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by sampsonjs 13y ago
Regarding CA, the vehicle code says something to the effect that the ticket a). must be given by an officer b). must no have financial incentive attached. Just ask the court that dismissed my red light camera ticket for "lack of prosecution
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
I know man, what you gonna do? Someone has to arm thugs like Meles Zenawi and Yoweri Museveni, might as well be us.
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
Disnye has its own "interactive" arm, it's not like they can't farm out Star Wars videogames from there, so it's not hard to see the logic.
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
That's funny, I had no clue how it's supposed to work as a user either. Or at least not in the 10 minutes I was willing to give it. The Steve Jobs' Dropbox story is even more hilarious in retrospect. Hilarious at the time too, because Jobs
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
Look up "Jim Crow" in wikipedia.
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
I just hope the GOP doesn't find out Swartz was a Chomsky fan. We can't defend Swartz, he was soft on terror!
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
Assuming the cops won't be sympathetic and there's no cameras in the men's room, dump the contents in the furthest stall you can find, without touching any of it. Then get the hell out of there on the first flight back you can get or head t
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
This sounds like the MacGuffin from a video game.
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
Here's my challenge, echoing a comment further down: If you want to convert folks to Haskell, write something useful in it. Then people might actually be interested in learning more about it. That's the only way you'll get converts, not wri
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
This also needs "our slashdot clone of super geniuses is being ruined by comments such as this" pearl clutching from the admin.
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
Nowadays, there's two different things: the core language, then the numerous frameworks. The core language is the first thing you need to know and a lot easier to learn than any of the frameworks. So just study the core language in case it
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
"the soldiers fight against .... Sadaam Hussein". Before arming the next group of sociopaths nominally running the country, and leaving in disgrace from the smoking ruins of said country. Kristen, baby, I didn't ask "the soldiers" to invade
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
As I recall, Zuckerberg did seek investment. And he went looking for terms a little more generous. For 15 to 20 grand, some advice, and a friendly introduction to other investors, Zuckerberg wouldn't be willing to trade them a stick of gum.
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The Perils of Invading Afghanistan: 1839-1842(theatlantic.com)
1 points by sampsonjs 14y ago|0 comments
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
Nothing you wouldn't see at the appropriately named Yahoo News. Perhaps you can still read similar comments there.
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
"In vague to non-existent evidence, Gray Lady hacks see absolute proof of what their government handlers want you to believe". Word must have come down from the White House to start pushing the "Cold War with China" kick.
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
"Civil Disobedience means accepting that what you are doing is illegal and dealing with the consequences. Period." Excuse me, the dude took his own life. That's a pretty powerful "fuck you" to the government. Another idiotic meme that needs
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: Beyond Vietnam (1967)(mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu)
5 points by sampsonjs 14y ago|0 comments
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
Foer is failing upwards I see. Unless the tech golden boy is firing deadwood like Leon Weisswhatshisname and Paul Berman, etc. etc. etc., it's still the same old crap. I guess you're supposed to be excited by the fact that he's using his mo
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Relevant to Aaron Swartz: the "Head Shot" federal charge(davidsimon.com)
2 points by sampsonjs 14y ago|0 comments
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
Or going to the bathroom, driving their cars, sleeping... For example, I've only seen the Godfather once. My electric toothbrush, on the other hand? I use that every day! Take that Coppola! I think Jobs himself proved that software isn't a
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
Worth a read: www.gawker.com/5847338/steve-jobs-was-not-god
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
The Apple II looked like a piece of grey plastic to me. So did the NES, but at least it was a lot more fun than the Apple II. Steve Jobs: the man who made purchasing consumer electronics a revolutionary act.
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
Those were social problems solved by activists. Sorry if this doesn't jive with your techno triumphalism, but the technology makers were the ones who brought us child labor, crappy mass processed food, and smog. Since you mentioned segregat
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
EDIT: Are you referring to something like this: " http://fightcopyrighttrolls.com/2012/09/06/copyright-defende... ? Could you clarify more? An offshore IT company that does not own any copyright is suing bittorrenters? On what basis exactly
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
Talent imitates, genius steals!
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
Shame about the newspaper.
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
Perhaps they didn't mention it because a lot of jobs lost in the great crash paid more than the paltry minimum wage, making that old commie's attempts to raise it a moot point.
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
I like Python too, the dynamic type system and performance hit are the only things that might discourage me from using it for a big project. Go might be worth checking out, it's supposed to give you things like first class functions in a c
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by sampsonjs 14y ago
I'll certainly take it over Haskell any day. And Perl, or Lisp. And I love static typing. The ugliness comes from the myriad frameworks that have sprung up for it(metaprogramming in XML, good god).

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