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by candeira 15y ago
The original BSD license was free too, it was just not GPL compatible. The FSF has always recommended against it, but they have always called it a Free Software license. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD
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by candeira 15y ago
"Years since" is the right metric, because mobile phone contract lengths are measured in years, not in some ad-hoc multiples of the times between releases of the OS. I own a one year old Galaxy S, and lately I have been holding my breath ho
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by candeira 15y ago
Same crash here on Chrome 13.0.782.220 m on Windows.
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by candeira 15y ago
Yeah, I couldn't resist it either. Mine: def de_n_plicate(word): return ''.join(c for i, c in enumerate(word) if i == 0 or c != word[i-1])
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by candeira 15y ago
No need to rubbish Zed. You can like Zed like I do, and still not make any conclusion from the fact that a developer doesn't know who he is. Except, maybe, that said developer doesn't read Hacker News either.
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by candeira 15y ago
I am curious about why didn't you just implement the CoffeeScript syntax outright? Learning just one syntax would make it easier for people wanting to deploy to JavaScript and to Lua. Imagine that C on the PDP-11 had a slightly different sy
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by candeira 15y ago
I have started it twice: first time I got to chapter 3, second time I got stuck at chapter 4. It sounds a bit petulant to say, but I think it already has made me a better programmer. I had to stop for various life-related issues, but I love
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by candeira 15y ago
Oh, thanks. I thought updating encrypted files required transferring the whole file, but I can see now how one could encrypt files in chunks and only transfer the updated chunks.
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by candeira 15y ago
Three thoughts: - The windows/mac installer could have a little dialog saying "the software is free, but if you want storage, you need to pay for it" and send you to open an aws account, or use your gmail account, whatever. It's a UI proble
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by candeira 15y ago
I think this is the client I want to use for replicating my desktop like Max Hodak describes[1]. It sure has enough options for target storage. It boasts client-side encryption, but the author says that "In terms of speed, Syncany only tran
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Syncany is a FLOS, versioned, encrypted, byo-storage Dropbox clone(syncany.org)
10 points by candeira 15y ago|7 comments
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by candeira 15y ago
I am so sorry. My condolences for you and your family.
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by candeira 15y ago
I can agree with that. They could write less Apple stories. But if they do write Apple stories, they should recognise the people whose work they draw from as colleagues in journalism, not dismiss them as "enthusiasts".
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by candeira 15y ago
As a journalist who has ben taught to always attribute quotations and sources, I agree with Gruber. Ina's attribution to "an enthusiast site" is disingenuous, like those non-apology apologies that say "I am sorry you felt insulted" instead
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by candeira 15y ago
Don't forget the title. When I read it, I thought it wasn't a job ad, but a co-working space offer like what the guys at Inspire9 do here in Melbourne.
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by candeira 15y ago
I tell a similar story for my grandfather, who lived pretty much the same years as your mother. When my grandfather was born, his father's business was a horse changing station for the Madrid-Bilbao stagecoach. Eventually my great-grandfath
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by candeira 15y ago
I see it as a useful tool for culling resumes from Monster-type job sites. Submit a job offer, and candidates apply to it by solving a couple of easyish tests. You wouldn't use it to interview promising candidates, but to assist you in filt
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by candeira 15y ago
True, it's inefficient, but it's good for profiling Python interpreters, since it does a lot of work. It's also fast enough for low n (up to 8). Why write more code when you can get your result with less? Maybe the time he's saved with this
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by candeira 15y ago
I am still running a Toshiba Portege m200 for the same reasons: a 4:3 1440x1050 12.1" screen, a discrete gfx card (32M Geforce 5200). It's getting a bit long in the tooth, as it is a 2005 computer, but two keyboards and three batteries late
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by candeira 15y ago
Yeah, I am married to someone who got death threats over email for daring to start a group promoting women's participation in free sofware projects. So never mind that most men in the industry aren't like that, a small proportion of toxic p
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by candeira 16y ago
They made Touiteur (Twitter client for Android) change theirs to Plume for Twitter, which sucks. Not the new name (well, it does a bit), but the fact that they made them change a great name. Grrr.
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by candeira 16y ago
The problem with "I'm never going to use it" is that it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Further down the line, this attitude excludes you from jobs and opportunities where you need to be able to use it. I say teach math (up to algebra and bas
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by candeira 16y ago
A counterexample is Wunderlist, which is built with Titanium Appcelerator, and looks and works really well on both platforms. It is also identical where it should but not where it mustn't: it follows the conventions of each platform in deta
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by candeira 16y ago
Well, you can invest in Berkshire Hathaway stock and be sure that, unlike the evil idiots at Goldman Sacks, Buffet will be managing your money in your long term benefit, and putting it in those far more attractive investing opportunities in
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by candeira 16y ago
Not necessarily a new idea. Just an old idea repurposed to fit a legal loophole instead of a technical need. From Wired Sept 1994, Fran-On-Demand: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.09/cable.labs.html "When an order for, say, Coneheads,
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Edwin Land predicts the Salman Khan education model in 1957.(groups.csail.mit.edu)
2 points by candeira 16y ago|0 comments
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by candeira 16y ago
Enhorabuena. It's a very good idea, precisely for the reasons you state. Only one comment, though. It's not only for Latin American hackers, there are also Iberian speakers of Spanish who may benefit!
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by candeira 16y ago
How does he manage without a Mac to use as a "dock" for the iPad? Sincere question, I am a linux user and have only seen an iPad a couple of times, but I understand you need to dock it via iTunes in order to do certain stuff with it.
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by candeira 16y ago
Thanks for a great tool for designers and free-software people (and their nonzero overlap). One gripe, though: I wish I could decide by myself which font is suitable for a given purpose. Maybe this should be an option, so you offer only "su
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by candeira 16y ago
I am writing from memory, but I think the writer of this piece had in mind the following Milton Friedman anecdote: When told there was almost no crime in quasi-socialist Nordic countries, Friedman retorted (I paraphrase) "ah, but we have al

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