tormeh

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by tormeh 13y ago
This. Europe, because of lingual and cultural differences, lack the sort of high-density clusters you get in the US. There's no Cambridge, MA or bay area because moving around is such a big deal here. Berlin is the closest we have, but
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by tormeh 13y ago
The Daily Mail is like Fox News. They both carry so much stupidity and lies that it's best and much faster to just assume that they don't carry any truthful or interesting information at all. Just skip them. Not valid newssources.
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by tormeh 13y ago
That's not how capitalism works. Your earning potential increases with your capital, eventually making talent and effort negligible factors.
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by tormeh 13y ago
Quoting the Daily Fail? Seems unwise. Not even going to read it and neither should anyone else.
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by tormeh 13y ago
Ubuntu/Unity is the best desktop environment I've ever used, but Mir can go die in a fire. Completely unnecessary. Everyone who looks like they know what they're talking about thinks so, at least, and I'll go with them.
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by tormeh 13y ago
Haha, spot on :)
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by tormeh 13y ago
Money breeds money. It's just a consequence of the right to private property that this will be the most profitable strategy. It's bad, but changing it would require a huge rethink of capitalism, and the powers that be wouldn'
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by tormeh 13y ago
apt-get install nvidia-319-updates That's where they are. The drivers crash on suspend/resume, so you need the ctrl-alt-backspace combo to kill X but otherwise it's OK. Newer versions are better, but they're not included
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by tormeh 13y ago
It's not news that official recommendations lag behind scientific discovery, mostly, I suspect, because changing the recommendations too often would be confusing. This article's advice that we should disregard official recommendat
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by tormeh 13y ago
The only essential GNU software is GCC, and even GCC can be replaced with Clang for many applications nowadays. Let's not call it GNU/Linux - it's just silly.
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by tormeh 13y ago
Yes, but then you're relying on pattern-matching to define if. PM is not better than if, it's just different.
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by tormeh 13y ago
Oh boy, I'm often reminded of how lucky I am, being born in a Scandinavian country. I'm basically set for life; there's simply a comfortable lower bound on how bad things can get. I am just so completely unfairly privileged t
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by tormeh 13y ago
Object orientation isn't a bad thing per se, but everything should be done in moderation and, well, the argument can certainly be made that Java has gone a bit or two too far.
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by tormeh 13y ago
Scala? It's still a very young language, though.
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by tormeh 13y ago
Not really. Installing Linux on a computer running UEFI is perfectly possible. It's just really hard. I'm typing this on just such a machine and it involved activating BIOS emulation and then when the Ubuntu purple loading disk sc
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by tormeh 13y ago
Probably easier in Europe, is my guess. Few first-world countries are worse than the US. Note that the EU is not a uniform place, so you need to do a bit of research on which country you want. As noted previously, the Scandinavian countries
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by tormeh 13y ago
The most important thing is that China supports NK for ideological reasons. Sure, China would prefer a communist regime that isn't quite as well suited to parody, but it'll take whatever communist regime it gets for propaganda and
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by tormeh 13y ago
Code is never readable. The "self-documenting code" mantra can only be applied to edge cases and toy problems. This is simply because the human brain is really bad at reading code. The level of abstraction optimal for human consum
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by tormeh 13y ago
What? I use "females". I thought it was a clever way to get around having to choose between "girl" and "woman", as I would assume different females prefer different terms based on their self-image. I'm not
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by tormeh 13y ago
We know the Bible has been edited multiple times and disagreeable stuff chopped off. I also hear it isn't even internally logically coherent. Of course it's not reliable, but it's some of the best stuff we have from that time
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by tormeh 13y ago
Here's a novel suggestion: Ask the EU. http://europa.eu/europedirect/index_en.htm Also the US government might help you: http://export.gov/europeanunion/marketresearch/sellingusprod... S
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by tormeh 13y ago
Ahahaha! How many textbooks have you read? How many American ones? The majority of them suck. Wikipedia can usually be counted upon to be clearer. And the more academic the books are, the more they suck. Actually, I would guess that how of
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by tormeh 13y ago
Scala is my favorite language and it's really powerful and flexible, but that also makes code potentially really hard to read if the author didn't write the code with readability in mind.