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811.
by antod 9y ago
Heh, I work with a couple of Frenchmen (in NZ) and they always get a good chuckle when they hear Kiwis complain about UK bureaucracy :)
812.
by antod 9y ago
I'm in my mid 40s and the youtube front page just offers me punk and 80s thrash metal videos plus some windsurfing and mountain biking - suits me fine. I get a weird culture shock whenever I ever see what it looks like to my kids thoug
813.
by antod 9y ago
> But flask also almost invented the whole @route API, which is really awesome Emphasis on the 'almost' :) Turbogears was doing something similar with @expose about 5 years earlier.
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by antod 9y ago
> I used to have a preference for Ruby but Python has a single killer feature missing for me from Ruby and that is explicitly imported module symbols. As someone who has to now deal with a couple of complicated/convoluted Ruby cod
815.
by antod 9y ago
You might do "challenging work" or long hours of "shitty work", but not "hard work"? Etc Sounds like the whole point rests on only a limited definition of the word hard.
816.
by antod 9y ago
Flash is going away sometime: https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Scratch_3.0
817.
by antod 9y ago
I think Scratch 3 is being built on top of Blocky with Google's help. No more Flash - yay!
818.
by antod 9y ago
> Not really, because if you ignore the rest of the series T2 ends with humans winning Coz a pointless and massively destructive war is OK as long as we end up winning in the end?
819.
by antod 10y ago
And the same thing happened in other countries without Standard Oil and US Steel monopolies.
820.
by antod 10y ago
They can't because by definition, restricting end user usage means the license isn't either Open Source or Free Software.
821.
by antod 10y ago
You're selling Tulsa short - it has the same number of wild emus as NZ does.
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by antod 10y ago
> This feels a lot like a submarine article How is it a submarine article? The people and agencies involved in the campaign are upfront and explicit in what their roles and goals are. It isn't one of those "the suit is back&q
823.
by antod 10y ago
>I mean, how about this last quote: “It’s boom time for the next 10 years,” Mr. Drury said. The more immigrants, the better. “We’ll take a lot. We’ll take hundreds.” Woah, not hundreds? That was the CEO taking about his company not the
824.
by antod 10y ago
> Ubuntu community did a fantastic job to popularize deb ecosystem This can't be emphasised enough. I was a Debian user before Ubuntu launched, and it really seemed like Debian was going to only ever remain an unsupported (by any
825.
by antod 10y ago
You want concrete and specific evidence for a subjective judgement call based on peoples own experiences? Where's your concrete and specific evidence that nearly everybody else's subjective personal experience is somehow objective
826.
by antod 10y ago
Universe is an Ubuntu thing. Debian doesn't have that distinction. On Ubuntu, universe is basically packages straight from Debian not directly supported by Ubuntu.
827.
by antod 10y ago
Yeah I was almost more surprised by the Slashdot bit than the OS/2 bit.
828.
by antod 10y ago
> Sorry but I'm not drinking the Miele Kool-Aid any longer. My parents installed Miele appliances in a kitchen remodel about 6 years back. The fancy expensive oven must've broken down 5 times in the first year. I think it eve
829.
by antod 10y ago
And roughly the same period of time further back (give or take), we had 32kB of RAM.
830.
by antod 10y ago
> This is like hiring somebody to build a bridge, it falling due to incompetence killing hundreds of people and then having nobody suffer any consequences. "Eh, bridges fall, what can you do." You can't really use these
831.
by antod 10y ago
I want to improve on your metaphor-- I think that architects/construction crew is a bad one. Architects design on a house, but they also are very aware of the engineering constraints of how a building will stand, resist earthquakes, a
832.
by antod 10y ago
Weren't we already the result of someone else doing that?
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by antod 10y ago
> IT: it is just my opinion, but I would say that average IT specialist in NZ doesn't know much. I see a lot of IT people here who, for example, don't know how to use Git. Who never heard about Rust. Who never heard about LISP
834.
by antod 10y ago
>The labor laws are out of control. Depends who you're talking to and their perspective. To an American, it seems like France. To someone from France (ie who you were replying to), it would seem like America.
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by antod 10y ago
It's not really riskier, just more effort than it's worth IMO. Note that there will (or soon should) be some newer HWE kernels for 16.04 out.
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by antod 10y ago
Just leave it to your distro. Don't bother with it yourself.
837.
by antod 10y ago
Tech Industry? As far as I can tell these days, IBM's main offering/purpose is outsourcing the blame for your enterprise project's failure.
838.
by antod 10y ago
The CGA only applies to consumers and not business customers, and only applies between the end reseller and the customer. Cisco doesn't really sell directly to consumers.
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by antod 10y ago
In a lot of those cases (Mir being the obvious exception), the Ubuntu backed solution predated the alternative. I can't help wonder if this will keep happening as their competition waits to see everything new Canonical chooses to back,
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by antod 10y ago
> And we are not wild about Python 3.x's attempt to imitate a classical object oriented style. Curious. What do you mean by that?

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