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Or you can use AirVideo. It converts while it streams or you can have it just do the conversion and dump it in iTunes so it will sync to the ipad automatically for offline usage.

Well, that's the thing: even in the US, as bad as it has become, saying vile racist comments on the internet wouldn't get you put in jail . Is the guy a scumbag? Obviously. Should …

Don't forget; the UK also put someone in jail for tweeting.

Seems like a proper time for civil disobedience.

I would be good with getting rid of prisons entirely. If someone is violent and dangerous then they're probably insane and should be treated, not "punished". As far as your example…

It depends on what we're talking about. If a person stole money then they should have to pay that back with reasonable interest. So that wouldn't be tied to how much money the pers…

There are many options. Charge them money (and ensure you can force them to pay it back, e.g. wage garnishing), public service was suggested, etc. Looking them away from their life…

Or in Common Lisp you would be able to "signal" a condition and then handle the situation. Signal will just do nothing unless some higher level code has an explicit handler for it …

Or drive prices down. You would be cutting out a lot of middle men going this route.

I find locking people away from their life for more than a day or two absolutely barbaric. I'm surprised a country often rated most democratic in the world locks people away for no…

Wtf? Why hasn't this post blended into the background already? US healthcare inexpensive? Pretty much everyone who's ever looked into this disagrees. Worrying about about health in…

8??? The company I'm at is still on 6!

Oh I agree with that. If Vista didn't kill them (or even hurt them, really) I can't imagine this will either.

I have a MBP and I can install what ever I want. What are you talking about?

That's not strictly true. People generally skip every other version of windows because somehow every other version sucks.

We'll have to agree to disagree on that. Right now I'm a cog in a big company and I know what I do isn't as valuable as what entrepreneurs do. I came in to a team who had a horribl…

You think so? I think Gambling irresponsibly is considered bad, but Gambling if you can afford it is pretty fun.

I don't know. But when choosing a system I wouldn't chose SVN for svn:externals. Git has submodules which I find nicer.

I think you and the parent may be talking past each other. When most people talk about "un-ambitious" people they're talking about "cogs". People working in some generic job in a b…

>Unlike the poster below thinks though I don't have 40 free hours a week these days. I am working to build the next big thing because this is in my blood, I suspect this is what th…

>I would not want to work for Facebook for any amount of money. For any amount? I'd even work for the Koch brothers for, say, $10m/yr. Of course I'll be gone from their company and…

I disagree completely. I would say everyone should start with Smalltalk. Start with something beautiful and clean and then learn the messy stuff that makes it possible later.

What about going onto, say, Linux and making your own graphical toolkit from the ground up?

Ack, Darcs had a problem so you went with SVN? I hope you've at least switched to using git as your SVN client by now.

The concept is quite awkward in any single dispatch language. The biggest WTF ever is Racket adding single dispatch OO! You actually have to say (send object 'message).