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by cat199 7y ago
> Sun picked the licence because they had to allow linking with closed code for their products Wasn't Sun always the copyright holder? Licenses only apply to Licensees, not Licensors - or am I missing something (e.g. collaborators n
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by cat199 7y ago
... but yet noone would be surprised at all if someone found a baby, mutilated animal, dead homeless, toxic wasted, etc. in a dumpster
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by cat199 7y ago
'economy of scale' is a spectrum and also related to input costs, of which technology is one of many such as labor cost, etc. Also, 'technology' means 'one producers relative advantage in technology' rather tha
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by cat199 7y ago
no direct arduino experience, but I'd imagine the potential would be greater for scheme than lisp since it is a more minimal subset - quick google reveals 'microscheme' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117
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by cat199 7y ago
wm just manages windows, DE is usually this + a full application suite e.g. preferences UI, File Browser, web browser, photo viewer, etc, etc, etc and some kind of 'component' mechanism so that those pieces can interoperate better
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by cat199 7y ago
The major BSD derived operating systems all have 'live' boot media for installs - however this usually means CLI. That said, this should be enough to verify most HW compatibility. I say this because this is FreeBSD based, so you&#
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by cat199 7y ago
Funerals of 'bad guys' are a good way to learn about who is affiliated and has connections, and probably to also pick up on juicy gossip of one form or another
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by cat199 7y ago
a) Thread context was communist poland being a vassal of the USSR, whose policy was subordinate to the CPSU. These examples highlight that policy was not in fact independent in these countries, and, when significant deviation occured, sovie
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by cat199 7y ago
Not OP, but see Hungary '56 and Czechoslovakia '68 for what happens to 'leading warsaw pact members' who decide they want to deviate from the soviet party line.
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by cat199 7y ago
The connection of the solidarity movement and JPII with the downfall of communism is strong, and not without reason - official communist ideology seeks to destroy religion by force of arms. Apparently as witnessed by downvoting, some don&#x
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by cat199 7y ago
> Santa Claus is one of several manifestations of a particular wintertime character, probably originating with the pagan, pre-Christian Germanic and Norse god Odin. No, 'Santa Slaus' is a distortion of st. nicholas, to which pe
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by cat199 7y ago
oh? all ears about these 'ways'.
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by cat199 7y ago
> A statute of limitations is not aimed at helping people wriggling out of paying off their debts. Depending on the debt and jurisdiction there is bankruptcy for that. Nor is it intended to maximize your profit margin. If you know there
554.
by cat199 7y ago
Dear Elizabeth Holmes, I found a great startup opportunity for you. - Recruiter
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by cat199 7y ago
wmaker + xfce destkop / file manager (can hide the desktop itself to the dock :D )
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by cat199 7y ago
and yet there are still X and Y chromosomes.
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by cat199 7y ago
No direct insight to the actual trades outlined here, but most of my mildly-informed WSJ/FT/Economist reading 3rd-tier software engineer 10% YTD gains have been from speculative forward/inverse trades when things appear calm
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by cat199 7y ago
Your statement: > ... it saves time. So to me it's worth the money. is (unless I'm missing some alternative), based a in comparison to paper-based forms, which are in turn a horribly inefficient way for the IRS (which all taxpa
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by cat199 7y ago
ah yes. uncountable. was trying to find the correct terms. thanks.
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by cat199 7y ago
thanks - learning things :)
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by cat199 7y ago
a platform for what? a platform for 'building your system', or a platform for 'distributing and executing binaries'? the binary only distribution mentality comes from microcomputer culture, which postdates unix/mini
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by cat199 7y ago
1) Are you a native speaker? Frequency of 'a software' arrived with the growth of non-native speakers on the internet, and is irrelevant to its 'correctness'. Plenty of bad non-native speach patterns are 'frequent&#
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by cat199 7y ago
in this case, then it makes much more sense.
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by cat199 7y ago
usually I don't say anything since this usage is so prevalent, and I typically hate being pedantic about grammar, but since this is a journal title: it is not 'a' software. not here, not there, never. the construct <categ
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by cat199 7y ago
good news, but: where is the control group for 'going into a special place with the expectation of a spiritual/transformative experience and spending several hours meditating on letting go of the problem'? pretty sure that mi
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by cat199 7y ago
> Nothing wrong with that. there is if you are deliberately using interest compounding and deferring the suit vs a likely slow repayment schedule which would result if the debt was settled earlier in order to expand your balance sheet an
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by cat199 7y ago
is this actually written to flash? concievably a big capacitor or watch battery could keep a 4 or 8k RAM going for quite a long time.
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by cat199 7y ago
> At some point in the past 30 years thought could have been given to the idea that applications are separate from the platform they run on, but UNIX just doesn't think that way. Everything must be part of the same gigantic Goldberg
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by cat199 7y ago
> I just don't see myself using it. Will anyone, and if so for what purpose? probably everyone if/when ubuntu decides to make this the default, which they probably will, because `sudo apt install coolpoints`
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by cat199 7y ago
TFA states: "In Iran, more than 50 varieties are cultivated, not counting the great number of wild pistachios. But even today, the vast majority of California’s pistachio trees are Kerman." would be interesting if local producers

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