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by ctstover 11y ago
This should be no surprise to those following the years of this national embarrassment. Yes the "potential future war" use case does justify high risk expenditures, but this crossed over into pork barrel fraud long ago. That is al
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by ctstover 11y ago
My school of thought would be to limit it to just #include, #if, #else, #end, and non-recursive single word only #define / #undef. Force everything to be 1 per single line, and call it a day. Macros should always be the absolute last r
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by ctstover 11y ago
Free Advice: Look, the US is filled with businesses in big cities that, while are not "software companies", do very much need to write software to conduct operations. Take Houston, Texas for instance. It doesn't matter where
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by ctstover 11y ago
Of course design people* don't like good concept art for a tiling wm. It's not "modern", emphasizes work instead pointless high rez stock photos, and acknowledges the desktop. *not all design people, just a certain flavo
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by ctstover 11y ago
What was this experimental / undocumented roaming feature even suppose to do?
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by ctstover 11y ago
Generally, anyone can come visit for up to 6 months in a row. To legally be employed, you need a work visa of some sort. For a short term gig, in the old days, a letter from the employer was sufficient. I was on flying back from Canada with
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by ctstover 11y ago
I didn't actually say unix cli. Powershell is cli.
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by ctstover 11y ago
There are many kinds of paper. Cost is one of the factors in the matrix of trade-offs. Newspaper paper is almost at the extreme low end of the spectrum. There really is paper that could give you 1-2 centuries easily using a monochrome laser
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by ctstover 11y ago
Obviously I having some fun with it. Developer/technician/hacker users a different audience. In my office for instance, people can use 'doz/osx/nix. If you walk around, 95% of every monitor you see has at least one
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by ctstover 11y ago
It was GPL (or pay license) to start with. I believe you mean you wonder if it had been LGPL to start with. Subtle, yet enormous difference for a library. As to the speculation, I don't know. Special preprocessing phases to extend C++
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by ctstover 11y ago
Think about all the different computers connected together it took to get this web page to your eyes. All those network nodes, routers, the billing for your ISP, the CDN, all the security related, etc. How did those things even come into ex
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by ctstover 11y ago
This makes me so glad I don't work on anything near web development. You know there about two dozen other major areas in software if you ever want to something different. Just saying. On the other hand, the labor shortage in the other
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by ctstover 11y ago
This is an interesting data point for my casual "research" of the HN demographic and comment culture. My guess is you were down modded for making fun of bureaucrats, which might hit too close home for west-coasters.
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by ctstover 11y ago
I for one think the more incompatible V4 and V6 are the better! There are only two things that ever made any sense: 1) try as hard as possible to be fully inter-operable with each other, or 2) full clean break. Clearly, there was never a 10
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by ctstover 11y ago
Fair. Although you could imagine a world where things like the original .Net trusted computing initiative succeeded in full force, and you could not purchase general purpose PC that let you execute any unmanaged code. Just look at the phone
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by ctstover 11y ago
Regardless of the language, if it had a closed source runtime interpreter and/or VM that you forbade you from performing various sequences of operations on hardware that you "own", actively fought against you seeing what it w
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by ctstover 11y ago
You do realize that if "they" took C away from us, then all we would be allowed to use is closed source lock-in oriented ecosystems to the point we wouldn't even be able to trust the very language itself. That's always b
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by ctstover 11y ago
Apple is a sacred cow on HN. You'll probably get modded down. By definition, fashion electronics must require you to spend more.
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by ctstover 11y ago
best telethon ever
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by ctstover 11y ago
Crazy idea: just use C You can even mix python with it if you want, or shave that off and free up some packaging sanity points.
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by ctstover 11y ago
Think of how much more gratifying hacking on this would be than working with bloat-ware frameworks. Maybe it's time for another buzzword? "dignity driven development" perhaps? Oh where did it all go so wrong...
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by ctstover 11y ago
More anecdotes for future economics courses to point to for explaining what happens when you try to tightly restrict what people are aloud to invest in. Just like the dozens of empty megalopolises of high end condos over there.
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by ctstover 11y ago
In order of where most to least information comes from: -regular websites (as in I don't use rss) -talk radio about 50% of the time I'm driving (music the rest of the time) -gmane with pan -occasional tv in public places (better f
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by ctstover 11y ago
love it
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by ctstover 11y ago
What does this mean? I would hope that best case would be: a) something like http://www.puredarwin.org/ could be updated b) something like https://github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross could drop the step o
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by ctstover 11y ago
You know dial up deserved a better fate. For me, I realized it was dead for real about 7 years ago. I setup a US based dial up account as a backup for a vacation that included some remote places. It did work in a cabin in a cell signal bloc
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by ctstover 11y ago
Why would this get down-voted? It's spot on. I know it hurts when it hits close to home folks, I know.
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by ctstover 11y ago
I've been waiting on that book for what seems like ages! The first one was so good.
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by ctstover 11y ago
I thought this was going to have something to do with the once popular magazine "PC World". As for "literacy" in the world of emoji, and in the case of this article, really-light-gray text on white background, that is be
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by ctstover 11y ago
How will you read books in 50 years? How will you play violin in 25 years? How will you paint on canvas in 75 years? How will you steep tea 150 years? This generation that grew up watching the Jetsons is obsessed with this idea of "evo

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