smogzer

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by smogzer 14y ago
Being with a gun pointed to your head for a long time kills the free spirits. Imagine being a freedom fighter like no other, and the society reward for that being 35 years in jail and 1M fine kills any morale left. The other side of the tab
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by smogzer 14y ago
Aarows laws: 1) Thou shall not harm those weaker than you. See too big to fail for names to go after. 2) Thou shall protect and let them have freedom of choice and experimentation and broad access to knowledge. 3) If thou cannot avoid being
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by smogzer 14y ago
Which is a eye opening to show the hipocrisy of the white house.
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by smogzer 14y ago
I recommend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_%28book%29 Btw in Lost why did sayd was nice guy in the beginning and died as an evil torturer ? And why does every action series and movies
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by smogzer 14y ago
This one needs a post of it's own, not to live under some thread.
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by smogzer 14y ago
Cool effort. But ... its a score to jstor. It's unorganized. But ... science if full of noise and crappy publications these days anyway. Lots of ways to do the same thing, unprooven and only exists because everybody has to publish to stay r
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by smogzer 14y ago
In April 2011 i was accused of a small crime that could have given prison also. I was judged in January 2012 and accused to pay a fine of 500€ despite the accusation had no proofs. Every day i though about how to prove my innocence despite
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by smogzer 14y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=doj+presecute gives me : DOJ Will Not Prosecute Goldman Sachs in Financial ... - ABC News 9 Aug 2012 – The Justice Department has decided it will not prosecute Goldman Sachs or its employees for their role
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by smogzer 14y ago
I would like to include a speech recognition in my commercial projects, but the license is GPL and is tied to KDE. I've also tried sphinx before but the recognition is kind of poor and it lacks a gui for user/developer configuration of the
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by smogzer 14y ago
People from hacker news, check out qtquick or QML, it's like html but without the legacy and the bad parts, just powerful syntax for developing apps, and thanks to network transparency QML can be downloaded from the web also. QT5 is a dream
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by smogzer 14y ago
you should define some filters for the target repliers and to notice that is a real question. e.g. #q.code.java . Listeners/repliers would subscribe those.
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by smogzer 14y ago
Why not model laws as UML patterns ?
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by smogzer 14y ago
The photoshop plugins: Kai power tools and alien skin. Already did page turn effects back in +-92.
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by smogzer 14y ago
It should be quite the contrary. The government(that represents the public) data should be open, like in a stream, where anybody can see what's "flowing", gov emails should be shouted to the stream. Then the public or some algorithm should
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by smogzer 14y ago
If the data (plots, spectograms, etc) was made public on realtime the opinions/warnings would be issued by independent scientists or ordinary people or algorithms that would issue the chance of something happening and nobody would get punis
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by smogzer 14y ago
They have to do it like this: - emule like dht. - keep a cache of 1000 of ips that had trustworthy content in different ip neighbourhoods. - provide a pub-sub of new content + hot/top files. - seed one-to-download one file. Host encrypted c
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by smogzer 14y ago
There is also http://tarpipe.com which is similar to ifttt but with a gui more like yahoo pipes.
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by smogzer 14y ago
It's just one patent in a field that has been producing patents for a long time. Take the example of Microvision that is on the top 20 of patent receivers in America and has been doing HUD for the military for a long time. They also have d
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by smogzer 15y ago
Go to kickstarter or some other funding method that will NOT patent or copyright this. Something like the JOBS acts would provide. This is too disruptive to have in the hands of big pharma.
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by smogzer 15y ago
So is Ballmer starting to throw tables out of the windows ?
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by smogzer 15y ago
Nice list. I would replace django with web2py, it is closer to the python philosophy imho.
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by smogzer 15y ago
Report From Iron Mountain is similar: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Report_fr... Anyway money is just a tool to keep the populus occupied. And since without problems or debt there would be no need for governments and
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by smogzer 15y ago
I never got to understand all that maemo, symbian, meego operating system differences. Couldn't they just use linux and get some QML frontend in front of it. It seems really a lack of direction/duplication of efforts.
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by smogzer 15y ago
If everybody goes shorting the market like the meta-morph in there advises; skeletor, the guy controlling the markets from it's castle will make a short squeeze by buying those shorts and pretend to be he-man. Saving Europe and the likes an
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by smogzer 15y ago
Maybe they use Europe for testing. Maybe because it's a huge market that request must be filled all at once. Imagine there was a problem and they had to return the devices to factory.
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by smogzer 15y ago
I also use a dokuwiki installation. It has lots of plugins like rendering to openoffice, pdf, presentation (s5 system). It has access control lists, code formatting, a hierarchical document system, it is very intuitive to use also. It needs
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by smogzer 15y ago
Free lunch ? Or do they want equity ? Can't leave Chile for X years ? Must have headquarters there ?
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by smogzer 15y ago
yes, since the community is more cohesive/engineer/enterpreneur than reddit that has lots of noise/funny/look_at_me these days. So in Hacker News, the news tend to be "faster".
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by smogzer 15y ago
A friend of mine used to say i live in a building for disabled people. This is because my building has ONLY ramps and no stairs, also very handy for taking the bike. Since the public space in the building is open, no windows :) the rain als
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by smogzer 15y ago
Anybody here developing in C++ with Qt + QDevelop + Necessitas ?

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