tspiteri

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by tspiteri 13y ago
Sure, there is more to "programming" than "coding", but there is also more to racing than driving and we still call F1 drivers "drivers". And there are very valid programmers who call it "coding".
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by tspiteri 13y ago
This was not about judging, it was just a bit of fun.
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by tspiteri 13y ago
with anything vaguely socialist being absolutely taboo This is not true, at least not in Europe. Most countries have some form of universal health care, and there are benefits for people who do not work, etc. That is more than vaguely soc
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by tspiteri 13y ago
I find the thought of having punishment inversely proportional to chance-of-getting-caught disturbing. Because if the risk of getting caught is very small (which is the very case the system would be addressing), the punishment would necessa
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by tspiteri 13y ago
I was not specific enough. I should have said if someone takes part in a protest against all meat products. You are right: it is not hypocritical to campaign against inhumane treatment of animals but not against humane butchering.
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by tspiteri 13y ago
I found it here: http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/horse-care/horse-care-tips/ca... The relevant part follows: Originally “fighting teeth”, they have no occlusal contact, i.e. the opposing upper and lower canines do
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by tspiteri 13y ago
Horses had canines for fighting, not for eating.
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by tspiteri 13y ago
If it works for you, fine. But I object to you calling people who eat what they do not kill hypocrites. If someone takes part in a protest against meat products because of animal suffering, and then eats meat or wears leather, they are hypo
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by tspiteri 13y ago
Only if you can get another job easily. And I don't think this scheme is meant for those people, those people may very well be excluded from the scheme altogether.
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by tspiteri 13y ago
What you say is mostly correct, but some stuff Ryanair does seems to be gratuitous pissing off of customers. I only had an issue once, but I hated Ryanair during that flight. My last appointment before the flight took longer than expected,
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by tspiteri 13y ago
Then you have the situations where a check mate is possible but cannot be forced. King and two knights against king cannot force a check mate, but if the player with the lone king knows what they're doing and wants to get check mated,
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by tspiteri 13y ago
The issue I have is with the use of the touch screen for page turning. I prefer the touch screen to the awkward keys of the Kindle Keyboard's keyboard for everything else, but I really miss the physical page turn buttons. I would prefe
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by tspiteri 13y ago
With a 20% VAT rate, I buy something at 1.20 (1 + 0.20 VAT). So in effect I paid 0.20 as tax. Then I sell it at 1.80 (1.50 + 0.30 VAT). So I have collected 0.30 as tax. But I do not pass on all of the 0.30 tax to the government, I subtract
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by tspiteri 13y ago
Maybe it depends on the hardware; battery performance on my MacBook Air 3,2 with Fedora 19 is very good.
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by tspiteri 13y ago
Children are not born smart in much the same way that children are not born strong. Of course, some children are born with more potential smartness, just like some children are born with more potential strength. But they still need the envi
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by tspiteri 13y ago
The point is not about C++ vs Java, it is rather about writing C++ like you would write Java, which leads to leaks.
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by tspiteri 13y ago
Please do not submit professional troll articles.
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by tspiteri 13y ago
The FSF freedom is not about giving freedom to developers, BSD-style licenses give more freedom to developers. The FSF wants to give freedom to the users, not the developers, and believes that code which is not open and free is a threat to
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How ancient crocodiles flourished in the age of the dinosaurs(bristol.ac.uk)
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by tspiteri 13y ago
Why is he being an a-hole? There are times to be civil, and times to be blunt. The original petition disparagingly calls Linux "a NSA approved partner", and boldly claims that removing a feature from the kernel would improve secur
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by tspiteri 13y ago
I used an Aeropress for quite some time. I stopped using it because it wastes a lot of coffee. I used to need a lot more grounds in an Aeropress for the same strength and quantity of coffee. And it was a pity to waste good coffee beans.
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Changing the Transistor Channel(spectrum.ieee.org)
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What makes people click?(bris.ac.uk)
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by tspiteri 13y ago
How? I can see no way this argument can be used against the metric system. The abacus method is a fundamentally different way of doing arithmetic, that's why the abacus guy didn't know numbers. But metric and non-metric are fundam
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by tspiteri 13y ago
with such a great variety of features the learning curve would be rising very slowly over time. That is not necessarily true. The point behind C++11 is to provide new features that are easier to learn than the features they replace. So C+
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by tspiteri 13y ago
The ranking in the front page is affected by flagging. Usually, the more points a post has and the more recent it is, the higher it is ranked. But flagging pushes it down. So if you see a 100 point post submitted 10 hours ago above a 150 po
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by tspiteri 13y ago
I really dislike this kind of flame. The author got banned over a year ago, and now, because of the recent threads on the "No." in the gnome-terminal bug, the author tries to fan the fire by bringing this up. Then, he posts his blog post on
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by tspiteri 13y ago
True, I would not buy anything which is DRM-protected unless I knew how to remove the DRM restrictions. I buy quite a few Kindle books, but only because it's easy to remove their restrictions. I don't share the DRM-free books over the inter
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by tspiteri 14y ago
Those coin renderings look a lot like coins.
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by tspiteri 14y ago
But if you move towards making proprietary currency the only way to pay in a given area, it seems shady to me. Somehow, I doubt Amazon plan to remove the other payment options.

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