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[Emacs Devel] Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes(mail.gnu.org)
2 points by kfogel 4y ago|0 comments
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by kfogel 4y ago
Warning -- fan comment follows: This is a terrific article. She makes a solid & important point, she gives plenty of examples, and she brings in some related research that you may not have heard about (I hadn't) and which makes yo
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by kfogel 4y ago
There's a whole book about this, FWIW: "Screenwise", by Devorah Heitner (see https://devorahheitner.com/screenwise/ ).
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by kfogel 4y ago
"Citation needed" :-). There have been occasional examples of misbehavior and ignoring the license terms of certain FOSS licenses, but by and large almost everyone -- including corporations -- does abide by them. The common licen
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by kfogel 4y ago
Nice to see this posted here. I feel obliged to say that the 2nd edition (which is now finally completed) has a number of Kickstarter backers waiting for their treeware, and I'm sorry for the delay in getting that to them. It's
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by kfogel 5y ago
I just want to say that this was a kind, detailed, and thoughtful response -- beneficial to the OP, no doubt, but also probably to others. It was nice to be reminded that sometimes the Internet doesn't suck. Thanks for taking the time
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by kfogel 6y ago
There might be a selective enforcement issue here? If it turns out that lots of the IP address space is doled out based on semi-fraudulent claims like this (assuming that Guilmette's claim is correct that DDos-Guard doesn't really
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by kfogel 6y ago
I'd like to point out https://Permanent.org/ , ahem. It made the front page here a while back (not posted by me), and it's relevant here: you pay a one-time payment for permanent storage -- that's right, your
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by kfogel 6y ago
Yeah, I've got some cleanups to that section pending. Looking forward to your suggestion, KajMagnus! Best regards, -Karl Fogel
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by kfogel 6y ago
(Question for OP) Just curious: Were you inspired to ask this question by the recent CoRecursive Podcast interview with Jim Blandy ( https://corecursive.com/054-software-that-doesnt-suck/ ) in which he talks about how th
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by kfogel 6y ago
Use Emacs. (Really, use any fully extensible editor and take the time to learn it well. I'm told Vim fits the bill too; my personal experience just happens to be with Emacs.)
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by kfogel 6y ago
(Okay, well, I guess this was a particularly bad time to recommend a specifically in-person help session :-). Live video would work too, as long as the resolution is high enough for them to see what you're doing.)
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by kfogel 6y ago
Single best thing you can do: Find an expert Emacs user who's willing to help, and have them watch you in person , even for just a short time, as you use Emacs to do things. Lather, rinse, repeat. Make sure they show you how to use
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by kfogel 7y ago
Oh my gosh, yes. All the time. Freenode.net network mostly -- free-software-related channels, but other places too. IRC is alive and well.
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The Bertrand Paradox in Probability(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by kfogel 7y ago|0 comments
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by kfogel 7y ago
No, it's not. If you're selling broccoli but you call it "peaches", taking a poll will not change peaches to broccoli. Open Source has a very precise, clear, and widely-agreed-on definition. That definition is publishe
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by kfogel 7y ago
What @anderspitman said -- would be great if this were a post on your blog.
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by kfogel 7y ago
Gnus in Emacs.
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William Goldman, author and screenwriter of “The Princess Bride”, has died(en.wikipedia.org)
32 points by kfogel 8y ago|3 comments
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by kfogel 8y ago
Two-dimensional Bloom Filter?
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by kfogel 8y ago
dataflow, I've made a few replies elsewhere in this thread that address what you said. I don't want to make noise by repeating them here, but wanted to point them out, in case you'd like to see the counterargument.
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by kfogel 8y ago
It's no more a "semantic quibble" than any other inaccurate use of a term is a semantic quibble. People are counting on headlines meaning what they say they mean, and this one doesn't. If the headline mistakenly said &q
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by kfogel 8y ago
Yes, the term can't be trademarked, because they're both common English words used in combination (and that combination has a somewhat older, unrelated meaning, which further contributes to making the term untrademarkable). But th
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by kfogel 8y ago
Well, sure, language is ultimately defined by usage, so if enough of us agree that the word "broccoli" refers to source code being available, then it's legitimate to go around saying "broccoli" means "visible s
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by kfogel 8y ago
The GPL allows all commercial use. It does not allow proprietary restrictions on redistribution, under certain circumstances, but that's different. You can charge as much money as you want for GPL'd software, and you can base
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by kfogel 8y ago
Source being on GitHub does not equal "is open source". Restrictions on commercial use are incompatible with open source. The Open Source Initiative, which coined the term and evaluates licenses for compatibility with the Open
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by kfogel 8y ago
That's right. And prohibiting commercial exploitation violates one of the key clauses of both the Open Source Definition and the Free Software Definition (the part about freedom of use for any purpose). See https://opensou
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by kfogel 8y ago
It's not open source; the Hacker News headline is wrong. The Numworks web site does not claim it's open source, by the way -- the problem is only in the headline here. The license is Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Sh
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by kfogel 8y ago
"...a few people here (and other threads) have asked why we didn't create a new proprietary license..." But, you did create a new proprietary license. That's what ${ANY_OPEN_SOURCE_LICENSE} + COMMONS_CLAUSE is. All th
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The Problem Isn't the Use of Analogies but the Analogies Courts Use(knightcolumbia.org)
1 points by kfogel 9y ago|0 comments

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