Shamanmuni

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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
The problem at that time was that Qt wasn't free nor open sourc software (you could see the code but could not redistribute modifications). Both GTK and Gnome were started as truly free alternatives to Qt and KDE. If only Qt had implem
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
Have you read about all the oil and coal companies that the Foundation invested in? Or the private prisons and military contractors? I mean, maybe they aren't a part of Bill's current pet project, but climate change and human righ
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
The article starts saying that Scala gives you lots of options while Clojure guides you to a certain style, but the Scala example takes the most complicated solution as if every programmer would solve it that way. He's contradicting hi
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
As far as I understand, the point of the article is to simulate a working backend in order to concentrate only in the frontend, the choice of AngularJS is contingent, you could do it with another framework (or none) but they chose this one.
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
Go is a language, but its standard library is very comprehensive for most things Internet related and you can build web applications quite easily using just that. You also have similar examples in the benchmark using nodejs and php, which a
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
I'd like to learn Prolog and Logic Programming but I don't know when it's better than the other paradigms, its shining moment. Could anybody help me? I mean, Imperative Programming shines when you aim for efficiency in the us
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
This discussion is turning useless, you are arguing with an imaginary strawman that isn't me. You are assuming and stating things about me and this community and it's becoming tedious. Reread this thread, I didn't claim ficti
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
>Mr. Gates didn't say that non-fiction is always better for learning about the world. Of course he didn't, he said something worse. The literal quote from Bill Gates is: "But I read mostly nonfiction because I always want
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
Apparently he read Gates' fictional biography...
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
What are you arguing against? He didn't say that fiction is always better than non-fiction for learning about the world. However, many people (Bill Gates included apparently) operate under the opposite assumption that non-fiction gives
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
Neither software nor architecture are easy to understand. The wall example is similar to "Write a simple calculator capable of doing addition, substraction, division and multiplication". Anyone can tell if that software works as e
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
Probably by talking to him. It's not hard to tell if a manager has no clue about what you do. If he doesn't, then he's probably using some silly and lazy metric like "hours in the office" or "lines of code writ
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
They don't just talk the talk, they walk the walk. Typesafe (the company founded by Martin Odersky) offers Typesafe Console as a part of their Reactive Platform. There you can see lots of data related to an application using Akka, incl
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
That's true, but the statistics tend to show that consumption rate is unrelated to its legal status. As far as I know, there aren't any records of a boom in consumption just because a drug was legalized. And I'm not talking a
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
Well, history teaches us that it probably is the case. During the alcohol prohibition in the USA, the situation was more or less equal than before it. There aren't hard numbers of consumption during the prohibition (obviously) but stat
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
Again, I'm not disagreeing (at least completely) with you. Research is necessary. I would like to try this for those times when I'm short of time to cook and resort to ordering a pizza for example, not as a complete replacement. A
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
Sure, but if your regular meals are pizza, hamburguers, instant noodles, junk food and the like then you are on your way to malnutrition already. Soylent could be a very positive change for those people. It's not like meals are an arca
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
I'm no expert, but as I understand Ensure is a supplement for your meals, Soylent is a replacement for them. You shouldn't consume only Ensure, but you could do it with Soylent. They are completely different products.
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
This simply isn't true. The jump from Mac OS to Mac OS X was huge and Mac users ranted for years about it. You had different file structures, compatibility issues, and Mac OS Classic prided itself in its "out of your way, no nonse
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
I agree with you, it's a myth, there's just one comment which is similar to what the parent states, and his objection about not solving the connectivity issue is completely valid. I still use a pendrive in case there's no int
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
I'm in complete agreement with you, but I think we wouldn't need to rely on personal interpretations and recommended practices if the SA licenses stated clearly something akin to: If a copy or a derivative work of the licensed mat
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
If you want to have control about how your creative works are reused, then you should choose to stay with plain-old Copyright and grant (or deny) authorizations as requested. It's a little bit crazy to say "Yeah, this license give
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
I think the problem is that both GPL and CC-BY-SA require you to license derivative works with that same license. And sometimes it's not easy to tell if something is or isn't software in a clear way. For example, if you modify an
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
Odd, I have a Nokia N9 with Meego in front of me, works perfectly and was cheaper than a similar Android phone. I'm completely aware of this family problems, but you can't say that it hasn't delivered. The Jolla devs have pro
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
As the article states, a patch exists which implements the functionality required by the author, so the only 'demand' is to apply that patch, hardly a monumental task. The problem here is that Nginx developers refuse to implement
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
So, are you saying that Apple, probably one of the most secretive and PR savvy companies in the world, doesn't give much thought about its relations with the media? Really? The article wasn't talking about a conspiracy, read it ag
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
I recommend you Good Math by Mark C. Chu-Carroll; it's a fantastic book for programmers who don't know higher math and it explains well how Lambda Calculus works. You can also find useful explanations about logic programming, turi
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
You can do that perfectly well with R. Heck, R was designed with that kind of workloads in mind. With RStudio you can even present a table which the non-programmers can directly manipulate to test those conditions. I usually use spreadsheet
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
CAP is about choosing which are the main guarantees of a system. When you say P in CAP it means "If there's a network partition which affects n machines, the rest of the system will take charge of that load and continue working ju
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by Shamanmuni 13y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I find it very difficult to understand how your comment relates to the article. maddog mentioned Chavez and the cuban embargo in order to illustrate a point, which is completely valid: Brazil and any other sover

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