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by anon1385 10y ago
> finding specialist developers who know these dated technologies WPF is newer than Javascript and the DOM. Using native desktop GUI frameworks isn't some sort of ancient dark art. It's easier than web development! >if its m
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>What I find very strange though is that some people seemingly want one of these projects to die. I'm not sure which side you were addressing here, so I'll cover both Stallman wants the LLVM project to die for political reasons
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As far as I can tell GCC is still inferior when it comes to warning about uninitialized variables. Clang: https://godbolt.org/g/BVfy81 GCC: https://godbolt.org/g/uIN1gG See the famous and now 12 y
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>there's the fact that the date modified column format depends on how long in the past it was modified! Not if you do the sane thing and use the -T option. Of course that requires the user to read another huge man page to find out t
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>But that promise depends on their definition of "in the same spirit," which is nebulous. Yes, very famously Linus Torvalds felt that GPLv3 was not in the same spirit as GPLv2. He described it as "a violation of everything
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by anon1385 10y ago
I think a lot of modern tech companies are quite comfortable with the GPL. For the simple reasons that none of the restrictions affect them because they don't distribute binaries: their software all resides on servers (excluding the li
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Which is unfortunate because it means it's impossible to create a future version of the GPL that actually protects the rights of users in the modern world. GPLv4 should really be based on the AGPL, but that would violate freedom zero.
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by anon1385 10y ago
>The GPL protects you from that. No it doesn't. I can "steal" your GPL code, make lots of private modifications to it and make lots of money from it without violating the licence. All I have to do is run the GPL software o
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Housing. In the UK home ownership is lower for people under 45 than it was (for people of the same ages) in 1981. For example 62.1% of 25-34 year olds owned a home in 1981. In 2012 42.8% of 25-34 year olds owned a home.
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by anon1385 10y ago
If you are referring to the current state of the Labour party then that's irrelevant. Even when Labour were "strong" opposition, or were in power with large majorities, they have had very authoritarian positions on this kind
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Met police accused of using hackers to access protesters' emails(theguardian.com)
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Google summoned by UK ministers as government pulls ads over extremist content(theguardian.com)
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by anon1385 10y ago
What hardware manufacturers do you buy from that don't have child labour in the supply chain? I fear you may just be fooling yourself. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/25/smartp...
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by anon1385 10y ago
>Is your neighbor watching you, ready to report you to the state for suspected subversive activities? Yes. They are actively encouraged to do so by the government: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FENOAIrHSl8
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by anon1385 10y ago
>The author seems mistaken about a couple things relating to hash tables. He doesn't seem aware that, by far, the main reason for using power-of-two hash table sizes is so you can use a simple bitshift to eliminate modulo entirely.
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by anon1385 10y ago
There's still leaked data all over google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oN9z-b...
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by anon1385 10y ago
Yes, but not enabled by default yet (and hopefully never). From the paper: >SMC builds a high-resolution counter that can be used to reliably implement AnC in all the browsers that implement it. Both Firefox and Chrome currently support
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The cities where exercise does more harm than good(theguardian.com)
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http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-452/p... http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-452/p...
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by anon1385 10y ago
It's a regurgitation of the Mail on Sunday's latest nonsense. The MoS article did at least provide some humour by 'proving' misconduct by using a doctored graph: https://twitter.com/ClimateOfGavin/st
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by anon1385 10y ago
Trump’s chief spokesman Sean Spicer just explicitly stated that it's not about countries[1]: >certain areas of the world produce people who seek to do us harm. What's your definition of race? It's a hard thing to define si
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The tech workers affected by the travel ban(theguardian.com)
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I wonder how much your opinions would be widened if you learned about the extent of terrorism during the troubles in Northern Ireland[1], and how that conflict was ended[2]. In many ways the Good Friday Agreement is incomprehensible to peop
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by anon1385 10y ago
Yes: http://www.anadin.co.uk/our-products/anadin-extra-anadin-ext...
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by anon1385 10y ago
You make an excellent argument as to why an OS that limits software's ability to access device hardware, run native code, do raw networking, or implement JIT VMs and thus doesn't allow things like alternative browser engines is a
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by anon1385 10y ago
>the kinds of fraud models you'd expect from a web startup Code written in Javascript by a fresh college graduate with no domain knowledge that you pulled from GitHub? When evaluating a financial service the last thing I ever want t
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by anon1385 10y ago
>in the same way most HTTPS errors are not MitM attacks but misconfigurations. It's interesting that you make this comparison. For a while now I've been of the position that web browsers should scrap all TLS user interface stuf
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by anon1385 10y ago
>Because it is a moral question: Should you be able to control all data about you, and how it moves? That's not the argument Stallman actually makes here though. Note that he doesn't list 'propriety software running on Goo
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>These days its hard to say anyone signs up for the military in the major democracies without realising what they where signing up for. The British armed forces recruit children from the age of 16. I don't agree that 15/16 year
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by anon1385 10y ago
>Compilers are also mature enough to issue warnings about the use of uninitialized variables That depends on the compiler. It's not true with GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18501

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