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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
Also, taxis work well here in my hometown. About £8 will get me to the other side of the city, and a weekend hire costs about £50. I found owning a car, all-in, cost about £200/month (adding up tax, insurance, repair bills, etc) so it's cos
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
I agree that 'first consumer pays everything' is an option. Hardback books work like this a little -- if you want to read it earlier, you need to pay more. I don't know that this continues to work for digital goods. Are there examples you'r
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
> Does payment depend, necessarily, on restriction of copying? No, it does not. The only other way I can think of is patronage; I produce a work for a patron according to their wishes, and hand it over for a fee, at which point I relinq
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
I was using the definition on wikipedia. Quoting from that page; > Examples of club goods include private golf courses, cinemas, cable television, access to copyrighted works , and the services provided by social or religious clubs to
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
The new timeline is why I quit FaceBook in December. It creates a badly jumbled view of the information I was really hoping to see -- what's going on with me and my friends? I can handle a straight chronological list very easily. This is an
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
There's an economic concept called 'club goods', which describe the way copyrighted materials are supposed to work -- you pay for access and get the same rights that everyone else who pays gets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_good -- s
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
First hit on google.
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
Looking at those criteria, it wouldn't flag terrorists who were well-funded, forward-planning, and punctual. Which sounds like prerequisites for a successful attack. Hey ho.
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
Yeah, It's new to me on Windows.
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
Favourite Option: When you close the editor, it just shuts down, saving all your buffers and restoring them when you reload. That means you can close the app, reboot your computer, whatever, and the edits you've been making aren't lost, and
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
Yeah, it's one guy called Jon. He's been really responsive when I've talked to him.
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
(I don't know if I have this right -- I've not done Fortran in 15 years, but I feel like I've got about 1/3 of an answer and someone more knowledgeable may be able to finish it off. Any code samples guaranteed to be wrong. ;) ) Fortran 77 d
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
So the reason to use both PHP and ASP.NET together was to get access to the php library from C#?
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
Something higher up can catch, if need be. this way you can write a function which is supposed to throw exceptions in cases of failure, but not leave resources hanging about. An example would be executing arbitrary SQL; you might want to do
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
the finally block is always executed, then the exception is thrown. So try { dobadthing(); } finally { cleanup(); } calls dobadthing(), which throws an exception; then cleanup() is called in case some recovery can be done, then
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
The internal representation aspect is important -- specifically, having to deal with the index as separate from both your working directory and your repository. that makes it harder to get started.
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
For me, the big missing use case is using it on Windows. It feels like git actively hates the Windows developer. Install mysygit on a windows box and the recommended option is to use a bash shell. A bash shell on a windows machine. The me
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
Yeah, this wasn't a straight comparison, but an act of apologetics.
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
That is impressive, though ;)
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
Did your friend have any incentive to try it for themselves? For example, automating Photoshop using ActionScript? Maybe pro programmers like solving general problems, but professionals in other fields would be interested in solving things
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
Very true. Anyone who could confidently boot up a computer had a that geek cache/tarnish. Is there an example of expectations changing around programming or automation, specifically? Programming, as opposed to computer literacy. I suppose w
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
I think there's a pyramid of automation. Something like 1. Set an alarm on a phone ... 4. Basic Excel formulae 5. Excel Wizard ... 7. JavaScript copy-paste coder ... 10. Professional programmer The ori
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
I agree with you: what we think of as 'pro' programming -- writing large programs in formal languages and running it past an interpreter/compiler -- is probably only something the few will really get into. However, there's a couple of excep
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
C# and VB have the `using` statement; using(var db = OpenDbConnection()) { // read from db, connection closed on next curly. }
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
I think there's been a historical shift in what the word 'Knighthood' means. The knighthoods discussed here are earned and given for different public goods -- charity, business, entertainment, etc. Current Knights include Sir Elton John, Si
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
possibly added reently, but the last line of the post reads "PS. I didn't invent this regular expression, it was invented in 1998 by Abigail."
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
I don't know Java, but it's often worth trying this sort of exercise out. I'm open to the idea it might be perfectly possible. I once took one of Peter Norvig's Python programs (a spelling corrector) and converted it into VB.NET, just to se
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
I've had previous dalliances with lisp but it never really struck me as a big enough win to pursue. So it's interesting to see a decent list of distinctive features -- I've gone over it to see what features there are that don't exist in my
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
What awesome abilities are you talking about particularly? Recursion, lambdas, and mapcar are available in just about every modern languge, be it VB, Ruby, JavaScript, or PHP.
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by stevecooperorg 15y ago
That's really helpful -- nice to hear from a pro. Thanks.

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