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>>[1] I'm talking about desktop Ubuntu of course. Sadly, following the (un)guidelines set by the redhat/gnome dictatorship (aka, systemd) and their grand quest to please the desktop users, Debian also seems to have become,
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Let's not forget: Mohenjo-Daro [1] I wonder, do we call it a city that kept growing? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohenjo-Daro
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>>Graduation rates at non profit schools are appalling. University of Pheonix routinely graduates less than 20% of its students within six years. I am talking about both (for and not-for profit) universities. Isn't graduation a r
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10y ago
Thanks a lot. It helped.
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Yes, you are right. The ban on Burqa/clothing should not be a priority. The ban on Burqa in France is a knee-jerk reactionary measure taken by the frightened French society which doesn't have a clue that their real fight should be
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This is a good news from a very fundamental aspect in our history and for our future too. Islam with its barbaric, medieval, vicious ideology (e.g. kaafirs are against Allah, Muhammad is above any criticism, apostates should be killed, extr
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10y ago
>>And familial obligations (especially filial obligations, e.g. obeying your parents) serve to prime people's acceptance of external authority, such as adoption of framing devices and conceptual models. Can you elaborate a bit on
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10y ago
>>Who criticizes any great general or conqueror in history for leaving his family behind, and why not? Many people (mainly pacifists) criticize such great generals for being war-thirsty or violent. I think, Buddha is rightly criticize
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10y ago
Such apps are menace. It seems that these apps cannot even do anything better than simple string search. They should learn a thing: Let Google do the search for them not their app. A joke for the people who know little bit of programming: H
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>>If efficiency is not a prime concern, using C++ is hardly justified. Well, yes and no. Yes, I agree with you as C++ gives you more control than most other high level languages out there, e.g. more control over how you manage your me
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10y ago
Please provide some links.
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>>Sorry, but I take it personally when me and my colleagues are called substandard programmers. I don't know what kind of programming you do, but he is talking mainly about kernel programming. He is mainly criticizing the people
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10y ago
Yes, but his opinion counts more than some John Doe's as Linus supports his case with solid arguments.
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Harris has never called for killing people (Muslim or otherwise) in middle east. What he is calling for is: fight the vicious ideology of Islam, period. What he is demanding is there should fear-free, public discussions about various evils
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>>I wrote that I considered the wave of terror attacks in Germany and France to indicate that a ‘low level Islamist insurgency’ was now taking place in those countries. A few hours after placing this posting, my account was ‘disabled.
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10y ago
>>So by saying you should attack Islam (with no qualifiers to that statement), you are indeed saying you should attack Muslims. That is your way of interpreting it. I never said we should physically attack the Muslim people. I am not
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10y ago
The examples given there [1] seem to be only for LAN. Any experts here please explain how to use it to expose a local site to the Internet from a NAT'ed machine running behind a proxy that requires username:password auth to connect to
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>>If you understand what Islam is, and what a muslim is, this statement makes no sense. If you mean to say that "Islam and Muslims are the same" I beg to differ. Islam is a religion not person and Muslims are persons. Let me
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>>and dialog become impossible. The dialog becomes impossible because of many other important reasons, too, including, a. the opposition by liberals/leftists/Islamists to bring forward any critical review of some extremely t
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10y ago
>>wherever Islam is a majority religion or "near to majority" the oppression exists. At least women, "unbelievers" (in Islam) or both. And Islam stands nowhere there for a "freedom of expression," quite t
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10y ago
>>I wasn't comparing uptime needs of a hospital versus an airline, but their security needs. Uptime needs are security needs too for various reasons. e.g. lack of uptime is just another way to get a Denial of Service attack. ed
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And he/she/it seems happy also to allow arbitrary code to run on his/her/its machines. I may even accept getting occasionally distracted by benign ads (just plain text or images or even videos as on newspapers/TV) b
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>> https://pp.vk.me/c635106/v635106753/217e/XWciycs1P1c.jpg About the traditional dress: It will be more appropriate to say that those were the traditional dresses before the nations came under the rul
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>>I wonder how many more good mathematicians we'd have if we taught it well. Yes, but teaching is just one aspect, what matters for the school going children more though is the overall cultural and societal stance/attitude a
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Well said. General physical strength and health have a lot do with your appetite and your appeal for sex. But, I guess, there is another factor too. With easy access to too much and uninterrupted entertainment (TV, internet, whatsapp, snapc
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You are right to point out the differences but you are missing an important point. Let me see if I can help you out in the reasoning: when the people say "treat [sex] exactly like you would any other experience" they actually mean
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>>“When women are leaving, it is because they don’t think they can do it – not because they can’t do it,” said study co-author Bailey Fosdick in a press release. Very aptly put. It reminded me a quote by Henry Ford: "If you think
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>>Every language has implicit fixity and precedence for infix operators. What's different about Haskell is that you can actually define infix operators yourself. It seems I didn't make my point clearer. I am asking what is t
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>>As for your comments on lenses and records, I've been writing Haskell for a good number of years and still haven't really spent the time to grok lenses. I think they're probably great, but certainly mastery of them is
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>>So many people spend so much time learning the ins and outs of JS, which often find use only in JS, yet balk at learning the simplest things about Haskell. If the lenses for records thing in Haskell is amongst the simplest things
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