mpweiher

What sorts of libraries would you want to see? Web framework? ...?

Huh? How about measuring emissions reaching the cockpit instruments, putting instruments in the back, doing tests on the ground, doing tests outside the airplane with different types of instruments, a…

Reference to the categorical imperative. „Handle nur nach derjenigen Maxime, durch die du zugleich wollen kannst, dass sie ein allgemeines Gesetz werde.“ "Act only according to that maxim whereby you …

"Honestly, (and you've basically said this), taking out significant loans to go to college is not the same straightforward decision it used to be." One reason I returned to Europe.

I also find it worrisome that what are effectively lottery winners are supposed to be role models, be it Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg or, for that matter, rock and movie stars. Winning the lottery is…

QED :-)

Sort of. Running diff alone will tell you when code is similar or the same, but it won't tell you whether that similarity is because code moved directly from NetBSD to Darwin (or vice versa if that h…

Yeah, I saw that line and didn't know whether that was a connection or not (that's why I used some weasel words to hedge). Looking at it more closely, it does look like a connection, but I think it …

Looking at the Unix History diagram: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Unix_hist... A lot of the BSD that's in OSX actually predates either FreeBSD or NetBSD, coming via NeXTStep fr…

No, my best comments were where I demolished everything you'd actually said point by point using these things called...wait...ah yes: facts! You may have heard of the concept in passing somewhere. …

Well, at least you are consistent, sticking to the ad-hominems and staying well clear of any kind of substantive support for your silly little claims.

"it is" -> "it's" ("its" is the possessive) What Krugman said is literally true (he gives examples in the article, I have given others). And the actual point that he makes about the relative nat…

Ahh, we're getting somewhere. Slowly. Not much progress on the ad-hominems, but so be it. Now that we've debunked the claim that Krugman's assertion is "literally" false, we can concentrate on wheth…

Suddenly "Governments" became "the US Government", odd how that happens. First, governments have done so in the past. With this alone your point is trivially false by simple observation. Secondly, t…

"And of course, Krugman is right -- Um, no. Its false." Your evidence being? Your say-so? "but hey, he's a Nobel-prize winning economist... == This is not even worth responding to." If you had actua…

Krugman has just started a multi-part series on "Policy Implications of Capital-Biased Technology", which I think is wonkish for what TFA is about. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/policy-…

OK, to sum up: You don't know what the word verb "to quote" means, nor the verb "to plagiarize". The author of TFA did neither. There was no quote, and the family vs. nation metaphor is much older th…

I initially read that as "If I were to give a commencement speech..", which would probably make said speech quite a newsworthy event, despite being a very short speech.

My bad: they are allowed in class extensions, which are similar to but not the same as categories. Given how the new non-fragile ivars are implemented, it should be possible to add ivars anytime be…

I don't see him quoting Paul Krugman, though his point is similar to Joseph Stiglitz's. The "resource curse" is a well-studied phenomenon, and there is both symptomatic evidence and causal analysis th…

"I don't think I have ever met anyone though that doesn't think of the UK as part of Europe." Except Brits, of course ;-)

It's easy to get into a world of hurt even when Apple does its best to make their frameworks well-behaved with GC. Retrofitting a conservative GC onto C is really hard, and they were never able to ful…

Objective-C categories nowadays can include instance variables :-)

Also "fear of being shot for saying something someone might not like" != politeness. First amendment, second amendment: go at it!

"Revelation?" No, it's pretty much duh. However, it does need saying every once in a while because there are many who deny this obvious connection, and in the US at least they seem to control much of …