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by rplacd 14y ago
And why should those be the only options? Of course our options needn't keep state and citizenry separate - in fact, "quite a few" states do place themselves in the middle of the continuum: democratic systems, in theory, join the state a
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by rplacd 14y ago
To be fair, you do have more options available than allowing ownership outright, having a regressive licensing system, and blanket banning. I think it's possible to maintain both the freedom to own arms (at the very least out of intelle
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by rplacd 14y ago
Ask pg - I think he's done something with Arc. Seems like anything he'd do'd be pretty frequently trafficked...
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by rplacd 14y ago
Don't fear abstraction - that's as far as we'll get in plenty of cases, especially when we're talking about the epistemology of the sciences; in any case, there's always an element of human control involved - once opinionated humans are p
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by rplacd 14y ago
You can either have (a) consistency or (b) convention. Most people would jump at the opportunity to ditch (b), re-invent the wheel, and establish (a) just for the cleaner semantics.
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by rplacd 14y ago
The Apple situation's slightly more complex than that: they're certainly ruthless with their hardware, but it's a bit of a stretch to claim they have commitment issues with their software technologies - ObjC, Foundation and AppKit's been ar
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by rplacd 14y ago
What face does the Wright Brothers card use? It can't be Futura - it came out in 1927; Wilbur Wright died 1912.
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by rplacd 14y ago
Is the C++ ABI issue ever going to be solved?
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by rplacd 14y ago
> Note: Round trip latencies for crossing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are approximately 60ms and 110ms, respectively. Damn - just out of the reach of my intution.
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by rplacd 14y ago
I just found this - http://xml.house.gov/drafting.htm Some relevant quotes: > ...most legislation in the House is worked on by attorneys in the Office. The signed paper version submitted to the Clerk of the House on the House Floor is
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by rplacd 14y ago
Who does the typesetting on these documents? I'm curious - the Supreme Court looks like it uses TeX; here it looks like they're rendering XML.
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by rplacd 14y ago
I apologize for being patronizing, then.
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by rplacd 14y ago
It's got nothing to do with increasing tax revenue - it's petty overreaction on behalf of the responsible state body - the FTB. I quote liberally from the article: > It turns out that a few years ago, someone sued the Franchise Tax Boar
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by rplacd 14y ago
Don't worry about being intimidated - there's nothing inherently complex that'll stop you from intellectually appreciating the subject - there are quite a few abstractions and moving parts, but treat those like an API - "pages have marg
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by rplacd 14y ago
At the very least for the stimulation, I should suppose.
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by rplacd 14y ago
I agree - learning about the C Runtime is an "ahah!" moment that usually comes too late. (It also makes interop trivial!).
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by rplacd 14y ago
IIRC, the last person to individually book a tour to North Korea decided to shirk his appointment with the state ministry in charge of chaperones and took advantage of the fact that a Trans-Siberian railway crossing was listed as a valid
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by rplacd 14y ago
> “A lot of people look at C++ and want to understand every dark corner. This is what you do if you want to be a compiler writer, but most people should look at what is the easiest way to write a good solution for their problem," said S
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by rplacd 14y ago
The usual MMC snapins probably work with it.
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by rplacd 14y ago
> a new kind of science developed that produced results through opaque processes in closed source proprietary software. The amount of restraint you've just shown in describing NKS is superhuman.
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by rplacd 14y ago
ExcelLink exists, but it inverses the flow of control - it spawns an inferior Excel.
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by rplacd 14y ago
If you want a little more precision, credit it to the Apple Compiler Group - they seem to operate with quite a bit more autonomy than, say, whoever's responsible for security there.
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by rplacd 14y ago
And I'm a bit miffed that my order's just arrived a few days ago, 7 months RS late. So obviously there's a teaching moment there I would do well to learn from. Ooh, fate, you nasty. I wonder how many orphaned 256MB Model Bs are there floati
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by rplacd 14y ago
Sensationalist reporting gets and grabs an audience.
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by rplacd 14y ago
And then it'll crash and burn due to bad infrastructure decisions.
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by rplacd 14y ago
You're right - we start with that analogy, presumably because it's more concrete. But I'd argue that basis is only popular by convention (and in any case, it breaks down soon enough) - SICP-like intro courses start at expressions combining,
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by rplacd 14y ago
Two things: First - how is this any different from the fact that any data that flows through a pipe in the US is probably being monitored by the NSA? Presumably that's what we get for being overreliant on a nation. Second - how many people
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by rplacd 14y ago
To be fair, those become simpler once you approach things from a constructivist-theoretical point of view. So it's a matter of which you're familiar with. (Dammnit, beaten!) But I have a big problem with any statement of the form "reasons
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by rplacd 14y ago
If we're all asking, I might as well add maac.iin.saam@gmail.com... with a "please".
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by rplacd 14y ago
Case in point: their toolchain remains good ol' Hammer, vis, rad, and bsp. They're stretching lightmaps to the limit with a toolset from Quake that's constantly being pushed. God knows how long it'll be before the returns from refactoring s

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