teleological

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by teleological 11y ago
Amazon, please hire this person and pay them whatever they ask.
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by teleological 13y ago
I started teaching myself in the early 80s on an Atari 400 with Atari BASIC. At elementary school, I got some coaching from the librarian in Apple Logo. By sixth grade, I had participated in a few school district programming contests. In ju
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by teleological 13y ago
"wait for" and "for parallel" seem useful. Are they inspired by constructs in other languages, or do they have analogs in other languages?
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by teleological 13y ago
It's also worth mentioning that surveillance is not news for poor and minority communities. Incursions on privacy justified by the "war on drugs" have been going on for decades in neighborhoods on the other side of the digita
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by teleological 13y ago
The notion that defectors are lavishly rewarded -- a notion that Snowden encouraged in his comment about palaces and petting a phoenix -- is at odds with the historical record. Consider Kim Philby. After the act of defection has been milked
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by teleological 13y ago
Russia has an "asylum-giving, human-rights protecting" image? Even if you were to believe that Russia is acting to protect Snowden out of anything but national self-interest -- does refusing to extradite Snowden cancel out Russia&
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by teleological 13y ago
He had to settle on Russia because his first choice, China, sent him packing.
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by teleological 13y ago
Wait, isn't Russia the "first to stand against human rights violations carried out by the powerful rather than the powerless"? You kidder, you, Edward Snowden.
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by teleological 13y ago
It doesn't matter whether Snowden has physical assets on his person. If he knows things that could be useful to Russian intelligence, which he certainly does, and if he can access things that would be useful to them, he has put himself
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by teleological 13y ago
Bully for Node, but to compare apples to apples, you should count from when the packaging system was released, not from when the language was released. Node's numbers wouldn't look so good if divided by the number of years since JavaScript
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by teleological 14y ago
I assumed this was because a pool of funds had been set up to prop up Romney's odds to make him appear more viable -- or at least to stave off a story that Intrade users were betting heavily against him. Intrade was a small enough market th
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by teleological 14y ago
"Context" in Perl. Values undergo implicit conversion when assigned depending on whether the LValue receiving the assignment is a scalar or a list type. Perl functions can detect context at runtime (using "wantarray") and may vary behavior