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by buster 14y ago
On a sidenote i just started to read "The Swerve" which is about how epicurs thoughts (by Lucretius "On the nature of things") were rediscovered at the beginning of the renaissance, until now a great read (and Pullitzer price winner last ye
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by buster 14y ago
Well, the documentation system on CPAN is ancient and awful to use. I have often enough found missing documentation. Particularly perl programmers seem to give a f*ck about documenting return values. And even when there is a good documented
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by buster 14y ago
Mh... "those who hate Perl hate it because it’s “too hard to maintain” and too “strange.”"... No.. i hate perl because it's too easy to write really, really bad code and non-obvious how to write good code.
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by buster 14y ago
Long time ago, i switched to Ubuntu when it arrived. Besides drivers, i still wouldn't want to fiddle around with unstable repos, apt pinning and those long release cycles on my desktop. Nowadays you get PPAs for most stuff you need, that's
815.
by buster 14y ago
Exactly. I am using Ubuntu without Unity (Gnome3) or the Softwarecenter (aptitude) or Ubuntu One (wtf) for a while now. I must admit i haven't touched Debian as a Desktop Operating System for many years but i appreciate the Desktop Experien
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by buster 14y ago
That's why i tried to make an example where that added service is not existing or very small. Making your money with "added services" or some real additional value is fine but then, you could just stay with GPL. I tried to build that exampl
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by buster 14y ago
It's the first thing i install in my virtualenvs. Much better then the standard interactive console and just works out of the box. If you don't want more then tab completion, docstrings and a working command history between sessions it is g
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by buster 14y ago
I see. I think i'm just not as good a person as you, i would not like that. From my point of view the company could as well operate open-source and make money through additional services (e.g. Redhat) and that would bother me very much. So
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by buster 14y ago
I think Red Hat is a prime example of a successful opensource company and if every company would operate like that we wouldn't need GPL. Clearly, that's a bad example. Red Hat does contribute to BSD licensed software as well, it's not at al
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by buster 14y ago
It is frequently said that Linux doesn't have photoshop, autocad, pro/engineer and whatever else there is for expensive professional software.
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by buster 14y ago
I've seen libraries in-house that are open source but have been abandoned years ago by their original community. Those libraries are pretty much lost to the general public but live a happy live as closed source libraries which are maintaine
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by buster 14y ago
Antirez, how would you feel about a company that forks redis, renames it, removes all references to you and sells it successfully to some enterprises as next-gen super database, making a lot of money? Maybe even enhancing it, fixing bugs, o
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by buster 14y ago
The term "viral license" is a really descriptive term ;) My point is that i think that antirez has too much faith in humanity when it comes to business. A company selling software doesn't necessarily care about forks being inconvenient. A t
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by buster 14y ago
That's where the LGPL comes in. I know the difference between GPL and BSD, thanks :) It may be ludicrous, but then again, isn't it ludicrous to base a closed source program on open source code, make money of the work of others and NOT contr
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by buster 14y ago
Interesting point of view and i can understand that he embraces the "total freedom" BSD license gives (aka "do whatever you want, i don't care"), but in contrast i can also understand the GPL and i would argue that GPL is more about "contri
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by buster 14y ago
Unfortunately not.. atleast not in my 2.7.3 prompt. Only with the __future__ import :(
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by buster 14y ago
For python beginners i would not mention the print statement. It won't work for python 3.x. So, beginners: Please use print() instead of print, to save you some hazzle when using python3 :)
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by buster 14y ago
Just as you say: What he wants and what he has have nothing to do with each other. I want my pocket to contain 1 million dollar. It's not how it works, unfortunately :( Look, there are many many reasons why an email may not arrive in time o
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by buster 14y ago
Doesn't change the fact that this preferred form of communication by no means guarantees delivery in a certain timeframe. It's not a google problem. The email can be "stuck" in every place between you and the recipients mailbox.
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by buster 14y ago
Whaaat, SMTP != Instant Delivery!? You must be joking! As much as i can understand the pain of an email not being delivered after 2 hours this seems to be too much drama. "happens 2 times in a month" is not a "major problem" for a free serv
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by buster 14y ago
People not responding in time doesn't have to do with how they read their mail but only with how they prioritize their life. You consider mail important ,they probably not as much. I follow the same "full inbox" approach and answer quite fa
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by buster 14y ago
I don't know, i like the usual workflow in gmail. The is "important and unread" (my priority todo), "starred" (my todo or remember some stuff list) and "everything else". Why would i need to do so much processing as this guy suggests?! I do
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by buster 14y ago
Yes, there may be a mobile phone here and there. But the difference between the usual european or american standard is so extreme, i'd say that before they can dream about facebook they dream about easier/faster/better internet access and w
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by buster 14y ago
That made me laugh. Seriously. Have you ever been in Cuba? I was there last summer. Most people don't even have a mobile phone, let alone a smartphone. Public phones are extremely common. Most likely many people never even heard of facebook
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by buster 14y ago
> If they're logged on to your account, but not if they are using a different account. So, they are encrypted or how is that guaranteed?
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by buster 14y ago
Its actually a super fun excercise to do. I did that years ago with a browser game that showed images on login, some years ago. Also with python. It was a fun learning experience because it's so much more visual then your typical "todo lis
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by buster 14y ago
Why is it different just because it's in your user account? Everyone with access to your Mac can access it just as well, i assume. I guess it can also be read by applications, uploaded to the internet? I don't have a Mac so i don't know the
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by buster 14y ago
Haha, i had that too.. fun game.. i think the characters were polygons, though :) Also there was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche_series even before Outcast. I don't think it used polygons. It was launched years before 3D graphics c
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by buster 14y ago
After giving it a thought, i'd say it's just a new buzzword for sysadmin. Because, atleast in my understanding, it's totally in the working area of sysadmins to set up a server, install and configure software, configure monitoring, etc. The
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by buster 14y ago
I know, but it's slightly related :P

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