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by grabcocque 9y ago
It's perhaps a moot point. Canonical have been distributing OpenZFS binaries for going on two years even though the FSF and the SFLC believe them to be in violation of the GPL. Angry blog posts doesn't cut it. The nature of law an
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Hapax Legomenon is such a satisfying phrase to say. Even the opportunity to look at it makes my eyes happy.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Ah the snake oil merchants want another round of dim investor money I see.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Because they've focused on a different set of priorities from the ones he wants, thus they're incompetent and sadistic? Ok.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Uber's main success was to take something that already existed (taxi services) but then found a way to work around local labour laws on a technicality. Because Uber drivers are all self-employed, they're not unionised or protected
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by grabcocque 9y ago
It does rather cement in people's mind the association that Twitter is now mostly a haven for bullying, trolling and harassment. Something POTUS uses twitter for regularly. Twitter had been trying to shake off the negative image it had
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Probably, because Asians are positively stereotyped as being good at STEM. But a stereotype is still a stereotype.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
I read it as "our biases are subconscious". A lot of the white men being jerks to their female and ethnic minority colleagues aren't aware they're doing it, or if they are it's justified because it's a "me
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by grabcocque 9y ago
I was under the impression, it was miners that by and large were in favour if segwit and everything that goes along with it. Part of point of Cash was to try to reduce the influence of miners on the currency. So my guess is it's just b
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by grabcocque 9y ago
I wouldn't let the fact that many polyphenols are known to be carcinogenic, mutagenic and genotoxic get in the way of enjoying so Mr Softee, now would I?
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Don't want to tread old ground here, but since the gamergate clusterfuck, pretty much every single one of the gamergate "thought leaders" has turned out, to nobody's surprise, to be a nazi. Anyway, the connections betwee
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by grabcocque 9y ago
I mean this week seems to have seen a very public and significant pushback against alt reich/gamergate/neonazi/MAGA idiots. It's been one of the worst weeks to be a white supremacist or racist in the US for quite some ti
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by grabcocque 9y ago
It feels like the preamble to a longer article that never materialises.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
The fact that the dwarf fortress binary is just 'df' was asking for trouble. In hindsight seems amazing nobody reported this before.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Spiked Online grew out of a now defunct magazine called Living Marxism, which was successfully sued out of existence by ITN for incorrectly claiming they'd falsified evidence of Serbian atrocities during the Bosnian civil war. Apologis
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by grabcocque 9y ago
The idea of introverts and extraverts being distinct groups of people with completely different neurological responses to social situations is a largely false one, created by self-help woo merchants to unhelpfully pathologise the feeling th
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Uber but for X demonstrates how a lot of startups are trying to reinvent stuff that already exists, but works around labour laws on a technicality.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Because (a) we don't have an unambiguous definition of what functional programming is and (b) we don't have a better term for what this style of programming is. I guess it could be called combinator-oriented programming or similar
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Given the increasingly poor state of some of Google's biggest properties (YouTube is a prime offender, its user experience only ever seems to get worse) I'm obviously surprised to hear this.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Javascript developer: "We like to constantly replace all our frameworks every 18 months" Cryptocurrency developer: "Hold my beer"
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Here's a screenshot of all the local by elections held in the UK on Thursday to compare for accuracy: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFMAyTLXsAAqM16.jpg Pretty good.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
There's a significant subset of Americans for whom in their mind Britain looks a lot like Narnia. Frankly the preponderance of cutesy Saxon village names that look and sound a lot like these are part of the reason. That and the existen
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by grabcocque 9y ago
There's drama, conflict, hacks, fuckups, civil wars, bugs, theft, more drama, bailouts and all of the growing pains that make a story worth telling.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Blockchain! Machine learning! Cloud! This is the most Buzzword Compliant mainframe we've ever made!
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Many of these all examples of what Language Log terms "nerdview" ( http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4509 ), using in-business jargon incorrectly with outsiders because you either don't know or don&#
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Is this article "Use Rust" or "Stop using C"? I mean both are reasonable arguments that get made often on here, but the one doesn't necessarily follow from the other.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Curious as to why, out of all the hundreds of deprecated calls in the JDK, it was those six methods that got removed.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
I know that it's open source, and open, interoperable protocols are a good thing. But. I don't think IMAP is the real competition here. This is, for most people, a solved problem, and a problem that's been solved by exchange
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by grabcocque 9y ago
My McMansion detector just went wild.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Facebook's app is so bloated because of one thing: Apache Thrift. Last I checked it came with over 16,000 stubs and serialisers for thousands of different data types.

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