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by dsrguru 14y ago
Trust aside, people who truly love each other and are honest with each other sometimes do get into a relationship ending fight or stop feeling the spark they once did and break up. If two people know each other deeply enough to get married
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by dsrguru 14y ago
The whole point is that the customers are getting something in return. They open their mobile device and look up which venues have people at the moment, so they know where to go. In fact, it sounds like that's the only thing this app do
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Just out of curiosity, and this is something I've been meaning to ask for a while, how does the whole startup only having one tech guy (who isn't a founder) work? I've seen this scenario referenced many times on HN and I'm still having tro
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Those are the people that don't understand that "can" and "can't" in this context is just a matter of definition. If you want to try to slow the process of language change in order to make it easier for more people to communicate with each
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Duff said inane , not insane .
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http://www.42share.com solves it pretty well and doesn't require a download or registration
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by dsrguru 14y ago
At first glance this looks like a more polished 42share ( http://www.42share.com ) but forces you to sign up before using. The only about page is linked to in tiny print at the bottom and is just about the members of the team. That might j
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by dsrguru 14y ago
But if you believe that DRM which "prevents a user from using or accessing something for which he or she has paid for, at any time in the future for any reason, is unethical and legally dubious," why don't you believe the same about nonfree
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by dsrguru 14y ago
He posted that to a newsgroup, not the Web. I'm sure he wasn't using the Web to do that, especially given the content of that post!
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by dsrguru 14y ago
I agree that he was pretty reasonable in the case of this article, but he is a bit crazy by most people's standards. A friend of mine has worked for the FSF and told me that Stallman won't even use the World Wide Web! Anything he needs
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Well, I'm certainly grateful that his views are this strong, or else there wouldn't have been a free software movement for the open source movement to arise out of. If you think about it, the world as we know it would be completely differe
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Actually, that does seem to fit with the rational behind the LGPL. If you're going to write free software that replicates a proprietary program or library's functionality without adding anything new, rms believes you should make it availab
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"My guess is that the direct good effect will be bigger than the direct harm." Did rms just admit that proprietary software can theoretically have benefits? What's this world coming to lol
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narrator was being facetious.
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I strongly disagree. The vast majority of Racket code I've looked at would be far easier to translate into, say, Common Lisp than Haskell (or Erlang, which is probably a more illustrative example since it has dynamic typing). Emacs Lisp i
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Yeah I am actually really surprised the article didn't reference the movie even once.
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I'm talking about the racket #lang, not the collection of all languages that the distribution can interpret. R5RS, for example, is included in the distribution, but the R5RS found in the Racket distribution is identical to that of any othe
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While it bugs me, I understand that from an ISP's point of view, it makes sense to use whatever plausible-ish unit will let you post the highest number, even if that unit is way less practical for thinking in (any download large enough to b
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Racket really is an awesome language. When you want a LISP that you can optimize to get near-C performance, go with Common Lisp. When you want a LISP that does concurrency more concisely than Scala or Erlang, go with Clojure. But for lit
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by dsrguru 14y ago
That just becomes a debate about the definition of a functional language. The point is that unlike Haskell, SML, and OCaml (the last two aren't "pure" in the sense of syntactically enforcing referential transparency like Haskell, but they
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by dsrguru 14y ago
The Anonymous mentality more and more reminds me of Kira from Death Note. Backed by a sense of disillusionment with the current destructive forces in the world, they become more and more comfortable with using destruction to punish or fix
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The article reads so awkwardly because that's exactly the author's point. Unless I completely misread the article, the author is trying to convey to the male reader that the issues female programmers face aren't made up by far leftist femi
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That's actually really funny how throwing two of the hottest startups together works so well. If they can pull off the "this is just a parody and we're not going to make money" angle to avoid a trademark lawsuit, this might be telling us a
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by dsrguru 14y ago
I wouldn't put it past him. A friend of mine who has worked for the FSF told me that Stallman won't even use the web. He emails his employees to look things up for him because he assumes web sites to be malicious unless he has the entiret
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by dsrguru 14y ago
You're making it sound like every decision people make is a financial one. That's factually untrue. Most people make decisions on the combined basis of self-interest and their personal views on morality. There are plenty of things people
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by dsrguru 14y ago
I doubt it, but that's a really interesting what-if. If you think about it though, if you're going to auto-generate accounts, wouldn't hard-to-crack passwords be easier to generate than dictionary-based ones?
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Linux developers by and large don't care what distro or software comes preloaded. They intend to replace it with their favorite setup the moment they take the machine out of the box. What they want is a keyboard designed for productivity
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I just got 114wpm random on a ThinkPad T400 using a qwerty layout (note that all the keys I mention below assume a qwerty layout). I couldn't find a non-random option on that site. I prefer the feel of the MacBook-style keyboards, and I t
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What do you typically use in C99 that you don't get in C89?
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There might be some merit to this. If you want a language that is very portable and has a definition that is compact enough to be fully understood both by you and by programs you might write that operate on source code (static analyzers, i

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