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by apotheon 16y ago
He's amusingly wrong in his certainty that everybody else is wrong. Two spaces grew out of a typographic convention of using a 1.5-width space that was favored by typesetters for proportional typefaces because typewriters didn't have half-w
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by apotheon 16y ago
He's amusingly wrong in his certainty that everybody else is wrong. Two spaces grew out of a typographic convention of using a 1.5-width space that was favored by typesetters for proportional typespaces because typewriters didn't have half-
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How Can I Find the Number of Permutations per Sum?(blogstrapping.com)
2 points by apotheon 16y ago|0 comments
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by apotheon 16y ago
One can conduct business in violation of the law anywhere . When it's done intelligently, we call the result "black marketeering". When it's done stupidly, we call the result "jail time".
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by apotheon 16y ago
1. Do you think that the form of a government does not affect its tendency toward corruption? 2. Note that I was talking about Smith's influence on early US government. The nation has obviously strayed from that quite a lot since then --
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by apotheon 16y ago
There's a term for the kind of rephrasing used by Apple: "fear, uncertainty, and doubt" There's another term: "propaganda" I could probably rephrase the matter endlessly if I really wanted to.
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by apotheon 16y ago
Good point. Thanks for pointing that out. Still . . . that's within 5% of the top of the list, which is shocking given the obstacles to entrepreneurship in the US.
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by apotheon 16y ago
Italy and Germany have their (recent) roots in fascism. France has its in . . . well. I'm not going to go there. Note that the UK produced Adam Smith and, to a nontrivial degree, the US, and Canada. The culture and early government of th
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by apotheon 16y ago
In my area, it takes no fewer than three different licenses just to set up a consultancy that doesn't even sell products (pure service oriented business) -- and that doesn't address any of the issues aside from licensure (tax ID, ensuring y
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by apotheon 16y ago
Starting a business in the United States is a little like pulling your own teeth while getting your fingernails trimmed with a wood chipper. The fact that it still ranks fourth overall just indicates how much worse most of the rest of th
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by apotheon 16y ago
1. I don't think that's exactly what Legion was saying. 2. I don't think that's exactly what the article's author was saying. 3. I think that makes a lot more sense than whatever cockamamie BS the article's author was saying, though, and
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by apotheon 16y ago
> Sure there is globalization, but telecommuting jobs aren't ubiquitous. I think she was referring to overseas outsourcing specifically to save on wages rather than more mundane telecommuting where the only necessary reason for it is to
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by apotheon 16y ago
That may be the practical translation of the article, but I'm not so sure its author understands that. I get the distinct impression she thinks there's a distinct difference between "programmers" and "software engineers" that is somehow co
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by apotheon 16y ago
I dunno. I think you're reading a lot into that train-wreck of a sentence. software engineer: write the software programmer: write the instructions for a computer to use that software That doesn't actually line up very well with what you s
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by apotheon 16y ago
> For example, installing a pkg non-interactively may fail, but return success. Or, it may return failure, but the package actually installed successfully. News to me. Should I just take your word for it? > There had been a bug abo
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by apotheon 16y ago
If it's any consolation, I understood what you meant.
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> With ports it is entirely possible to install a package that does not work completely or at all due to missing dependencies. Meanwhile, I have discovered that with APT it is entirely possible for a failed install to hose up the entire
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by apotheon 16y ago
This is a common problem in programming books and tutorials, from what I've seen. They all seem to adhere to a false dichotomy, as if there is no choice other than "small steps but no reward for a long time" or "big, huge steps, each with
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by apotheon 16y ago
> The GNU project very much as a "not invented here" problem, where it not only wants to replace everything in the world -- even when it's "free software" -- with something weird and less usable that bears the GNU stamp on it. Oops. I
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by apotheon 16y ago
> Its dependency resolution capabilities are awful Funny. I had more problems with APT dependency resolution than with ports dependency resolution, probably by an order of magnitude, despite the fact that APT was the best package syste
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by apotheon 16y ago
What koenigdavidmj said is true. The kind of "modular" that applies to the Linux kernel (and applies just as much to the FreeBSD kernel) is not the same kind of "modular" as you get with a microkernel OS like MINIX 3. All the major BSD Un
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by apotheon 16y ago
Okay, fair 'nuff. > EDIT: Let me also say that I'd really like to see the OpenSolaris devs jump to the FreeBSD team and help drive FreeBSD further. I can definitely agree with that.
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by apotheon 16y ago
I found Ruby itself a lot easier to learn than Rails, actually. Try doing some plain ol' Ruby learning instead. You know at least a little programming, so I'd recommend starting with Everyday Scripting With Ruby rather than with Learnin
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by apotheon 16y ago
> I’m sure whatever product manger they have wants me to do something more than anything else. Maybe that’s completing my profile, accepting friend requests, seeing sales and offers (hello revenue) or simply searching for a restaurant.
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by apotheon 16y ago
I don't see how Ubuntu's benefits over Solaris are relevant to a comparison with FreeBSD.
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by apotheon 16y ago
MySQL is not written in a very portable manner. I prefer PostgreSQL for a number of reasons, and the fact that its developers are concerned with portability is one of the more minor reasons.
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by apotheon 16y ago
> All the reasons to prefer FreeBSD (network & VM performance, stability, security, etc) are no longer clear advantages when compared to contemporary Linux. Really? Why don't you think stability and security are important? What ab
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by apotheon 16y ago
There are a lot of reasons. The ports system has already been mentioned, and some people really like ZFS. More to the point, though, licensing differences ensure that more software (like ZFS) is legally compatible with FreeBSD than with a
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by apotheon 16y ago
s/effectively/ineffectively/
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Why Wesabe Lost to Mint - Marc Hedlund's blog(blog.precipice.org)
1 points by apotheon 16y ago|1 comments

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