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by Flimm 12y ago
What you said is true for by-nc-sa, but not for by-sa.
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by Flimm 12y ago
No, this is not why the GPL was created. Richard Stallman has said repeatedly that he is fine with companies making money out of other people's GPLd software. The issue for him was whether derivatives were libre or not.
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by Flimm 12y ago
> Uber doesn't even let the driver know where you are going, and the driver is committed to picking you up before he sees if you are young or old, black or white, male or female. About all they can discriminate on is how well you tr
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by Flimm 12y ago
True, also relevant is that interpreter threads are officially discouraged now. http://perldoc.perl.org/threads.html#WARNING
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by Flimm 12y ago
Some people value an open source product more than a proprietary one. Although in this case, the OP couldn't get enough funding to release it as open source.
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by Flimm 12y ago
How does this work for me as a user? If I pay Google contributor $1 a month, do I see any ads at all in participating sites? Or do I only get a limited number of impressions ad-free, to encourage me to increase my spending? How does this wo
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by Flimm 12y ago
Indeed, this is technically a misuse of Unicode.
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by Flimm 12y ago
Yes, I do, and I would recommend it. A lot of my answers are actually problems I've faced myself, and just for selfish reasons I find it useful to keep them up-to-date. It's also a great way to gain SO reputation.
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by Flimm 12y ago
> If you want to get the upvotes, you have two good courses of action: You can either already have 5 digits' worth of karma, or you can answer first. How does having karma help you get more upvotes on a brand new answer? Answers tha
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by Flimm 12y ago
It is not unfree or anti-free at all. You can use and copy it and modify it and share it, unlike proprietary software.
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Eircode (new Irish postcode) – a first look(mapscribbles.blogspot.com)
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by Flimm 12y ago
You do have to pay it back if you live abroad, although I don't know how they would enforce it. http://www.studentloanrepayment.co.uk/portal/page?_pageid=93...
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by Flimm 12y ago
Copyright works restricts property rights. I own a machine that can copy digital works, and it's my property right to use this machine for its purpose, and yet copyright restricts my property rights, banning me from using my property.
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by Flimm 12y ago
If you're connected to the Internet you have to update your browser all the time just to stay minimally secure.
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by Flimm 12y ago
I don't understand what's wrong with the term "headcount".
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by Flimm 12y ago
Actually, I wasn't being sarcastic.
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by Flimm 12y ago
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I was pleasantly surprised by how recent the updates are and many commits there were. Keep up the good work!
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by Flimm 12y ago
This article was last updated in May 2014: https://github.com/magcius/xplain/commits/gh-pages
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by Flimm 12y ago
Yes! We need a website that encourages terminals and applications to use 24bit colour.
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by Flimm 12y ago
I think rayiner will appreciate the power that he's receiving. Who cares about being right when you can be intimate?
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by Flimm 12y ago
What's a global TLD?
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by Flimm 12y ago
I was hoping Mozilla Persona would have taken off by now. It's a more usable and has better privacy than OpenID. I'm still excited for it.
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by Flimm 12y ago
Nitpick: Truecrypt is proprietary (it's source is viewable, but you aren't licensed to distribute modifications of it).
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by Flimm 12y ago
You find a library on the Internet somewhere. What entitles you to copy it onto your machines? Copyright does not allow to do this, so you are reliant on a license to give you permission to do this. GPL gives you permission to do this, as l
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by Flimm 12y ago
I highly recommend learning about copyright and licensing. If you use or contribute to open source software, it's a must, IMO. Here's a post of mine which would be a good start: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1145
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by Flimm 12y ago
The second bug I mentioned only happens when I'm zoomed in 120%, which I am by default. Here's a screenshot: http://imgur.com/eDvLdMK (As someone who doesn't work much with Javascript I thought the explanatio
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by Flimm 12y ago
Please don't break the back button (Firefox and Chrome). In Firefox 29.0 on Ubuntu 14.04, the left sidebar with the text of the blog disappears and is replaced with a white space. I do not experience this on Chrome.
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by Flimm 13y ago
Yes, as long as you don't distribute it. Using GPL software in your website without sharing your modifications is fine, but selling copies of the software without sharing your modifications is not fine.
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by Flimm 13y ago
> We stop to think for a long while to debate whether to spend 50 or 75 bucks on a piece of clothing, while we can't perceive the difference between spending 50,000 or 50,025 thousand on a car. The difference would have to be 50,000
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by Flimm 13y ago
That's more of a style guide rather than a list of gotchas.

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