getonit

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by getonit 15y ago
I can't help but feel we have the media we deserve, if this is the scale of reaction to Monbiot's registry... sigh
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by getonit 15y ago
Monbiot is a shining beacon of integrity, in very sharp contrast to most of his peers. Exceptionally detailed in citations, the ability to change his mind and fight furiously for a cause he was previously against (Nuclear power), and now th
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by getonit 15y ago
Ditto, but it comes with disadvantages. Apparently my concentration-face is the same as my I'm-really-bored-please-talk-to-me-even-if-you-have-nothing-to-say-face. I only listening to music around half the time, but if I'm not doing somethi
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by getonit 15y ago
http://jnorthrop.tumblr.com/post/10802288463/silk-fire-and-a...
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by getonit 15y ago
My lay-understanding of the state of quantum computing is that it works, but only up until the point where you try to look at the answer. None of the advances we see month after month have got any closer to being able to read the answer wit
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by getonit 15y ago
Dear John, Whoosh! Not my problem. Love, the Government.
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by getonit 15y ago
Every change Facebook has ever made has been met with wailing and gnashing of teeth, which blows over so quickly that it's usually a source of amusement for those who like the change.
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by getonit 15y ago
It's a public place - you probably should be somewhat less surprised and/or begrudging when it fills up with members of the public (and that's regardless of whether or not they are your kind of people, too).
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by getonit 15y ago
Beautifully explained.
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by getonit 15y ago
Having never questioned an indoctrination, religious or otherwise, is naive at best - stupid is a perfectly reasonable description, IMHO.
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by getonit 15y ago
Rolling your own framework to the standard and complexity of, say, Zend, would take an impractical amount of time. If that's the kind of thing you need, use Zend. If, however, you feel that anything more than a front controller, a registry
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by getonit 15y ago
perhaps you could compel us with some detail?
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by getonit 15y ago
It's easy to be nice when the world you live in is warm and fluffy.
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by getonit 15y ago
As long as it's illegal to shoot people who place money over other things, the disease will never be cured.
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by getonit 15y ago
http://www.heurekalab.com
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by getonit 15y ago
No, your confusion shows that - unlike the boy and half the media - you do understand the physics behind it just fine.
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by getonit 15y ago
+1 is failing miserably, as opposed to author's sense of perspective?
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by getonit 15y ago
Are all venues as professional as you appear to be?
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by getonit 15y ago
IMHO no, but I dare say that'll be the minority opinion. People don't like being reminded that they're replaceable.
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by getonit 15y ago
No-one else is stupid enough to waste their time building the things I come up with... and that's only half in jest.
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by getonit 15y ago
I don't wish to troll, but I see this a lot and I can't for the life of me figure out how anyone needs to give this any more thought than 'monospace, next question?', despite many explanations each time. Can someone shed some light on any a
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by getonit 15y ago
> People who want each link to open in a new tab/window know about Ctrl-Click or Right-Click+Open-in-new-window. Source? That's almost entirely untrue in my own experience (my audiences are quite large, quite varied, and not particularl
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by getonit 15y ago
> I don't think I would ever want to put myself in the sort of situation that trivializes the death of a child by making it equivalent to downing a pill. I would have thought he meant it the other way around.
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by getonit 15y ago
Because the Emperor is not naked, dammit, and people like me shouldn't be encouraged to spread rumors that he is :) Fear not though - as someone with an entire menagerie of unpopular opinions about programming, business and life in genera
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by getonit 15y ago
Context - In a 5 star hotel, that would be appalling. In a house you've just bought, that would be crap, but at least it works until you get to the part of the list where you remedy it. In a toolshed/garage/stable/whatever, that would be pr
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by getonit 15y ago
> A solution that requires the minimum amount of effort/energy/material and delivers the expected result As good a definition of code beauty as I've ever seen... even if not as popular.
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by getonit 15y ago
I think of this as avoiding 'premature polishing', much as I try to avoid premature optimisation. The evils are of a comparable nature, IMHO, even though I don't seem to be in the majority on that one. 'Clean lines' is my mantra. Whether it
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by getonit 15y ago
He may well be, but I will investigate elsewhere, I think. The tone of this article gives me very little confidence in the substance of it.
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by getonit 15y ago
"I'm 60. If I've got my figures right, I'll live at least 20 years, so I believe in the next 20 years we will see the first sub two-hour marathon," London Marathon race director Dave Bedford says. Wishful thinking? How does his lifespan a
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by getonit 15y ago
Indeed, but by far the bigger tragedy was in choosing the way we currently 'do nuclear' over thorium... we chose the more difficult and less safe route, in order to use the leftovers to kill more efficiently. I have little sympathy for us,

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