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by jordigh 8y ago
And how is this economically different from piracy, which mostly goes unprosecuted? Also, you've cherry-picked the GPL. It talks about "equivalent access", i.e. you can charge as much for the source as what you charged for th
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by jordigh 8y ago
But why is that a scam ? Redistributing for profit is a right explicitly granted by all FOSS licenses. This is like when people were selling Firefox CDs: https://web.archive.org/web/20060511105535/http:/&#x2F
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by jordigh 8y ago
Why doesn't anyone try to simply sell free software? You want me to give you a copy of the software? Pay for it. And here's a gratis sample to see what could get, but it doesn't have all of the features I wrote for it. You wa
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by jordigh 8y ago
Hm, doesn't look like eating the shovel kills you here? I always get a kick out of picking that shovel and then forcibly eating it.
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by jordigh 8y ago
I had to install fonts-ancient-scripts in Debian.
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by jordigh 8y ago
D did this a long time ago too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7530692 https://web.archive.org/web/20151113173822/http://h3.gd/ctra... It should be noted that this was done in
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by jordigh 8y ago
I kind of hope it means it will get maintainership from people other than Ian.
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by jordigh 8y ago
In my experience, gdc has produced faster code than ldc for my problems. This is subjective, so please don't ask me to produce benchmarks. I just remember gdc outperformed ldc in some cases, that's all.
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by jordigh 8y ago
This has taken a long time! But also, it's just him working almost alone. I'm so happy this finally happened, though! Yay, more D!
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by jordigh 8y ago
The way I thought about it is that the trigonometric, hyperbolic, and exponential functions are all nontrivial solutions of the differential equation y'''' = y. Sharing differential properties is a very powerful kinship,
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by jordigh 8y ago
No, RHEL isn't freemium. They sold you access to the source code. You also have the right to redistribute RHEL, which is how CentOS happened. I understand they did threaten to terminate support if you redistributed, but they couldn&#x2
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by jordigh 8y ago
I grieve the most that this will really weaken the argument for commercial free software. We could always say, look at Red Hat, they don't sell a drop of non-free software. It's possible to be free and commercial! I doubt Red Hat
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by jordigh 8y ago
Hell, the modern usage of the word was coined as a pejorative term: > The contemporary pejorative usage of the term emerged from conservative criticism of the New Left in the late 20th century. This usage was popularized by a number of
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by jordigh 8y ago
I wish rms had the humility to accept that his joke is not funny and is making more people unhappy than it's making people laugh.
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by jordigh 8y ago
I don't know how to yet. And if this is possible, is it also possible to fix standard assoc arrays?
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by jordigh 8y ago
If you object to a CoC (which is really the same damn thing as the GKCC, what kind of "punitive" measures can we take, really), then I really don't want you around the Octave community. And yes, we've had our share of un
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by jordigh 8y ago
This is a sore point for me in D. Assoc arrays in D don't work at compile time. It's a really longstanding issue: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1578 It's a real shame because I prefer just about ev
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by jordigh 8y ago
You're not the only GNU maintainer who is unsatisfied with Stallman's response. GNU Octave also stands with Guix here, and I think I speak on behalf of at least of a few other co-maintainers. Maybe we should be drafting our own Co
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by jordigh 8y ago
I was there to witness the private mailing list that culminated in this, and there was a very clear example of that happening there. A certain GNU contributor, let's call her Sal, was voicing concerns with current practices. Someone el
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Discord updates ToS to remove right to arbitration in a lawsuit(reddit.com)
2 points by jordigh 8y ago|0 comments
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by jordigh 8y ago
I'm just happy that D was mentioned. Yay, D! Also, D's metaprogramming is an utter joy, almost lisp-like, without the craziness of C++ templates. Give it a try! An intro to one ingredient of the magic of D metaprogramming, compile
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Paywall: The Business of Scholarship(paywallthemovie.com)
2 points by jordigh 8y ago|0 comments
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by jordigh 8y ago
Make a good faith attempt to convince yourself that residential schools were an utter failure (e.g. go read up about them in the book of your choice). I am just afraid that I may attempt to do the work myself and be met with someone who has
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by jordigh 8y ago
The first bullet point is about how we have to convince people to include the definition that Han Chinese are white. The implication here is that in order to raise global opposition against the Chinese, you first have to redefine them as wh
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by jordigh 8y ago
HN admins: this is the kind of alt-right, white genocide, holocaust denialism, nazi talk that you should be banning.
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It deeply, deeply failed. Residential schools were an atrocity. I'd show you articles about them but I'm afraid that no matter what I show you, you'll consider it wrong for some reason, so I ask to try to convince yourself th
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Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab(octobus.net)
3 points by jordigh 8y ago|0 comments
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by jordigh 8y ago
This story is deeply upsetting. This is what genocide looks like. I feel so powerless. Is there nothing we can do?
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Making a Homebrew Videogame for Game Boy Color(eev.ee)
3 points by jordigh 8y ago|0 comments
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by jordigh 8y ago
All I really want to know is, are they still backdoored? Can we get them without Intel ME/AMT?

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