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691.
by Flimm 13y ago
I thought operator overloading like that was considered bad practise. It seems to me that the + operator should have been overloaded, not the / operator.
692.
by Flimm 13y ago
You haven't explained why you decided against avoiding visiting Ars Technica altogether.
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by Flimm 13y ago
Complaining publicly and voting with your wallet are both valid ways to show disapproval. The former method encourages others to vote with their wallet, whereas voting with your wallet by itself is not very contagious.
694.
by Flimm 13y ago
That's completely irrelevant. Google need you as a product to sell to their customers.
695.
by Flimm 13y ago
Often I find stories for children are the most insightful and concise.
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by Flimm 13y ago
I'm very surprised by your statement. It would seem to me to be the opposite way round. Surely a passing a citation is fine, it's using someone's trademark in your branding (and a domain name and logo is arguably branding) th
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by Flimm 13y ago
In that case Canonical have really shot themselves in the foot :)
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by Flimm 13y ago
> The point I was making is how deeply the connection to Debian is buried on the ubuntu.com site and contrasting it to Crunchbang's approach which is to give back mindshare I accept that point. (TBH, I shouldn't have bothered w
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by Flimm 13y ago
I clicked on your link, and it turns out that Debian have two logos: an open use one, and a restricted one. The one you probably know and love is actually the open use one, I've never seen the restricted one before. (BTW, copyright and
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by Flimm 13y ago
IANAL, but a domain name is more than just a reference to a product. ICANN gives trademark holders additional privileges when it comes to domain names.
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by Flimm 13y ago
This is definitely a horrible move from Canonical, but I imagine they are simply following their legal counsel. In general terms, you have to prosecute violators of your trademark if you want to keep your trademark (unlike copyright or pate
702.
by Flimm 13y ago
They do include Debian in their about page: http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu Futhermore, you missed the "Ubuntu and Debian" page, which is only a two links away from the home page: http://w
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by Flimm 13y ago
You have to enforce your trademark to keep it. It's one of the crucial differences between it and copyright or patents. mikeash: good point.
704.
by Flimm 13y ago
It doesn't matter, trademark law requires you to pro-actively prosecute violators if you want to keep your trademark. Although I still wish Canonical was more transparent about who gets to use its trademarks and who doesn't: http
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by Flimm 13y ago
Please don't break my back button.
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Bart K. explains (and rants about) C/C++ pointers(freegamer.blogspot.co.uk)
1 points by Flimm 13y ago|0 comments
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by Flimm 13y ago
I also recall Mark Shuttleworth saying so: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/...
708.
by Flimm 13y ago
That doesn't solve the security vulnerabilities caused by weird filenames.
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by Flimm 13y ago
The fact is, we already support filesystems on UNIX with restricted filenames (eg: FAT and NTFS). If you ban terrible filenames from the filesystem, those filenames would not exist because they could never be created in the first place.
710.
by Flimm 13y ago
Leading dashes in filenames are not a problem caused by the shell but a problem caused by the way most binaries interpret argv.
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by Flimm 13y ago
Motorola's announcement: http://motorola-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/goodbye-sticky-h... HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6634527
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Goodbye Sticky. Hello Ara.(motorola-blog.blogspot.co.uk)
8 points by Flimm 13y ago|0 comments
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by Flimm 13y ago
Which set of morals were used? How were people's morality assessed? How comprehensive was it? What about secret behaviour? In terms of evolution, surely there are benefits to behaving morally other than reciprocation and social status.
714.
by Flimm 13y ago
If it's not interesting, don't upvote it. Flagging is for worse things than that.
715.
by Flimm 13y ago
Bold conclusions are more interesting, hence they hit hacker news more often.
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by Flimm 13y ago
It's not a company.
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by Flimm 13y ago
Of course it's not developed 100% entirely in the open and with "spirit of community". Name one company that meets this standard.
718.
by Flimm 13y ago
The point is that people are so passionate about music that they will make it, even for free, and the results can be outstanding. The same can't be said about the type of jobs slaves used to get.
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by Flimm 13y ago
By "commercial license", I presume you mean a closed-source one.
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by Flimm 13y ago
I'm not sure why you find that anecdotal number suspicious. If most PulseAudio users are using Ubuntu, of course most PulseAudio problems are going to be discovered on Ubuntu.

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