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by uriel 17y ago
> The only reasonable explanation I can think of for such a terrible failure is that anti-DRM people are DDOSing the servers. Don't forget Hanlon's razor. It might be a DDoS, but given how stupid was the decision to implement such a DRM
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by uriel 17y ago
> However, prepending a sentence with "I think/I feel like..." indicates that you are not one of those frustrating people who refuses to consider other people's emotions and opinions. The only way to show that you are not one of those p
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by uriel 17y ago
> Can anybody name an example of a field of entertainment that was successfully de-nerdified? Reddit. (Or great parts of it anyway.)
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by uriel 17y ago
> I've always thought that the main reason for it is that most people are very easily threatened in their opinions, so without the "I Think", they can feel like they are being attacked. Probably because they have not thought much about
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by uriel 17y ago
And superfluous.
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by uriel 17y ago
For years I have been trying to learn not to say "I think" before every opinion I express. As Strunk&White point out: it is redundant verbiage, if you say something it is because it represents what you think, only when you are saying
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by uriel 17y ago
> The commercial speech argument is that folks who gather together for commercial activity have the same free speech rights as other folks in other circumstances. That argument doesn't imply anything about stopping other people from say
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by uriel 17y ago
It distresses me that so many people can't appreciate Naggum's genius :(
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by uriel 17y ago
Nice! And a good time to remember Erik Naggum's epic S-exps vs. XML rant: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/s-exp_vs_XML
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by uriel 17y ago
Reminds me of this wonderful scene of Yes, Prime Minister: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNKjShmHw7s
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by uriel 17y ago
It is not done in secret from big content, the RIAA, the MPAA and any lobbyist that wants has full access to the discussions, it is the public that is kept in the dark.
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by uriel 17y ago
And the same Obama that picked Biden (well known as one of the main DMCA promoters and great friend of the RIAA AND MPAA) for VP. So this is not a surprise to me, I was just trying to sarcastically point out how the claims of some Obama sup
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by uriel 17y ago
There is a missing 'd' somewhere....
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by uriel 17y ago
I thought people said that Obama really understood technology!
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by uriel 17y ago
That is a beautiful analogy! Like all analogies, it is not perfect, but it fits very well with a good naming philosophy.
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by uriel 17y ago
But there is no way to access or manipulate the blogs from app engine code (unless you url.fetch them!). Rather underwhelming.
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by uriel 17y ago
See also Structural Regular Expressions by Rob Pike: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/
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by uriel 17y ago
And it shows...
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by uriel 17y ago
The server seems to be back online, but in case it goes down again (or changes IP or whatever), I have mirrored it here: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/soap/simple
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by uriel 17y ago
Go has goto. Unlike goto as used in the linux kernel, exceptions will jump up the call stack god knows where. And in essence exceptions are not goto, but camefrom .
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by uriel 17y ago
yawn Yet one more rant completely missing the point and whining about the lack of exceptions (which at least as implemented on most languages most sensible and experienced people agree foment bad error handling practices, so the current G
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by uriel 17y ago
> Because the politicians and lobbyists who advocate for the "skeptics" are paragons of honesty and openness. You got it backwards, nobody expects any politicians and lobbyists to be paragons of honesty and openness! That is why when sc
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by uriel 17y ago
I hate Java with passion, but symlinks (and hardlinks) are really atrocious hacks that should never have happened, and for good reasons were deprecated more than twenty years ago by the folks that created Unix in the first place.
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by uriel 17y ago
> Is there any other action people in the UK can take? Yes, vote Lib Dem on the next election. Not only they have come out against this, but they also defended the drug expert that was fired.
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Recursion and concurrency with Go.(blog.notdot.net)
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by uriel 17y ago
Who knows, this might work: http://seasteading.org/ At least until Carmack manages to build rockets that can take us somewhere further away from all the insane people in this planet and their suicidal tendencies.
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by uriel 17y ago
That was after they had refused to give him the award for a few years.
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by uriel 17y ago
Copyright are government granted monopolies. That it has resulted in a huge industry that lives out of rent seeking and produces nothing of value is hardly surprising, and as technology threatens their rotten business models expect their gr
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by uriel 17y ago
This is what otherwise is known as a racket
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by uriel 17y ago
> It's an oddly syntax-focused comparison Specially given the many syntax mistakes on the Go examples he uses for comparison. He is comparing two languages he has clearly never used to do any substantive programming. The whole thing is

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