AnkhMorporkian

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by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago
I was definitely exaggerating, and I'm sorry for that. That being said, it should be illegal simply to avoid the conflict that exists.
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by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago
I'm 100% with you, an email is all it usually takes, but most people don't realize that. When your life and blood depends on competing with the people you work with, it's very simple to say "no." But when you'r
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by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago
I've been working in software for a long time, and have been asked to sign non-competes over a dozen times by now. I'm a contractor, which makes it much easier to turn down (how the hell could I possibly keep working with a non-
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by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago
That's already happening. I've had pull requests for WSL issues in a piece of software I support, and I've seen them in other places. Not the worst thing in the world.
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by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago
As a general concept I agree, but this is limited to your facebook friends. This isn't randomly joining a multiplayer server, this is intentionally adding friends to a space. Ostensibly, you should know them. Adding muting capabilities
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
I apologize for the late reply, I have been out of state making a pitch, and enjoying the scenery after it was accepted. I can see your viewpoint. I do remember the anti-linux Microsoft days, and I did not enjoy them as a company back the
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
Many terms do. Socialists and communists still call themselves those terms despite McCarthyism and the red scare, the term queer is still used despite the fact that it was used as an insult for a very long time, the n-word's reappropri
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
I don't see 'viral' as an insult, I see it as a feature. I'm certainly pro-GPL, but I don't use it in too many of my projects. When I do use it, it's because I want that viral nature. When I don't, it&#x27
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
I'm sorry, I'm not seeing it. One person involved with the Linux Foundation wrote an article that used some terms this author and some others didn't like, and after some outcry the Linux Foundation removed it. Somehow this m
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
They aren't allowed to sell or release personal identifiable information. That's not the case for server providers as they aren't considered carriers, and thus aren't beholden to the Telecommunications Act of 1986 in the
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
You're just shifting that responsibility to the server provider in that case. You have more privacy protections from your ISP than you do from someone you rent a server from.
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
That really isn't an option for most users. People who use a password manager are pretty much forced to use that password manager, at least if they're using it properly. Most users won't know how to export it to a CSV and the
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
Not unless they have a security clearance or are in the military and have been ordered not to access them. For an ordinary citizen, it isn't illegal to have classified information as long as you weren't a party in their theft. It&
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
I bet I could screw it up anyways.
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
Pfft, I immediately regret any code I write!
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
They aren't. Google upgrades to HTTPS automatically, and the old method of overriding the DNS to an unsecured Google server stopped working years ago. Same with Bing, Yahoo, DDG, etc. No SSL, no search in today's world.
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
I don't know, the assertion in the article makes little sense. The white part shouldn't play any role at all in this; easily reversible male contraception has been a dream of many for a long time. These companies want to maximize
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
Strange, first time I noticed it! Maybe it's just because of the overwhelming amount of removed comments in this thread.
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
I have to say, I appreciate the explanations in this thread. It's a nice show of transparency that I didn't see in the past with removed comments.
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
They did think through it, but the rover has already exceeded its planned mission time by over 2.5 years! Wheels can't last indefinitely, and more than doubling the time of a 2 year mission before they see any wear is pretty incredible
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
I think that argument can be countered by the prison culture from post WW1 up until the mid 70s. Until the "tough on crime" mantra was paraded around ad nauseum, prisons were largely focused on rehabilitation, not punishment. Pe
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
Those cards are pretty standard in America too. If you open a checking account, you'll almost certainly get a Visa or Mastercard credit/debit card.
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
As someone who got out of the hospital recently after a couple weeks in, I see the continuity of care argument. I had a lot of doctors in my time there, and the left hand really didn't know what the right hand was doing. I spent an e
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
That requires the existence of exotic matter, something that really isn't known to exist at all, and it'd be pretty surprising if it did. Pretty much all FTL schemes require some exotic thing that's unlikely to actually be fe
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
I don't tend to link youtube videos on HN, particularly of the comedic type, but I'm just going to leave this here for anyone who wants a good laugh for their morning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
I see no problem in it in that the two domains are very, very unlikely to be confused in context. Pretty much the only time confusion is likely to be sown is if there is a headlines akin to the one submitted here. AFAICT, there's essen
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
Ending a bash script in rm $1 doesn't magically make it not open source, just inherently self-destructive.
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
I'd argue that any organism is inherently open source, just not necessarily free and open source.
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
Yeah, absolutely. I am not a fan of mixing synchronous and asynchronous code, but the design of asyncio makes it very easy to do. I think that most people struggling with the concept don't realize that asyncio is inherently blocking wh
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by AnkhMorporkian 10y ago
You need to use the asyncio (or equivalent) event loop if you want to use the asnycio module. loop.run_until_complete() is synchronous though, so you would simply call that and it will block the control flow despite that function being asyn

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