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by gue5t 14y ago
I think "monoculture" or just centralization in general would be a better name than "monopoly" for what the OP is getting at. Hacking is all about decentralization to ensure free access. If github implements a policy (surely there's some ac
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by gue5t 14y ago
The new wave for octal notation is 0o1234; it's supported by haskell and some others and seems much cleaner to my tastes.
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by gue5t 14y ago
Firefox tabs don't look native on any platform. For one reason or another it seems the developers aren't interested in doing so, or they'd have done something since it's more-or-less a regression since FF2 on linux and a longstanding issue
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by gue5t 14y ago
Is this satire?
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by gue5t 14y ago
This is the philosophy we need. Thank you.
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by gue5t 14y ago
IRC is still alive and well.
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by gue5t 14y ago
All true. For a real open-source cell phone (as mentioned in the hackaday comments), see the OsmocomBB project at < http://bb.osmocom.org/> .
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by gue5t 14y ago
That's the joke.
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by gue5t 14y ago
Presumably, and topically, you might try Firefox. Alternatively, you could try to rally developers to write a native-behaving browser based on the Cairo webkit port. It needs substantial love but it would be a project that would really bett
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by gue5t 14y ago
Every program has bugs.
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by gue5t 14y ago
"What doesn't matter" ... "Complaints of 'too much startups, not enough tech' or vice-versa" Is there a place to go for real hacking articles and none of the startup news bullshit? I don't care if it's called Hacker News or not. I don't eve
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by gue5t 14y ago
Android is too bad to be Linux. It's a platform dominated by closed-source application software, a cathedral-developed kernel and core, and dubiously open bootloaders. It's utterly useless for development, and it makes numerous sacrifices
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by gue5t 14y ago
No, but I have gotten Erwise (< https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Erwise> ) running (with some patches and some bugs) on a modern 64-bit machine running Linux.
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by gue5t 14y ago
The reference counting metaphor leaves out a critical aspect of reference-counting: cyclical structures and how to collect them. Books never write their names in other books so this doesn't appear in his discussion, though it's one of the m
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by gue5t 14y ago
Making multiple google accounts would be much more reasonable if they didn't demand a phone number (on every gmail login now), real name, etc. with every one.
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by gue5t 14y ago
Open-source it. If they're really abandoning the product but actually care about improving the status of e-mail clients they won't send you a C&D. If they don't care about that as much as they care about preventing unauthorized use of t
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by gue5t 14y ago
I think that this might also be the sweet spot for copyright!
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by gue5t 14y ago
It would hardly be an improvement. Wireshark would be a first step for most reverse engineers when there's network authentication involved.
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by gue5t 14y ago
They're all hexaliteral too.
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by gue5t 14y ago
Don't the all-caps make it binding on a fundamental, quarks-and-protons level like the GPL and copyright?
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by gue5t 14y ago
It looks like it's shaping up very nicely to solve the problems it was designed to solve--namely, making every frame of image on the screen pixel-perfect. However, I don't know if it's going to solve other outstanding problems (or regress o
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by gue5t 14y ago
A caveat: GTK3 brought a lot of changes in GTK/GDK internals including how window sizing was handled, both based on widget size requirements and based on user interactions for resizing. This was intended in part to provide better support fo
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by gue5t 14y ago
There have been plenty of "legitimate" book burnings.
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by gue5t 14y ago
Finally some reason. Tried and true native methods are superior in just about every aspect except 'shininess' (the DOM-based styling of CSS) and simplicity for end-users that wish to not understand even the basic concepts behind the systems
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by gue5t 14y ago
I think the headline is misleading. This seems to be an alliance of startup-oriented folks. Hackers would generally avoid the weasel-words and centralization: "virtual incubator" and reliance on a site that presents itself as more or less a
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by gue5t 14y ago
Assuming fairly dense formats (no .wavs or .bmp images), large files necessarily mean more than small files, so they draw more attention to themselves. "Why is /foo/bar using 300MB of disk?" is a much more likely avenue of inquiry than "Why
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by gue5t 15y ago
This is just another brick in the wall. The web is /not/ a platform that's friendly to new implementations, and it never will be; the complexity that's constantly being added ensures this. It also means we're all going to have a lot fewer g
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by gue5t 15y ago
Save in CPU? Mine was pegged the whole time.
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by gue5t 15y ago
Doesn't the evidence that fraudulent takedown notices are still issued, even in bulk and via automated systems clearly indicate this isn't a significant enough disincentive? For example, according to < http://www.techdirt.com/articles/2
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by gue5t 15y ago
Works fine in midori.

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