jancsika

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by jancsika 10y ago
Let's take a trivial example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_pho... Let's say we are both on an unreliable wifi connection (perhaps on a train) and want to find the most recently-rel
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by jancsika 10y ago
That's a fascinating link. If I wanted to package my third-party dependency, the first thing I would do is "learn about personal interests of sponsors" and see if my third-party dependency and a sponsor's interests inter
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by jancsika 10y ago
> - Don't bundle third-party dependencies. For security (and for better documentation of the true dependency graph) distros often must go through extra trouble to unbundle third-party libraries when present. Some project even add th
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by jancsika 10y ago
No. But if you sell and distribute your own commercial IDE based on emacs and don't release your changes to their source, you are a "free rider". Emacs devs even have a clever license to prevent just that. You do agree that t
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by jancsika 10y ago
> [...] or did show you near a protest, family planning clinic, etc. I agree that people relying on the argument from gov't ineptitude are making a gamble-- and one that history of technological development tells us is incredibly ri
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by jancsika 10y ago
Ok. So you keep the blocker on, but you allow ads on the subset of sites that fit the following criteria: 1. You like and trust the site 2. You want to support the site 3. You trust that the ads displayed on the site are non-intrusive (and
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by jancsika 10y ago
The claim of blocking ads because of malware is likely just a case of people picking the low-hanging fruit to get on with their busy day. If a user actually went to the trouble of searching out and installing an ad-blocker, you can bet the
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by jancsika 10y ago
> I could use this as a jumping off point to the actual failures of Stallman, where instead of educating people on these issues for the last thirty years, he's spending his time rhyming Uber with Goober, i.e. https://stal
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by jancsika 10y ago
That last sentence is key. Rather than force the user to structure their input based on the computer's constraints (and probably waste time learning/misunderstanding the computer's constraints), they forced the computer to (g
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by jancsika 10y ago
Thinking about it a bit, it's not a matter of socialization but exposure -- and that applies even moreso to the teacher than the pupil. Take someone who teaches 30 3rd graders reading comprehension for an hour a day, and doing that fo
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by jancsika 10y ago
Position one: implement professional-training program and whistleblower-protections for employees of the out-of-state companies writing the proprietary software for CA court system Position two: require court system software to be open sour
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by jancsika 10y ago
That makes sense for a policy wonk enumerating potential positions and situating them between two extreme poles to find an efficacious strategy, or perhaps a group looking to change opinion on a currently fringe idea. I can imagine that bei
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by jancsika 10y ago
Could someone well-versed in "political sociology" provide one or two primary sources for the concept of "Overton window"? None of the links from its Wikipedia page end up in anything like a published study. Just to be c
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by jancsika 10y ago
> Even if someone is anti-trans, it should be clear that in the current political climate, openly expressing these views is a career death sentence. I don't want to be the one responsible for someone's career death sentence, bu