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by russellallen 14y ago
You too should read $classic-tome to learn $trite-lesson.
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by russellallen 14y ago
Oh agreed, there was a sense in Victorian men's fashion of prudence, restraint etc (while showing your status by quality of fabrics and cut etc). There were similar fashions in Dutch Golden Age and the Puritans. But that's not the same as t
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by russellallen 14y ago
I'd place a big Citation Needed next to the whole Enlightenment = Sober clothing thing. Sounds like a big oversimplification. Sure there was a reaction to baroque excess but placing it at the foot o the Enlightenment is a bit just-so-story
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by russellallen 14y ago
It's fascinating how many comments here seem almost offended that someone had the affrontary to dislike a technical improvement on artistic grounds.
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by russellallen 15y ago
Bugger, apologies for iPad induced downvote.
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by russellallen 15y ago
It was just a password to online news articles, not to my bank account...
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by russellallen 15y ago
As someone who has also just cancelled my credit card because of these morons, I feel your pain.
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by russellallen 15y ago
Well done, Anonymous. You've hacked into an independent online news service, destroyed their business, probably permanently shut them down, stole money from their readers and will now release all their correspondence with their sources. Fuc
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by russellallen 15y ago
Maybe if you are going to slag someone off you should be bothered looking for the tweet you base your slander on...
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by russellallen 15y ago
Hmm. A little underwhelmed so far.
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by russellallen 15y ago
Yes indeed. I think it is time to take a break from Hacker News for a couple of days until it blows over.
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by russellallen 15y ago
The rise of Linux on the server and desktop was wonderful to watch and I find it depressing that increasingly it looks like a single moment in time, a 90s thing like John Perry Barlow and uncensored net feeds. And Richard is right - the rea
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by russellallen 15y ago
The reason you care about it is because it affects Node. I'm more interested in V8 than Node to be honest.
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by russellallen 15y ago
They're running up against a V8 limit.
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by russellallen 15y ago
Its interesting that we've managed to build a society where people consider it normal that the most fundamental activity possible for maintaining that society requires potentially sacrificing position and status. As a thought experiment, tr
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by russellallen 15y ago
PDF: http://selflanguage.org/_static/published/organizing-program...
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by russellallen 15y ago
Copies of most of the Self papers in PDF can be downloaded from the official Self language website: http://selflanguage.org/documentation/published/index.html
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by russellallen 15y ago
Project Gutenberg is a vision of what the future could be if we choose. RIP Michael, you done good.
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by russellallen 15y ago
That probably would have made sense to me if I already knew how the Linux Graphics Stack worked...
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by russellallen 15y ago
I don't know, but it does seem to be sometimes evangelised with more fervor than I'm comfortable with. Us v Them is always a suspicious narrative. Even in this article, stuff like: Finally, in 1983 the US Air Force sponsored a review of N
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by russellallen 15y ago
You know, I really enjoy drinking sugar water. It's one of my enjoyments in life.
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by russellallen 15y ago
Definitely. If done in the same general style as your lambda calculus one I think it would be a great resource.
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by russellallen 15y ago
This is more of a meta-comment, but it is always interesting seeing links like this (here on Hacker News and elsewhere) which attract a fair number of upvotes, but no comments. Perhaps we're all afraid of looking stupid... easier to discuss
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Is Randal L Schwartz notable enough for Wikipedia?(en.wikipedia.org)
65 points by russellallen 15y ago|68 comments
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by russellallen 15y ago
> To put it in perspective, DeltaView is (at most) $175 bundled with other software. To a lawyer, that's an hour of billing time at most. You're undercharging :) But apart from that you're exactly right.
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by russellallen 15y ago
Looks nice but... What does this get me that the inbuilt comparison feature of Word doesn't do, apart from making me give you copies of all my legal documents?
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by russellallen 15y ago
Every day I open, edit and share legal contracts and other Word documents. They're usually up to about 120 pages long, with reasonably simply formatting. They usually have marked up changes from about 2 to a dozen people. Every six months o
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by russellallen 15y ago
Not a monetary con, but giving them a T-Shirt that says one thing, knowing that underneath it is another contrary message... Forget for a moment that we're talking about people whose beliefs we (presumably) strongly disagree with and imagin
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by russellallen 15y ago
Conning people doesn't seem like a good way to get your message through to them.
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by russellallen 15y ago
Great stuff. I'd love to see people use FPGAs to create new oddball architectures too, really weird and fun stuff and not only recreate the past.

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