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by gioele 13y ago
The word "country" is perhaps a bit too overloaded. Maybe it is better to say "I was born in Wales (GB-WLS) and live currently in England (GB-ENG). There are two different ISO 3166-2 subdivisions of the four that form the ISO
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by gioele 13y ago
Your comment just reinforces my point: neither Python or Ruby supported JSON since their inception. JSON has been launched around 2002. Python has incorporated one of the many existing libraries in 2008 after a lengthy discussion, the last
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by gioele 13y ago
Python and Ruby needed external libraries to understand JSON until those libraries have been moved into the respective standard libraries.
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by gioele 13y ago
And source code after $1M.
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by gioele 13y ago
> I actually convinced a friend of mine many years ago that he could in fact memorize pi to 100 digits... and he did and still remembers it to this day. I'm convinced anyone can do this and the major thing stopping them is their bel
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by gioele 13y ago
Your service is nice, but the whole point of my question was to have to a simple way to install something that could make me independent of any 3rd-party service like yours. :)
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by gioele 13y ago
I hope there will soon be a way to `apt-get install mozilla-persona` on a personal server. That would seriously help the deployment a really decentralized Persona.
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by gioele 13y ago
Isn't this the whole point behind Internet and IP?
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by gioele 13y ago
At least in EU, WiMax failed because the states decided to licence the spectrum to the usual telcos that had no interest in deploying the technology fearing a possible cannibalization of their own businesses. However, WiMax is not a mesh ne
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by gioele 13y ago
> You will reach limits in learning when you have a "Swiss cheese" foundation full of misconception holes. On the other hand you will get stuck on your first subject if your force yourself to learn everything . I think it is i
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by gioele 13y ago
A beautiful, although not really accurate, explanation of a buffer overflow: > The way this works is somewhat complex, but Nohl’s virus essentially gave the infected Java software a command it could not understand or complete – eg. askin
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by gioele 13y ago
That plot looks much less scary if you see the current data in a longer time-frame: https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
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by gioele 13y ago
I remember that a Xorg development guideline explicitly required the same code to be used by at least two different subsystems (using hard coded if-based paths or copy/pasted) before it could be generalized into a parametric reusable f
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by gioele 13y ago
The journal has been introduced as the natural way to manage logs now that systemd takes care of all the output of daemons. > If you are wondering what the journal is, here's an explanation in a few words to get you up to speed: the
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by gioele 13y ago
> Copyright does not cover use Copyright does cover use in many (most?) countries, especially EU countries. This difference between US and EU author's rights has been widely debated for the JSON licence that states "The Softw
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Management by perkele(en.wikipedia.org)
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by gioele 13y ago
One question: how can the "no-license" option (i.e. "Copyright [year] [fullname]") allow "Private Use" and "Commercial Use"? I think that what is allowed is highly dependent from the laws you can or w
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by gioele 13y ago
I see a licensing problem. Releasing thing into the public domain is not as easy as writing "Minified has been released into the Public Domain. You can use, copy, distribute and modify Minified without any copyright restrictions. You m
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by gioele 13y ago
Here is quick way to release your project in the public domain. Add this to your README and to your source files: This is free software released into the public domain (CC0 license). See the COPYING file or <http://c
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by gioele 13y ago
I said "developers", not "businesses". It may makes commercial sense for businesess to act like doubt (I seriously doubt that holds in the long run), but the more they do that, the more private developers understand the
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by gioele 13y ago
> Whether you use iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, or any of the other competitors, you've likely experienced an app you'd love to install but it doesn't exist for your platform. Linux users are used to struggling
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by gioele 13y ago
In the meantime, Linux has (by default) an adaptable timer and will soon be fully tickless [1]. In other words there will be no fixed timer and the OS will calculate when the next wake-up should be scheduled and sleep until that time (or un
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by gioele 13y ago
The definitive resource for Italian's hand gesture is "Supplement to the italian dictionary" [1] by the great designer Bruno Munari. It is a semi-serious dictionary of gestures: how to perform them, what they mean, how common
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by gioele 13y ago
> Then any changes you make to its folder will automatically be committed to git The _changes_ are tracked (addition, removals, etc.) not the content.
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by gioele 13y ago
I am not interested in a Mac Pro, but I hope it marks the beginning of widely available computers with Cell-like architectures where a moderately powerful, general purpose CPU acts as a frontend scheduler for other parallel or specialized c
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by gioele 13y ago
Monty's ability to explain convoluted technical topics is astounding. He explains everything in plain words yet it remains technical and scientific enough.
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by gioele 13y ago
WRT language selection and availability, I developed a small Rack gem `i18n_best_langs` that could be useful to web devs. https://github.com/gioele/rack-i18n_best_langs It picks up clues from various HTTP pieces (heade
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by gioele 13y ago
The EU directives are legally binding acts that force every member state to implement them in 2 years and in the proper way. Big fines have have been levied in the past against member states that tried shortcuts. The EU directives are also
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by gioele 13y ago
> First of all, the EU is not a single entity, but rather a hydra with many heads. The competency and resources of "intelligence agencies" varies a lot by country, the privacy laws and the wire-taping/surveillance culture
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by gioele 13y ago
> When I turn on my Google Android phone in the morning, the phone will be smart enough to know everything I check every morning. I'll see the weather forecast first, then my sales numbers, probably headlines on Reddit and HN. I see

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