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gdfasfklshg4
7y ago
It isn't the install. It is the updates - and the potential for future backwards incompatible updates. FLOSS software needs hosted, supported, reasonably priced versions with security updates to be competitive.
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7y ago
Worth a thought. How does desktop software achieve backwards compatibility? For example Libreoffice can work with arbitrary datastores from the 1990's. Meanwhile with modern web based software we struggle to maintain compatibility with
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7y ago
I'm not sure that brick buildings in London get pressure washed very often - if ever.
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7y ago
Can you really do a legal review from a CI platform?
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gdfasfklshg4
7y ago
Because it involves inherently manual processes.
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7y ago
Every child deserves a birthday cake... Every married couple deserve a wedding cake... We use cake to celebrate important life events that every member of society has the right to enjoy.
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7y ago
> Cake is a made up drug. I know that I am not supposed to comment on upvotes but I wish I could upvote this more than once. The world needs more of this series.
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7y ago
Normally the rules are pretty good but there are some cracks. Google Jaffa Cakes and VAT... TLDR cake is a basic food whilst chocolate biscuits (cookies to Americans) are luxuries.
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7y ago
Itunes for example is DRM free.
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7y ago
> I wish somebody would have simply advised him not to speak on such matters because nothing good could become of it. Maybe he needed a PR manager. That sounds awful, but apparently this is what the world wants: carefully filtered speech
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7y ago
> fortunately you tend to get a few months' warning before a baby appears in your life Yes but the baby can come anytime within a period of about a five weeks and be within the "normal" period. You need an understanding em
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7y ago
OTH the father had to until this year go back to work the next day...
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gdfasfklshg4
7y ago
Depends on the standard of proof that is required.
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gdfasfklshg4
7y ago
Then it is a police matter...
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7y ago
> Data centers are basically bunkers and there is a tremendous amount of replication occurring. All encrypted at rest. Lose those keys and the data is gone...
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7y ago
A web view is a client.
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gdfasfklshg4
7y ago
Why does every newspaper refer to "alleged" etc until a verdict is reached?
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gdfasfklshg4
7y ago
You can decide whatever you like about whoever you like. Inside your head you are truly free to judge whomever you want however you want. You may be found to have defamed someone if you go around stating your opinions as facts and the court
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gdfasfklshg4
7y ago
Hence only 3 minutes of content per click...
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7y ago
I write lots of code and I love the auto-formatter... I especially love it when working on a project with a few different developers that used an auto-formatter.
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7y ago
People will piss around whatever tools they use...
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7y ago
More that Java is a platform. You target the JVM. So Java libraries are awkward to call from e.g. C++ or Python.
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gdfasfklshg4
7y ago
Me too but it's not been released in ALGOL 68 either! Upgrade. Or accept that you are using a dead language.
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7y ago
Have you ever seen someone with poor eyesight use a smart phone?
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7y ago
Does anyone else hate when someone assumes their screenwidth and hard wraps at 72 characters?
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7y ago
> Low-background steel is any steel produced prior to the detonation of the first nuclear bombs in the 1940s and 1950s. With the Trinity test and the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and then subsequent nuclear weapons
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7y ago
We did it in the late 90's/early 2000's as well. I hope they still do it but I guess they don't.
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7y ago
For autocratic countries this is not even a viable question to start considering. For democracies there might be some consideration. But then you need to know how the individual people voted. EDIT: Also you need to consider whether the poli
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7y ago
I notice that doubleclick won't serve to Iran. A very small silver lining to the huge black cloud of sanctions...
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7y ago
One could say a lot of the same things about the USA or UK or Israel (especially Israel with their ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine).
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