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by dscrd 14y ago
Netflix works (apparently) natively on my TV. That's why I use it: it's just far too convenient to ignore.
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by dscrd 14y ago
>If I'm misinterpreting dscrd's argument please help me out. I interpreted his critique to markets as they won't work because they represent the will of the people, and sometimes the will of the people is wrong (because they're irration
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by dscrd 14y ago
Please reread my comment. Everything you said was covered there already.
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by dscrd 14y ago
"far easier" only because there's a huge infrastructure in the package manager that has been built over several years. And it does not always work, even though these days it most often does.
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by dscrd 14y ago
Well, that's a bit of a false dichotomy. But for argument's sake... Even if people (as in, most people) are irrational, that wouldn't necessarily lead to their rulers being irrational, would it? After all, we supposedly* select people who a
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by dscrd 14y ago
>The nice part about markets is they can adapt very quickly. If we were to convince enough people malaria was worth curing, we could do it! There's no rule to a marketplace that says you can't. This is a big problem of free market funda
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by dscrd 14y ago
... but without the profanity.
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by dscrd 14y ago
"But are these the claims really that outrageous? ie. The biggest piracy site in the world has a slight effect on sales?" Well, there has been some evidence pointing towards there being a positive effect on sales. So not outrageous but co
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by dscrd 14y ago
Well, either it actually isn't or you're trying to troll me.
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by dscrd 14y ago
It's a good point. I see two options: 1. we're irrational morons and just like RedHat more or 2. systemd is technically so much better than upstart. Perhaps both.
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by dscrd 14y ago
Such people are silly, since those two options are almost identical.
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by dscrd 14y ago
>Saying "you're increasing desktop fragmentation" is silly and implies that writing Mir is somehow worse than writing no code at all. Nope. The logical option to writing Mir is not "no code at all" but contributing code and influence t
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by dscrd 14y ago
> I'd argue that NULL is, from a logical perspective, the single most broken feature of SQL. It is worse than that: it's a feature of the underlying relational theory by Codd.
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by dscrd 14y ago
Aren't all Windows 8 installations pretty much identical?
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by dscrd 14y ago
Apparently quite a bit: BC on mtgox is now at $46 -- up from $35 2 days ago.
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by dscrd 14y ago
"Not to mention the delay that happens while switching songs in mplayer for example. Use ALSA and song switch is instantaneous. " There's a good possibility that this is mplayer's fault more than PA's.
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by dscrd 14y ago
I agree that <tag attribute="value">data</tag> is simple, but XML is, unfortunately, much more than that. And this article complains about that "much more" part.
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by dscrd 14y ago
XML is so complex and obtuse that one can hardly blame the practicioners for misusing it.
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by dscrd 14y ago
This is why social security needs to be rebranded as "citizen's pay" or some such, funded by progressive taxation and bound to the relative GDP of the country, or even the planet's. And tax loopholes obviously need to be destroyed. The cur
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by dscrd 14y ago
I had several small things (laziness, poor libraries [in 2009], failing to get anyone else in the organisation even the slightest bit interested, my own lacking skills) but the overall worst problem was the feeling of the disconnect betwee
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by dscrd 14y ago
"My career is likely older than you" Your career spans over 30 years? If so, I applaud you and of course withhold my rights to criticize your choices without knowing more details.
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by dscrd 14y ago
My Android tablet is my portable calendar, piano sheet / guitar tab viewer, access point to mail and chat, and a media consumer device. It's quick to activate and easy to stop using. My computer is the thing on which I sit down and get stuc
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by dscrd 14y ago
I studied Haskell for a decade with the goal of actually using it for production software. When I finally found a nice gap to try it, the experience was mostly awful. Go was such a huge relief after that horrible catastrophe language that s
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by dscrd 14y ago
IE8 was released in March 2009. On that year, chromium 2.0 and firefox 3.5. Did you test it on those too?
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by dscrd 14y ago
I have witnessed somewhat normal network situations (being connected to XMPP server while connecting / disconnecting to a VPN server) that have caused a stable and mature Jabber client (psi) not actually send messages even though it seems t
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by dscrd 14y ago
Asus Transformer running Ubuntu? :) Admittedly, you cannot get that off the shelf...
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by dscrd 14y ago
Ah, I see. I was confused by Haskell not doing that by default... at least the last time I wrote code on it. Is there actual data that says that null pointers are actually causing bugs in production software? I always thought they are just
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by dscrd 14y ago
"Compare Rust where, unless you have explicitly used the unsafe features of the language, all pointers are guaranteed non-nil and valid. Instead of a function returning a nil pointer, it returns an `Option` type which is either `Some ptr` o
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by dscrd 14y ago
Asus Transformer.
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by dscrd 14y ago
>And since Ubuntu uses the Android kernel, The Android kernel?

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