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by sofuture 16y ago
I'm pretty pro-filesharing (whatever that means) but I just don't understand what the big deal about IP addresses is... Would someone mind explaining it to me? Fingerprints aren't people either, but they can help build a case against a murd
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by sofuture 16y ago
> I understand people defending the practice, but this nonetheless offends me. For me, it isn't about the 555 owners getting a crippled product, but that the 595 owners are paying a huge markup. The baseline in this discussion is $2
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by sofuture 16y ago
What's wrong with Erlang's syntax?
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by sofuture 16y ago
Are you serious? You think the choice is between Apple or gamer? Hi my name is Tux.... I don't make Steve Jobs rich(er) and I'm the greatest developer operating system ever made.
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by sofuture 16y ago
I'm going to -4 on this, but: it absolutely still remains to be seen whether or not tablets are worth a damn . Seriously, people play shitty games on them, and I guess read ebooks (though I see vastly more Kindles on the subway, than iPads
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by sofuture 16y ago
The only thing worse than this is imagining a world in which el-cheapo shared hosts did try to fix your webapps .
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by sofuture 16y ago
My utility bill comes with a Facebook URL on it. I don't think it's a Madison Ave fad.
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by sofuture 16y ago
I obviously can't speak to Arthur Whitney's state of mind circa some summer afternoon 1990, but I don't believe the code is an attempt to obfuscate or be snobby/elitist at all. He was simply trying to express the basics of an idea in a ters
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by sofuture 16y ago
I'd love to hear why that code doesn't embody brevity? As for obfuscation, it's rather straightforward -- it's just concise . A lack of instant understanding doesn't indicate that a piece of code is without merit, or not honest and straigh
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by sofuture 16y ago
Exactly. I can't even begin to see how making a case to a third party deciding authority instantly thrusts you into taking full responsibility for public safety . What an absurd concept.
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by sofuture 16y ago
I wholeheartedly disagree. While this instance is especially compelling, certainly, you're still attempting to argue that someone might invalidate their point by making 'too good' of an argument without the qualifications. Someone presentin
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by sofuture 16y ago
Shocked that silentbicycle hasn't mentioned it already, but Arthur Whitney whipped up the first prototype/inspiration for the J language in a short bit of macro heavy C over the course of an afternoon. 42 lines? http://pastebin.com/s2usuqD
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by sofuture 16y ago
C# is a crazy good language, and with Visual Studio (and Resharper) productivity easily matches Python or Ruby.
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by sofuture 16y ago
There does seem to be a bit of a community fracture between rebar-centric-world and Erlware-world. I'm not sure I really understand it's origins, or why it persists. It would absolutely benefit Erlang to heal over this gap -- not that havin
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by sofuture 16y ago
Then we have Gaza, which also had a people's revolution and is now even more of an impoverished and belligerent dictatorship. You mean under Israel, right?
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by sofuture 16y ago
I raise you a J: f=:! f=:*/1+i. NB. included implementation because it's not a built in, but is still funny
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by sofuture 16y ago
I think the answer is not to 'not rewrite' but 'rewrite well'. Rewrite, to me, doesn't mean throwing out the whole thing -- it means start from a blank slate and leverage what you have as you rebuild something that matches your problem. I'm
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by sofuture 16y ago
That's the point , though: usage driven fees. It's absolutely not the most economical offering, but the freedom and ability to either quadruple your infrastructure or shut it down entirely, no strings attached, in an instant is what you're
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by sofuture 16y ago
See: Heroku AWS is awesome for exactly that reason, one can build a more integrated package on top of the individual parts and sell it.
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by sofuture 16y ago
The .Net community has a weird shade to it, absolutely. That said, you're clearly speaking to your perception of what you see on tech-help boards -- and confusing that with the whole of the .Net ecosystem. .Net has vastly larger segment of
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by sofuture 16y ago
Micro instances are super constrained on CPU in my experience. Unusably so.
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by sofuture 16y ago
I didn't even know people pair programmed full-time. It sounds... awful. My idea of pair programming is a ~monthly "Hey coworker, you want to do sitdown this afternoon and figure out (in code) this bug/feature/design?" Doing it fulltime sou
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by sofuture 16y ago
Let's keep in mind: Manning, who has variously been reported to have had 'adjustment issues', gender identity issues and/or been grappling with his sexual identity reaches out to someone openly queer , out of the blue, as a like-minded per
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by sofuture 16y ago
That's an honest question! Answer me instead of downvoting!
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by sofuture 16y ago
What other value? About the only actual benefit I can think of using a smartphone for is the ability to look up maps/directions. Fortunately, I can easily solve the map/direction problem by: 1) looking up directions ahead of time (which I'd
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by sofuture 16y ago
You're not the only one! Thank god for Ebay -- I'm going to be using dumbphones for a long time.
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by sofuture 16y ago
Yeah, the mental change described in the post is also known as 'growing up'. I mean that sincerely! :)
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by sofuture 16y ago
Not at all if you're programming APL/J/K/Q!
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by sofuture 16y ago
Absolutely! I'm not going to throw around a figure I'm not sure of, but there are a stunning amount of people in American prisons for non-violent possession charges. What a horrendous farce!
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by sofuture 16y ago
Travis Goodspeed gave a talk at HOPE about the RFID badges, and touched on his work with the IM-ME. Smart (and neighborly!) guy.

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