AlexMax

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by AlexMax 11y ago
> The problem it is trying to solve would be better approached hosting Debian, RHEL etc repositories which mirror each other in their structure. I disagree, and I think Linuxbrew fills a different niche. When you install something from y
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by AlexMax 12y ago
> I haven't had a use for this yet, but I'm always amazed by how PHP manages to move forward without breaking BC. This. If I were a Python developer (of the language itself), I would be paying very close attention to how PHP h
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by AlexMax 12y ago
It was taken out of the game in later patches because of a netcode rewrite; as mentioned in the wiki article, the original netcode implementation brought IPX networks to their knees. Chocolate Doom re-implements this feature: http:/&
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by AlexMax 12y ago
Modern Doom source ports like ZDoom and Zandronum even have a simplistic scripting language built in. It's called ACS, and was taken from Hexen. http://zdoom.org/wiki/ACS Granted, it's a very limited scripti
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by AlexMax 12y ago
> 1) Why limit yourself to 4x7? The 1988 NES version of Tetris is 10 units wide. Presumably, the objective is to arrange the tetriminos into a pleasing rectangle shape. Unfortunately, the factors of 28 are 1, 2, 4, 7, 14 and 28, so 4x7
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by AlexMax 12y ago
That's actually even more distressing. You want stability out of a currency, not wild swings.
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by AlexMax 12y ago
The FSF prioritizes user freedom over programmer freedom. Neither one of them is "True freedom".
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by AlexMax 12y ago
> So yes, GPL 3 is hurting open source more than helping it. Why is it bad for the FSF to prioritize their interests ahead of Apple and Microsoft's?
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by AlexMax 12y ago
The original buttcoiners seem to have moved on to http://reddit.com/r/buttcoin The buttcoiners seem to make light of the BFL purchase, since in their mind, the former owner has done something that many Bitcoin investor
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by AlexMax 12y ago
For me it used to be two reasons: * 256-color support. This was added in Lion I believe. * There's a really weird bug with word-wrapping that only manifests itself in Terminal.app: http://superuser.com/q/46948&#x2
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by AlexMax 12y ago
The cabs I've used in the last few years have all had credit card swipers in the car. I figured this would be a universal feature of any moderately populated cities' cab system in 2014.
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by AlexMax 12y ago
It's quite sad, in my opinion, that this is halfway down the page while yet another beating of the dead horse that is the systemd flam^H^H^H^H discussion is the most visible comment thread. Thank you for posting this.
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by AlexMax 12y ago
There has been an unofficial tool for editing Super Mario World levels available for many years now. http://www.smwiki.net/wiki/Lunar_Magic I wonder how Mario Maker will compare in functionality and ease of use.
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by AlexMax 12y ago
If you're using a Mac, the excellent MailMate mail client supports GnuPG natively. http://manual.mailmate-app.com/preferences#openpgp_and_smime I can't speak to any shortcomings in its PGP support, as it's no
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by AlexMax 12y ago
I paid for Sublime Text, and there were enough rough edges and bits I didn't like about both vim and Emacs that I felt justified in paying for it, but nevertheless seeing development slow to an absolute crawl on a product I paid for ma
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by AlexMax 12y ago
> Responding with the same tactics seems fair. So you are going to combat the network effects that would establish monopoly control over how people share code by...trying to establish monopoly control over how people share code? Doesn&#
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by AlexMax 13y ago
> Come back when you can intelligently make an argument that is internally consistent. I have to agree with the others commenting on your posts, you have some serious cognitive dissonance. Could it be that you've managed to ferret o
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by AlexMax 13y ago
> I think the issue is that as long as the state endows rights to religious practice (marriage) there is a problem. Legal marriage and religious marriage are already not the same thing. That was the entire point of my statement - that le
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by AlexMax 13y ago
Sorry, but I find it incredulous that the only reason that some folks are unwilling to give LGBT folks the right to marry is because of what the state happens to call the practice.
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by AlexMax 13y ago
FYI: You are responding to a troll.
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by AlexMax 13y ago
Reading that again made me wonder who Brett Glass was. Apparently, I wasn't the only one: http://www.quora.com/Hacker-Culture/Who-was-Brett-Glass-as-n... Brett Glass himself shows up to answer.
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by AlexMax 13y ago
> The choice between "big government" and "big business" is a false dichotomy, if that's what you're getting at. What is the third choice? Anarchy? What if I prefer not to be dragged out of my house and be
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by AlexMax 13y ago
> And no, you're not allowed to disrupt the government. What do you call voting?
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by AlexMax 13y ago
So, ads.
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by AlexMax 13y ago
> Having grown up as a gay teenager in the 90s, I don't really remember having had my bones broken by any jokes people made about me. I did get my ass kicked pretty good a few times, but in those cases, it wasn't words doing th
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by AlexMax 13y ago
> And if you think that is wrong, then tell insurance companies and courts about limiting damage. "Was you car locked where you left it before it got stolen, sir?" "Rape Shield" laws are fairly common in the United St
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by AlexMax 13y ago
> It is especially appealing as a non-linux opensource project with a BSD (non GPL) license that is fairly well maintained. The Non-GPL license means that a company can use FreeBSD in a closed-source project. How much of a one way street
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by AlexMax 13y ago
Doom Touch is very well done port of prBoom+ to Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beloko.doo... It's capable of playing the original trilogy as well as many classic levels and level-s
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by AlexMax 13y ago
> It's like a cellphone that you cant call anyone with. No one really cares if it's 1000 times easier to use if you can't call your friends. And now you know why they're unifying their account system under Google+. B
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by AlexMax 13y ago
Have you considered going to a Universalist Unitarian church?

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