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by adrusi 12y ago
Licensing their entire infrastructure would probably not impact their profit. There are already very capable competitors to Github, the also-proprietary Bitbucket, and the Free Gitlab most notably. It's not so much their technology tha
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Well, no, If you publicly release the source code to your proprietary software, people can download it and tinker with it, so long as they don't distribute it whether it's modified or not. Unreal Engine, for example, has its entir
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by adrusi 12y ago
T-Mobile will send you as many SIM cards as you want for the cost of shipping. You can usually just tell your carrier you lost the SIM card if they don't formally offer duplicate SIMs.
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But if it lasted 7 days? You'd probably end up charging it at most every 5.
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GNU/Linux. A ton of platforms are more open than the web more that EME is part of the spec. It means that a full implementation of the web has to contain non-free components.
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But it's not a business and that person wasn't a customer. Debian is a community, bound partially by common technical ideas about packaging, stability and security, and partially by philosophical ideas about Free software. Their g
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If thought about properly, it doesn't. If you pull in a dependency on Xlib because you wanted a matrix math function from a graphics library, then it does. If you're building on a platform that emphasizes many small libraries, and
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It doesn't need to be a company (centralized organization). It could just as well be a band of peers that are individually unreliable but as a collective, with all their redundancy, are reliable. You know, like bittorrent.
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Why not, JavaScript might not be the best match for something like this, but its better than emacs lisp in terms of performance and several emacs modes support this.
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Well, there are several ways to get read access to the iPhone's filesystem. You can grab the binary from the phone and verify that its the same as when you compile the app on your own machine. No one's going to do that for most ap
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Why would it be improperly indented in the first place? How is removing the indentation any different from removing braces? Sure, when you paste code somewhere that expects prose (Facebook status updates, for example), it will consolidate c
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Because c++'s type system doesn't make it possible to determine the actual implementation in most cases. Concepts would allow rust-style monomorphization, but they aren't part if the standard yet.
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I don't like that it's this way, but the web is a (mostly) open standard for GUIs that is supported virtually everywhere that has a GUI at all. Cocoa and .NET produce good interfaces but are proprietary and only work on one platfo
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It's not javascript. Modern javascript engines (like v8 which powers Atom) are well beyond fast enough. GC can cause occasional latency if the programmer is lackadaisical with allocations, but with care it's a non-issue. But Atom
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Plans to construct 5-mile Hyperloop test-track(theverge.com)
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But it will still be non-free, and probably won't sync history/bookmarks/open tabs with mobile, except perhaps windows phone. And it only works on windows. I don't see what would entice users to switch from Firefox or ch
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Movies at 48fps look fine to me, great even. There's something to be said for the cinematographic effect low framerate+motion blur, and there's a long history of chemical and digital post-processing techniques that take advantage
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mmap doesn't necessarily have to hit the filesystem, as there are several ways to create file descriptors that are backed by memory (POSIX shared memory, typed memory objects, for instance).
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Except in Ruby, that error is raised by `NilClass#method_missing`. `method_missing` gets to know the name of the method being called, and the arguments passed to it, but it deals with the value, not the variable. It wouldn't be "t
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by adrusi 12y ago
Functional programming generally involves a lot of dynamic memory allocations (which are usually optimized in some way). Without some form of assisted memory management, this quickly becomes excruciating. C also lacks function closures, so
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They're not new in HTML5, they existed in the HTML4 specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#h-9.4 And yes, the justification is purely for semantic markup reasons.
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I imagine it can cause problems with ABI compatibility. I think Jonathan Blow mentioned some kind of language-level support for structure packing in the language he's designing.
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I've never had issues with intents on Firefox for android, including in the play store. If there are issues, then users of Firefox chose to take them on. Who knows, maybe they value their software freedoms more than the ability to open
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by adrusi 12y ago
yeah, to say Facebook is written in PHP is misleading. Facebook was originally written in PHP. Now it runs on the HHVM, which foregoes supporting the dangerous parts of the PHP stdlib, and offers better performance (fixing the two biggest p
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Hackers think of themselves as dangerous. They have powerful skills that can they can use to intimidate and take advantage of others. But hackers are also extremely vulnerable. As children, they were always the outcast, the one that got the
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The "declarative component model" is not an innovation, it's an obvious approach that has been used for ages when prototyping. You can achieve the same conceptual model of your interface by just generating the entire HTML of
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Maybe this isn't the best place to ask, but how is the performance of Firefox OS? Its mostly marketed for low-cost devices, how well do apps based on web tech actually run on these relatively slow SoCs? Firefox for android performs adm
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I don't understand why compilers can't simply emit global variables containing structural descriptions of types. It seems like such a trivial thing to do. It would increase the size of the binary, but it would be possible to disab
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Not really the same thing, scalajs is supposedly has full compatibility with Scala, but it doesn't try to go beyond that. Its embracing JavaScript as a platform. 100% code reuse across all platforms is unachievable. What a lot of do to
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This is why the internet is one of the greatest things ever to have happened to the world of drugs. Someone who wants access to drugs no longer has to involve themselves with the toxic culture surrounding the physical black market. One can

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