torpor

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by torpor 17y ago
Tell him. If he doesn't /take/ responsibility, it doesn't change the fact that his life is his own and whatever he is experiencing, belongs to him alone.
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by torpor 17y ago
A person is responsible for their own mental condition. Period. That is what this placebo situation demonstrates, more than anything. YOU are responsible for YOUR condition.
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by torpor 17y ago
I think it solves an ego inefficiency more than a market one. If it solved a market one, we wouldn't know until well and truly after a market had been established and true scales of economy observed. So far that hasn't happened yet.
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by torpor 17y ago
Bomb detectors are designed to pick up traces of nitrates, the theory being that if you are making a DIY bomb, you're going to go the ammonia-nitrate route. Nitrates exist in fertilizer - and thats what folks make bombs out of. Weed is ofte
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by torpor 17y ago
While I concur that the Cult of Personality problem is pretty high in the Ruby world, I would like to say that I'm not a Ruby programmer, and really wasn't very interested in Ruby at all .. until I encountered _why's "shoooes" project. I h
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by torpor 17y ago
Weed often sets off the bomb sensors, since the high concentration of fertilizers produce similar signatures ..
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by torpor 17y ago
As a professional C coder for 20+ years, with well over a million lines of code under my belt, I can tell you that anyone that is ignoring warnings because of a buggy compiler is using the wrong compiler and should fix that immediately . I
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by torpor 17y ago
Erm, wut? Not really. If there is a warning, its there for a reason. Fix that.
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by torpor 17y ago
How to avoid (if you're a C programmer) writing utterly terrible code - always include these WARNINGS in your build step: WARNINGS := -Wall -W -Wunused-parameter -Wmissing-declarations WARNINGS += -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -W
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by torpor 17y ago
I dunno, I've done a lot of work with SVG, and I find the verbosity to be quite useful. It really depends on how you decide to use it - for me, its an excellent container format once you have coded a little controller-view abstraction. For
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by torpor 17y ago
I remember being able to load images in a browser for the first time. My first thought was "uh oh" .. then my next thought was "wonder if I can use this to go to nntp://alt.binaries.pictures..." My how far we've come.
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by torpor 17y ago
I absolutely despise 'location aware' software that assumes that because I've crossed the border, I want to speak that language. It happens to me with my iPhone all the time and its bothersome, frankly.
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by torpor 17y ago
One thing that I have found that helps with exactly this situation, and I have suffered it as well over the years, is to move your focus from one end of the spectrum to the other. That is, if you have to spend your daylight hours grokking
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by torpor 17y ago
Ah, well I was not aware of this - you learn something new every day. Glad you explained this to me, because it seems that its a common perception, even if its not true, that Google apps need a 'net connection. I will now investigate the
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by torpor 17y ago
I am Australian, living in Austria. My two year old son speaks German and English now. It is an awesome thing to see him understand English speakers, and reply in German, and vice verse. I also speak German, but he is really teaching m
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by torpor 17y ago
One thing Microsoft has that Google doesn't: the ability to keep working even when the 'net goes down. People who think the 'net doesn't go down: haven't used it long enough, in a production environment.
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by torpor 17y ago
We have 3 XO's in the house. None of them work much. Well, one of them has been drawn on by the 2 year old who loves to play TamTamJam on it, but thats all. Everything else is borked, and to be honest I just can't be bothered administeri
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by torpor 17y ago
They'd have to unwrap the instructions (hard-wire, literally) to get to the meat of it, and even then there's no guarantee they'd be able to put it all back together again. Better that it just remains curious, and that we don't use AGC Vers
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by torpor 17y ago
I work on SIL-4 systems for Rail (Transportation, not fancy web framework de-jour) applications .. the code I spent a year slaving over to ensure it is as bug-free as can possibly be rendered, won't ship to our customers until next year, an
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by torpor 17y ago
Israel: We are gods children, you are scum. We will steal your land! Palestine: Our children are dying in the streets, we live in a ghetto of Israeli design, we will fight you with whatever we have. Israel: We have nukes. We will use them
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by torpor 17y ago
Israel is engaged in Nuclear Blackmail. That is why this is significant, and many Israelis are aware of this fact. It holds its nuclear arsenal in conditions guaranteed to instill fear in governments around the world, and if indeed the Isr
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by torpor 17y ago
The way this works is simple: The Browser becomes the OS. Where you had an abstraction protected by API's in a previous OS, you now just have an interface provided to you by the local client (browser). All of this can be abstracted easily
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by torpor 17y ago
>I've heard about and seen experiences with other mobile platforms that are equally as bad, but it's really disappointing when Apple comes out with this phone that changes the smartphone market but then just keeps this backwards and non
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by torpor 17y ago
I have pretty much given up on iPhone development .. for now. Hopefully things will change, but when I compare the experience of gathering 10,000 users on Android in a single release after an hour, with waiting for Apples blessing for week
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by torpor 17y ago
Ayn Rand. That is all.
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by torpor 17y ago
Could: AND SHOULD.
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by torpor 17y ago
How to not get blown up by an IED in Afghanistan: Go home to your own country and fix its problems.
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by torpor 17y ago
You can't run Linux software on it - that is, software designed to be run on a normal Linux system. Thus, its not a Linux distribution. They could just as easily have chosen ChorusOS or vxWorks or some other kernel .. the only advantage th
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by torpor 17y ago
Discipline is a decision. That is all. You decide to goof off. Be responsible for making your decisions, and you will find a way towards better discipline. You could say that discipline is "recognition of having made a decision" ..
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by torpor 17y ago
This whole article can be summarized in one word: DISCIPLINE. Reading about how to stop being un-productive is .. well .. unproductive. Not getting shit done? Go do something!

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