william42

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by william42 15y ago
Considering that animated advertisements are the scourge of the Internet, if it weren't for the legitimate uses of the things you mention, I'd consider the crippledness a feature. Advertisements should be text or images. Even animated GIFs
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by william42 15y ago
And that's why so many of them have gone to jail recently...oh wait.
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by william42 15y ago
Sidenote: JFactor is an outdated implementation and I haven't heard anything about it being revived. Factor has compiled to native code for years now.
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by william42 15y ago
Actually, Feynman had exactly this criticism of the way biology was taught; that the students memorized way too many things that they could just look up(and this was pre-Google, mind you!)
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by william42 15y ago
Don't bother leaving Ubuntu, just install XFCE, gnome-panel[1], or make a leap into the world of the tiling WM with the package awesome[2]. [1]I think this is the name of the Gnome 2 package. Personally, I couldn't stand Gnome 2 and even p
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by william42 15y ago
So has anyone found any privacy-compromising code in the open-source Chromium? Nope? What about Firefox or Opera(which are mostly Google-funded now)? Nope? Anyone? Bueller?
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by william42 15y ago
Because, all else being equal, writing your code in one language is better than writing your code in two languages.
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by william42 15y ago
To be fair, he attached a keyboard to it and worked mostly through ssh.
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by william42 15y ago
Not as much as you would think. Most people don't quite like the US but vastly prefer us to, say, China.
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by william42 15y ago
Berlusconi thinks the same thing.
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by william42 15y ago
Only one deserves legal punishment. Hate speech should be punished with verbal attacks.
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by william42 15y ago
I thought we were still in a recession.
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by william42 15y ago
At least we can give away our decision making to a myriad of sources, instead of picking between three television channels and the town crier.
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by william42 15y ago
Okay, how about this: If I write a blog post that mentions you, you should be allowed to have it deleted, because people should have the right to control their own data, and what data is more important than the ability to control what comes
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by william42 15y ago
Looking at the homepage, it says that the most popular pages were converted into static form, and now they're trying to sell the domain.
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by william42 15y ago
Yeah, but why would you want to implement Joy[1] when Factor[2] exists? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language) [2] http://factorcode.org/
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by william42 15y ago
From the URLs, it looks like a prequel.
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by william42 15y ago
Does anyone have a @facebook.com other than Facebook employees?
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by william42 15y ago
The more I think about this stuff, the more I think there's almost a Smeed's Law[1] for communities, where the content quality is statistically dominated by the size of the community and not much else. But this would be next-to-impossible
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by william42 15y ago
That's not true; the law of diminishing returns applies.
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by william42 15y ago
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/US_Histor... If you look at this, you can see that gold is more volatile and spiky.
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by william42 15y ago
He's probably trying to claim that the 10x increase in the price of gold over the past ten years is a 10x decrease in the value of the USD rather than a speculative bubble in gold. (And even if it were, it wouldn't be remotely comparable
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by william42 15y ago
http://falkvinge.net/2011/05/29/why-im-putting-all-my-saving... "the currency has increased in value one-thousandfold against the US dollar in fourteen months. Yes. Read that again: one-thousandfold, fourteen months. There is currently no
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by william42 15y ago
Luakit is definitely an interesting project. I'm checking it out, but I'm not ready to make it my primary browser, if only because the user documentation is bad enough that the best way for me to figure out how to open a URL is to read the
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by william42 15y ago
http://www.plos.org/
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by william42 15y ago
I didn't hate Unity, but I did hate that compiz started randomly crashing my GPU, so I ended up switching to xmonad and then awesome, and I couldn't be happier with awesome.
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by william42 15y ago
To be fair, if you look for it, you'll find it everywhere, because of confirmation bias.
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by william42 15y ago
Actually, it's probably a Discordian thing. Eris and Fives and all.
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by william42 15y ago
Well, the Golden Ratio is one plus the square root of FIVE divided by two.
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by william42 15y ago
The problem is that the $5000 isn't being distributed evenly. The schools that rich kids go to, public or private, get orders-of-magnitude more funding than the ones poor kids go to.

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