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I assumed they had redundant servers with consensus algorithms in place in finance but apparently they don't. Would it be impractical?

> If you quote William Gibson's analysis of Japanese society as authoritative or insightful, you already lose. Gibson's social commentary has always had a strong element of pseudointellectual profundity masquerading as depth.

Could you point out some specific flaws in this or other Gibson's essays?

How fast are they compared to Delphi? Fast compiling was definitely one of Delphi's main selling points back in the day.

Alternatively, this might be a chance to persuade Japanese legislators to allow your human cloning startup there.

Can't you weaponize non-nuclear EMP?

Nimrod is a lot like a modernized Pascal with a Python-like syntax.

There's no need to invent a derisive (or at least an apparently derisive) nickname for a language simply because you dislike it or its community.

There's also Classic shell, which is free software. While I prefer Start8 I think that Windows 8 with either is in no way worse than Windows 7.

Are there any LGBT scholarships you could apply for?

The whole notion of desert or lack thereof seems pretty iffy to me. Nobody accomplishes anything without some degree of luck and help from others, which at minimum includes having been born with a brain and having been fed as a baby, and if you believe in biological and economical determinism beyond that it becomes very hard to say who deserves what. In practice most people seem to evaluate how deserving someone is of his or her accomplishments based on whether or not that person meets an arbitrary cutoff for hardship (as indicated by external signs) and where the exact cutoff level lies depends on the evaluator's own experience with hardship and the local baseline for it. This is more of a tool for establishing social status than for moral judgement per se.

Actual accomplishments and the lack of pride (in the sense examined by C. S. Lewis and delightfully summarized at http://squid314.livejournal.com/339814.html) seem to me to be a better measure of a person no matter how lucky that person's birth was.

LyX isn't WYSIWYG but rather WYSIWYM (the "M" stands for "mean"), but I found it the most usable visual editor for word processing.

Edit: Why the downvote?

Government forms served as Word documents with complex table-based formatting and "fields" made out of underscores are truly the worst.

They are sadly ubiquitous throughout Eastern Europe, much like mathematics typeset using Word and MathType.

Then again, a lot of corporate software is Java or .NET, which means a much smaller porting effort. Trying to run native Windows software under Wine, OTOH, doesn't end well (in my experience).

Between D, Nimrod and Julia it looks like there's a resurgence of fun in (JIT) compiled languages.

Note that the OP does stand-up himself. He may or may not be pulling a Kaufman on us here.

Some of the attitudes in the minimalist movement strike me as cargo-cult. What I mean by that is that they seem aimed at optimizing the how-much-stuff-you-own metric itself rather than what it's supposed to be a proxy for (lack of mental burden, control over your life). This is tantamount to assuming that complexity is inherently unmanageable, which I disagree with.

Venkatesh Rao has a good post on the matter somewhere.

Edit: As for the link posted (whether or not it's genuine), I wonder about

>I don’t have a bed or a pillow. I sleep in a small sleeping bag.

Is this healthy in the long run?

> detecting the interval between decay events

How do you do that?

> Hacker News but without the "OMG we're going to become Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and make meeeelions of dollars" stuff

An interesting thing about Hacker News is that here you can read and talk to people who have become Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and made millions of dollars.

Is it possible to make an SSH client in HTML5?

Are there any particularly clever uses for named pipes in shell scripts? I don't think I've ever seen any.

Is there anyone out there trying to give printers the Nest treatment?

Does any existing publication do this? Because providing both shortened and full URLs like this sounds like a great (i.e., retrospectively obvious) way to achieve a balance between "UX" of the magazine and longevity.

"Memento mori" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori) has a long history.

> if you continue to flood the internet with begging, people will become completely immune to those types of requests

Is there research to confirm this?

It could be that people's willingness to respond to "internet begging" doesn't tend to zero but rather a nonzero constant as they encounter more of it. In that case you'd be better off with more websites that do it.

Could no glass also mean potentially less reflective screens? I sure hope so.

Ah, I see. Unfortunately, this seems to imply that after the present version the project will stop incorporating new mainline releases of Perl (Perl 7 and on) and will instead focus on recombining the previous releases of itself.

Not really a Fibonacci version number system since v(n + 1) = v(n) + n + 5, v(-1) = 0. It doesn't depend on v(n - 1), so while it's a recurrence relation it isn't a Fibonacci-type sequence.

The next version should be 5 + 6 + 7 = 18, not 17.

How would you say PowerShell DSC compares to *nix tools like Puppet or Ansible?

The worst thing about them seems to be that they accept reports about private persons, who are much less likely than a business to have the funds to pursue false claims. It is also clear that their attitude stinks. To quote a recent Forbes article on Ripoff Report [1],

>Asked about a comment alleging another woman had herpes, Magedson responds: “This f—— broad probably did something.”

Edit: And look at the comment section on that article.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/05/09/love-it-or...

Very interesting comment; I especially liked the content of your edit.

Say, if you were setting up a system intended to last over a decade right now would you use NetBSD?