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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Everything you say is politically true, but the reason we have judges and juries (in the US anyway, I don't know how Italy works) is that they are in a position to stop the BS.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Shouldn't surprise us to see a coalition of world governments recommending action to disempower the world's non-governments.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
"life, liberty, and pursuit of property", that is.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
> As an aside, having an ipad seems to help keep the baby entertained with interactive books, music, TV shows, musical instruments like drums and pianos. I hope you change your mind if you have kids. Living life in a 7" box is sad.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
> Offer the books to your local library. You can always visit them ;) Incorrect. Donating is nearly the same as selling them. Libraries don't lend donated books (in the common case), they dump them to a resell wholesaler for pennies on
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
The "fix" is to define an enum with one member named INSTANCE, if you need a Singleton. -- Effective Java, 2/ed, bu Josh Bloch
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Are individual users still dependent on python2 on the desktop? I thought people were supposed to migrate years ago, and automated tools did most of the work.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
It really should be part of the installation questionnaire.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Can I demand, say, that a website doesn't install some virus/spamware/malware, even if it's free?
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Well, not quite the level of praise that "it's worth the hassle of installing", but "not worth the hassle of uninstalling" is worth something, I guess.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
It's because the more customizations a user has done, the more likely they are have to have made a change that is incompatible with the upgrade process. It's the same for any OS. The only mitigation is to allow less customization of the fil
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
The global menu, meaning the Mac-style menu bar at top? That works without Unity.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
The alternativees aren't GNOME, and many liked GNOME until very recently. (Well, it's been a year or 1.5 now, I guess, from the end-user perspective. Longer in development, I guess.) It seems like Mint is trying to execute a hostile takeove
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
It's totally rational to hate fake tilt-shift, which is actually just fake tilt, as "shift" isn't involved in the process at all; it's just thrown in there by people who have no clue what they are doing, and just at blur indiscriminately to
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Luckily, the games of our youth will still be playable 10 years from now, and they are better than the current crop of games.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
SimCity actually has a very liberal design (within technical constraints) and rewards you for replacing all your roads with rail.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Surprising that the land of Pachinko doesn't have an equivalent of "I'm Feeling Lucky" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachinko
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
No, the point is that for these users, the vendor loses the $1 or whatever worth of hosting costs, not the $50 or whatever retail price.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Why on earth would you put your copy and configuration in your code base, and not in a CMS (for copy) or a database (for configuration)?
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Doesn't matter. Only the From: and Sender: matter.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
iPad can't open zip files?!
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon , Baroque Cycle , and Anathem ? Michener's novels? (How does "past sci-fi" differ from "historical fiction") Alternate history novels like Fatherland ?
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Because it's popular, so it gets clicks. It's popular because it's the fad of the moment. It's a fad because it snowballed. It snowballed because something has to be snowballing, as people want to pay attention to something , and they wan
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
"owned" comes from a different meaning originally (owning a machine, and then identifying the machine with its user), whereas as the "rape" etymology is direct, but then convergent evolution leads us to insults like "I owned you like Thomas
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
GP was bizarrely tone-deaf in his comment, but BA, QA, PM are a could vantage point form which to attack gender inequality. They are jobs expect less technical prowess, and thus leave open an opportunity for a woman to show crossover talent
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
She can, you can't. Similar to the use of "nigga" or "[black] boy" It's a (short-term) tactical subversion move to reduce the power imbalance in cases of extreme sexism, but as a long-term strategy it is incapable of reaching equality.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
'literally' means 'figuratively', figuratively. 'literally' means 'figuratively', literally, if you use 'literally' figuratively.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Did you read the paragraph you quoted? It contradicts your claim. > According to an analysis of Census Bureau data released by Reach Advisors in 2008, single childless women between ages 22 and 30 were earning more than their male count
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
It's really more of sexism against women, in the sense that nursing (and teaching) is one of a small set of careers traditionally open to women, and so they clustered. Like Jews and finance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_antisemiti

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