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241543903 is the magic number (amusing Google Search 'hack')(google.com)
2 points by jdub 16y ago|1 comments
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by jdub 16y ago
The only thing which is different 40 years later is that corporations -- certainly together, some in cooperation, and some even alone -- maintain more power and apparatus of propaganda than the government. That is why populist Libertarianis
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by jdub 16y ago
This is an extraordinary series. Watch the entire first season, and once you get to the last episode -- especially if you have an ounce of FLOSS in your bones -- I dare you not to stand on the couch yelling, "He knew it! He knew it! In NINE
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by jdub 16y ago
That would be rad . I might chat to Tridge about it and see if they'd be willing to do it. :-)
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Tridge (of Samba fame) reviews a year of remote peer programming(blog.tridgell.net)
44 points by jdub 16y ago|6 comments
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by jdub 16y ago
The latest release of PosgreSQL includes hstore: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/hstore.html
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by jdub 16y ago
Very pop science-y, but leads the way to other interesting stuff. The best bit about this article is the naked "whoa, this is all totally weird stuff, man!" attitude... which will eventually disappear as we are able to explain it all. :-)
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Quantum 'weirdness' used by plants, animals, humans(cbc.ca)
2 points by jdub 16y ago|2 comments
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by jdub 16y ago
The amusing thing is that in addition to the ideological divide within the Liberal party itself (between true small-L liberals and conservatives), the Liberal and National parties are not obviously ideologically compatible either -- the Nat
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by jdub 16y ago
That's great, but it's not 1845, and I know that not all Americans are Constitutional fundamentalist nutjobs. :-)
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by jdub 16y ago
No, choosing to not vote is choosing to not express your idea. (If you don't believe in the system at all, do not make use of it at all -- and we don't see many people actually doing that.)
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by jdub 16y ago
Plus, we vote on Saturday. Weekday voting is incredibly disenfranchising.
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by jdub 16y ago
Unity (and GNOME Shell for that matter) is probably best described as a "shell" rather than a window manager. Like the old school GNOME Panel (and taskbar in Windows, Dock in OS X), the shell is for launching things, the entry point to gett
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by jdub 16y ago
Can you document or reference the "lot wasted going back and forth" ? That sounds like a convenient rationale, but doesn't appear to reflect reality.
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by jdub 16y ago
Yup... just writing on the wall (and little else) for a long time now. Now that's a fast turnaround time for a strategic acquisition! Oh, and by the way, a final goodbye to Symbian. Surprise! :-) Nokia's software division will manage to d
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by jdub 16y ago
Another week, another software strategy at Nokia. :-)
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by jdub 16y ago
Running any kind of build process would be an easy first example. :-)
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by jdub 16y ago
Note that they've only deprecated their own Java runtime .
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by jdub 16y ago
I can answer your first question: Why not just stick with the existing framework? Because there isn't one. Node is an evented, web-and-net-savvy I/O stack, with which you could just as easily write an IRC, HTTP or DNS server. If you want
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by jdub 16y ago
:-) Because there's a lot of grey area between those binary states, and plenty of examples of the GPL being used for good and/or evil to various degrees. Either the GPL is sufficient to keep participants harmonious or it isn't. You could
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by jdub 16y ago
The previous poster was referring to code and module contributions to the GNOME project itself, not the sprucing up of the GNOME experience in Ubuntu. GTK+, the underlying toolkit for GNOME, was substantially written and still substantially
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by jdub 16y ago
Canonical do not own "Ubuntu" (that is, a combination of lots of other people's software). They do not require copyright assignment for every component of Ubuntu (because they don't own it). They require copyright assignment for a few of th
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by jdub 16y ago
OK, I won't take the shortcut then: Your opinions are not supported by the facts. :-)
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by jdub 16y ago
You don't have to have non-open-source components in order to make open source products attractive to consumers, enterprise, etc. "Open Core" is not the reason why Ubuntu is "making headway in the UI department". It's the work of a large co
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by jdub 16y ago
Three comments that I regard as incorrect: Either the GPL is sufficient to keep participants harmonious or it isn't. This essay embodies everything that keeps the free software movement from greatness. Alas, the movement is perpetually
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by jdub 16y ago
This is factually incorrect. I do understand why you'd say it, because it sounds balanced and reasonable at face value, but time and time again we've seen what happens when the word of the GPL is followed, but the spirit isn't. Centrali
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by jdub 16y ago
Methodology (open source) vs. ideology (the morals and ethics of software freedom). Although some see them as opposing forces within a similar frame of interest, I see them as two sides of the same coin, and am deeply passionate about both.
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by jdub 16y ago
It's also worth noting that LibreOffice is really just a continuation of the branch which almost all Linux distributions and non-Sun editions of OpenOffice.org have been using for years -- http://go-oo.org/
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by jdub 16y ago
This was due to a trademark conflict with another product called "OpenOffice". Instead of choosing something better, they tacked ".org" on the end.
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by jdub 16y ago
"revamped subsystems" ... that's where the new circumstances of "cloud computing" have their impact though (and also a bit of general technology churn, but that also has its roots in changing circumstances). Huge memory, multi-core, I/O (an

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