kostyakow

5 ms·

1.
by kostyakow 13y ago
Using your logic, we can conclude that no one should be able to use the wheel, because at some point in the past someone else invented it?
2.
by kostyakow 13y ago
>/g/ in particular is known for much pointless banter arguing over the best GNU+Linux distro You mean arguing about the second best GNU/Linus distro. Everyone knows the best distro is Gentoo.
3.
by kostyakow 13y ago
>Github maintained by someone with a troll username? >Comments like this >> IMPORTANT: release two major sanctioned UIs, one for autists, one with inbuilt support for the previous list so that plebs can't get confused with
4.
by kostyakow 13y ago
Tox aims to be a secure replacement for Skype. There's several other similar projects, but they are usually hard to set up and use for an average user. Tox is FLOS software developed by community, and currently licensed under GPLv3. We
5.
by kostyakow 13y ago
>I'm not trusting a messaging service whose marketing site I can't even reach You would rather trust a huge corporation instead of a community-developed project?
6.
by kostyakow 13y ago
>The third project I would not like to leave unmentioned is LISP, a fascinating enterprise of a completely different nature. With a few very basic principles at its foundation, it has shown a remarkable stability. Besides that, LISP has
7.
by kostyakow 13y ago
This article feels like it's from a completely different era -- an early age of computers with wild discoveries and unexplored frontiers. But in reality it wasn't that long ago and a lot of the early computer pioneers are still al
8.
by kostyakow 13y ago
I didn't dodge the question, because I agree with the first part -- Russia is a horrible country with a corrupt government that imprisons/kills activists and journalists. I only disagree with a minor detail you mentioned -- there
9.
by kostyakow 13y ago
I don't think anything would be different if he was a woman.
10.
by kostyakow 13y ago
Yes, this is PR. But what else were this companies supposed to do? If they disclosed any information, then they would get into a lot of trouble with the government and possible get arrested.
11.
by kostyakow 13y ago
Thank you for this this great article! I am currently trying to learn more about the hardware and lower-level aspects of computer, and this was a really interesting read. You may be interested in checking out an emulator for original IBM co
12.
by kostyakow 13y ago
There is some things which are totally legal, but morally wrong. Canonical doesn't have a legal obligation to contribute kernel code, but it doesn't make their behaviour right, and kernel developers have every right to criticize t
13.
by kostyakow 13y ago
F.U.D. You said that Ubuntu is not "flexible" anymore, but now you are running OS X and Win8? Are you kidding me? It's like moving to North Korea because of NSA's spying. The only slow part about Ubuntu is Unity, but if