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by jordigh 9y ago
So, a lot of people in this thread are saying that Mozilla is a non-profit. There are in fact two Mozillas. One is the Mozilla Foundation, which is the non-profit. They are not involved with Firefox development, as I understand it. The Mozi
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by jordigh 9y ago
Mozilla is... both. There's the Mozilla Foundation which is a nonprofit and the Mozilla Corporation which is very much not. I've never quite understood what each Mozilla does, but AIUI, the Firefox development is all done by Mozil
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The Intel ME vulnerabilities are a big deal for some people, harmless for most(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
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by jordigh 9y ago
> So, why should the Open Source community be so damned forgiving Because the point of free software isn't to shake down anyone. Because we're better than that. We want to make sure software stays free, and punishing people doe
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by jordigh 9y ago
One thing that I really would like to impress upon computer people is that mathematics is not (usually) a formal computer language. Symbols and technical terms change meaning depending on the author, people write with different "accent
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High-Level Problems with Git and How to Fix Them(gregoryszorc.com)
391 points by jordigh 9y ago|286 comments
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by jordigh 9y ago
It's not comparable. A programmer spent a lot of time honing their craft, faces every day challenges, has growth opportunities, can aspire to higher salaries through tough work, has growth opportunities, can influence the world around
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by jordigh 9y ago
It's misogynistic because it commodifies women. Having a woman to talk to is something that you can just buy, like a car or a nice meal. They're not treated as people, just as consummables.
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by jordigh 9y ago
I think the relationship is as tenuous as being a good cook or a good chess player. Coming up with a unique recipe for cake or a good strategy for checkmate is about equally comparable to writing good code.
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by jordigh 9y ago
I think it's a bit superstitious how we think that being good at math means you'll be good at programming. I'm not complaining, because that superstition helped me. Like I said, my math degree did give recruiters an initial g
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by jordigh 9y ago
> Can you hand-code a solver for Maxwells equations or Navier-Stokes (lid-driven cavity flow)? For my undergrad, I mostly focussed on number theory and differential geometry. These topics are mostly useless unless you want to work at the
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by jordigh 9y ago
I was replacing someone on mat leave so I could only have the job for one year. I was teaching three regular classes of geometry, one honours geometry, and one IB Standard Level class which was a whirlwind mish-mash of topics. The honours c
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by jordigh 9y ago
I'm mostly happy with bitcoins except for what I mentioned: transaction fees and waiting times. If those things can really be brought down by the lightning network, that's all I care about. Financial stability seems like a seconda
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by jordigh 9y ago
That was my experience. All my math degree ever did was mildly impress potential recruiters, but I had to learn how to code things unrelated to mathematics to get a job. The only job I was able to get as a mathematician "outside"
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by jordigh 9y ago
Paypal doesn't work well across international boundaries. It's not convenient for IRC tipping. It's not internet money. And it's not my money, it's their money which they usually will give to me at their pleasure. H
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by jordigh 9y ago
Absolutely agreed. D is kind of the C++ I always wanted. It's familiar, I can see the C++ lineage, and it's so much nicer to write than C++. I'm currently having fun writing Advent of Code in D: http://inversethoug
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by jordigh 9y ago
Having used bitcoins as money, I really want the confirmation times and transaction fees to go back to what they were a year or two ago. I keep hearing that this mythical lightning will fix things, and I sure hope it does. I want internet m
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by jordigh 9y ago
I really like how D combines these two. The functional programming tools are a lot easier to use than C++ and a lot more practical than Haskell or OCaml. I absolutely adore the idea of purity in D: no side effects. That's all it should
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by jordigh 9y ago
I'd argue D is better than all of those in some ways. D development is lively and active. I enjoy the language, and I plan to keep using it as long as I keep enjoying it.
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by jordigh 9y ago
D has had concepts for quite a while. They call them template constraints: https://dlang.org/concepts.html You should give D metaprogramming a try. It's a whole new world, a new fantastic point of view.
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by jordigh 9y ago
"Chairman Pai's plan to restore Internet freedom" This phrase bugs me so much. I can't believe they're calling the end of net neutrality "internet freedom".
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by jordigh 9y ago
> Also, follow the development of Django and comment on the intentional breaks if you think they’re not worth changing. I really don't want to be sucked into Django's drama: https://us.pycon.org/2015/schedu
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by jordigh 9y ago
> That's surprising to me I'm surprised you're surprised. Have you seen the size of the breaking changes documented with each release notes? We typically hit about 10 of these changes per release, sprinkled all over our co
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by jordigh 9y ago
I really dread upgrading Django. We have a codebase that has been with us since the 1.3 days and each time there's an upgrade, someone on the team sets about one month aside to deal with all of the breakage. You could say that this is
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by jordigh 9y ago
You mean AMD PSP. And I don't think it has received the same attention as ME, even though it's more or less the same backdoor. Which they minitruthfuly advertise as For Your Own Safety: http://www.amd.com/en-us&#x2
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by jordigh 9y ago
It's essentially the C++ I always wanted, which is more or less its intent. It's fast. The D code I write routinely matches or outperforms the C++ I also write for comparison. D is a much cleaner language. It has obvious C++ ins
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by jordigh 9y ago
I'm doing it this year. In D, because I'm stubborn, enjoy the language, and couldn't immediately get to like Rust. Going by hype, I have a feeling learning Rust will some day be as inevitable as interacting with git, but for
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Giving social networking back to you(joinmastodon.org)
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by jordigh 9y ago
Yes, I already agreed this is a good thing. Perhaps I wasn't clear, my apologies. It's good to be lenient, especially in cases of accidental non-compliance. This is an uncontroversial improvement of GPLv3 over GPLv2. I'm just
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by jordigh 9y ago
I guess it's nice that they're taking the part of GPLv3 that they like, i.e. not getting sued as easily, while leaving out the parts that they don't like, e.g. making it more difficult to control users by tivoising the hardwa

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