Pacabel

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by Pacabel 13y ago
How does that help in situations where HTML isn't being used, though? I'm thinking of plain text emails, discussion forums that don't allow custom markup, discussion forums that generate markup automatically for URLs, and so
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by Pacabel 13y ago
From what I can tell, you're suggesting that it's perfectly acceptable for somebody to lose his or her job merely for expressing a stance against gay marriage. Does that mean that it's also perfectly acceptable for somebody t
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Sure, I can see them being different things. But that doesn't meant that they both can't be involved at the same time. Maybe what Eich is facing is seen as "punishment" by some, but it is indisputably discrimination, too
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by Pacabel 13y ago
How exactly do you figure that? The act of not tolerating intolerance is itself intolerance. It will always be around, if we take your approach. The only way to full tolerance is to be tolerant of intolerance.
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Well, this whole incident involving Eich is a pretty good example.
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I have to ask, do you realize how hypocritical some of your statements sound? I'm talking about ones like, "I for one am glad that he was put through the wringer and hope anyone else that believes in any form of discrimination and
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by Pacabel 13y ago
It's pretty well established at this point that those who scream the loudest about how important "tolerance" is often prove to be among the most intolerant in practice. The same is holding true for those who are against &quot
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How does a non-static list of issues to resolve really help? The latest was added merely 4 days ago. If anything, that's yet another way to justify not getting a stable release out there. It's the old "We can't release y
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by Pacabel 13y ago
What does "really ready" mean when it comes to Rust? That's the kind of vague goal that people will keep using as an excuse for not focusing on stability, and providing a product that's actually usable. When it comes to
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In practice today, IP basically is just IPv4. And that won't really change until IPv6 is supported by more than a comparatively small handful of networks and users.
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Have you tried looking at this situation from a different viewpoint? The responses of many of those people who are against Eich in this case can best be described as "vile, hateful and vicious", to use your words. Their calls for
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by Pacabel 13y ago
He could very well know that any clarification, regardless of what is actually expressed, will be turned against him in one way or another, and will be used to further propagate this issue's prominence. Saying less may actually prove t
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by Pacabel 13y ago
It's kind of absurd to see this sort of contradictory reasoning. I think there'd be outrage if it was suggested that some employee of some company should be fired just because he chose to spend his own time and/or money suppo
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Realistically, if anything is going to "destroy" Mozilla, it'll probably have much more to do with their software offerings than with this particular incident. I'm talking about things like Firefox trying to imitate Chro
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by Pacabel 13y ago
What exactly are you asking? They have their beliefs. You have yours. You presumably want to be able to hold your own beliefs. They presumably want to be able to hold their own beliefs. You may disagree with their beliefs, and you should be
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by Pacabel 13y ago
I don't think he necessarily meant that you need to respect the beliefs themselves, especially if you don't agree with them. Rather, I think it's more about everyone respecting the ability of everyone else to hold their own s
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by Pacabel 13y ago
You're right, that is generally a better option these days. Unfortunately, it still does suffer from the same problem, to some extent. Settings are sometimes renamed, and then it takes some time and effort to track down the new name, a
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by Pacabel 13y ago
It's good that Firefox can be customized, for sure. But I'm finding that after each major release these days, I need to perform more and more customization just to bring it back to a usable state. I want a practical browser that d
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Quality discussion isn't supposed to always feel good. Nor is it a bad thing when what you've expressed is heavily analyzed and perhaps contested. It's really no different than physical exercise. Yes, it can be painful in the
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by Pacabel 13y ago
As a former long-time Slashdot reader, the progressively-worse site designs were far, far more disruptive and harmful than any changes in the quality of the discussion might have been. Their beta site was what made me stop visiting earlier
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by Pacabel 13y ago
The debate will still be there either way, will it not? It's probably preferable to base such discussion on a correct log of the events, rather than speculation and unsubstantiated allegations.
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Why is that? Sometimes the only reasonable and legitimate response to certain ideas and claims is to dismiss them. It's much the same for negativity. Sometimes a negative response is the best one. Highly sanitized, politically correct,
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by Pacabel 13y ago
One thing I've noticed a lot of with many of the arguments regarding this particular incident is blatant contradiction and hypocrisy. While these aren't unusual, they're particularly bad in this case. This article, for instan
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by Pacabel 13y ago
GCC wasn't stagnant at all. There were relatively frequent major releases including ports to additional platforms, very good progress implementing stuff like C++11, better optimizations, and many other important improvements. Clang has
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I don't think that that's the case at all. Even if we ignore the obvious differences in philosophy and implementation between the two, we're better off that they both exist solely because they've acted as hedges for one
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I have to ask, did you even read the first sentence of the email from James Jones of NVIDIA? It says, "This direction seems to conflict with our plans to continue running our DDX driver under XWayland." The rest of the email isn&
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Why do you think that "much shorter" implies "more understandable"? I think we have a lot of experience to suggest otherwise. Anyone who has had to maintain old Fortran or C code will likely know what I mean. With some e
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When people who claim to promote tolerance end up acting in an intolerant manner, it hurts their credibility. It really doesn't matter what their cause may be. Contradiction and hypocrisy generally don't make situations better.
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Why is asking for more information considered "silly"? Why is trying to get a more complete view of the situation considered "silly"?
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After running into such problems with it so quickly, why did you continue to try to use it? Problems of that sort were understandable in 1995, when Linux and the few distributions available at the time were still relatively immature. They w

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