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by bcg1 12y ago
> Until spring 2013, we tended to believe that the state doesn't rummage around in the private lives of individual citizens Not sure if I'm taking your comment the wrong way, if so I apologize... but a lot of us have known for
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by bcg1 12y ago
Are there really people out there who actually believe that programmers are washed up by the time they hit 30? I'm not kidding... do people really believe this? I always thought that was a fairy tale that employers tell to still-wet-be
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by bcg1 12y ago
Woah buddy, don't reveal all of the secrets! You're taking the competitive edge away from those of us that had to learn the hard way
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by bcg1 12y ago
Kallithea is a fork of an existing codebase (RhodeCode) ... so this is not exactly a "start", although to be fair I'm not sure if the issue on the homepage existed before the fork or was introduced afterwards. At least one o
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by bcg1 12y ago
Fair warning, I'm about to punch you in the gut before I pick you up. You're all over the place. You have no idea what you want. You're looking to everyone else to shape your vision of what success is. Your problem is not tha
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by bcg1 12y ago
"The RTSJ should recognize the importance of 'Write Once, Run Anywhere', but it should also recognize the difficulty of achieving WORA for realtime programs and not attempt to increase or maintain binary portability at the ex
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by bcg1 12y ago
FWIW, GNU Guile lets you use "native" call/cc in its (broken?) JavaScript implementation. http://wingolog.org/archives/2009/02/25/callcc-and-ecmascrip...
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by bcg1 12y ago
Every day I take a significant dose of one of the ones that you've heard of, for "ADD". I started doing so because of non-coding reasons but reading the Wikipedia article it is listed on that page. I'm concerned about t
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by bcg1 12y ago
I wasn't making the argument that things have gotten better. And also I don't have a cell phone, FWIW.
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by bcg1 12y ago
Indeed, and the storm clouds are gathering.
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by bcg1 12y ago
This has been a problem for a long time... for many decades education has focused only on rote memorization, to the detriment of all. "We believe that in the passage of time the neglect of these books in the twentieth century will be r
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by bcg1 12y ago
Its an interesting story but not at all surprising. I wouldn't think that VC funding is a good model for core infrastructure programs, and author correctly identifies the two common routes at this point: control by large organizations
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by bcg1 12y ago
My apologies, I got lost inside my own brain, as I often do. After re-reading I realize that I did not detect the tone of your commentary, so I respectfully withdraw any criticism of it. I still stand by my own statement however :)
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by bcg1 12y ago
I agree with you... my statements were actually specifically about 401k's, and whether or not they contribute to capital misallocation. Almost all 401k plans are much more restrictive than IRA accounts. Personally I think that a self-d
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by bcg1 12y ago
The hidden fees of 401k plans have been displaced to Wall St firms unbeknownst to most participants because they don't show up on statements, and because the balance that people see on their statements give an inflated sense of how muc
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by bcg1 12y ago
Well duh... is it really a surprise that the consolidation of wealth and the consolidation of firms owned by the wealthy is correlated? Next you're going to try to tell me that this is correlated to their undue influence over the polit
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by bcg1 12y ago
What you're describing is just smart business. Producing a desirable product that people choose to buy is not rent-seeking, it is the free market fulfilling a need/want at price people are willing to pay. An example of rent-seeki
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by bcg1 12y ago
I agree with the author about the problem with rents; unfortunately this argument is almost always framed politically (including, probably not intentionally, this article). The arguments he is making are logical, but the premises he is usin
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by bcg1 12y ago
I like the idea, although personally I wouldn't be excited about being "interviewed" like this. I am supportive of its existence however because it has definite upsides (i'm sure there are more, just enumerating a few):
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by bcg1 12y ago
This is not a technical solution, but you could release your code under AGPL and take code contributions. By doing this, you are essentially telling the world that not only do they need to trust you, but that you are willing to make yoursel
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by bcg1 12y ago
The problem that I've noticed is that we DO hire outside consultants... but too often that provides a security blanket for the decision makers, and they think that just because they outsourced the work, that they have nothing to worry
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by bcg1 12y ago
Oh, sounds good. So even though you can't get at the data on the server, you are able verify that it is unchanged with correct timestamps, etc. Sounds smart, useful. I presume then that you can support searching on the client side by d
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by bcg1 12y ago
You may be right... but "Siri" itself is a riff on "SRI", as in "Stanford Research Institute" or "SRI International". Apple could use their money to try to take down an open source university project,
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by bcg1 12y ago
nice name: sirius = siri + us I like this effort a lot, and I think it would be really interesting to fork it and make a personal version that people could customize with their own information and thought processes. This is my favorite aspe
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by bcg1 12y ago
I realize that your post was titled "Hello World" so I wouldn't expect too much substance, but a couple quick questions (honest ones, not being sarcastic): What is the use case for something like this? Is this f/oss ...
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by bcg1 12y ago
Actually he seemed genuinely ticked off at those kids, and I wouldn't say he was lenient (I wasn't really trying to make a statement about that with my story, so maybe I gave a false impression by mistake). I'm white and my f
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by bcg1 12y ago
Actually over the years, I've found that shutting my mouth would be helpful not only when talking to law enforcement. Not always so good at carrying that out though. Anyways, it reminds of the time I was arrested for smoking the forbid
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by bcg1 12y ago
Cool.
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by bcg1 12y ago
I wonder how they persist the cached code, and if it is signed etc. Seems like it could be an attack vector if it was altered on the filesystem or something like that. I'm sure they thought of that, so I'm just curious. I suppose
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by bcg1 12y ago
It was in Wired magazine, I'm sure that he needed to write with a certain level of concision. You might want to email him at rms at gnu dot org ... I've got to imagine he would support your efforts, and FSF has a hardware certifi

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