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Re:Wikileaks has really misled the public
on Tuesday April 06, 2010 @03:14AM (#1244083)
> The problem is with the people who rounded up the innocent women and children, put them in trains, and then sent them off to die.
>
The whole point of this video is about killing of innocent man, women and children by shooters who wanted to kill. Not soldiers killing soldiers. Whether they were rounded up or not, or put on a train or not shifts the focus.
The discussion is not about does this resembles the Nazis or not. It's about: are we looking for a justification for this killing by falling so low on the morality ground, that the same logic can even be used by the Nazis for justifying their killings.
Re:Wikileaks has really misled the public
on Tuesday April 06, 2010 @02:09AM (#1244000)
> I think it's laughable to try to draw a comparison between soldiers fucking up and causing collateral damage and the Holocaust.
That's not what you said. You said...
> the blood is on the hands of the people who started and continued the war > not the ones who have to actually fight it.
I disagree with that statement. With the same argument, one can justify all war killings. Even the act of Nazis. We don't bring in Godwins law when discussing and comparing war and killings.
Re:Wikileaks has really misled the public
on Tuesday April 06, 2010 @01:46AM (#1243965)
> the blood is on the hands of the people who started and continued the war
> not the ones who have to actually fight it.
The nazis probably said the same.
Re:The 5 Stages of Programmer Incompetence
on Monday March 22, 2010 @02:04AM (#1209576)
> Only writes in dynamically-typed languages with a strong functional component
aka, javascript.
Re:Germans Cringe at Hitler's Popularity in Pakistan
on Thursday March 18, 2010 @04:14AM (#1200768)
In many places the vocal minority controls the media. I guess this popularity issue is not a Asian thing only. A significant large number of silent people in Germany I assume is supportive of Hitler's work --- that's what my impression is after personally talking with a limited few.
Re:Hacker News bans Google and all other search engines
on Monday March 15, 2010 @08:26PM (#1194560)
I guess that might have to do with load these search engines generate. Previosly in a thread we checked that comments posted in HN appear in google search after a minute of posting. That should create a good amount of load on HN. Multiply it for all the search engines in the wild, and PG probably have decided blocking those woun't do any harm. My guesss. Could be wrong, or it might be temporary or a mistake.
Re:PDFmyURL.com - Convert and save pdf from any webpage for free
on Sunday March 14, 2010 @04:58AM (#1190489)
For offline version I had been using this application for some time now...
WebKit HTML to PDF http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
This is a PDF generator which uses WebKit engine to render the HTML page and then converts to PDF. Has command line advanced options, like this site.
Re:Why nobody talks about Lua
on Thursday February 11, 2010 @07:56PM (#1119310)
I am still waiting for node.js for windows.
Re:How To Become A Spammer Regardless Of People Following You On Twitter
on Tuesday February 09, 2010 @08:28AM (#1112113)
I don't know. I read the original article and felt he was talking about building numerous cheap apps and selling those to get rich quick instead of building a single one and hopping it will take over the market. I did not felt like he was talking about spaming!
Few days back there was someone here who told us that he was getting as much as 1 thousand dollars EVERYDAY by developing many small apps for the iPhone and selling those. This is opposite of putting all your time on a single iPhone app and betting on it.
The original article was really helpful for me. I disagree with those that are getting a different message from it.
Re:Love for LuaJIT
on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @10:56PM (#1066582)
Here is a step by step comparison on how cutting off ruby's features can make the JRuby implementation faster, from the guy who worked on JRuby.
http://blog.headius.com/2009/04/how-jruby-makes-ruby-fast.ht...
Read it, you will find it interesting. The guy also wrote a small language called Duby which used Ruby like syntax but is much more faster, because he didn't include any of those slowing down features.
Re:No Comment
on Saturday January 16, 2010 @08:17PM (#1057829)
I think the parent is implying that while discussing with any second party, it is easier to mutually agree on which one is an issue and which one is details --- compared to discussing on the problem itself and finding a resolution.
Re:Pythonic syntax to declutter Javascript
on Friday January 15, 2010 @04:06AM (#1054540)
Doesn't work on V8, at least not on the version I am using. Which JS engine is 1.8.1 complaint?
Re:The end of Haiti?
on Friday January 15, 2010 @03:40AM (#1054513)
I don't even understand the broken window fallacy. The broken window repair does seem to increase GDP, as long as G means Gross (Gross Domestic Product).
Of course the net gain is zero, but that's not what GDP mean, I think.
Re:Try Ruby (in your browser, now with 1.9)
on Thursday January 07, 2010 @10:26PM (#1038754)
Backspace doesn't work on Opera too. Up arrow should bring forward the last line typed ---- that doesn't happen here.
Re:Ask HN: My CTO just left me 2 angry voicemails...
on Thursday November 12, 2009 @10:29AM (#937885)
There is also the other side of the story. Read a few stories on Steve Jobs (just google) and how he behaves with Apple Engineers and Designers (hint: worse than what one guesses) and how they ultimately turn that in into profit (better product).
Re:Apple becomes top phone maker by profits (beating Nokia, etc)
on Wednesday November 11, 2009 @07:00PM (#936674)
Initially there were only one version of iPod. Now check how many versions are there in the market.
Re:OMG Ponies (Aka Humanity: Epic Fail)
on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @07:13PM (#920571)
> You guys should see the evilness that is Access, the inconsistencies there make this look like nothing. And it's a black art with almost no documentation anywhere.
Are you talking about MS Access? It's about 15 years old. There should be a lot of documentation. You need to look for old books form the last decade though.
Re:The Next Hot e-Reader: The iPhone
on Monday November 02, 2009 @03:46AM (#916440)
It's bad that you can't copy your PDFs into iPhone and read those later. Not unless it's jail broken. iPhone can render PDF, but only when the file is sent as mail attachment or downloaded from web.
This single thing is preventing me from purchasing the iPhone. I have a lots of PDFs and need to read those over time.
Re:Ask HN: What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days?
on Monday November 02, 2009 @03:08AM (#916415)
Exactly for this reason I found myself writing assembly again: Invoke C functions from a scripting language. The last I wrote was probably 15 years back.
Re:Ask HN: Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far...
on Sunday November 01, 2009 @02:02AM (#914808)
If we look back at human history and extrapolate that trend, 500 years on we could be worse off than what we are now in technology. Civilizations no matter how strong they look, have a trend of rising and falling. And when it falls, it's knowledge gradually gets lost.
40 years back, human where more capable of visiting the moon then they are now.
Fundamental discoveries in physics is almost stuck now for 60 years, since discoveries of quantum mechanics.
The only gain we are seeing is in medical science, and information technology (in Engineering, not Science).
That's what I feel.
Re:Observations from a real-world Clojure project
on Thursday October 29, 2009 @08:11PM (#911211)
5. The functionality of the docs hasn't kept up with Clojure.
6. Debugging facilities also have not kept up with the state of Clojure.
These two are the first thing I check before trying to use any programming language.
Re:Dismantling the calculus pyramid
on Wednesday October 28, 2009 @10:36AM (#907842)
Best advice of this century in it's class.
I don't know why we are still wasting our time with calculus while I see a lot of people suffering in their daily life because of their lack of understanding in probability theories and statistics.
Statistics is easier and even more fun to learn than calculus.
Re:Hasta la Vista, baby: Ars reviews Windows
on Monday October 26, 2009 @09:42AM (#903143)
I am still using TextPad which I started using since 90s. But wish I could jump to something better. TextPad is now dead with no update for, what 6 years? No v.5 doesn't count as update, it's downgrade. No Unicode, only more fancy GUI.
Switching editor is really hard.
Re:Advanced JavaScript Techniques
on Saturday October 10, 2009 @04:05AM (#873108)
Probably first time I am seeing a micro-optimization having some really significant impact on a micro-benchmark test.
Re:Google's new culture: Perks are out. Being grateful you have a job ...
on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @09:16PM (#868050)
Parent said that economy will go down at some point no matter what. Which is why perks don't last. That's only one of the many reasons.
Re:How not to test that mysqld is alive
on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @02:57AM (#863691)
Use "mysqladmin"
run: mysqladmin ping
output: mysqld is alive
Re:Ask HN: Hosts you use for your projects?
on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @10:30AM (#837017)
They need to have an English section on their web site.
Re:Generating and executing x86 code at runtime
on Monday June 01, 2009 @02:36AM (#635678)
I am watching the revival of assembly --- a decade after everyone declared its death. This article would have been a meaningless hacker article 5 years ago. Now everyone feels they need to write a JIT for their DSL. Suddenly there is a new interest in assembly.
Re:Canon Employees Are Forbidden to Sit Down, Walk Slowly
on Sunday May 31, 2009 @01:18AM (#634460)
From the article:
> The big boss, as a reward for thinking up all this stuff, gets to lounge in a nice, relaxing chair