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by scandox 7y ago
If you accept the author's premise then all of these (including his) are wrong uses of XML.
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by scandox 7y ago
> The number of web browsers capable of consuming plain (X)HTML massively exceeds the number of web browser engines capable of consuming the modern application platform, a number which stands now at approximately two.
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by scandox 7y ago
Well "he landed the deal" implies a score or a hit. So to say they "landed" the planes could vaguely make sense but it is hardly good English. They might have been thinking of "grounded"?
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by scandox 7y ago
Meh. My Mum used to break the ice on our local lake and have a paddle quite regularly. She was in her fifties then...
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by scandox 7y ago
Sweet. Lovely side project. But. Is this is the HN equivalent of kitten makes friends with a Panda "human interest" story? I've been reading a lot of stories where the headline really says it all recently...
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by scandox 7y ago
That's what I do now when people ask me if they should have kids. I always say the same thing: All the benefits are intangible and all the drawbacks are tangible.
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by scandox 7y ago
So you mean flooded with "talent"?
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by scandox 7y ago
As sort of rude as this is I have to agree. If your life can be fundamentally ruined by this then there's a major blindspot in play.
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by scandox 7y ago
I once deleted /usr ... Instead of /some/sub/dir/usr It was interesting to see things like fonts disappearing randomly from web pages etc as my computer progressively went mad.
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by scandox 7y ago
Well this kind of anecdata if shared really has to come with details. Even if I knew and trusted you well I would need to hear about where the information comes from. There are huge gaps of detail to be filled in. I am not saying that false
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by scandox 7y ago
> SOURCE CODE > Sorry, but I do not release the source code for any of my software. This is particularly true for the Cash Register program. > The Cash Register program. has many things that must be hidden like the passwords and PI
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by scandox 7y ago
Well he's hasn't climbed over the fence and taken it back. He just stopped throwing it over the fence on a continuous basis , right?
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by scandox 7y ago
I think it's reasonable whatever one's view. He made it. He can pull it. This is literally what this freedom is all about. I don't understand when the personal expression of developers of free software became constrained by s
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by scandox 7y ago
I often looked for this and failed to find something that I could easily use. So I'm delighted to see this as a on/off C amateur and learner.
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by scandox 7y ago
I turned down a 3,000 bitcoin payment for a website I made in September 2011. I told the rather elderly man who suggested the exchange that I didn't accept "magic beans".
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by scandox 7y ago
I'm curious about Media Lab. They setup a branch in Dublin way back and it was such obvious and painful BS. But overall have they produced interesting work? At all?
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by scandox 7y ago
When I ran my own consultancy, I went on holidays for a month once, leaving the company under the management of a long time employee. I came back to find an employee of one of my customers sitting at a desk in our office. Turfed him out. Ha
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by scandox 7y ago
The idea of The Perpetual Traveller ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_traveler ) had been around for a long time (at least to my knowledge since the 1960s). It has simply got easier and in fact the group of peopl
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by scandox 7y ago
> redefine 2 as a function that will return seven, and forever after your math won’t work. (But why would you?) I often think of myself in the past as a completely different person who seems to be capable of many surprising actions.
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by scandox 7y ago
Chicken breast. No red meat.
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by scandox 7y ago
Good point. I can only say that where I come from they are seen as something distinct, perhaps a category of food entirely their own.
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by scandox 7y ago
Yeah I agree. But it is an extraordinary thing to observe over a lifetime.
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by scandox 7y ago
A cousin of mine only eats "white" food: pasta, potatoes, bread. They've never knowingly eaten a vegetable, or anything green or yellow. They're now in their 40s and still one of the most vibrantly healthy and energetic
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by scandox 7y ago
I'm not protesting, I was just providing exegesis
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by scandox 7y ago
Well as indicated in the comment if they are "using American web services to thrive in a very oppressive economy" and those services cut them off because they can't be bothered to discriminate then they are potentially harmin
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by scandox 7y ago
> We can't play the victim card. Nobody wants a whining Batman or Spiderman. I don't know my own opinion on this topic, but framing any form of work in terms of a selfless, uncomplaining heroism seems like ideal advertising cop
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by scandox 7y ago
It was clear
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by scandox 7y ago
I read an article (in the 90s) that stated it was a slow news day. It was his sixth time making more or less the same speech.
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by scandox 7y ago
Well that posits the certain existence of an alternative global economic system that would ensure everyone got fed. So while it might be accurate to say that "neocolonialism/imperialism at the highest stage of capitalism" is
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by scandox 7y ago
Well not everybody can do this kind of top down learning. But more power to you, though, because that's a great capability.

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