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by 3xblah 7y ago
I would not have guessed the first use referred to a shell script.
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"The researchers find that, contrary to popular thinking, the best entrepreneurs tend to be middle-aged. Among the very fastest-growing new tech companies, the average founder was 45 at the time of founding. Furthermore, a given 50-yea
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"URIs in Stack Overflow look like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13204/why-doesnt-my-cron-... Article gives only cons. What are the pros? https://stackoverflow.com/q/13204 Sho
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by 3xblah 7y ago
This is arguably a deceptive title. Why not something more clear such as, "All Chromebooks will now support containers." Chromebooks are already running a modified Gentoo Linux kernel. They are already "Linux" laptops
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Are the dates, detailed methods and raw results of the "surveys" and "in-depth interviews" made available to the public?
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by 3xblah 7y ago
How does he know what users want? I presume by the term "user" he means someone is not one of the authors or who cannot1 themselves modify the software as they wish. As a user, I do not ever recall being asked what I wanted by an
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Went to a conference in 1993 or thereabouts, put on by a now defunct organization called "CPSR" (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility). I rememeber Phil Zimmerman was a speaker. Anyway, one of the topics was the prob
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by 3xblah 7y ago
The parent comment suggests European countries are killing "innovation" through taxes and regulation. This sounds like a bad idea, so I had a look at the article to see what "innovation" was being taxed. Innovation is a
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Here is the letter. https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/5.6.19_Lette... The proposal from these two senators seems reasonable: "The FTC should propose long-term limits on Facebook's coll
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by 3xblah 7y ago
For commercial use of the web, things like internet banking, purchasing, etc., I use what is "recommended". The popular web browser. For non-commercial use of the web, I use what I want to use. A simple http client and/or te
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"Maybe if you have script disabled." You are making the assumption that I am using a browser to retrieve the page. I can use a simple http client with no features such as JS to retrieve the page. I have full control over what he
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by 3xblah 7y ago
The first "attribute" is simply an HTTP header. As such it can be selected and changed by the user. The user may choose not to send a User-Agent header at all. IME, few sites actually require a User-Agent header in order to ret
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by 3xblah 7y ago
I could say all the same things about text files or JPGs. PDF is not the "lowest common denominator". That would be the format that can be most easily converted to other formats. With text and images, I can easily create PDFs and
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by 3xblah 7y ago
The costs of giving birth is another interesting example. BBC journalist recently said that even though it costs 4x as much under America's privatised system versus a socialised one (Finland), America has a worse record overall in ter
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"Those deals between PBMs and pharma companies are secret." In some cases pharma co.'s created their own PBMs. There is a long and storied history of litigation on American drug pricing. If you want to understand the Rube Go
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by 3xblah 7y ago
Will the expression "spin up" ever fall out of usage?
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by 3xblah 7y ago
"The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code." - Doug McIlroy "[T]he meaning of negative code is taken to be similar to the famous Apple developer team anecdote (i.e., when a change in a program source ma
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"Whenever you post a photo on Instagram, write an Amazon review, or skim through complaints about potholes on your neighborhood's Facebook group, you're helping generate profit for the world's richest corporations. A gro
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by 3xblah 8y ago
AFAIK, still can compile FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD or DragonflyBSD for all architectures using GCC.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by 3xblah 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"Since nowadays GNU without Linux isn't hugely helpful, it's basically just been assimilated into core Linux and just about every distro of Linux includes GNU utilities or GNU versions of common UNIX-born tools." Nowaday
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by 3xblah 8y ago
What makes no sense to me about this blocking scenario is that the pages being searched for are presumably non-commercial ones that no one else is searching for. In other words, they are in low demand. It follows that a monopoly search eng
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"These companies' newly public shares are far less likely to melt down as occurred with the class of 2000. For one, companies in the class of 2019 are far older, bigger in size and more sturdy as far as finances and management ski
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Up until now (see rdsetroot), OpenBSD never had an equivalent to mdsetroot (NetBSD)?
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"Sussman constructed his theory as something a company harmed by Amazon could use to file a lawsuit, even if no antitrust laws are changed. If it survives an initial motion to dismiss in the courts, Amazon would have to reveal unit cos
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"We are a small - as-of-yet unincorporated - nonprofit providing pro bono consulting on algorithmic and policy issues arising from the proliferation of: Statistical inference / Automated decision making - often called 'AI&#x2
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by 3xblah 8y ago
That is what someone should be protesting, isn't it? Perhaps the easiest way to help the world avoid the potential problems created by the Google's work is not to work for Google? These protesting employees, whatever the cause du
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by 3xblah 8y ago
In the summarising the results of the TD Ameritrade survery, there is a "Q" number in the bottom left of each results page, e.g., "Q300". What does this represent?
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"Not everyone will do it..." Not everyone will provide CCBot with the same access that they provide to Googlebot. The question is how many will? It is sort of a catch-all issue with anything on the web: "Not everyone will do

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