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by zcrar70 18y ago
Please note that the subtitle for this blog is 'Understanding global events and their security implications for America'.
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by zcrar70 18y ago
Our society needs diversity to thrive. If we have a society made up of only people that know 'useful' things (or what is considered useful today, as this changes through time), it becomes vulnerable, in the same way that a population with a
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by zcrar70 18y ago
java.util.Date, java.util.Calendar
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Our society as a whole benefits from diversity, in the same way that humanity benefits from a wide gene pool. If you bias heavily towards similarity, you end up with a highly specialised but weak society. Like etal, I won't speculate on wha
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New bird flu cases suggest the danger of pandemic is rising(independent.co.uk)
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by zcrar70 18y ago
I don't actually think that's an invalid comment, or particularly Mary Poppins for that matter - that's the premise behind 'crowdsourcing'. The idea that truth will prevail in the end seems to be likely overall but, in the same way that mar
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by zcrar70 18y ago
Pretty depressing reading, but good on him for trying to spread the word. I'm sorry that the chances of getting a professorship in humanities is small, but I'm even sorrier that there doesn't seem to be many/any viable careers for a humanit
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Is the west thwarting Arab plans for reform?(ft.com)
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by zcrar70 18y ago
I actually prefer Ubuntu, but I guess that's a matter of taste.
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The green shoots are weeds growing through the rubble in the ruins of the global economy(blogs.ft.com)
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Effectively this means that there is no such thing as right and wrong and what we are left with is shallow consensus (as opposed to a reasoned consensus) at best, and application of force at worst. I think that society defines morality -
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by zcrar70 18y ago
I wonder how easily their approach could be gamed by companies trying to improve their credit rating; presumably, this would be more difficult if there were several places that the 'crowdsourcing' was taking place? Also, not to be too facet
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by zcrar70 18y ago
I actually think that this article is confusing two things, the fact that the technology has evolved to make music more accessible (even omnipresent), and the fact that there are a lot of people producing music at the moment. Whilst one may
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by zcrar70 18y ago
Yi sounds like a good alternative to Vi and Emacs: the philosophy of Vi, with the extensibility of Emacs. The catch? It's written in, and it's extension language is, Haskell (which is why I've never used it.)
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You're joking, right?
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True, but the upcoming devices (only the HTC Magic as far as I can see) don't seem that much more appealing than the G1. I like that the G1 has a physical keyboard, that's pretty much the main reason I bought mine (as opposed to waiting for
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by zcrar70 18y ago
I'm not sure if you're staying that Android is or isn't what non-technical users really want, but Android also has an App Store. Unlike the iPhone AppStore, users can also install applications that don't come from the Android AppStore i
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by zcrar70 18y ago
Oh, let's not have rumors on HN. From the guidelines: > anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
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by zcrar70 18y ago
Developers (in consultancies) usually charge by the hour too, but thankfully we don't tend to get screwed over that often. My GF works in advertising/design, and things are pretty much the same there; work on pitches for free, then get paid
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by zcrar70 18y ago
I actually thought that the article made a couple of interesting points (e.g. the dangers of monopolies), but then undermined them completely by launching into a biased and almost hysterical rant (e.g. associating the problems caused by new
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Almost Perfect (the story of WordPerfect)(codinghorror.com)
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by zcrar70 18y ago
ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC are actually completely different (even though they share the same name) - ASP.NET MVC is an MVC framework, just like Rails (and Django, mostly), whereas ASP.NET is component-oriented. I would use ASP.NET MVC over AS
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Microsoft releases ASP.NET MVC under the (OSI-approved) MS-PL open source license(tirania.org)
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Life: a medical condition(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by zcrar70 18y ago
What was that about limiting the amount of CodingHorror posts on HN? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=510309 This wasn't uninteresting though.
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by zcrar70 18y ago
No - the extent of America's financial dominance in the 20th century was not the result of a single event (the Great Depression), but of three; WW1 (in which Britain lost its position of financial dominance), the Great Depression (in which
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by zcrar70 18y ago
> you never know when the good karma from those favours will come back to you! I think you may have inadvertently provided the definition of 'douchebag' that you accused the poster of missing :-) Less facetiously, I think he was referri
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by zcrar70 18y ago
That does sound pretty impressive - given the apparent importance of low lag in multiplayer FPS to the hardcore gaming community (of which I'm not part, so this is just hearsay), I'm not sure how easy it would be to convince hardcore gamers
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by zcrar70 18y ago
That article was interesting, but didn't really seem to go anywhere - I was expecting him to bring up something about 'The dangers of operating a Tor exit node' (posted earlier today), or perhaps even a reflection on the legal status of Tor
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by zcrar70 18y ago
Powershell is pretty cool, but its syntax takes a little getting used to. I keep wondering why they chose to create a new syntactic paradigm when they are already so many around...

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