arglwarg

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by arglwarg 9y ago
> <stereotype joke> By not hiring a JavaScript developer. </stereotype joke> aka "the lisp curse": http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
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by arglwarg 9y ago
> While possibly a highly unpopular opinion, this is where I think solutions like Electron/Node Webkit fit perfectly. Well ...: https://twitter.com/jacobrossi/status/851992646151278592
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by arglwarg 9y ago
This one goes to eleven: 11. "On some setups, clients get a corrupted stack when swapped back in from kernel." ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/745836 )
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by arglwarg 9y ago
Nope (also that would imply there is not functional difference between non-reciprocal licenses like MIT/BSD and a reciprocal one like MPLv2). The original article highlights LibreOffice and its success using the reciprocal MPLv2 not wi
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by arglwarg 9y ago
> That's the first type I think. The second type is the more HN-style professional programmer. nah > As a small P.S. to this, I think the middle ground is using the GPL for actual end-user applications, but leaving libraries and
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by arglwarg 10y ago
sed is maximum viable perl. Well maybe awk, but that is pushing it.
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by arglwarg 10y ago
Even with the "Crazy Ideas" there currently is no reason to assume they would be blocked from being implemented, if only the resources for that were available. So, once the hard part of finding the resources for them is solved, wh
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by arglwarg 10y ago
> That's basically quibbling, though the OP did err in his history a bit. AOO existed before that point too, it just wasn't called AOO and it wasn't part of Apache; it was run by Oracle, and before that, Sun. So OOo had: 1
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by arglwarg 10y ago
... as we would have needed for CMake or Autotools. It might have worked with the former for something as complex as LibreOffice, but GNU make being so simple/basic and stable over the years was a big plus: Im sure even with CMake Libr
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by arglwarg 10y ago
Even at the time of donation, LibreOffice had already gained a substantial set of the former Sun/Oracle developers: Stephan Bergmann (to Red Hat), Bjoern Michaelsen (to Canonical), Eike Rathke (to RedHat), Michael Stahl (to Red Hat). T
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by arglwarg 10y ago
... and autotools is actively hate-inducing if you have to debug it.
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by arglwarg 10y ago
The LibreOffice build system (which is plain GNU Make, without generated unreadable intermediate build files) does all these and more. Doing the same with autotools would be a nightmare.