh - my Chrome renders it like a photon out of a Feynman diagram.
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by rplacd 14y ago
I disagree with the arguments as well - it doesn't write off history, though, just a narrow brand of prescriptive history: the value has rarely been in the content (like it is for nearly every other sufficiently abstract subject), it's be
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by rplacd 14y ago
I have the luck of going through one of those analytical history courses right now - but they do one thing differently: they don't even want to stoop down to prescribe on that level. Instead they give a higher-level question: "to what ext
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by rplacd 14y ago
The argument's fine, given the usual caveats about the validity of its assumptions - I'm more concerned that the author's writing off mathematics as a "conventional skill" by conflating it with mechanization, and it's certainly not his fa
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by rplacd 14y ago
I'm surprised an issue that high-level's been able to lurk around for so long.
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by rplacd 14y ago
It's working in Canary for me, even in NaCL Flash (I wonder how many layers of abstraction implementing that had to break through) - it can tell you when music's playing and stopped. I'm not sure how far of a leap an EQ display is, though

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