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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> All while endorsing the Affero GPL, a license that doesn't even allow users full control over their own servers. Thanks for mentioning the Affero version, I'd never come across it before. In what manner does this licence af
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Might as well work out what $2495.00 in 1984 equates to today... I used this site: http://www.usinflationcalculator.com $2495 in 1984 inflates to a hard to swallow $5,594.11, an increase of 124.2%. Being a limey this this is har
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
A few minutes in you see that famous tv commercial for the Mac. What I heard was that they only had to show it once, during the ad break for a football game.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
A long quote from the article: It’s hard to see such a radical change to the makeup of the brigage combat team as anything else than a budget move, borne out of the necessity of cutting the personnel costs that eat up almost half of the se
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> And the robocop might win just based on the fact that he's less likely to have a "respect mah authoritai" chip on his shoulder that results in me being tazed or shot for no good reason. Concerning the film "Roboco
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> How many of those "learning to code" really become programmers and end up doing it for a living, or making habitual use of pointers or some other concept that a programmer must/must not deal with in their first programm
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> It is more or less impossible to peek under the hood. There is no way to teach integer logic really (Python has auto-growing arbitrary precision integers) and floats can lead to strange errors (x=1; for i in range(10): x+=0.1 does not
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I compile my C source code with it, or other people's. I don't sell the programs that I write, or get paid for writing them - for those reasons I don't consider myself to be a software developer, most of my peers think I am w
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> What 'users' of clang and gcc are not developers? I use gcc, and I work as a treesurgeon.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> But I think it's a chicken and egg story. Boot karma.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
There are no plans to auction off the old rug, but the new one has already been ordered. The first thing that popped into my mind - $1,000 on Ebay?
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Back in my day the best place to learn about sex was the school canteen.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Back in college there was a Gay, Bi and Lesbian group. My mate and I decided to gatecrash it (he even took his girlfriend). This was considered typical college behaviour, to explore the universe ... ... although I tended to prefer the loc
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I'm all for super AI, as long as it isn't: sociopathic, aggressive, manipulative, intimidating, two-faced, pathologically dishonest, ... We already have too many humans displaying those traits.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Have you ever played against a formidable electronic opponent? I've heard they sometimes use unusual tactics.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> I totally get all the snarky comments and dislike for the porn filter but as a father of a 11-year-old girl who surfs the web I am 100% behind the idea of regulating material that is not suitable for kids. Does the filter protect chi
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> How does Stallman fund his life? Probably with great difficulty, but looking at the guy I bet he's never even seen a suit and tie. Also because of his views on privacy, I think speculating what his average drawings are is a wast
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
The prime failure of the criminalisation of drugs is that it defines someone who is smoking a joint as a criminal. This scenario is closer to what happened to Robert Morris. Apparently the worm wasn't intended to be malicious, unlike t
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> If learning more about 3D rendering means I'm going to end up being disappointed by donut.c, I think I'm going to put off learning more about 3D rendering. A topologist: "You can easily screw yourself up in three dimen
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
My favourite was Brandon Bradshaw .
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
May I bring up that whether or not you read code, you ain't gonna read it literally. Imagine following all jump statements with out fail. That's the machine's job, not yours.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Because we're stuck in a tyranny of flat text files as a representation of code. Their simplicity is also a strength. That richer file format will at some point be written in a text file.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> REPL is poking at the problem through a tiny keyhole and Light Table is opening the door and shining the light on the full behavior of the code. I thought there were quite a lot of problems in the algorithms of data structures where
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I know this might be shooting the argument in the wrong direction... Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that the term inverse square law was erroneous, and I have yet to come across a complaint from anyone.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Thanks for reminding me of that, I will have a look.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I was thinking of modernising some 25 year old code, being pre-ANSI it has some of the same problems, like: char *malloc(); Of course I am referring to Robert Morris' Worm.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
A lot of the code that I write looks like a crime-scene.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Straightforward C is slow; Would you care to elaborate? I typed "man straightforward" into terminal and nothing was thrown back at me.

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