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by snotrockets 16y ago
Not so. In Israel, military service is compulsory for women as well, and there is no option for non-military compulsory national service. Non-military national service is voluntarily open to those exempt from military service for various
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by snotrockets 16y ago
Luckily, after about six months to a year of jail time (used to be less. A friend spent more than a year,) the army deems you unfit to serve, and you are exempt from service.
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by snotrockets 16y ago
Replacing Xlib with XCB is like replacing the hanging noose with lethal injection. Yes, it's probably more humane[1], but the result is still death. [1] regardless that the death penalty in anything but. But for some reason, the X Windows S
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by snotrockets 16y ago
Finally, something good comes out of the CADT model. With a bit of luck, we'd get rid of the X Windows System in our own lifetime!
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by snotrockets 16y ago
And since it's a dev build, when it fails, then a proper bug should be filed. Bitching about it on HN is counter productive (and karma-whorish, IMO)
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by snotrockets 16y ago
You want exercises, not a walk-through. The thing with using higher-order functions isn't learning the definitions (which are rather simple, really,) but figuring out how to use those tools. And for that you need practice. Start from descri
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by snotrockets 16y ago
And then we won't have research. So the material taught will stagnate, just like in high schools. If we treat students as customers, then they want the best -- so to improve, the student-oriented university would hire teachers that are also
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by snotrockets 16y ago
Never said the public is getting his money worth.
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by snotrockets 16y ago
And those academics are right. Let me sidetrack for a bit, because this is an important point, that not everybody thinks of: If students had to pay the actual cost of their education, it'd be much higher, even in Ivy League schools. Univers
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Excellent PR from Nokia. This is how you respond to negative press(gizmodo.com)
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Former quarterback John Elway remains incognito by wearing his own jersey(sportsillustrated.cnn.com)
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by snotrockets 16y ago
You've got more than a Kernel, which was already open, as Android is based on the Linux kernel. It's interesting that it isn't a common unix or GNU. The whole software stack up from the kernel is different to anything you see elsewhere (I u
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by snotrockets 16y ago
But they only provide binaries. It's always easier to develop for a system you have the code for, even if you can't modify it. With iOS, you get more time to fix your code, but sometimes you have to speculate why the system works they way i
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by snotrockets 16y ago
Except it wasn't a real quote. @iaindodsworth (TweetDeck's CEO) wrote today it wasn't: http://twitter.com/#!/iaindodsworth/statuses/27813412620
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by snotrockets 16y ago
My definition of open is more relaxed: it's open if you can extend and change it without getting permission first.
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by snotrockets 16y ago
Interesting anecdote - an Israeli judge recently ruled against a club that had a "ladies' night", forcing it to charge equal price for female and male patrons, as having a different price based sex is a discrimination prohibited by law.