whichdokta

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by whichdokta 16y ago
I'm sorry you feel that your poetry isn't any good yet. I think it was Orson Scott Card who said that everyone has about a million words of garbage in them they have to get out before they can write well.
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by whichdokta 16y ago
I'm sorry people copy your stuff. I'm not one to tell someone else how to run their business but could it be that relying on fragile concepts such as "Intellectual Property" are not a good method for gaining the ability to control and profi
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by whichdokta 16y ago
You may find this is the case with a lot of topics commonly considered 'black magic' - the real determinant IMO is whether you enjoy work that requires a high attention to detail! :)
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by whichdokta 16y ago
Us middle class white folk who didn't understand what all the fuss was really about till years later.
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by whichdokta 16y ago
Cue fond personal memories of living in South Africa in the 80s... Used to be so bad you made sure to not wear jeans&t-shirt if you were going to fly just so you didn't get pulled off the line by the Uzi wielding thugs and miss your fli
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by whichdokta 16y ago
The danger of individuals with vast pools of funding is that they can afford to cause havoc in the community & their bank accounts for years before finally giving up on ideas that are simply unsustainable inside the ecosystem we have gr
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by whichdokta 16y ago
That point which I am making. You are not getting it. If we had followed up on proposals in the 90's for distributed DNS this article would never have needed to be written. Is this so hard to grok?^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Edit: <singin'>
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by whichdokta 16y ago
So HN downvoters prefer the current centralized model of Internet name services which are vulnerable to a denial of service attack from technologically illiterate politicians? I just don't understand the world anymore. Takes all kinds I tel
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by whichdokta 16y ago
DNS is long overdue for a replacement anyway.
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by whichdokta 16y ago
If we want to routinely produce global scale startups in Africa we need to concentrate first on gaining sufficient skill to routinely produce continental scale startups.
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by whichdokta 16y ago
close the feedback loop between the obstacles of the teachers and the policies of the pencil pushers.
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by whichdokta 16y ago
Is normal, widespread behavior for humans when we are not getting what we want I think! One practice is to be more conscious of when we're not getting what we want and pay extra special attention to how we're reacting to others as a result.
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by whichdokta 16y ago
If Greg had started his post with a question along the lines of: "Dear Mark, what can GNOME do to help Canonical integrate your work & devs with upstream?" Rather than: "*omfgroflcopter* you Canonical dudes are a
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by whichdokta 16y ago
Certainly observed by this African watching both continents.
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by whichdokta 16y ago
It's a shame you feel that way, but down-voting the truth is not going to fix your economy, un-pollute your oceans nor end your wars. Feel free to shout once you've had enough and want the beatings to stop. :-)
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by whichdokta 16y ago
> Apple has investors like any other company. This move is good for the investors. Any move that is bad for the customers won't be good for investors. There is no short term vs long term thinking once you reached profitability and have
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by whichdokta 16y ago
>> b) Some other, smaller, amount along with a list of the effects you have discounted from the full amount and justification for such discounting. > Well it's certainly got to be this one since reversing every effect is entropi
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by whichdokta 16y ago
>> the dollar amount required to reverse all of the effects of the disaster >Holding the debate hostage with demands for physical impossibilities is definitely a red flag in a conversation partner. But holding the debate hostage
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by whichdokta 17y ago
'kay. HN just turned into Slashdot. I'm outtahere. Cheers, It's been fun while it lasted.
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by whichdokta 17y ago
Insurance concerns -> If the existing policies don't already cover it they can easily be extended to cover parental involvement. Teacher unions -> They are welcome to complain but fortunately they don't set school policy. Complainin
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by whichdokta 17y ago
In times of economic woe money may be scarce but time tends to be cheaper. Mayhap this is a good time for getting back into the habit of parent involvement with schooling? I somehow doubt any school with a hacker club run by a couple of sci
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by whichdokta 17y ago
"In the name of the great FSM (oh great and merciful one) I hereby declare thumb war upon you and call upon all my followers on hte twitters to hunt you down and dislocate both your opposable appendages for the great blasphemy you have comm
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by whichdokta 17y ago
Let me see if I have you right: Proposition: We do not have universal 'x' Proposition: 'y' depends on 'x' Conclusion: We should not work on 'y' until everyone has 'x' You, dear sir, fail.
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by whichdokta 17y ago
http://www.tcoffee.org/Courses/Exercises/index.html http://www.larrygonick.com/html/pub/books/sci3.html Don't laugh, excellent books!
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by whichdokta 17y ago
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
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by whichdokta 17y ago
When testing helps, test. When testing hinders, stop testing. This business of "must" and "always" anything ? Not so much. Unless your business is a lucrative hourly rate telling those who believe in "must" and "always" what they should be
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by whichdokta 17y ago
I think that in a healthy society the point of someone talking about things that make them feel uncomfortable is that you have an opportunity to spend some time thinking about how what they are saying applies to that society rather than tel
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by whichdokta 17y ago
As a musician you get this all the time as well... the songs you're most proud of play to deafening silence while the songs that could never be said to have been inspired leave the house on their feet, shedding tears and yodeling. People in
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by whichdokta 17y ago
wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-3.1.tar.gz tar xzvf smalltalk-3.1.tar.gz cd smalltalk-3.1 ./configure make
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by whichdokta 17y ago
The use of the word "only" in front of the description "an obligation" is what is really misleading. Another way of saying "we don't know who's holding the debt and who owes it" is to say: "I don't have the cash on hand to pay you what

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