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by hdevalence 13y ago
Depends on your distro, I guess. Arch has python -> python3, so it's quite rare that you'd have a python2-foobar package but not a python-foobar package, unless there was no python3 version.
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by hdevalence 13y ago
What are "the three major Linux distributions"?
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by hdevalence 13y ago
This seems like exactly the problem the parent post is complaining about, though: the people in the limited group the parent talks about aren't the people being tricked by selfxss, it's the people who don't have the technical
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by hdevalence 13y ago
If you want to do exact computations, SAGE is handy, Free, and built on Python: sage: k.<a> = QuadraticField(7); k Number Field in a with defining polynomial x^2 - 7 sage: x = 3*a - 8 sage: x.is_integral() True
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by hdevalence 13y ago
Yes. All of those things are, indeed, hard to believe.
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by hdevalence 13y ago
The aforementioned article discusses why there are problems with Javascript itself, e.g., the difficulty in protecting against timing attacks.
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by hdevalence 13y ago
Thanks for the correction.
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by hdevalence 13y ago
Yes, there is: system packages should by installed with the system's package manager. Otherwise, you have two systems managing the same set of files, causing tears and suffering. Packages not installed with the system's package ma
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by hdevalence 13y ago
SAGE is still going very strong. numpy/scipy have very many more users, but I don't think that they're really comparable: they're aimed at numerical computation for science, while SAGE aims to be a do-everything tool for
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by hdevalence 13y ago
For an excellent description of another instance of this sort of issue, see [1] about Canonical and Mir. Github seems to have things pretty figured out: they have a closed core that they control, with a veneer of hackability, and a lot of h
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by hdevalence 13y ago
It's much better than closed-source software: they get you to do the work of fixing bugs, but they still keep the money!
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by hdevalence 13y ago
Edited, thanks. There is, of course, a difference between occasional errors and the way in which millions of competent English speakers use their language, but I'm sure you're aware of the distinction.
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by hdevalence 13y ago
There's absolutely nothing wrong with the quoted sentence -- this which-hunting is a ridiculous exercise in 'gotcha grammar' completely divorced from the facts about how the language is spoken. See, for instance, http:/
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by hdevalence 13y ago
Or, the company hides the "unsubscribe" link in a tiny font at the bottom of the email, and it's just much simpler to hit Gmail's big "spam" button at the top.
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by hdevalence 13y ago
I think that one can be concerned about privacy enough to choose to use a service which does not log queries, without thinking that this choice makes them immune to surveillance by state actors.
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by hdevalence 13y ago
For bonus points, use it to prove the "other" FLT...
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by hdevalence 13y ago
> If you are as concerned as you sound don't leave the house. People can take your picture in public and do what they like with it. sounds like exactly the kind of attitude that >> I basically have no option of recourse, becau
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Angular Momentum: The Source of Europe's Mild Climate(americanscientist.org)
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by hdevalence 13y ago
Note, however, that further north doesn't necessarily mean colder. For instance, looking at the climate data on Wikipedia indicates that Oslo and Toronto have about the same average highs/lows in the winter months. Meanwhile, Winn
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by hdevalence 13y ago
It's an interesting worldview where growing a company to an $11bn market cap counts as only a 'lukewarm success'. It's not super clear why Red Hat's market cap of "only" $11bn means that their business mod
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by hdevalence 13y ago
The parent poster expressed a personal opinion. Your reply amounts to "Your opinion differs from Linus's opinion, and is therefore wrong." There are many reasons why one might wish that Linux was GPLv3: for instance, one migh
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by hdevalence 13y ago
No, you cannot do anything you want with the logs. Here is something you cannot do: you cannot alter the logs without anyone noticing, since log entries have a rolling hash. This prevents an attacker from being able to modify logs without d
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by hdevalence 13y ago
> I want to be in control how my system works. To do that I need to be sure of what it is doing and how. As the complexity of a system grows, the number of things it does under the hood grows. At some point I can't keep track of wha
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by hdevalence 13y ago
So "young, single, Arab men" not only aren't "us", but also aren't people who deserve protection from terrorism? I'm glad that you can decide on their behalf that their rights are worth less than your imag
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by hdevalence 13y ago
Your problem isn't with expressive type systems, it's with languages whose type systems are not sufficiently expressive , though. Well-named variables are interpreted and checked by the programmer; well-expressed type constraints
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by hdevalence 13y ago
On the other hand, Go doesn't have a way to write code that abstracts over types, and my (albeit limited) experience with Go is that most of the boilerplate is due to the language's poor type system. If you use a language with a b
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by hdevalence 13y ago
If Canonical wants to develop a new file manager, power to them! I, too, am looking forward to seeing what they do better. My comment was specifically in regards to the idea of 'what's wrong with Canonical reinventing everything&#
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by hdevalence 13y ago
Do you feel it's ethical to take $30k a year from 'the whales'?
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by hdevalence 13y ago
Yes. See my earlier comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7083763
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by hdevalence 13y ago
Why don't you tell the New Yorker staff they're not writing English, and see how far you get?

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