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by awalton 12y ago
Testing is not enough. I release an application "today" (and "today" for example is when Gtk 3.4 is released), and six months down the line the Gtk team decides to release Gtk 3.6 which breaks just about every applicatio
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by awalton 12y ago
Calling the C++ standard library crap is acknowledging the Wheel was Not Invented Here. Glazing over the fact that Qt has an incredibly complicated object hierarchy by saying "they're good for you" is not acknowledging the fa
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by awalton 12y ago
This is less "no more captchas" and more "Buy our captchas, they work, trust us." That should set off everyone's bullshit detectors.
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by awalton 12y ago
I always thought the point of Luke's helmet was to force him not to use his eyes, but instead use the force and feel the incoming shot instead of trying to react to it by vision.
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by awalton 12y ago
I'm not optimistic at all. It cured this one type of baldness because the baldness was a symptom of the underlying autoimmunity. If MPB were a classical autoimmunity, it would have already been "cured" (as in, an effective tr
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by awalton 12y ago
The problem with this is that most programmers don't need statistics on a regular enough basis. That's how things get into standard libraries: people need these things so regularly that there's no point in reimplementing them
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by awalton 12y ago
Yeah, it's only the entire basic Syntax of the language they copied. Yes, Swift's semantics are different (since it's essentially a domain-specific language designed to make writing Cocoa apps faster), but syntax-wise a Go pr
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by awalton 12y ago
> Apple has full source code to the driver stack The only place where this is likely true is for their Intel graphics drivers - Intel is probably the only graphics company on the planet that treats their graphics hardware as something le
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by awalton 12y ago
Who said anything about requiring systemd? All you have to do is handle it when it's there. It's no different than any other portability concern that has ever existed on any platform ever.
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by awalton 12y ago
> However, none of the above choices actually make it possible to do this with a daemon that was not written specifically to interact with systemd! Et voila, you found your answer. Target systemd, problem solved.
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by awalton 12y ago
> Do Americans really have no vegetables in winter ? Here in America we suffer from this thing called "climate", which causes weather-changing seasons to happen, which makes the northern parts of the country like New York into
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by awalton 12y ago
Embedded [nVidia] developers "optimizing" games by rewriting and hand compiling shaders to replace shaders in shipped games isn't enough of a clue as to why these drivers aren't OSS for you? The article is rich with the
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by awalton 12y ago
Intel's OSS driver is maintained in git. So, wordplay.
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by awalton 12y ago
Whether or not it has _GPL is completely irrelevant. The question is "does my modification to the kernel make a derivative work?" The _GPL defines are there to warn developers "Yes, using this function means you're proba
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by awalton 12y ago
KHTML/KJS was LGPL, so they had to release it. LLVM and Clang is a better argument, until you realize that Apple hired on the guy from the project after their GCC grand plans collapsed - the only visible reason they shifted strategie
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by awalton 12y ago
A large number of libraries already do this: glib uses GError, and glibmm wraps it in a very similar fashion. It's also worth mentioning that it's pretty easy to create the Error object on the stack, such than an error_free() func
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by awalton 13y ago
They're different chips - the laptop chips get much better perf/watt than the desktop components which are comparatively sloppy. That power management hardware is actually somewhat expensive technologically. It really has more to
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by awalton 13y ago
They hired the main developer of CUPS to adapt it for OS X. The license of CUPS ensures they continue to share it - the GPL and LGPL - they even had to explicitly add a licensing exception for Apple's (and other company's) binary
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by awalton 13y ago
> Even if their intent was just to start a discussion, they are not being helpful by "submitting" such bogus code. All code is bogus code until reviewed. That is absolutely central to understand. Linus's Law only works _if
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by awalton 13y ago
Why not? They're using Linux and it's GPL. Undoubtedly they have made kernel modifications as well. They're not distributing the code outside of their company, so the source license in this case is entirely irrelevant. We cou
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by awalton 13y ago
That's funny. When I make this exact point here on HackerNews I get downvoted to oblivion. Open Source gives you potential to build a rocket to the moon. But it requires money and time and people willing to mind the code, and people
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by awalton 13y ago
Sure the software can, theoretically be audited. But 1) Requires someone actually auditing software. Which judging by the state of OpenSSL flaws, we're doing a shit-tier job at. and 2) Requires people patching the "internet of thi
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by awalton 13y ago
You know, because there can never be a backdoor or unknown security flaw in OpenWRT, PFSense or some other modern firmware.
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by awalton 13y ago
Soylent claims to have every dietary macro-nutrient necessary for maintaining life. And it's pretty simple to look at it and say, "yep." It meets that claim perfectly as we understand macro-nutrients. The problem is, there ma
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by awalton 13y ago
> platform-neutral tool that's been independently audited and managed by my OS's package manager Your OS's package manager is simply wrapping up whoever else's software in a nice pretty bow and releasing it. The only
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by awalton 13y ago
** is thought to have tracked down. They still haven't actually found the plane, they've just got a very well reasoned assumption of the area the plane should be in.
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by awalton 13y ago
> If you compile the same source twice you get the exact same binary. You wish this were true. You really, really wish it were. But it's not always. Reproducibility is a really tough problem when you support 25+ Linuxes, each with t
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by awalton 13y ago
Who said it was always true? I certainly didn't. I made an assertion about Google, not Microsoft.
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by awalton 13y ago
Google doesn't need a designated "lab space" because Google is a laboratory. It might be different if Google were a chemical engineering company, but it's not. It's a software engineering company. Anywhere they&#x
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by awalton 13y ago
I think touchscreens are just fine when the screen is 4-5+". I think the argument for the utility of a touchscreen completely disappears at <2".

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