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by Havvy 12y ago
Mozilla and Google no longer have any sponsorship agreements. And I can guarantee you that to most developers in Mozilla, that agreement never gave any technical or political credence to Google and its actions.
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by Havvy 12y ago
Why are people downvoting this? He's not making the argument, just explaining that people will put up this strawman.
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by Havvy 12y ago
Liberty Mail is an equally bad name. Don't conflate technology with freedom. Call it Electronic Messaging or something instead.
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by Havvy 12y ago
DMCA is about copyright, there's no copyright violations here. Furthermore, DMCA is an American law, and does not apply to India. Finally, even if it was American law, it's not a law for the government to use, but rather the citiz
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by Havvy 12y ago
This is what happens when you let people take any action if they scream 'terrorist'.
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by Havvy 12y ago
You can have up to date packages with NixOS too. Just have to change the default channel.
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by Havvy 12y ago
If you don't pay extra care to updating Arch, it's possible that an update will brick your OS install requiring a fresh install. Granted, they usually tell you on their websites when this happens along with how to not brick your O
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by Havvy 12y ago
The author answered, and it's hovering at the top of the comments.
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by Havvy 12y ago
The equivalent to copying information would be building another house with equivalent materials that has the same floorplan as your house, not taking your house itself. "right to the residual income from its resale" sounds like a
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by Havvy 12y ago
Rust is able to be almost (unsafe blocks) free of segfaults without runtime overhead. That's the core feature that Rust provides with lifetimes. The Rust compiler can (and does) have bugs, but they get weeded out over time. But so can
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by Havvy 12y ago
They haven't been sent an NSL at the time of the writing of that post. They don't have details on what the attack is, only that they think there is going to be one.
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by Havvy 12y ago
To be fair, GC was always a big TODO item that became less and less important to implement until there were no go reasons to implement it in the language core (as you can implement it on top of the language), and removed from that list. The
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by Havvy 12y ago
Wouldn't profits going to Sony and the MPAA already be antiethical to most hackers?
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by Havvy 12y ago
Yeah, it looks like the entire legislative approach is wrong and doing more harm than good. It'd be nice to see more focus on education and building up knowledge. Perhaps even a well designed website (including first-class mobile suppo
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by Havvy 12y ago
Every organization has its share of problems. Microsoft has quite a lot of them. They are working on some of them, but others linger...
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by Havvy 12y ago
The unfathomable part is that Android would not be free software.
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by Havvy 12y ago
JavaScript isn't full of bugs nobody has bothered to fix. It's full of specified behavior that cannot be fixed without breaking backwards compatibility. That said, the issues are well known and actually bypassable. Whether you sho
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by Havvy 12y ago
I still listen to Gorillaz, but I don't use EJBs.
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by Havvy 12y ago
Alright, fair enough. This is different because it's the actual documentation. Also, I just realized that this page wasn't here yesterday. Congrats on releasing!
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by Havvy 12y ago
The github URL was at the top of Hacker News on Friday. Do we really want to see the same framework at the top two weeks in a row?
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by Havvy 12y ago
Because it has nothing at all to do with the article.
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by Havvy 12y ago
Except WHATWG is made of many of the same members as the W3C.
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by Havvy 12y ago
As an IRC OP on a server with mostly non-technical channels, I can guarantee you that people are not mostly well-mannered. They are welcoming of others though.
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by Havvy 12y ago
Elixir is currently at v.1.0.2 and following SemVer. I'm guessing that counts as production ready by your definition.
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by Havvy 12y ago
You can use whatever database `app` you want, such as Ecto.
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by Havvy 12y ago
"Furthermore, it highlights that the companies' embrace of complex encryption techniques is making it even harder for GCHQ to spot potential threats in the "204 million email messages, 100,000 tweets and a million Facebook po
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by Havvy 12y ago
It's not ironic. Sharing freely is part of the free market. Price points of zero are not disbarred.
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by Havvy 12y ago
Safehouses every 500 meters seems like such a small scale...why did you choose that number and not something more distant? I'd think 800 meters would be a better distance.
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by Havvy 12y ago
"libnih" - I have no clue what this does, so I immediately read it as 'lib not invented here'. Otherwise, yay...more unstable software.
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by Havvy 12y ago
It would make most security bugs caused by unsafe by default memory management which do account for a high percentage of security bugs, but logic bugs also cause security issues. See for instance SQL Injection attacks.

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