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by Flimm 13y ago
Copyleft and permissive licenses are all both free/libre and open source. The distinction between free/libre and open source does not lie in the distinction between copyleft and permissive licenses.
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by Flimm 13y ago
This book deliberately omits talking about Javascript in the browser, but the only reason I want to study Javascript is for its use in a browser context!
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by Flimm 13y ago
I think the real lesson here is not to write your own license but to use well-known ones. There are lots of permissive licenses that are also compatible with the GPL.
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by Flimm 13y ago
CC BY-SA is short for Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike. BY means you must attribute, and SA means you must license any distributed derivative works under the same license (copyleft). Attribution on its own is not enough.
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by Flimm 13y ago
The difference is that it doesn't break the back button! Clicking back takes me back to HN, not back a page.
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by Flimm 13y ago
What's not gracious about that post? Losing graciously doesn't mean giving up without a fight, it means once you've lost, you take it well.
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by Flimm 13y ago
I found the Procrastination Equation to be a better read. The Now Habit can be summed up as "don't be a perfectionist", whereas the Procrastination Equation says there are three types of procrastinators, and perfectionism isn
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by Flimm 13y ago
Persona works across browsers, so "log in with Firefox" is worse IMO.
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by Flimm 13y ago
Your cookie stays valid if you haven't logged out.
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by Flimm 13y ago
Mozilla Persona is a good start.
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by Flimm 13y ago
The comments on that article are definitely worth reading.
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by Flimm 13y ago
Is there one?
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by Flimm 13y ago
That's not what he said.
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by Flimm 13y ago
It's probably a violation of copyright to copy an article and paste it here. Copyright automatically applies, paywall or not.
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by Flimm 13y ago
Separating byte strings from Unicode strings is as close to solving the Unicode problem without thinking about it as you'll get.
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by Flimm 13y ago
Here's the workaround: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search...
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by Flimm 13y ago
I also am sceptical that this will tip the scales, but for different reasons: you'll be able to install Python 2.7 with a single command. Plus, switching to Python 3 will still be difficult because many libraries still won't have
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by Flimm 13y ago
> Default unicode strings are obscenely annoying to me. Almost all of my code deals with binary data, parsing complex data structures, etc. The only "human readable" strings in my code are logs. Why the hell should I worry abou
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by Flimm 13y ago
I would, except git stash doesn't do what you expect if you have staged and unstaged changes in the same file. See this question for more details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13780700/how-can-i-run-gi..
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by Flimm 13y ago
Piracy still has a much better product to offer. No restrictions at all.
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by Flimm 13y ago
It's just words, just ignore him. You don't need to comment about it. Right?
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by Flimm 13y ago
> They don't pay per play, so most of your money goes to popular artists no matter how indie your listening habits are. That's a misleading sentence, it implies that your listening choices do not affect how much money goes to i
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by Flimm 13y ago
You're getting downvoted because this is not Reddit. Not that we dislike memes, we just like them on Reddit, and off HN.
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by Flimm 13y ago
You're not annoyed by the ads?
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by Flimm 13y ago
If I was happy using my Google account everywhere, I would probably also be happy with Google Groups. Why not use something like Mozilla Persona for authentication instead? That way, you're not automatically excluding people who don&#x
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by Flimm 13y ago
Bah! I forgot! And now it's too late.
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by Flimm 13y ago
The trouble with that approach is that you have to escape special characters: $ explain cat filename | sort # won't work $ explain 'cat filename | sort' # presumably would work I wonder if the best approach is to make `explai
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by Flimm 13y ago
That is completely incorrect. If a piece of software is licensed under the GPL or the MIT, you have the right to use it for any purpose. If it didn't, it wouldn't meet the free software definition, nor the open source definition.
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by Flimm 13y ago
It's "lose", not "loose". I'll delete this comment in a few hours.
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by Flimm 13y ago
This tells you which devices support which Unicode characters. By what is meant by "support"? Does it mean that the user will see a correct glyph image with the default installation, or something more?

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