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by gioele 10y ago
I hope the winner of this call get all sent to live for 2 years in small (and not so small) unknown towns in Europe that have been growing organically for thousands of years and offer a great quality of life. Places where rich and poor, kid
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by gioele 10y ago
Parallels in the video world: http://waxy.org/2011/12/no_copyright_intended/ http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=No%20copyrigh...
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by gioele 10y ago
> This misses the problem -- often, the new feature is buggy in ways that are not seen in the initial testing. Indeed. The only good way to enable features gradually is to use a tool like GitHub Scientist [0] that exercises the new code
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by gioele 10y ago
Is this really different from what Face.com offered in 2010? They claimed >90% hit-rate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face.com One nice mashup of that Face.com and Facebook APIs was the "AutomaticDJ": the
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by gioele 10y ago
Ci hanno insegnato la meraviglia verso la gente che ruba il pane ora sappiamo che è un delitto il non rubare quando si ha fame Fabrizio De André (very influential singer-songwriter of the '60s-'70s) They taught u
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by gioele 10y ago
> I really hope someone manages to ship an open source handheld one day. 100% FLOSS mobile phones are available for sale since 2007 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko The current revision (GTA04A5, ARM Cortex
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Joan Daemen (AES, SHA3) has patented cryptographic algorithms for payment cards(epo.org)
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by gioele 10y ago
How does YateBTS compare to Osmocom?
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by gioele 10y ago
Nostalgia time. In 2005 the university of Bologna set up OSzoo.org: A repository of dozens of ready-to-run VMs for all majors free OSs: http://www.aboutus.com/Oszoo.org https://web.archive.org/web/20081
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by gioele 10y ago
> That kind of work is not glamorous and highly controversial. Ideally there should be some sort of cross distro/OS working group (Debian/Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, etc.), similar to the working
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by gioele 10y ago
And, in general, it would be better if there were fewer dotfiles in $HOME. Please application developers, follow the XDG Base Directory spec (or the equivalent in Windows and Mac OS X). See https://specifications.freedesktop.org&
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by gioele 11y ago
> To me, a car that you can't service yourself is worthless. A car that needs the manufacturer's permission to activate is not your car--it's owned by the manufacturer. How many cars sold in 2016 can be activated without t
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by gioele 11y ago
This is the bigger version of the Vajont Dam's tragedy of the '60s that killed two thousand people and wrecked an entire province. [1] > At 10:39 P.M., a massive landslide of about 260,000,000 cubic metres (340,000,000 cu yd) o
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by gioele 11y ago
> Then there’s Level 3. It adds hypermedia links to the mix so that clients can dynamically browse resources à la HTML in a browser. This is where Ramses departs from all the awesome work that’s being done in the world of hypermedia. Thi
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by gioele 11y ago
> What worries me more is something like Nvidia's Denver architecture because that's actually a full abstraction above machine code. What relieves me is that RISC-V is demonstrating that opensource hardware can be a reality. Th
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by gioele 11y ago
> The law does not need formal definitions like that. Law isn't programming, this is what nerds usually forget. It is not about laws, but about experts opinions in judgments. Courts routinely hire lawyers and experts to redact very
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by gioele 11y ago
The Court of Justice of the EU has some of the most competent IT lawyers of the world. I am sure they already compiled a memo about the definition of "hyperlink". I'd love to see it. What constitutes an hyperlink? * A working
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by gioele 11y ago
And do not forget Igino Marini's iKern [1] used to kern plenty of forts. [1] http://ikern.com/k1/ikern/the-ikern-theory/
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by gioele 11y ago
FWUPD is more a "from the devs but embraced by the vendors" effor: http://www.fwupd.org/developers
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by gioele 11y ago
Full text in HTML: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.ht...
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by gioele 11y ago
I have a theory that I call "just one small fix". I think FOSS media players can handle more video files (not just formats) because most of the times the errors that makes them unplayable are just small mistakes in the way things
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by gioele 11y ago
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might b
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by gioele 11y ago
> I could build a website using <div> alone. Then my scraper that reads headlines on your website with `//(h1|h2|h3)` will not work. And I will not be able to read and linearize your tabular data. And plenty of other thin
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by gioele 11y ago
I find the `scientist` gem by GitHub [1] a very nice way to approach the problem of testing alternative implementations. Basically `scientist` always runs both the original code and the new code. def allows?(user) science "widg
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by gioele 11y ago
>> Create a secure POSIX-compatible userland on top of seL4. > > This goal fills me with nerd lust. I remember a L4 talk in which the speaker showed how more than 95% of the code of new OSes where devoted to being POSIX compatib
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by gioele 11y ago
DBJ puts random IDs in his papers and uses that that as a persistent (work) identifier. An example from http://cr.yp.to/bib/documentid.html > Date: 2004.04.02. Permanent ID of this document: 46d904d0613f360904e88a85
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by gioele 11y ago
> The main issue I have with microkernels is that they don't solve any problem that I have. > > […] > > Do microkernels offer any application-visible features that I don't have today with Linux? To the best of my kn
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by gioele 11y ago
Thank you for the link. It contains this tiny gem: a glimpse into a path that CGI applications have not taken: > CGI programs should accept these as command-line options, and also if given as the PATH_INFO; for instance, visiting ‘ http:
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by gioele 11y ago
The Fortess programming language [1] was a Fortran successor (with a bit of APL influence) that was meant from the beginning to be seen through a "syntactic stylesheet", so that one would see and operate at the level of mathematic
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by gioele 11y ago
> I doubt it is any more environmentally friendly than new or traditional recycled paper. Traditional recycled paper requires fully loaded trucks travelling for kilometers to the recycling factories and other trucks moving the produced p

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