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by simon 14y ago
I agree. It's a huge loss. As an ex-atheist who previously believed in evolution and is now a young earth creationist, such conversations have the potential to be very interesting. Sadly, they end up with subtle (if you're lucky) or less su
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by simon 14y ago
Yep. I remember that when I saw the initial announcement (don't remember where), I grabbed my account name just incase I ever wanted to try the startup thing, trying to make sure that I could get my name rather than "some31337d00d_27".
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by simon 14y ago
Any conversation that mentions evolution triggers it. As for the old days, I don't recall it being an issue, but that could be because I have a bad memory or that previous work environments were hyper-sensitive about posting to websites (or
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by simon 14y ago
Threw the old socks away, but I have about a dozen pair of tan socks (all the same), a dozen pair of the same style in dark brown and half a dozen of black dress socks. I have zero desire to be stylish in the sock department, so this greatl
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by simon 14y ago
Mentioning religion is guaranteed downvotes, unless the thread is about depression or suicide. That's the reason that I am a 95% (or more) lurker rather than poster. I loved HN when it first came out, but the heavy anti-faith undercurrent i
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by simon 14y ago
2025 days! Woohoo! :-) Sorry about that ... back to your regularly scheduled programming.
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by simon 14y ago
Sorry. NoScript is having fits over your page, burping XSS warnings to the max. I'll pass for now.
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by simon 14y ago
I really don't want to convert to mobi, because it's a less expressive format. Are these epub readers downloadable without having to root the device? That would be worth considering.
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by simon 14y ago
You may not be right, but you can always be wrong with style! :-) I like your numbers. I hope you're right. Now, if Amazon would just add EPUB support to the Kindles, I'd buy that largescreen DX in a heartbeat.
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by simon 14y ago
The website is nicely designed and I like the look of it. Account creation seemed to go well. The scrolling up thing could get annoying quite quickly. Can that be made optional? Is there a way to not put an objective on the resume? I'm tryi
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by simon 14y ago
The Stainless Steel Rat series were a huge part of my teen years. I'll have to buy the entire set (I guess it's definitive now) and make sure my daughters read them. Rest in peace Mr. Harrison.
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by simon 14y ago
For an article about how wonderful a job that Oracle has done with Java, it seems to have spent most of it's space linking to articles about problems. And to top it all off, I couldn't find the link to the report that made all of these clai
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by simon 15y ago
Now that's funny. (and maybe scary? :-) I learned C (from the first edition of K&R) about 24 years ago. And had no one to help me, so I had to understand everything myself and debug my own rampant pointer issues. Eeek! That was a wild r
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by simon 15y ago
Started with computers 32 years ago at a school computer club where my physics teacher brought his own home computer in and taught a few of us to program in BASIC during a few lunch hours. Earning my living with computers for about 22 years
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by simon 15y ago
Doesn't Tex pre-date XML? If so, that would make it hard, even for Donald Knuth, to reuse a non-existent technology.
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by simon 15y ago
This. I shot a wedding for a couple in the church who could not afford a professional wedding photographer. One of the most stressful experiences of my life. I promised myself I would never shoot another wedding. (Now, as a pastor, I can te
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by simon 15y ago
I work here in Madtown :-), but I'm not sure that I would describe it as a start-up hub. Sure, there's the university and that has lots of energy, but tech start-ups? I'm curious what you see that I don't. (Perhaps it's because I only work
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by simon 15y ago
I switched to Pinboard from Delicious about two months ago and I'm very happy. The Firefox plugin works and continues to work even with FF 10.
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by simon 15y ago
Thanks. I also found this link http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/x-xulintro/ after a little searching. I'll try it out.
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by simon 15y ago
I agree that it could get tedious, but I'm compartmentalized (not OCD ;-) enough in how I do things, that it has worked well for me so far. Your XUL apps approach sounds interesting. Can you offer any pointers on what you do and how others
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by simon 15y ago
This is why, I find that getting up at the same time on the weekend as I do during the work week actually helps keep my sleep patterns somewhat regular. So, although the idea of an occasional Saturday morning sleep-in sounds good, in practi
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by simon 15y ago
I use three browsers. Firefox for general browsing (technology and theology), Chromium for Gmail and Facebook, and Opera for blogs. I figure that keeping Google and Facebook in their own little prison should help greatly with privacy. I use
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by simon 15y ago
The style of music on the one that I downloaded didn't work so well for me. It was too airy and then there were some vocals. I don't know what style to ask about. If I like to program to uptempo Jean-Michel Jarre and extended mixes of Blue
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by simon 15y ago
It's always the worst time to buy technology hardware. Just go ahead and buy if you need something and don't look at the adverts for a few months so you don't kick yourself silly for not waiting for the all the shinier toys that come out im
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by simon 15y ago
I use it and like it. I like the way that it gets out of your way when using applications. I'm still getting used to some of the configuration aspects, but I don't spend that much time tinkering with setup, so all told it's a solid win for
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by simon 15y ago
It's not so much that I don't want to use a library, but more that I would be unable to use much of the core language for the processing and would have to do everything in/with the library and store my text in Unicode-aware holders rather t
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by simon 15y ago
Just checked my account and I was opted out. I don't know if this is an old entry, there was no date on the page, and perhaps I'd already previously opted-out?
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by simon 15y ago
More good points for both sides. This is not making it easier. I don't need speed as I'm doing offline processing and not worried about lambdas at this point. The unicode is important as I am looking to take Greek and Hebrew text and proces
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by simon 15y ago
Interesting, thank you. I will take a look.
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by simon 15y ago
The article seemed a little short for me, but then I am actively trying to select between Lua and TCL for some personal scripting projects. There are many fine features with each language and few downsides, so the selection process is hard.

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