greyman

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by greyman 10y ago
One issue I see with so-called free software is the coming era of AI. The software might be as free as RMS would like, but we still would not be able to decipher what exactly it does.
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by greyman 10y ago
I don't know, I don't feel I am in some camp. His license grants some permissions and forbids something else. I just don't feel the word "freedom" fits into what he wants to achieve. Just let's call it some oth
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by greyman 10y ago
> Stallman's rhetoric is filled with this problematic logic on all layers: from trying to correct other people's terminology Yes, this is my main obstacle accepting RMS. In my opinion, he took the word "free", made a
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by greyman 10y ago
> What a terrible, terrible situation. Now you'll have "python" code that will neither run on 2.7 nor run compliantly on 3.x. I don't say you are wrong, but I am afraid this situation looks "terrible" only t
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by greyman 10y ago
Nobody should believe me, but I kind of expected something like this would happen. People just wants to keep using 2.7, and let the language evolve slowly over time, as is happening with PHP, for example. So if 2.7 development was officiall
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by greyman 10y ago
> much of the industry is transitioning to Python 3 (either currently doing so or planning to) Except it isn't.
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by greyman 10y ago
PHP 7. :-)
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by greyman 10y ago
> connecting people to show only what they like But should Facebook decide what I should be shown for my own good? Because I mostly just really don't want to see what Facebook doesn't show me.
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by greyman 10y ago
That will never happen, and it would be also a wrong thing to do, as the example of python shows. One of the main strengths of PHP is a low barrier of entry, which also includes things like you google how to do something, and what you googl
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by greyman 10y ago
I worked for a corporation for 12 years, and I was in a team developing software for CT scanner operations. What's wrong with that? Then I also worked for a very small company, where I coded... games. So according to the RMS, that coul
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by greyman 10y ago
> GPL is not about maximizing adoption, it's about maximizing freedom of your work and anything based upon it. Yes, but you should add that you are talking about the RMS definition of freedom, not about the word freedom as it is gen
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by greyman 10y ago
Please could someone estimate, what would be a cost of hosting a site like this, with around 100K articles and 5M monthly pageviews?
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by greyman 10y ago
> Isn't the standard answer to use a 65536 entry lookup table? Yes, it is, but is it such a common knowledge?
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by greyman 10y ago
Yes, but without that instruction, the algorithm mentioned by recruiter is really the quickest way. I coded chess algorithm in the past and this was exactly the method top chess open-source engines used. But imho it is hard to figure that o
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by greyman 10y ago
I once coded chess playing algorithm for fun, and can confirm that the recruiter was correct on #9: you count bits by using a lookup table and then sum the results. It's the quickest way. But I am not sure if this is possible to figure
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by greyman 10y ago
I am in Europe and... they aren't that rare in France or Germany for example.
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by greyman 10y ago
I think targeted surveillance is not enough - if you find a suspect, I think you need to take the bulk surveillance data and look at what that person communicated in the past and whether he is indeed a suspect, not just watch him only from
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by greyman 10y ago
And then there are people like me, who don't see the situation as black&white, i.e. I am not signing that petition. In my opinion, for the sake of security, it is necessary to "cache" the whole Internet communication to p
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by greyman 10y ago
This. And the 6s is too thin anyway, I need to have a case to hold it comfortably.
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by greyman 10y ago
But what can you do if countries like Ireland or Malta just allows tax evasion?
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by greyman 10y ago
No, no, although there might be claims for intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress. I actually don't say the comedian should be punished like this, I only think the title is misleading, it is not about just "tell
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by greyman 10y ago
Yes, that's the point, he rather brutally insulted one specific disabled kid. I find it to be different from just telling a joke about a politician, for example. Can you publicly insult someone, by using a form of joke? I don't kn
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by greyman 10y ago
In my opinion, bad taste joke would go along the lines "Disabled kid enters a pub and...". But he targeted one specific kid, so apart from being it a joke, it could also be an insult or other offense. (I am not lawyer, though).
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by greyman 10y ago
Free speech must be protected, and it is certainly legal to tell a joke about non-identified disabled child. But he was targeting one specific kid, so I am not sure if he didn't infringe upon his human rights. Maybe he really did.
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by greyman 10y ago
No, you use PDO::quote().
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by greyman 10y ago
My close friend works there (in European branch) as an accountant and he says it is quite fine. He has to work hard, but rarely more than 8 hours a day. But he also confirmed to me that some things from that famous article are true, for exa
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by greyman 10y ago
As I understood the article, the gist of the issue is, that besides salary, many/some programmers could also have another form(s) of compensation, so why not negotiate for it?
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by greyman 10y ago
For our dev team Scrum works fine, the key is to use it just as a framework, and not following every rule to the letter. For example: - Obsession with points We don't have that obsession, sometimes we even don't assign story point
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by greyman 10y ago
In that new valid blockchain, the transaction where they were given that coin will simply not be there.
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by greyman 10y ago
Troll question, but also really curious: Does the import from MS Office works already? (At least as good as in OSX's Pages). That was the single reason why I couldn't use LibreOffice so far... it just couldn't open files I&#x

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