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   by _investigator 15y ago

   No. You misread. I love Russ Cox's way of thinking and his continual generosity in sharing his work. I too use the Plan 9 base sed and grep. I'm cynical about the people who rave on about perl/javascript/python/ruby/whatever regexp, who
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   by _investigator 15y ago

   Consumers can easily see alternatives to MS products are better. It's only a matter of time; MS lost that contest. They are now resigned to use bogus patents to get a piece of the future they will not otherwise be a part of. The alternati
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   by _investigator 15y ago

   tl;dr The original basic RE and extended RE (when backreferencing is not used) are significantly faster than implementations that most programmers traditionally rave about, e.g., Perl RE. Tell me something I didn't know. He thus used such 3
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   by _investigator 15y ago

   Well, let's see Anonymous host a website. I'm sure the DOJ or FBI could take it down, by legal or technical means. What is the point? There's no such thing as a webserver that "never goes down", or a network that is "always up". Things
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   by _investigator 15y ago

   AlexMuir has missed the most important point: Megaupload served infringing content from machines based in Virginia, overseen by the hosting provider Carpathia. The fact that the persons involved were not US citizens or that the company wa