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by dobro 14y ago
> Regarding your #4: just shut up. The problem with racism is not that it targets people of color. It's that it targets them in order to treat them bad. The KKK wouldn't be any better if they targeted people blindly. So, I take offense
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by dobro 14y ago
> These are the Chinese we're talking about.. Is this supposed to mean that the Chinese are too tame and subservient? They already had a huge communist revolution -- and two more revolutions in the last 120 years (the Boxer and the Hsi
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by dobro 14y ago
> I don't know why people focus so much on "default" desktop environments. No desktop is more supported than another one, as long as there is a package That's not true. The "default" gets much more attention from users, and most new us
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by dobro 14y ago
> There is no place for humor or overly subjective terms like "evil" in a software license or other legal document, and the problem with Douglas Crockford's license is that he fails to understand that. No, the problem is that the other
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by dobro 14y ago
>It's almost as if the market, left to its own devices, doesn't always make the best long-term decisions when short-term benefit weighs in opposition. It does not. To say it does is an extraordinary claim with deserves extraordinary p
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by dobro 14y ago
People that "stopped reading" after some point, but still went on to rant about an article, rarely provide any useful insight. Case in point. Oh, and "those two things" are not unrelated. His argument is that Firefox never drove UI innovati
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by dobro 14y ago
That it can be cumbersome for an expat, doesn't mean it's not a broadening experience and an intellectual delight. For broadening experience, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/
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by dobro 14y ago
> Human translators are so expensive today that they are only used in situations where the translation has to be correct -- diplomacy, courtrooms, books, etc. Professional translators and trained interpreters yes. But thousands of peop
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by dobro 14y ago
No, looks interesting, I'll check it out. Thanks.
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by dobro 14y ago
> How am I supposed to know which is best? Do I need a degree in Keynesian economics or can I just listen to a few talking heads on the local news? You're not supposed to vote for what is "best". You are supposed to vote for what you W
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by dobro 14y ago
V8 for Javascript is also that much faster than Ruby/Python in almost all benchmarks. And Javascript is as dynamic as Ruby is. Seriously, even V8, speed wise is up there with Go and even faster in most cases: http://shootout.alioth.debian.
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by dobro 14y ago
Exactly as you described it. I had the privilege to discuss the issue with the late Russell Means ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Means ) a few years ago. What's disgusting is that the abuse continues to this very day. First they w
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by dobro 14y ago
> Revenue also increased from the previous year, coming in at $35 billion. However, analysts expected much more for the quarter, estimating EPS of $10.35, and revenue of $37.2 billion. So,let me get this straight: 1) Apple consistently
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by dobro 14y ago
Well, Hitler was inspired by the american concentration camps for native americans to build his own concentration camps for Jews: “Hitler’s concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much, so he claimed, to