el_presidente

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by el_presidente 14y ago
> The reason companies have the power to put their thumb into their employees is because workers have let their dignity and pride go, just to get a paycheck. Another reason they have more power is because of the steady decline of unions
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by el_presidente 14y ago
With bundles I don't know if the software has been tested on my architecture, if it's stable, if I'm downloading a botnet, if it comes with bundled libraries or if it works properly with -fpie and --as-needed. Then you have software that do
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by el_presidente 14y ago
How much of your paycheck do you save? Apple can afford to wait until the government passes a Homeland Investment Act type law to avoid paying those taxes. OTOH, most people need to pay for things like food, clothes, whatever they're using
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by el_presidente 14y ago
There is absolutely no way they tested their design on anything smaller than a 15" laptop. I don't need to see their test data to figure that out; loading Reader or Gmail on my 10" netbook is good enough.
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by el_presidente 14y ago
GCC has a 'pure' attribute. I don't know if it's only used for optimization, but it also serves as a kind of comment for whoever looks at the function in the future.
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by el_presidente 14y ago
Do you think that the horse carriage was a major force in the 1800s, but has been safe in obscurity since then? It is absolutely absurd to ignore that history and pretend that nobody was interested in messing with the horse carriage, when t
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by el_presidente 14y ago
I get a big scary message telling me that most apps won't work without Chrome.
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by el_presidente 14y ago
I don't understand how Windows does permissions so I might be wrong, but how is this behavior different from a trojan?
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by el_presidente 14y ago
People start to lose their sense of wonder as soon as they start developing memory¹: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejbNVWES4LI ¹ I just invented this fact.
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by el_presidente 14y ago
The problem with the syntax isn't that it's weird. It's just ugly. Even Perl and C++ look nicer. It's the 1998-geocities-site-full-of-animated-gifs of programming languages.
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by el_presidente 15y ago
Something like GTA?
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by el_presidente 15y ago
Author of Rolling Stone piece is focussing on the JOBS act as an enabler for stock fraud. That's because, at this point in time, fraud should be the focus of anything related to the financial sector.
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by el_presidente 15y ago
Consider, if the yuan rose in price by 100% it would mean the price of the iPhone will be halved and more of the workers who toiled the long hours will be able to afford one - or they can cut down on overtime instead. Wouldn't the price o
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by el_presidente 15y ago
I don't think Iran has ever attacked another country. OTOH, there is a country that attacks Iran's neighbors and tries to manipulate the world's oil supply. Thankfully there's no way China would let them start a war with Iran. A middle east
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by el_presidente 15y ago
I'd like to know how the project has worked out in larger countries. I imagine for most kids it looks like this: http://www.kafka-online.info/an-imperial-message.html IMHO it would increase inequality, but I'm generally pessimistic about
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by el_presidente 15y ago
According to the paragraph that follows: A Mac isn't susceptible to the thousands of viruses plaguing Windows-based computers. That's thanks to built-in defenses in Mac OS X that keep you safe, without any work on your part. They're sayin
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by el_presidente 15y ago
I think they install bash by default, not sure if they use gcc's libstdc++.
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by el_presidente 15y ago
They're implying that only PCs have viruses.
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by el_presidente 15y ago
From: http://developer.mintchipchallenge.com/devguide/evolution.ht... Unburdened by the need for a proprietary network, MintChip offers a cost effective solution to consumers and merchants and enables easy person-to-person payments. So,
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by el_presidente 15y ago
Nations fail because their leaders are greedy, selfish and ignorant of history This is the kind of thinking that got the US stuck in Iraq for a decade. "We'll change the country by killing this one guy". If a nation's leader is a failure
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by el_presidente 15y ago
1% = millions of users. Out of that 1% comes a significant portion of the people who run the sites that serve flash content.
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by el_presidente 15y ago
It's also the dominant OS for supercomputers and (probably) set-top boxes.
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by el_presidente 15y ago
Speaking of monopoly abuse... google.com tells me to download Chrome to make the Internet faster.
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by el_presidente 15y ago
It's a form of blackmail.
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by el_presidente 15y ago
The problem with OCaml is that you need to recompile every library you use whenever you update the compiler; even minor versions. You might be able to use it for any program, but not for every program.
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by el_presidente 15y ago
Mathew 5:37
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by el_presidente 15y ago
We switched from graphics to text a couple of thousand years ago and it's helped us a lot. People have been killing the command line for decades, yet anyone who uses a search engine is working with a cli.
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by el_presidente 15y ago
For git there's www.commandlinefu.com/commands/tagged/67/git
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by el_presidente 15y ago
From http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmainnaming.html a naming convention from the world of C++ is the use of "m_" in front of members. This is supposed to help you tell them apart from methods, so long as you forget that "method" also starts
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by el_presidente 15y ago
Is there any reason to use sysctl over "echo > /proc" or is it just a matter of taste?

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