Comment: The Miracle of Reason (Score 1) 755
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_reason
No belief is rationally inferred if it can be fully explained in terms of nonrational causes.
C.S. Lewis
Comment: Multi column - FAIL (Score 1) 40
I just uploaded an ODT file that has two columns on a single page.
GDrive, by default, converts it and removes the column formatting.
Still not as good as OneDrive then.
Shame on you Google.
GDrive, by default, converts it and removes the column formatting.
Still not as good as OneDrive then.
Shame on you Google.
Comment: Poetry says ReadMe ... (Score 1) 31
README
http://www.advogato.org/person/ReadMe/diary.html?start=9#0
+ Like most public domain distributions this package contains a README.
+ Unlike those packages, this one contains ***only*** a README.
Bootstrap
begin
{
http://www.advogato.org/person/ReadMe/diary.html?start=9#0
+ Like most public domain distributions this package contains a README.
+ Unlike those packages, this one contains ***only*** a README.
Bootstrap
begin
{
- I write therefore you are
reading;
else you are reading then someone has been writing;
I am that someone;
I am a literature machine;
}
Comment: pun (Score 3, Funny) 100
Once they have taken one Pizza Co, the others are bound to fall sooner than later
- the Domino theory ...
Comment: But there is an Elixir for FP (Score 1) 237
Functional programming for mere mortals coming soon.
Erlang tamed for the new century:
http://elixir-lang.org/
Listen here
http://programming.oreilly.com...
and here
elixir computer language
Comment: from the grave (Score 1) 465
The mother is in the right place - she could have a word with Steve Jobs and all would get fixed. Shame he's not here on earth to kick ass for her now.
Comment: Jon Udell knows this stuff and helps all who come. (Score 1) 120
I redirect you to Jon Udell's blog
http://blog.jonudell.net/
Comment: doggerel (Score 1) 275
No more Less is More
No more Moore's Law
We're more or less
Left only multi-core.
No more Moore's Law
We're more or less
Left only multi-core.
Comment: Since 1733 and on... (Score 1) 465
Time travel as a human conception was first documented in 1733 - track the history since then here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_travel_science_fiction#Time_travel_in_novels_and_short_stories/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_travel_science_fiction#Time_travel_in_novels_and_short_stories/
Comment: Bitcoin analysis: (Score 1) 475
Bitcoin analysis:
Bit = Zero or One
Coin = Heads or Tails
No wonder the value is fairly random (leading or trailing zeros - - toss a coin)
Comment: Re:Cold warriors (Score 3, Interesting) 149
The intelligence community
It's like the immune system gone into overdrive attacking its own body - c.f. Aids.
Comment: Smoke & mirrors? (Score 1) 232
hope this isn't smoke and mirrors like E-CAT seems to be now
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer
Comment: pun warning (Score 1) 244
Sure they'll work fine on the surface,
it's when they get in the air I'd begin to worry.
Comment: on the move? (Score 0) 163
Ikea furniture can be fine - until ... you move house.
It's not made to be taken to pieces and put back together again - a second time.
Hope the refugees are not on the move ... oops.
Comment: Post colonialism ... (Score 1) 194
What ever we earthlings call them now they'll have to be renamed later when we discover the name the natives use for their own world. Post colonialism rules!
