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by anon1385 11y ago
>Perhaps you can enlighten me as to why you think this is bad. You can't see why a Google lawyer would think it 'bad' for a temporary member of staff to be able to receive the full source (with licence to use and redistrib
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by anon1385 11y ago
>I've talked to developers who have taken a single app that worked perfectly fine and split it into five or six services just because "microservices!" Now they're stuck maintaining five apps, five APIs, etc And then w
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by anon1385 11y ago
The public statements are very much designed to make people think that they are going to ban encryption. When the media outlets all interpreted it that way there were no government ministers rushing out to correct the misinterpretation, as
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-Wuninitialized has been broken in GCC for over a decade: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18501
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by anon1385 11y ago
I think you must be unfamiliar with the glibc maintainers during that period. They were hostile to outside contributions, to put it mildly. The only way to fix it would have been to make a fork. Which is what actually happened in the end wi
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by anon1385 11y ago
Have you used one of the popular IDEs recently (Visual Studio, Xcode etc)? It's built into most these days. Everybody I know who actually uses static analysis does so because it's built into their IDE and very easy to use.
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Or the number of people signing up suggests a very high turnover…
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>if we deny the developing world the use of fossil fuels, they are going to keep starving and living in poverty. If fossil fuels are so vital to developing countries why are you wasting them on luxury goods? Surely you should be campaign
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by anon1385 11y ago
>Are humans "big enough" to have such a big effect on nature as a whole? This is the question that we have yet to answer for certain. Yes. We have answer that pretty conclusively. Humans are capable of and have carried out glob
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by anon1385 11y ago
>Is it not possible that there are natural forces and cycles at work, far larger than we can comprehend or control? When you are presented with any situation in your life it's always possible that you have incomplete information and
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by anon1385 11y ago
>But I am curious: since you admit we can't know that humans are the cause, why do you think humans are the cause? That doesn't seem rational. Give me an example of something that is knowable with absolute certainty.
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by anon1385 11y ago
Why do you think small things can't have large effects? I expect you were asked about your knowledge of biology (although it could have been pretty much any other science) because small things have large effects all the time and even a
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by anon1385 11y ago
Given the success of LLVM since then, it doesn't make much sense to merge them now. The GCC maintainers would demand the removal of a lot of the key selling points of LLVM that have made it so popular among language designers, research
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by anon1385 11y ago
>You might still think that free software is unimportant or that having pseudo-freemium open source release is still better than nothing. It's strange that you call permissive licence "pseudo-freemium" when the GPL is just
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by anon1385 11y ago
Nearly any software is potentially server side software. So really they should recommend AGPL for everything, and relicence all FSF owned projects as AGPL. They don't because a lot of people even inside the FOSS community are violently
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by anon1385 11y ago
>the freedom of new languages in LLVM would be guarenteed. No, the GPL does not work that way. If LLVM was GPL it wouldn't make any difference. LLVM is modular. You can write a front end that generates LLVM IR, then pass that LLVM I
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by anon1385 11y ago
I'm not sure that is the credo. At least, it's not the credo behind the GPL. Every day I use software that is at least partly GPL code, but I can't access the source code. Why? Because I used a webapp. If the software you use
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by anon1385 11y ago
If that is what he "expects" then he is clearly ignorant of the history of Apple and open source. The Apple Public Source License, Version 2.0 predates the GPLv3 by years and it includes a patent grant[1]. At one point Apple actua
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by anon1385 11y ago
>Now, it's possible that these things are unrelated, but I believe I am correct in stating that Apple has never shipped GPLv3 software, and anything that has switched to v3, simply gets replaced or held back at its last v2 release (
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by anon1385 11y ago
That does seem a bit strange. The Chrome devs have long taken the position that there's no point trying to encrypt local copies of passwords. You can see a very long discussion about it here where Chrome devs argue that it's point
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by anon1385 11y ago
Yes, some people were worried about it. The one person you actually named in your post was not. Bad start. In my experience the main way it got into the public consciousness was through climate change deniers in subsequent decades. I'v
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by anon1385 11y ago
>And for some reason, the new truth is usually the old position of ignorance. I doubt it's 'usual'. It's just more obvious and widely publicised (often for political reasons from people who don't want any regulat
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by anon1385 11y ago
You will notice that I first presented hard evidence that they were wrong in the form of a scientific paper that actually reviewed the climate science published in the 70s. I then provided additional commentary about the quality of the site
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by anon1385 11y ago
>Not too long ago Carl Sagan and others were on TV breathlessly begging people to worry about global cooling. No he wasn't: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/07/28/if-you-wish-to-make-... There w
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by anon1385 11y ago
It's not totally wrong though is it. For the most part selling shrink-wrapped software is dead (compared to the 90s), because end users expect native software to be free (in both senses, although the beer sense is probably the more imp
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I'd go even further than that. For RMS he'd rather a problem not be solved using computers at all, if solving the problem with computers would require or even just enable non-free software. The most recent example of this was th
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by anon1385 11y ago
>they cannot simply change the licensing of the existing code from MIT to GPL. That is an issue of contention. GPL advocates believe that they are permitted to do that, and have done so in the past. The Software Freedom Law Centre (the l
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by anon1385 11y ago
I think you need to look more closely at the list of companies and their locations in the second paragraph, and the list of companies that actually replied to the letter. But we don't actually have to speculate about what the silence o
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by anon1385 11y ago
>not even in the big cities in the US can you find as many CCTVs as in the UK. Do you have evidence for this? I find it hard to believe that branches of Walmart in the US don't have CCTV cameras in them.
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Yes, but that article is talking about both public and privately owned cameras. You said public cameras. Unless you want the government to ban private CCTV the large number of private CCTV cameras in the UK isn't really much to do with

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