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by fffggg 14y ago
And he has decided it is not a standardized language, by any stretch of the imagination. That's the guy's point, and it's spot-on. As an aside, I didn't realize there would be people on HN who wouldn't recognize rasmus@php.net immediately.
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by fffggg 14y ago
I agree. This should not be surprising. The ability to link a file to a directory is different from the set of permissions necessary to change the data in the file. Here's a practical example: I can create ~/public with permissions 777 (ful
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by fffggg 14y ago
I take things a step further -- I have no idea what my password is on sites like HN or reddit. If the cookie is ever gone, my account is gone. I don't like the idea of identity permanence. Instead of shitty passwords though, why not use som
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by fffggg 14y ago
It's true that US public spending is larger per capita. Several times bigger than many successful european countries. It's a problem and deserves recognition. However, it is not "120%" of the problem as you suggest. Military spending is sim
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by fffggg 14y ago
Military spending as a percentage of GDP only decreases if you don't count military spending outside the DoD's official budget -- which is why it appears to have shrunken when it actually has not. For example, 50 years ago veteran's benef
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by fffggg 14y ago
That's sarcasm, right? Military spending outstrips healthcare costs by nearly 2:1, and has for decades.
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by fffggg 14y ago
Core network as well as many POSIX functions which other languages place in sub-modules (but still use the same names for). eg select() vs IO.select or mkdir() vs FileUtils.mkdir. OP is clearly thinking of PHP.
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by fffggg 14y ago
I'm describing about a dozen separate projects above. For same-system fast IPC I often used an in-house library (with Perl bindings) which implemented a memory mapped, sharable hash table. Unfortunately it hasn't been released as open sourc
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by fffggg 14y ago
Others have noted that your reply is a non-sequitur. However, I'd like to address it anyway, specifically the "luck" part. I have written all of what you describe: large-scale multithreaded high-performance distributed applications using P
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by fffggg 14y ago
What you suggest is absolutely unnecessary. Merely requiring an identifiable contact is enough to prevent this sort of behavior -- and this was how things were before voip opened things up to untraceable abuse. The phone company doesn't nee
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by fffggg 14y ago
The following banks and financial institutions also silently discard case-sensitivity: Citibank Chase Wells Fargo E-Trade US Bank Fidelity Investments SECU HSBC TechCU
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by fffggg 14y ago
Responsible disclosure exists in order to allow an obscure, previously undiscovered bug to be patched before others know about it. The idea is that no one else is likely to discover the issue while it is repaired. This is not an obscure bug
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by fffggg 14y ago
And if the hypothetical car rental firm has no assets, let's take the assets directly from the nearest bank! Those guys always have money!
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by fffggg 14y ago
It appears you're suggesting a structure of a business, where the owner isn't leasing to an unrelated party. An employer is liable for the actions of his employees (even non-employee employees) through entirely separate and much more approp
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by fffggg 14y ago
Judgement-proof operators? Nowhere was it suggested that operators ought be judgement-proof. In fact, I suggested the exact opposite. The issue is exactly one of lobbying. As the article notes, the auto insurance industry has successfully l
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by fffggg 14y ago
Children don't have owners, they have parents -- and the determination of responsibility is much less clear than your glib comment implies. For example, is liability held by the biological parent, or by an entity acting in loco parentis ?
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by fffggg 14y ago
"I do not think it is that clear-cut, even for car rentals" Well, it is that clear cut. As the article notes there is a law which unambiguously states that car rental agencies are not liable in this scenario: http://gregjohnson89.wordpress
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by fffggg 14y ago
This doesn't seem any less perverse to me. Shifting responsibility to the operator makes sense for injury resulting from operation. Shifting responsibility to the owner only makes sense for injury resulting from the ownership (improper devi
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by fffggg 14y ago
Yes, all that's needed is for it to become available to subpoena and other lawful process.
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by fffggg 14y ago
Sudo was an example, and is certainly not the only place this problem occurs. Variables cannot be set in the child process; the linker will have already run by the time you can access your environment. Furthermore, this scheme destroys the
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by fffggg 14y ago
No, it won't work. This is my area of expertise and I can unequivocally state that it is not possible to solve this problem on a unix system. The linker infrastructure does not exist, and here's why: RPATH (or better RUNPATH) has intractabl
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by fffggg 14y ago
Environment variables won't work. They're either reset for security (when sudo is invoked, for example) or they bleed inappropriately into sub-processes. There is no reliable way to solve this using environment hints to the dynamic linker.
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by fffggg 14y ago
There's a very simple explanation: Unlike all the countries you mention, the majority of our US tax dollars goes toward military spending. The npr graph from the parent post is extremely misleading, and understates the US military budget by
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by fffggg 14y ago
"You can have multiple versions or variants of a package installed at the same time. This is especially important when different applications have dependencies on different versions of the same package — it prevents the “DLL hell”." This so
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by fffggg 14y ago
"would software patents be as bad if" You've chosen difficult wording here. When you ask if things would be so bad if we lessened their badness the answer is obviously no -- things would be incrementally better if made incrementally better.
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by fffggg 14y ago
This comment stood out for me as well, and strikes me as extremely disingenuous. Another that caught my eye was "Free Software is like Free Love, a hippie pipe dream in which computing is free from venality, commercial interests, even capit
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by fffggg 14y ago
I'm in an urban area as well. The hospital I took my daughter to was El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, for example. It's even worse for rural people.
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by fffggg 14y ago
You haven't visited many doctors and/or have been very lucky and/or haven't been paying attention. I was referred to a specialist this week for a new injury. The specialist's office asked me to sign several standard looking forms, one of wh
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by fffggg 14y ago
It's a really cool idea. I would worry about it interrupting normal life. If Gloria has limited availability (on lunch, sleeping, at a movie or otherwise living life) then the app is significantly less useful.
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by fffggg 14y ago
Yes and no. There is no such notion in copyright law. Case law is unclear, however: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_minimis#Copyright

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