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by _stephan 12y ago
As if LLVM had no bugs.
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by _stephan 12y ago
I understand the article as making the argument that in the past companies tried to make a business out of the open source project itself while nowadays the open source project is more often a byproduct or a basic infrastructure component f
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by _stephan 12y ago
The sentence immediately before the one you quoted is: "Remember how the open source software movement was supposed to be like Woodstock, with everybody sharing and everything free?" I think the author wants to express that open s
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by _stephan 12y ago
Yes, they still do dual licensing, though I suppose the additional licensing under the LGPL by Nokia changed the business a bit. In any case, I wonder whether the original success of Qt would still be possible in today's business and o
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by _stephan 12y ago
Dual licensing, like Trolltech did originally with QT, could also be a viable commercial strategy for certain open source projects, but that seems to be going out of fashion lately.
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by _stephan 12y ago
I wonder why no one is trying to create a killer Git client on Windows. Because there is already one: SourceTree (which is also available for OS X).
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Senator Leahy Kills Patent Reform (For Now)(eff.org)
15 points by _stephan 12y ago|5 comments
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by _stephan 12y ago
Does anyone have an idea what the European ISP is that refuses to provide enough peering capacity?
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by _stephan 12y ago
GCC 4.9 hasn't yet been released (and won't be until after Easter). Currently there's only a release candidate. See http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/135470
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by _stephan 13y ago
If you don't buy earthquake insurance, can you count on state or federal disaster relief programs to pay for reconstruction? [Edit] Or to rephrase the question, do disaster relief programs create a moral hazard that should be countered
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by _stephan 13y ago
Can't you now replace the tires with cheaper ones?
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by _stephan 13y ago
Looks like Microsoft has some deep structural problems with its developer support. Let's hope the right persons at Microsoft see this thread.
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by _stephan 13y ago
Your support experience sounds really bad. I'd file the bug here: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio (which despite the name is also the right place to report library issues)
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by _stephan 13y ago
In addition, the video has been taken down almost immediately every time it’s posted on YouTube. AFAIK, the German company that produced the interview didn't sell the international rights to the German broadcaster, which is also why
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by _stephan 13y ago
I expected a permissive license or an open-core strategy to monetize proprietary components and not be friendly with the free software community, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. So you don't consider a permissive lice
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by _stephan 13y ago
How do you like the typography? I find e.g. the italic font for the headlines in the left column or the small all caps serif format of the bylines to be somewhat detrimental to readability.
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by _stephan 13y ago
Are you trolling?
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by _stephan 13y ago
AFAIK, most sex workers in Germany are self-employed, so they neither get unemployment benefits nor a national pension (since they also don't contribute to these insurance systems). Do you have any source for your statement on many peo
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by _stephan 13y ago
Have you tried it in the last few days? After SourceTree got relatively slow for me with the past few updates, the last update actually completely fixed that!
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by _stephan 13y ago
You should try SourceTree, it's a great Windows and Mac Git GUI client! It's free (as in beer) and also supports Mercurial.
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by _stephan 13y ago
There's also Google's QUIC: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RNHkx_VvKWyWg6Lr8SZ-saqs... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC
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by _stephan 13y ago
Why would the baseband processor need access to anything but the RF and maybe the GPS hardware?
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by _stephan 13y ago
"Lastly, the baseband processor is usually the master processor, whereas the application processor (which runs the mobile operating system) is the slave." Can maybe somebody explain what this means exactly? Could the baseband proc
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by _stephan 13y ago
An ordered key-value store with consistent secondary indices and simple transactions covers the needs of lots of applications (as e.g. the Google App Engine data store proves). If FoundationDB can indeed deliver consistency without compromi
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by _stephan 13y ago
You're right, I should have been more precise: They seem to be switching to Mercurial because they think it's easier to customize Mercurial in order to address scaling issues they're having. (And I'd guess that some of t
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by _stephan 13y ago
Facebook seems to be switching from Git to HG for performance/scaling reasons: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1nl9at/i_am_a_member_o...
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How we know the NSA had access to internal Google and Yahoo cloud data(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by _stephan 13y ago|0 comments
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by _stephan 13y ago
This is being disputed by the government, AFAIK.
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by _stephan 13y ago
I suppose Meai is referring to AppCode, which is a different product.
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JetBrains open sources its IntelliJ Community Edition IDE(github.com)
1 points by _stephan 13y ago|0 comments

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