tomjen2

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by tomjen2 17y ago
I wonder if he gets a wave invite instead?
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by tomjen2 17y ago
Horrible spelling.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
Not really - Bitbucket have gotten quite some of my money. And yes I am considering chancing that, but mostly because I can't find a good mercurial client for windows.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
Sometimes I really wish Vegans would shut up when the news fundamentally don't matter to them. They are about as relevant as Atheists in a Catholic mess.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
The article never said we couldn't kill, only that we prefer being kind. Ever seen video of the US soldiers in Iraq petting the stray puppy? There are people who don't care about others, but the most of them either never really grew up or t
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by tomjen2 17y ago
Potentially they could change a lot even if they where acquired, since they could tip the balance of search and they would properly allow Microsoft to by them for $40 billion :)
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by tomjen2 17y ago
Because it has been so abused. I would not have much trouble with a patent on the concept of public/private keys, but patents today are too expensive to get, obscure to read and cover extremely simple material. In addition software patents
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by tomjen2 17y ago
Why do I get the idea that this will end up like all the other government IT projects? Massively over budget, too late, full of bugs and too slow to actually do anything?
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by tomjen2 17y ago
There is one big difference: we can reason about reason (meta reason), Eliza can't. It is not a difference in degree, it is a difference in kind and seems to be unique to higher primates (you can learn a dog to do tricks, but it won't spend
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by tomjen2 17y ago
I concur, but it isn't going to do much good if he doesn't read English.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
I think it does, and it theory that might be wrong in practice I haven't seen anybody succeed without a clear goal.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
You think Stallman would get smacked down by Apple? They can't sue him, he doesn't own anything.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
That would require the banks to have a brain. That isn't necessary when you have friends in Washington.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
This is a very valid point and raised very well. It does not deserve these downmods.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
If I get to rewrite it in Clojure, I would.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
If there is something you really want, don't get sucked in to that "quality of life" thing, because people mistakenly take it to mean having a life full of material goods, including a good car while working at a job you hate. What really br
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by tomjen2 17y ago
Please don't make it intuitive, I know everybody says it should be but that assumes that all software is made to please the casual user. The best software is made to please the expert user, and makes them many times more powerful that the a
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by tomjen2 17y ago
Did they reimburse you for the lost time? If not, you should sue them. That being to only thing companies care about.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
He seems harsh, I would properly let the first student hand in his homework. As for notes, that would end the moment math teachers used slides you could download after class. I wish more people would do that (in my experience only the math
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by tomjen2 17y ago
While I can understand the appeal of a tablet (heck I want one) it never ceases to crack me up when I think that what got me hooked on computers initially was that it didn't matter that my handwriting sucked. I wonder how useful these devic
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by tomjen2 17y ago
It is properly a mix of the two things, that said it does seem strange to increase the rate since the other guy would have to pay.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
You may be kidding, but you are right on both counts. Emacs is so much better when your control key is next to 'a'. Your hands prefer it when 'aoeu' is right under your left hand. You will prefer it when your colleagues can't figure out how
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by tomjen2 17y ago
You might have more luck if you try to datamine the incoming emails, they start to read your replies after a couple of mails.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
In principle, but you could do things like making an upvote within a clique mean a lot less than an upvote to somebody you haven't agreed with in the past; give additional weight to people who often vote outside their own cliques (so as to
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by tomjen2 17y ago
I am almost certain those exist, but I would think it would be more useful the other way around: consolidate all your email into on RSS feed.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
Well not necessarily, though it will be hard. What you basically need is an incredibly thick skin (you will be attacked from both sides of the political spectrum) and remove trolls/bad debaters with an iron fist.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
As far as I can see, they take about 3 pounds to try it out. If there is a 10% change that it will work, will 30 pounds be worth it to you?
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by tomjen2 17y ago
To be fair, that is mostly because PG writes so much about him. Unless you have spend a long time on these boards, you properly wouldn't have heard of him either.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
Anyone know how much they took as venture funding? If they only made $15-20m, then it can't be that much.
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by tomjen2 17y ago
I wonder what TSA is going to do now. The public won't stand for anal-searches each time they are going to fly, but on the other hand they would have to appear to be doing something .

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