RichardFord

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by RichardFord 12y ago
I always enjoy seeing small scandanavian tactics (Norway, Sweden, Finland) tactics against German, Russian juggernauts.
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by RichardFord 12y ago
I'm guessing in about 20 years you'll start seeing propaganda to force it. But that's just the beginning. After that you'll start seeing some kind of kill switch being mandatory. Then you'll start seeing more re
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by RichardFord 12y ago
Python and Ruby aren't dominant against C#, Java, and C++. JavaScript is in its own category since you kind of have to use it.
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by RichardFord 12y ago
Unlike in the United States, where freedom of expression is a fundamental right that supersedes other interests, Europe views an individual’s privacy and freedom of expression as almost equal rights. Except everybody knows that the right
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by RichardFord 12y ago
Sadly? If COBOL was the lingua franca of the web would it be sadly?
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by RichardFord 12y ago
This is a step in the right direction. I'm always looking for new tools that help in understanding code bases and streamline workflows. The inline table is cool. I like the idea of embedded documentation like that, as long as its str
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by RichardFord 12y ago
Yeah, she was way too gung-ho about potentially forcing this stuff on people via the water supply. But I'm not surprised that an academic would want to social-engineer this way.
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by RichardFord 12y ago
So essentially you agree that at least a quasi-totalitarian world will be needed in order to "protect" the environment. Of course, your premise is that people will just roll over and take it. A more likely scenario is a world wa
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by RichardFord 12y ago
Predictable? There's autocratic regimes out there where life is much more predictable. We probably more laws to keep government and other autocratic shitbags in check.
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by RichardFord 12y ago
Yeah, it's always the other guy that needs strict parenting from the government right?
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by RichardFord 12y ago
There is no "our goal as society". But the vast majority of people that care about running Matlab, Octave don't share your goal.
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by RichardFord 12y ago
Yep, the socialist/statist European downvoting mafia is on the march on this story as usual
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by RichardFord 12y ago
Except we all know it's not about safety.
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by RichardFord 12y ago
Emacs is my preferred text editor. I don’t use old-fashioned text editors as much as I used to, because I often need more specialized tools. I use IDEs for various programming languages and other things when producing high quality documen
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by RichardFord 12y ago
My comment about Android was all about market share and nothing about the quality.
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by RichardFord 12y ago
The author (and others who use desktop Linux) can't be happy with his personal choice of desktop. Instead he's bitter and angry that others don't make the same choice that he does. That's way too common in many facets o
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by RichardFord 12y ago
I really like Dylan, but it has a huge problem that never gets discussed - verbosity. The syntax is entirely too verbose for a modern language. My suggestion would be to first complete the Intellij plugin and then actually change the synt
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by RichardFord 12y ago
I pay about $75 for 2 gigabytes from Verizon, so I don't know where these numbers are coming from.
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by RichardFord 12y ago
I'm loving the .NET framework as a career. When it comes down to it we have 2 major choices to choose from - Java and .NET framework, with a smattering of Python around. Given those two choices I'll take C# any day over Java. Wh
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by RichardFord 12y ago
It's going in the wrong direction. Instead of empowering people to make good decisions, you're advocating putting a government gun to the heads of people to make them make healthy choices. So are you going to throw more people in
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by RichardFord 12y ago
I have a feeling the only thing that will stop the obesity epidemic is heavy food regulation which people will fight tooth and nail against People rightfully should fight against that heavy regulation. You don't want to go down that
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by RichardFord 12y ago
Blah..blah..blah, "the rich are psychopaths"...blah, blah. This is just more classwarfare, neo-marxist drivel from a predictable rag like the guardian
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by RichardFord 12y ago
According to Banga, in addition to being bad for MasterCard, cash is bad for countries and governments. Yeah, if you're of the mindset that everything that anybody purchases should be tracked and scrutinized.
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by RichardFord 12y ago
What's interesting and disturbing about your comment is that you barely touch on what is supposed to be the whole purpose of the law - privacy. I think you understand that this is all about censorship, but still support it.
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by RichardFord 12y ago
They had come up with an excuse to use as an opening salvo for censorship, so they came up with "right to be forgotten".
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by RichardFord 12y ago
Dylan was a victim of bad timing if anything. Apple was in the middle of its worst period when they shelved it. And then Java came along and the third parties that were working on independent implementations got steamrolled by that. It&#
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by RichardFord 12y ago
Natalie Portman and hot grits in your pants.
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by RichardFord 12y ago
I can't stop using vi key bindings, whether that's Evil for Emacs, VsVim for Visual Studio, the Intellij one, Sublime, etc.. But my days of using straight Vim are over. For a straight text editor, I finally got over the hump with
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by RichardFord 12y ago
All I can off is anecdotal information from talking to Americans when I'm down there, and the middle class don't understand how poor they are in America compared to their wealthy. They seem to feel that they're almost wealth
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by RichardFord 12y ago
No, why should it? Just because we've learnt neoliberalism is flawed doesn't mean we should unlearn that statism was also disastrous (in different ways). Thanks for keeping on making my point :) There is no "we". The

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