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by Fice 13y ago
I would rather list Red Hat than Canonical.
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My advice to young people - Donald Knuth(youtube.com)
4 points by Fice 13y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 13y ago
DRM can't be implemented in FOSS because the ability to modify the software (and use the modified version) makes it possible to circumvent DRM restrictions (eg, insert some code to save the content after it is decoded). DRM always implies r
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International Day Against DRM is Friday, May 3rd, 2013(defectivebydesign.org)
1 points by Fice 13y ago|0 comments
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by Fice 14y ago
Direct link to the slides in PDF: http://madere.biol.mcgill.ca/cchivers/BIOL597_bayesian.pdf
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by Fice 14y ago
Also would be great to have it in F-Droid repo ( http://f-droid.org/ ). They have direct APK download over https.
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by Fice 14y ago
(Tupolev-Bartini law) An ugly plane won't fly.
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by Fice 14y ago
Everyone blames the system but we should really blame ourselves first. We did not protest Aaron's prosecution enough, we did not make him feel our support. We ourselves allowed this to happen.
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by Fice 14y ago
It is not just wrongful prosecution that leads one to depression. The much harder thing is the feeling of lack of support. We should have been protesting when Aaron was alive, it's too late now. We are to blame for his death, and we should
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Apple fails at its second attempt to patent the iPad’s design in Russia(thenextweb.com)
2 points by Fice 14y ago|0 comments
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FSF's 2012 Holiday Giving Guide(fsf.org)
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German's Federal Government White Paper on Trusted Computing and Secure Boot(bmi.bund.de)
1 points by Fice 14y ago|1 comments
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by Fice 14y ago
In the ideal world of mathematics there is no distinction between creating and discovering. Everything that is possible exists. That makes the infinite monkey theorem or statements like "the answers to all the great questions of the univers
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The World's Most Innovative Companies(forbes.com)
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by Fice 14y ago
Controversy over Intellectual Property provisions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economi...
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Stop the Corporate Death Star (Trans-Pacific Partnership)(avaaz.org)
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by Fice 14y ago
Why all the buzz? I thought that the people who buy Apple products or use centralized social networks knowingly sacrifice their privacy and already expect things like this to happen.
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Russian Wikipedia blackout(wikimedia.ru)
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Fedora 17 ARM GA Release(lists.fedoraproject.org)
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by Fice 14y ago
Java is not necessarily slower than C++. In some cases it could even be faster due to dynamic optimizations performed by JIT based on runtime profiling information. For example, JIT can directly link or even inline polymorphic calls automat
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by Fice 14y ago
I tend not to like TDD for a different and serious reasons. TDD seems to encourage bad trial and error programming practices where developer blindly modifies the code until it passes the tests instead of reasoning about correctness based on
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by Fice 14y ago
Inject drugs into people without making them notice? This makes a dangerous weapon.
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by Fice 14y ago
More here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/benheine/sets/72157623723956821...
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by Fice 14y ago
In the 80's Apple had HyperCard, a tool designed to make programming easy for novices. «... HyperCard is an echo of a different world. One where the distinction between the “use” and “programming” of a computer has been weakened and awaits
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by Fice 14y ago
Stephen Hawking «Gödel and the end of physics» http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/events/strings02/dirac/hawking/
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by Fice 14y ago
Usability and accessibility sacrificed for the wow effect. This is typical for skeumorphic UIs.
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by Fice 14y ago
Large businesses including publishers rarely base their decisions on ethical principles — businesses are done for profit. It is the consumer's responsibility to punish them for unethical behaviour. So we should be responsible consumers, and
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Gosling: comments around Oracle v Google(nighthacks.com)
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James Gosling: My attitude on Oracle v Google(nighthacks.com)
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by Fice 15y ago
According to Wikipedia, the film is distributed by Sony Pictures Classics which is a subdivision of Sony Pictures Entertainment, an MPAA member. So by purchasing a copy of this film you will support Internet censorship.

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