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by zepolud 14y ago
This might the single most illuminating comment here about how this tragedy was allowed to reach its terrible conclusion. It perfectly illustrates the indifference towards unjust laws as long as they concern somebody else. And to all those
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by zepolud 14y ago
Extremely happy to see so strong and direct words. We owe him that much.
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by zepolud 14y ago
F# is a great language, and Petricek's enthusiasm for it is really inspiring. However, my major problem with the foundation in its current form is that they appear to be at least informally very closely tied to Microsoft. And I don't mean t
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by zepolud 14y ago
I've always considered Norvig's position pretty much self-evident for anybody who has dealt with real world problems. At the same time, Chomsky is still way more interesting to read, even if he's wrong. And he's wrong mostly for assuming th
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by zepolud 14y ago
Extremely happy that Mono is doing so great recently. Politics aside, the MSR people did a beautiful job designing the system and it's very saddening how it's currently misused by the mother corporation. It's good that it gets a chance to t
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by zepolud 14y ago
Not so sure about him changing his mind. A couple of weeks before the interview you posted, Gaiman was discussing the freedom of information on his blog. Pretty much all he had to say was to compare information to pizzas: "Pizza wants to be
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by zepolud 14y ago
By far the worst thing about RMS is that his far-fetched, nightmarish scenarios have the tendency to become reality in a few years.