DannyB2

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by DannyB2 8y ago
That obviously doesn't work or doesn't mean anything. That's why a Statutory fine for specific things such as: * not stating an actual copyright infringement * not being the registered owner or agent of the copyright Those tw
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by DannyB2 8y ago
> can someone explain why everyone loves emoji these days What do you have against emojis? I'm hoping I can set my hostname to all emoji characters (UTF-8) so that other workstations on the network will show my hostname as those em
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by DannyB2 8y ago
Any company CAN sit there and think "should I be evil or not?" > it is still incredibly dangerous for society that one company > has so much power over what people can find on the internet That could easily refer to the RIAA
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by DannyB2 8y ago
Allow me to point out that innocent people can end up in prison pending trial.
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by DannyB2 8y ago
Companies will do ANYTHING to try to hire and retain the best people -- except pay them well and treat them well.
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by DannyB2 8y ago
In that case it is called Fake News.
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by DannyB2 8y ago
What proprietary Oracle tech are you referring to?
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by DannyB2 8y ago
GPL + classpath exception seems to be about as free as it gets.
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by DannyB2 8y ago
If you are referring to Java, I would point out: Oracle's JDK is based on Open JDK. Open JDK is licensed under GPL + the classpath exception. (eg, the Open JDK is under GPL, but when used as a runtime for other software, then that oth
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by DannyB2 8y ago
I can hear them responding with something like: Surveillance is helpful information gathering and customer profiling in order to understand customer needs better. This enables us to put more relevant ads in front of your eyes. It also hel
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by DannyB2 8y ago
It's not CNN. It's ads. Advertising has ruined every medium it has ever touched. It will ruin the web. It is only a matter of time. It did not destroy ancient network television overnight. It did not destroy cable tv overnigh
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by DannyB2 8y ago
I would have thought that for the time and cost of doing that, they could just ship the CD with a booklet of photographic instructions. An instruction manual SO SIMPLE that even a scientist at the South Pole could understand it. Or they c
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by DannyB2 8y ago
I remember when Microsoft seemed unassailable. I remember Get The Facts. I remember the arguments that "free" software must not be any good. That nobody stood behind it. That is was only free if your time was worth nothing. And
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by DannyB2 8y ago
Envy might be a virtue? Virtues of a software developer: 1. Lazyness. Lazyness is the first step towards efficiency. Why was the dishwasher invented? 2. Impatience. Impatience is the first step towards performance optimization. 3. Being
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by DannyB2 8y ago
Packets are data. Not explosives. Not dangerous chemicals. Packets may even be encrypted. And increasingly, they are.
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by DannyB2 8y ago
You are paying your ISP to move packets to and from the internet backbone they are connected to without editing or blocking those packets. The contents of, source of, and destination of each packet is none of the ISP's business.
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by DannyB2 8y ago
You should say to edit phone calls, just as an ISP has the right to edit the intarweb tubes.
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by DannyB2 8y ago
For a pure Java stack, you might not find any advantage in Docker. There is still one however -- Kubernetes. Run many instances of a Docker container in Kubernetes as a cluster. Oh, but I can set up various Java technology clusters without
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by DannyB2 8y ago
How a container works is that the file system has a series of layers. Like stacked sheets of glass with drawings on them. What you see at the top is the file system that results from what is on each sheet of glass. Things on higher sheet
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by DannyB2 8y ago
The person installing your application may not know anything about Java. They don't want a 35 page installation document. With a container, they just plug in your application and it runs. They don't know and don't care what
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by DannyB2 8y ago
The reason to run your WAR+Tomcat or JAR file in a container is that it is portable across different Linux distributions. The container appears to have a certain environment to your application, regardless of the Linux it is running on. So
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by DannyB2 8y ago
And can be disassembled, decompiled and studied.
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by DannyB2 8y ago
I wonder if China's chips have something like Intel Management Engine?
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by DannyB2 8y ago
But Moooooooom! It's all virtual! There are no hardware resources being used up! (until the bill comes)
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by DannyB2 8y ago
An important missing feature: something resembling "Intel Management Engine" Does ARM have this? Does RISC-V have this? If Management is good, then someone's Remote Management of your computer must be even gooder!
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by DannyB2 8y ago
Correctness then is a trade off against other factors. Also it seems correctness in this case is a continuum rather than a binary choice. And you would prefer to trade other important factors for "true" correctness. But I'l
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by DannyB2 8y ago
I can not be sure the code was bug free. It was an anecdote in a book, the focus of which was more about the psychology of those who wrote the code. But it worked, and the first program did not work. The non working code's author to
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by DannyB2 8y ago
It has been too long. The book described both approaches that both programmers used. I simply no longer remember those details. As I recall, the working program, when explained gave you the "Ah Ha!" experience, and thus was sim
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by DannyB2 8y ago
If correctness is some kind of continuum rather than a binary choice, then pick whatever trade offs, cost, and other factors you want. Plenty of times correctness is binary. In some cases it would be: passes all tests. Or: meets all requi
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by DannyB2 8y ago
Simplicity is ALWAYS something desirable to achieve. Correctness comes first. As code is originally written, people are (or should be) using the most "obviously" simple approach. A Breakthrough in simplicity is often the result o

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