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DisposaBoy | 15 years ago | on: Belgian man completes 365 marathons in 365 consecutive days

Try working on your briething. I've never run very far let alone a marathon(though I have played football non-stop for several hours many times when I was younger)... but 've found that by taking deep breathes while I run/jog means I can go for longer and without discumfort(until I stop) as opposed to when almost panting like a dog, it's as-if it has physchological effect and my body just refuses to work.

DisposaBoy | 15 years ago | on: Here are ALL pg essays, please do not keep re-submitting old ones.

Not sure why OP is getting downvoted like it's Reddit but whatever...

I just wanted to point that this isn't a perfect world where every copy of every article share the (exact) same title which means a lot of times the same article isn't found by that search. Removing the quotes often time don't help either because you're them swamped irrelevant results.

DisposaBoy | 15 years ago | on: There is no talent

Before we can begin to discuss "what exists" we must first discuss "what".

That is to say. We must first discuss what is talent? What counts as talent? What doesn't? because until then I feel that many of our ideas are going to be based on our own slight understanding and ideas about talent.

For me, I have no idea what talent is the same way i have no idea what a skill is because it all seems so arbitrary.

DisposaBoy | 15 years ago | on: Grooveshark's new Javascript/HTML interface

There's more to support than standards. Curretly and in the past Opera has given more grief from the users' POV because of it's iffy rendering. Right now I push a few thousand elements into the page at runtime, this works perfectly fine everywhere else including IE6 yet Opera decides that it needs not redraw the whole page(or something) and when I scroll it causes ink smudges(?) it's rather entertaining to look at because it's as-if Opera thinks it's some kind of photo editor. Keeping the parent div hidden and then showing it after I've done pushing the elemements seems to work around that bug but I now have a visible lag everywhere. What do I do?

DisposaBoy | 15 years ago | on: Court affirms jail time for Pirate Bay founders

That analogy doesn't apply because it's not the same thing. If I take some of your oil you lose some of your oil. Now if I went out and cloned it that's not stealing under the stated definition. This is the same nonsense the GPL tries to shove down peoples throats and I don't know why so many people are buying it. It's not about wrong right in this case so there's no need to bring pre-concevied biases into it.

DisposaBoy | 15 years ago | on: Zediva Streams Movies From Physical DVD Players, Argues It’s Legal

Last year? I downloaded a pirated copy of the movie Ink. I wasn't ever going to go to the cinema nor was(and won't) I going to buy it on DVD. I did however buy 2 copies totally about $30 IIRC from the creator directly. This is just one case from one person. Many people who pirate movies also buy the ones they think are worth their money. The think most people like you don't realise is that most of the people who don't pay for any of it in any form wasn't going to do so even if it wasn't available for free. And I too can just blanket everything under a misguided and biased argument; No it's actually more expensive to shoplift because if you were walked out with enough you'd very very likely get caught and you're likely to face some legall challenges not to metion the fact that many people won't hire you unless they have to. That doesn't even take into account the other point you so conveniently misse: it's harder. That point is actually more important than the cost as shown in my case of buying Ink for $30 which is at least 3 times more than it would have cost me to go to the cinema.

DisposaBoy | 15 years ago | on: 200 students cheat on senior midterm exam, many blame professor

This assumes the students study only that material. There's nothing wrong with it. If your tutor tells you that these questions will either be on the test r similar to ones on the test then you'd be a fool to ignore it and try to study everything instead. Also, test scores rearely have any meaningful output with regards to how much most people actually know.

DisposaBoy | 15 years ago | on: Google Chrome tops 'Dirty Dozen' vulnerable apps list

Yes, it's the same engine but only in that they came from the same source. Even in the cases where they were exactly the same unpatched source from upstream, they wouldn't really be the same. E.g I can trivially freeze midori which uses webkit, I can do it to many others. If Midori or any of the others had security bugs, it doesn't mean that Chrome would have it as well therefore they can't be classed as the same.

DisposaBoy | 15 years ago | on: Chinese workers build 15-story hotel in just six days

I guess that's a little like saying: i jumped off a cliff into the sea and didn't get hurt, countless people do and don't get hurt. At the same time though, there's a great risk of me hitting something on the way down if it's very windy or me drowning because I landed awkwardly in the water(I've experinced this one jumping from about 10ft as a child).

DisposaBoy | 15 years ago | on: Lisp has too many parentheses...

I don't speak for everyone but the reason I see lisp code as unreadable is that most of what I've seen is written like your example. That is, there is some indentation which helps, but it's as-if the coder is afraid to utilise vertical space so they put all the closing brackets on the same line, most of the opening ones in the middle of some lines. With that kind of formatting (for me at-least), it's not immediately clear which.

DisposaBoy | 15 years ago | on: Lisp has too many parentheses...

who writes code like that?

    creators = [
        {
            "name": {
                "name_authority": TextField,
                "name_authority_id": IntegerField,
                "display_string": TextField
            },
            "user_id" :IntegerField,
            "roles": [TextField],
            "attrs": [TextField],
            "xts": [TextField]
        }
    ]
anyway
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