warrenwilkinson

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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
If it did become the norm, imagine how much less downtown office space we would need.
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Unrealistic. Obama has enough on his plate with Obamacare and deciding the US role in Libya. Nor is their any reason to think that Obama will secretly control Google via Eric Schmidt. A more realistic outcome is that Eric Schmidt will find
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
I only said 'many' lose their shirts, but that might have been harsh. Many investors are just looking to store their savings. They're not Warren Buffets, they don't study markets to make educated decisions, they just go into index funds and
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
People are forced to trade, here is how: When the government needs a loan to cover its budget, they get it from the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve are charged to coin new money to provide the government (see wikipedia Federal Reserve,
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Protecting ourselves to death. This article's about consent requirements, which for the unconscious can delay treatment hours and worsen prognosis. And also that ethics panel makes trials difficult to organize, so new medicines are delaye
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
When I was younger, all I wanted to do was make video games. But as I got older, I found I had writing business apps was more fun (especially when I picked the language).
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Here is what free speech means to me. I have the suspicion that others might disagree, but it's a starting point: Free Speech means that law shouldn't punish communication. If you write a hate filled article then free speech protects you fr
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
How can one disagree with this article without being branded sexist and intolerant? She asserts there are few designers and women in open source software because men alienate them. And that we should try to make it so technical competence
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
I agree. I think any employer would be flattered with such a targeted application. But I think it could be better if she listed benefits she could bring Instagram, rather than her personality traits. She does link to a very nice resume th
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
This isn't a trial. It's just digital insults. There is no evidence criteria for that =).
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
It seems a lot of money goes into massive school complexes. In a more free education market, I think you'd see smaller neighborhood schools, which would make school switching much less costly. A teacher needs a single room, which can be in
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Governments have often censored literature, suppressed ideas and even burned books. I'd rather private businesses be involved.
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
'Economics in One Lesson' refutes this logic in its chapter "The Curse of Machinery" ( http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/chap07p1.html ). Some highlights: -- If we assert automation removes the need for labour. Then it follows that
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Funny how he treats 'static typing' as the natural order and 'dynamic typing' as the special case. I would have pegged it the other way round. Machines are typeless, its all numbers until somebody puts (or doesn't put) a type system on it
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Problems like this are why I only try for 'outwardly' functional code. Without knowing the full details, I'd speculate that they only care about the image before and after modification. So within the function, you have free reign. For exa
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
I've never heard of suntools before. I googled it and found sunView on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunView . Reminds me of Haiku OS (open source BeOS clone), Amiga, and Linux Framebuffer. All sit directly (afaik) on the kernel,
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Strongly agree =). Once I was coding assembly and I thought I might be able to avoid operating-system-specific graphic APIs by going through openGL. Unfortunately, both openGL and DirectX are C libraries. A graphics driver is just a C lib
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
It's to bad they didn't put the table of contents online as HTML. I could download the postscript but I'm bouncing instead (boiing!)
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
I can see how it would be better for you. How would this be better for the startups?
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
They were acquired by Twitter about a year ago. DabbleDB's been in export-only mode for the paste year.
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
I keep hearing proprietary data killing the Internet. But before these businesses (and Google, Facebook, etc) came about, the data wasn't on the web. The 'open' Internet is not dying, it never existed.
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
You need monads to do any IO, that's not an easy first lesson. And you are a great distance from hardware.
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
My university taught LL and LR parsing as 'compilers'. But you actually don't need anything complicated. A lisp parser is very simple, and colorForth does away with parsing entirely. Never the less, everyone pushes for yet more special case
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A free business idea. Google Analytics for printed flyers
3 points by warrenwilkinson 16y ago|2 comments
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
The link you provided does not talk about the word 'libertarian' at all, other than its author calling himself a Libertarian Socialist.
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
This is a good question. I believe a libertarian society would function well; but what about the boundarys between societies -- Could somebody live in libertopia, but operating plantations in slavtopia where the labour is cheap and fear ke
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Its sad how inconstant political terms are. Liberal today implies support for a lot of programs it didn't in Jefferson's time. I don't understand 'anarcho communism' -- wouldn't that be the overthrow of government to establish communism? H
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Is that true? When I worked in Switzerland I needed a special work visa (but I am Canadian). Switzerland isn't a part of the EU, so I don't know what restrictions are in place.
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Posterous crashes my browser (Opera 10.63, on Gentoo Linux) about 40% of the time it loads. If Opera wasn't so good at saving my tabs I'd probably have stopped using Posterous.
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
But is it really so much that you're broadcasting, or are others eavesdropping. While it would be weird to say that to a stranger, in facebook your ostensibly informing your friends. That might make difference.

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