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by veddox 11y ago
AFAIK, the earliest fragment known of the NT dates from ~110 AD, which is only about 20 years after the last book of the NT (Revelation) was written. Considering that the oldest manuscript we have of Caesars "De Bello Gallicum" is
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by veddox 11y ago
> Greek New Testament papyri are among the oldest and rarest traces of Christian scripture. Only about 130 have been recognized by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research in Münster, Germany That's about a 125 more than for
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by veddox 11y ago
Wouldn't that be terribly inefficient? I'm hazarding a guess here, but I think that no matter what kind of networking technology you use, it's going to be dreadfully slow as compared to doing it locally. Plus, the laptop woul
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by veddox 11y ago
I've thought about them again, but no. IMO, mass surveillance can be effective, but only when it is utterly comprehensive. I.e., law enforcement monitors your conversations (audio and text), your location, your activities (shopping, wa
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by veddox 11y ago
Having grown up in a Third World country, I am oftentimes amused/annoyed by the seeming insignificance of "problems" people in the West complain about. Although the longer I live here, the more I find myself doing the same...
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by veddox 11y ago
> The authors of the paper assert that we are now in a culture that valorizes victimhood. An interesting observation. I have never thought about it that way before, but it seems plausible. What do others think about this statement? (Plea
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by veddox 11y ago
You're absolutely right - a little mass surveillance is a lot of nonsense. For it to be really effective, it has to blanket everything: emails, phone conversations, GPS location, the lot. But would you want to live in a state like that
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by veddox 11y ago
That would be a privacy nightmare. Where would all that data be sent to? And how could you be sure the phone only triggers when there really is an attack going on? Who would have access to the data? And anyway, isn't it a little late w
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by veddox 11y ago
I get the impression that "it looks good" has only fairly recently become an important design consideration for hackers. The problem is not specific to Emacs, quite a bit of Linux FOSS has a pretty ugly GUI. It's starting to
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by veddox 11y ago
I find that really annoying when people downvote a comment because they don't agree with it. IMO, the downvoting privilege should be used only to indicate a flawed argumentation or negative content.
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by veddox 11y ago
Hm, I think your data is rather skewed. Sure, most people on HN would probably self-describe as geeks, but that doesn't mean that all geeks are here! As for the Twitter and blog posts you mention, I'd put that down to a sampling b
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by veddox 11y ago
Check out Mendeley, ReadCube and Citavi. ReadCube (www.readcube.com) is focussed on organizing your personal library, though it also has an inbuilt PDF viewer with annotation capabilities and a browser for searching PubMed, Scholar et al. I
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by veddox 11y ago
C, and taking a course on algorithms and data structures.
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by veddox 11y ago
And to be honest: good riddance if a few of them disappear while doing something useful for a change ;-)
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by veddox 11y ago
Inspirational, but to be honest, I highly doubt it. Software has an extremely short life cycle compared to stone... The only softwarily architected object I can think of that might come close to the endurance and grandeur of a medieval cath
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by veddox 11y ago
> a well written program has the qualities of a good poem: You want to read it and it you can follow it easily. Have you ever read a poem by T.S. Eliot? A brilliant poet with an incredible gift for language, but I've been reading h
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by veddox 11y ago
That is something that got even ESR wondering - chief "Unix philosophy"-advocate and Emacs patriot par excellence that he is... (Although one thing that can be said for Emacs as regards the Unix philosophy is that it is progra
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by veddox 11y ago
Being both a hobby programmer and a hobby poet, I concur with the author: yes and no. There are some aspects to programming that have an aesthetic very similar to that of poetry. It is not in vain that we talk of "elegant" solutio
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by veddox 11y ago
I am a great fan of the Unix philosophy and can sympathize with the author and his points, but I really don't know how realistic the whole "make the Internet a new Unix"-scheme is. As others have pointed out, there are great
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by veddox 11y ago
> None of the great writers I know have English degrees. Off the top of my head: Tolkien and C.S. Lewis (the creators of Lord of the Rings and Narnia, respectively) were both Oxbridge professors of English.
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by veddox 11y ago
That has got to be a troll post. Nonetheless, on the danger of starting a flame war, here is a brief answer: No, Haskell is not the obvious language . Though no doubt a very nice language, it is nowhere near the top of the most commonly
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by veddox 11y ago
Why do you want to learn programming in the first place? Why not make money with something else? Learning programming is hard work and takes a long time, even for those who love it. I would recommend you look around for distance-learning co
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by veddox 11y ago
I think at 6 you needn't/shouldn't go that specific yet. If he shows interest in IT/technology, great! Help him along if he needs help, introduce him to something new once in a while, but don't focus only on that on
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by veddox 11y ago
Good answer! When I was 4 or 5, I used to ask so many questions my grandparents often wondered how my parents survived ;-) For me it was great, it fostered just that sense of curiosity that I have never lost since. It also taught me pretty
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by veddox 11y ago
> I think it's good not to obsess about limits around computing time, even if the kid just plays games. As you most definitely know from your own experience, programming and electronics - or any other creative disciplines - are not
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by veddox 11y ago
An effect like that is to be expected, but it is interesting to see some real data.
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by veddox 11y ago
Understanding recursion: If you understand it, you're fine. Otherwise, go back to the beginning.
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by veddox 11y ago
I never said that the written language is the only encoder possible. However, I am sure you agree that it is by far the most common on the Internet. Even to navigate YouTube you need to read the buttons/know what to search for! Furth
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by veddox 11y ago
Information is never just that abstract concept 'information'. Information has to be transmitted for it to be of any use. Information transmission requires a sender and a receiver, an encoding for the information that is understoo
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by veddox 11y ago
Once again, legislation is playing catch-up to technology... I'm looking forward to seeing more research done in this area. Obviously, drones give us incredible opportunities, but we need to do a cost/benefit calculation before we

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