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why are we still stuck with this 2000yrs old tribal behavior instead of moving on with a more modern approach? There was a time when our ancestors became monogamous, and before that they weren't. So how do you consider non-monogamy m
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by 31h 9y ago
Open source means the project can be redistributed by any user. So any user, including yourself, can re-host the project on Gitlab.
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by 31h 9y ago
Just removing the word Java from the OpenJDK sources and documentation would be a huge endeavor. Is any project working to do this, ala Debian's IceWeasel?
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by 31h 9y ago
I ought to site my source - W. H. Auden via http://www.paulgraham.com/quo.html
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by 31h 9y ago
> I think a more specific word for this is empathy. No - empathy just means feeling the same emotion as people around you, which is not always helpful. What you want is compassion . I often see "empathy" tossed around as a cur
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by 31h 9y ago
This looks like a lot of work for what amounts to very little end-user benefit. The sons of Hermes love to play And only do their best when they Are told they oughtn't; Apollo's children never shrink From boring jobs but have to
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by 31h 9y ago
a rigorous "theory of change" (of the kind used by charities and the third sector) to decide on potential impacts and side effects I see. Sounds like "very rigorous maritime engineering standards".
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by 31h 9y ago
we tend to find people choose us because of the way we share and distribute the surpluses we make. In my experience engaging consultants, I've never asked how they spend their profits. It surprises me that would be your major selling
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by 31h 9y ago
What's the pitch based on value to your customers, rather than some imagined "social value" from political causes which your customer may well perceive negatively?
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by 31h 9y ago
Pardon if I don't give someone credit for asserting they support "social change" without specifying what they're changing. It could mean anything from "ban mosques in London" to "free condoms with every mi
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by 31h 9y ago
An educational co-op is a completely different concept from what is described here. Work/school co-op means a student does paid full-time work while still enrolled in a degree program (e.g. a semester off). What is described in this ar
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by 31h 9y ago
> we reinvest our own profit into new projects that we believe are going to bring about real social change. So what? Why is there an implicit assumption that if someone is trying to bring about "change", that it must be good?
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by 31h 9y ago
The first sentence asserts that Brendan Eich is the author of Java, which is false.
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by 31h 9y ago
> Just saying that Chinese had "moveable type" omits the technological and practical considerations that made European printing press success. OK but just saying the Europeans had a superior printing press omits the the radical
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by 31h 9y ago
> The answer is technology. Printing press revolution had exploded. No. China had movable type printing presses by 1040 AD, yet there's no evidence that it led to a mass uprising against the state religion at that time. You're
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by 31h 9y ago
2D is a special case of 3D. If you only want to do 2D then a 2D API is going to be simpler than a 3D API. There's a whole mess of parameters and transformations that just go away.
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by 31h 9y ago
At the risk of prolonging a pointless line of discussion: what does github have to do with anything in this context?
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by 31h 9y ago
Can you clarify what you are driving at with these questions? First off, a lot of people prefer hosted source repositories other than github (e.g. hub.darcs.net, gitlab.com, My Own Private Server). Github naturally imposes various limitatio
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by 31h 9y ago
> With the old upload-and-forget model of software distribution, you could put a tarball on a free FTP site for a few pennies You can still create a Digital Ocean droplet, Docker container, or VM Image - and do the same thing (upload &am
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by 31h 10y ago
> embedded (aka firmware for buzzword compliance) Firmware is a buzzword for embedded? I don't think this is right. In my experience "firmware" is a subset of embedded programming, referring to low-level bare-metal code su
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by 31h 10y ago
syn·ec·do·che səˈnekdəkē/ (noun) a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland's baseball team”).
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by 31h 10y ago
> We taught Koko the gorilla how to talk I think you're overstating your case. "although the gorilla learned a large number of signs she never understood grammar or symbolic speech" - https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by 31h 10y ago
> Possibly embrace the fact that semicolons are noise, and treat JS like you would Ruby or other line oriented languages??? I'd be happy to treat JS as "statements end with a newline, not semicolon", if that were consisten
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by 31h 10y ago
> JavaScript itself, it had some issues in the past, all the big issues were resolved What about automatic semicolon insertion (ASI)? This makes it impossible to internalize how the JS implementation will interpret your code without memo
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by 31h 10y ago
That's pretty cool if the only closed source part is a USB-UART IC. Not much secret sauce there; I bet if you wanted to be pure you could implement that function on a second FE310 with software bit-banging.
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by 31h 10y ago
Is there any place I can buy an unmounted FE310? I see the link for the HiFive1 development board, but no way to buy individual chips.
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by 31h 10y ago
I think this is a bit extreme trying to change words to adhere to your own worldview Not really, considering that the "meanings" of words in everyday usage have already been deliberately reconstructed and promulgated by the bill