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by foob 15y ago
When I see GNU I think of gsl, gcc, screen, emacs, lilypond, bash, and the core-utils which are all incredible pieces of software that I use every day. The FSF arguably might not always make the best decisions in how they represent themselv
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by foob 15y ago
But then those bombs would be highly susceptible to decay!
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by foob 16y ago
These are interesting to see but framing it in terms of people helping to identify them seems kind of gimmicky. A box with dials and terminals on it could be almost anything and that's all that a lot of these pictures show. If they also pos
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by foob 16y ago
There is one serious problem with this reasoning though. A realistic scenario might be that somebody decides that they want to buy your app and then compares the price at a couple of different app stores and decides to buy it at Amazon beca
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by foob 16y ago
Amazon steeply discounts a large chunk of its Appstore catalog (imagine: "our top 100-rated games are all 75% off!"). Some developers will probably win in this scenario, but some developers -- most likely, those near the bottom of the list
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by foob 16y ago
A fitting name for a fairy tale.
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Arch, Debian, Gentoo, Grml and openSUSE merge into Canterbury(archlinux.org)
4 points by foob 16y ago|1 comments
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GCC 4.6, LLVM/Clang 2.9, DragonEgg Five-System Benchmarks(phoronix.com)
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by foob 16y ago
I think you're being overly harsh. He quotes Apple's legal papers in which they clearly state that the concept of an app store is unprecedented and then he exposes that as inaccurate. You might think of him as a "minor freetard business cel
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by foob 16y ago
As a side note, to a physicist j = sqrt(-1) is also a conflict because we're used to i, j, and k being quaternions.
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by foob 16y ago
This isn't exactly what you're talking about but I think that it might interest you: Adaptive Data Partitioning Using Probability Distribution by Xipeng Shen, Yutao Zhong, and Chen Ding ( http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.
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by foob 16y ago
From Dan Morrill on the Android Developer Blog ( http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/09/note-on-googl... ): "With a high-quality open platform in hand, we then returned to our goal of making our services available on users’ phones.
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by foob 16y ago
I don't think that the paleo crowd is really pushing a high fat and meat diet like you say. Taubes' views could almost be more easily lumped in with those of Atkins followers than of paleo eaters. Different people have different feelings ab
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by foob 16y ago
Chrome also only updates through the distro's upgrade mechanism on Linux; the automatic updates are only for Windows and Os X. As there noted above the update would need root privileges so Chrome would either have to have an updater with th
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by foob 16y ago
The other thing to keep in mind is that many of the graduate students being trained under this funding and working at places like Fermilab actually end up going into industry and making much more tangible changes in the short term. If fundi