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by voyou 13y ago
If you want to persuade people of the benefits of direct democracy, you probably don't want to bring up the California initiative system as an example. Ballot initiative's in California are part of the reason the state's gove
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by voyou 13y ago
Hmm... You know, they could pre-deliver popular items to local BufferBoxes. And then, as they've got those items already in the space, they could let people look at them to help them decide if they want to buy them right there.
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by voyou 13y ago
"Welcome to the educated new world; where education matters." Right. So why is this school wasting children's time and energy with busywork, rather than teaching them effectively during the allotted time at school?
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by voyou 13y ago
TBH I preferred this story when it was an Onion article: http://www.theonion.com/articles/two-hipsters-angrily-call-e...
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by voyou 13y ago
Yes, I don't understand this, either. Note that a) the Intel X driver does not, AFAICT, have any special code to support Wayland and b) the code Ubuntu want to add appears to be for XMir, which is an X server that runs on top of Mir, n
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by voyou 13y ago
"create a standard for a VM that other languages can compile bytecode to. Create an API in this VM for graphics, video, audio." There already is a standard VM with an API for graphics, video and audio - it's called HTML5, and
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by voyou 13y ago
I'm not convinced a book in which two scientists attempt to polemicise against humanities academics not understanding science, and end up demonstrating that they don't understand a number of authors in the humanities, is a particu
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by voyou 13y ago
The paucity of imagination in this post is depressing. Markdown isn't the future, it's the past. I mean that literally - markdown is a formalization of a set of kludges to approximate formatting when using the technology of 1970s
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by voyou 13y ago
Why not render the current line in HTML too?
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by voyou 13y ago
"I don't know of any other system that allows this except just plain text." How about any WYSIWYG editor? The simplest syntax is no syntax.
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by voyou 13y ago
I don't think that's right; at least, a quick test on the browser I'm using right now (Chrome 29) suggests otherwise, as do this guy's tests from last year: http://timkadlec.com/2012/04/media-qu
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by voyou 13y ago
But if you work for 200 hours a week you'ld accomplish the same in only 2 months. Think about that, Elon so-called Musk.
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by voyou 13y ago
The problem is, once you make the definition more specific, like this, the idea that "cards are the future" starts looking much more dubious - I'm not sure any of the examples of supposed "cards" in the post fit t
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by voyou 13y ago
"But a college education is so, so much more than just taking classes and getting good grades. It is about developing as a person, finding yourself." Yes, and, furthermore, its because of similar intangibles that companies like Go
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by voyou 13y ago
The analogy doesn't really help the argument, either. "Here are two companies that are massively successful primarily because of branding. So, clearly, the even more significant branding of higher education will be unsuccessful.&q
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by voyou 13y ago
There should be a name for the fallacy of drawing a specific, practical conclusion from an abstract or metaphysical premise. "Vitalism is false, therefore Soylent is a good idea" is such a fallacious argument. Clearly, the premise
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by voyou 13y ago
Yes: here's an interesting discussion of promises (in JavaScript) in terms of monads: http://blog.jcoglan.com/2011/03/11/promises-are-the-monad-of...
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by voyou 13y ago
AIUI, multiple Go slices can access the same underlying array, whereas each C++ vector has its own storage. The C++ equivalent to a Go slice would be a pair of iterators. C++'s system is more flexible, though; I think you can only obta
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by voyou 13y ago
They won't read them, but they might weigh them. The point of writing to MPs about policies can't really be to engage with them in an individual debate, but to form one tiny part of a mass of opinions which might persuade the MP.
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by voyou 13y ago
Better title: "Why I should have written ZeroMQ in C++, not C++ without exceptions."
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by voyou 13y ago
When you save your passwords in Chrome, it tells you that it's saving your passwords. If you don't think that that implies that the passwords will be retrievable at a later date, I don't think you understand what the word &qu
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by voyou 13y ago
The disadvantage of Twitter's approach, though, is that it requires the thing that holds the private key to connect to the internet to verify the request. This increases the attack surface (and is potentially a pain if your phone doesn
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by voyou 13y ago
Ugh, that looked good until I got to the bit about using Markdown. I'm not using a vt100 terminal, for gods sake, I can handle an editing system that understands basic formatting.
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by voyou 13y ago
"They are running it like an editorialized magazine." This is the odd thing about Medium - it's a bit like an editorialized magazine but with no editorial line or identity. If I want to read people writing about academic arts
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by voyou 13y ago
That tutorial is deeply unimpressive. It seems very excited about APL having functions, and not directly mapping to machine-level constructs. In 1962 I can imagine that being impressive (if you weren't familiar with Lisp or ALGOL); tod
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by voyou 13y ago
Ah, feature flags. The "hack up your own substitute for version control" model of version control.
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by voyou 13y ago
"It seems hard to prove anything interesting in a system that precludes self-reference." Indeed, isn't that one of the important features of Goedel's proof: that any system that can express basic arithmetic is capable of
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by voyou 13y ago
Thanks, that's interesting, and makes me realise how much my Twitter use is conditioned by being pseudonymous and, as a result, almost entirely freely-chosen relationships. I only really follow people because I'm interested in wha
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by voyou 13y ago
It might imply that, but such an implication is clearly inaccurate. The Tumblr rep quoted in the linked article says "Adult and NSFW content will be visible to anyone who has opted-in via their Settings page."
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by voyou 13y ago
I wonder why this is blowing up today? It's not a brand new policy: it's been largely the same since at least April 29 of this year, i.e., before Yahoo bought Tumblr: http://web.archive.org/web/20130426023137&

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