codeflo

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by codeflo 16y ago
Unfortunately the article is down at the moment, but there's a beautiful identity that suggests that maybe pi/4 is a constant of nature, not pi: pi/4 = 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 - 1/11 ... That's arguing from pure mathematics. Judging from
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by codeflo 16y ago
Apology accepted. Much of my dislike for package managers is on theoretical grounds (I use Macports, but only casually), so it's great to argue with someone who actually knows something about them.
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by codeflo 16y ago
> I deeply disagree about iOS representing a good future for software. Now that's a point worth discussing. iOS is locked down to the point where I would almost call it unusable -- we don't disagree here. However, I'm also convinced tha
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by codeflo 16y ago
(Edit: This response was written at a point when the parent post was quite a bit more unfriendly than it is now. I'll leave this here regardless, even though it's out of context now.) Was I in any way rude to you? 1. That's not what I said.
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by codeflo 16y ago
Well, I want to make a few things clear here. First of all, I was being a bit snarky obviously. I didn't know about "aptitude purge", but it's a bit ironic that when googling for that, the first result is a forum post about someone with orp
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by codeflo 16y ago
That's true, iPhone apps aren't like Debian packages at all. iPhone apps are self-contained, sandboxed, can only access data that I allow them to, and if I delete them, every trace of them is gone. A Debian package on the other hand first o
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by codeflo 16y ago
So all post URLs share a single global namespace, regardless of ownership? That's not a very clever design IMO.
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by codeflo 16y ago
I guess nobody believed you, because it sounds so ridiculous. Do you have an idea why Google imposes that rule?
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by codeflo 16y ago
Don't downvote snewe, he/she is correct: http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?answer=... I can't figure out why though. It sounds like an incredibly stupid rule.
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by codeflo 16y ago
While we're talking about Posterous, does anyone know why it adds a random number to the end of article URLs, as in http://blog.dustincurtis.com/apparently-765 ? I know it's not a big deal, but I find that aesthetically unpleasing, as it