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15y ago
I'm contemptuous of his coding practice, not his writing or grammar. His writing is pleasant to read... but so what? where are the multiple layers of defense standing between a simple syntactical or semantic error and a full scale business-
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> I for one would speculate, not to sound harsh, that if you haven't made silly errors like this then you haven't been around the block enough times. on the other hand, those of us who have been around the block enough times have almost
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15y ago
Is it wrong to wonder about Dennis' personal life? Did he marry, have kids, take a lover? Like to garden, travel, read? He is such an important and influential figure in the history of computing, but it feels like we know little about him b
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16y ago
Is it conceivable an organization like the CIA has deeply 'undercover' operatives, who are living in foreign countries, as citizens of those countries, working as teachers, doctors, milkmen, etc., but who could be pressed into service when
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16y ago
> It's hard for me to get the impression that his actions are anything but calculated. but calculated to what end? are his motivations as crude as simply wanting to draw the world's attention towards him?
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16y ago
> Apple can't hurt Google by undermining it profits because it doesn't make the hardware and it gives the software away. Apple can undermine Google's profits from mobile advertising, by giving the advertising revenue from iAds away (kee