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Comment · 7 years ago
"Massive arrests" is another.
Comment · 7 years ago
I wonder if the Lindy effect applies to undetected hoaxes, and what the longest uptime might be.
Comment · 7 years ago
How about the opposite direction? Instead of needing parentheses in a language with infix notation, can parentheses be removed in a language with prefix notation (like Lisp)?

Is elegant composition possible with prefix notation and some whitespace and indentation instead of parentheses everywhere?

I think it might be.

Comment · 13 years ago
They don't work. "Verbatim", which claims to be what "" used to be, does not work either. Nothing to be done about it.
Comment · 13 years ago
Yes, because pieces of paper given out by men with guns are the font of all truth.

ADD: Fuck this statist cesspool.

Comment · 13 years ago
Because anything that requires running a database is burdensome, and even those of us who roll our own services are becoming less patient with software that requires hand-holding just to walk.
Comment · 13 years ago
According to this article, they were never trying to create Windows on ARM, just another locked-down walled garden a la the iPhone app store.
Comment · 13 years ago
No, just as with Slashdot, I see it as very vocal but a definite minority, at least in terms of posts and comments.
Comment · 13 years ago
Funny, we both see the same algorithms, but I see the exact opposite results.
Comment · 13 years ago
"If they can't even get search right, who would trust them with anything more?"
Comment · 13 years ago
Me: "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!"

Them: crickets

Comment · 13 years ago
The heck with the prices. They not only won't tell you how much it costs, they will practically come right out and tell you that you, as one of the Great Unwashed, will never be able to buy one of these. Because they won't sell to you, period, for any amount of money, unless you're some kind of incorporated fictional creation that's willing to enter into all kinds of onerous contracts before they're even willing to speak to you further.
Comment · 13 years ago
Keep in mind this quote comes from the same man who said, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

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