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by _ak 12y ago
Copyleft is a collectivist ideology, it only ever cares about users as an anonymous mass, but not about individuals with individual needs and constraints.
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by _ak 12y ago
If it seems more interesting to you, then why don't you do it?
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31C3: The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability [video](youtube.com)
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by _ak 12y ago
Yep. In Germany. Pretty much nowhere else. The tragedy is that Zuse tried to patent a lot of his inventions. His submissions were lost during the war, and when he resubmitted them after the war, his applications were struck down due to Amer
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by _ak 12y ago
Why? n spaces encode a specific preference for indentation, while tabs just represent a level of indentation. How many columns these actually are is entirely up to personal preference and editor configuration. That's why tabs are alway
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by _ak 12y ago
There is not much to find, but apparently, they do software updates over the "air": http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/03/28/software-upgrade-at-...
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That's not the standard library, though.
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by _ak 12y ago
If only people would not willfully ignore the implicit "at Google" or "for Google" that a lot of things said about Go carry. Go may be a terrible language from the PLT POV, but it's meant to solve problems Google ha
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by _ak 12y ago
The "systems" in the term "systems language" the Go team used shortly after initially releasing Go refers to systems like Google has them running.
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by _ak 12y ago
Like what? The standard library is no more special, other than where it resides in the filesystem. You can write C and assembly code as well and link it to your Go code. And I'm not talking about cgo, I mean [568][ac], the Plan 9 C com
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by _ak 12y ago
I think this is an indicator how fundamentally over-engineered all of the GNU tools are. strings was supposed to be a simple tool that finds bits of data that look like human-readable strings. It wasn't meant to parse ELF binaries and
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by _ak 12y ago
Lennart Poettering is a bully himself, with a well-documented instance where he continuously interruped a talk at the 27th Chaos Communication Congress, even going as far as taking over the stage while insulting the presenter. Lennart Poett
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by _ak 12y ago
Even if Go added exceptions or generics, people would still complain because something would be different from how they expected generics or exceptions to be. If you want a specific language, then just use that one, but don't try to im
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by _ak 12y ago
Different people have different requirements. It makes no sense to declare some tool to be THE STANDARD(TM) if it's of no use for a large proportion of their users. The way $GOPATH works and dependencies are managed is well-documented.
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by _ak 12y ago
Depends how you define "proper" and how you imagine a debugger interface to be with which you can handle a running application with hundreds, if not thousands of goroutines.
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by _ak 12y ago
In the case of net/http, I think it really turned out that simply integrating with http.Handler has so many more benefits than wrapping net/http with your own interfaces. Even Jeremy Saenz realized that and released Negroni after
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by _ak 12y ago
If the Feds lose, they will wrap you in red tape until they win.
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by _ak 12y ago
You're not thinking in the grand scheme. The shift from full employment towards (idealistically) full automation requires drastic paradigm shifts in how we view economics. Just try to contemplate this question: what would a society, an
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AFAIK, Florian Weimer is also in the Debian security team.
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The classic historic example is the Commons and their subsequent enclosure in England. Common land that was free to be used by commoners for centuries was suddenly divided up and enclosed, often enough by force, and even went so far as prop
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by _ak 12y ago
http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/ That was published just about a month or two after Go was first released, it contains syntax errors (like the placements of curly braces), and Go has moved on significantly since then.
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by _ak 12y ago
Nobody really claims any of Go's features are new in any way. And yet, Go put them together in a fashion that attracts developers because it is put together in an absolutely easy to use way. There's this wonderful comparison of Go
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by _ak 12y ago
Well, that criticism extends to all programming languages named after letters of the alphabet, metal oxides, musical notation, famous mathematicians, places, or just generic English words.
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by _ak 12y ago
9/11 is ultimately making the terrorists win because otherwise they terrorist might win.
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by _ak 12y ago
There is tool like that: "Red Alert : Israel". It's available in the App Store, and currently being used for missile launch alerts in Israel.
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by _ak 12y ago
Stallman talking about the web is like a Catholic priest talking about sexual intercourse: he has no practical experience with it and has no idea what he's talking about.
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by _ak 12y ago
But nano is just a pico clone, and pico started out as pine's text editor. pine as a project was initiated in 1989.
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I'm talking about online advertising. RTTs for common ad exchanges and SSPs are usually 100 to 120ms.
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I'm not sure whether things are actually imaginary, or whether they might just have a lower perception threshold. In beer tasting, we talk about off-flavors like green apple, butterscotch, cooked cabbage, or flavors like spicy/pep
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by _ak 12y ago
We use Go for a soft realtime application (RTB), and it works well enough. We essentially have two performance issues, one being the particular database we use (which is not directly related to Go itself), the other one being GC pressure. B

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