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by krichman 14y ago
As much as I think he is an awful person profiting off of copyright infringement, I have to admire him for this.
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by krichman 14y ago
I would donate more than that to any entity that wants to disrupt this overbearing copyright industry, and that goes especially for sovereign nations. I'm hoping Antigua goes all out and becomes a data haven that refuses to extradite for IP
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by krichman 14y ago
But it's not exploitative to charge monthly fees that high, or require one to pay extra for tethering, or force one to pay extra to blacklist phone numbers from calling one, etc.? If they cannot afford to subsidize phones like that because
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by krichman 14y ago
Pirating hasn't been tested in the courts, really, it's the distributing that will get you a lawsuit. This is because what would that law look like? If someone sent you an email with a newspaper article inside you'd be violating it.
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by krichman 14y ago
It's disappointing that someone like you who is trying to share information and learn together would be attacked like that. People are awful. I have a new policy of not responding to any comment that includes any form of ad hominem argument
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by krichman 14y ago
I think I misinterpreted your argument as being about the syntax instead of the type system. I would actually prefer the option of a stricter type system in C.
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by krichman 14y ago
If anyone told me ,"write better code," in response to a question like, "does it have code folding?" I would be pretty enraged. I don't even use code folding.
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by krichman 14y ago
Nobody would fund a "method and apparatus for linking users of free app to the paid app" lawsuit if they had anything significant to lose over it.
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by krichman 14y ago
That's strawman C. We could just as easily write hideous C++, Ruby, Python, etc. code and complain about that. Edit: By this I mean; if you want to prefer the C++ libraries, that's fine, but please don't claim C is inherently ugly.
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by krichman 14y ago
Thank you :)
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by krichman 14y ago
Isn't it fair to hate it just due to the clunky interface? Many times I find it difficult to select a subview under another subview. Or, when adding a subview, it is too eager to be the subview of a subview. Those are the tip of my list of
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by krichman 14y ago
And surely if the individual genius had a meritorious patent, someone would be willing to fund the lawsuit.
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by krichman 14y ago
I am interested in this topic; eval in the context of static typing. Is there a paper on it?
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by krichman 14y ago
I'd like them to travel back to OS X 10.6 and branch an alternate history from there. I think they'll do well for the next few years because they are directing effort towards making computers and devices for people that don't know how to us
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by krichman 14y ago
> Our fault, not theirs. They really are representing us here. Why are you blaming the victims? It's not difficult to determine that the current penal system is ridiculous, and unlike us, it's their responsibility to do so. <hyperbo
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by krichman 14y ago
I would urge indie developers to also be learning a separate language and doing web apps so they have a way to pivot if the iOS app is unprofitable. Web apps seem like less of a lottery.
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by krichman 14y ago
99.5% of accused are found guilty? That's totalitarian.
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by krichman 14y ago
They're certainly lobbying for more laws and stricter enforcement.
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by krichman 14y ago
And to drive the point home; let's suppose that you were out committing a victimless crime such as smoking marijuana. Your choice may be whether you admit to committing that crime or have your silence implicate you on this crime.
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by krichman 14y ago
Sometimes I think the real problem is that we've lost the viewpoint of "it's better 1000 guilty go free than 1 innocent be imprisoned". At the very least it shouldn't be so easy to, for example, drum up 35 years worth of charges on excessiv
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by krichman 14y ago
Or Smalltalk, since we're apparently throwing out the idea of using Python entirely.
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by krichman 14y ago
It's not even an indication of quality, it's an indication that many people use it. I guess you can quibble about definitions all day if you like, and you can take "family heirlooms" literally instead of metaphorically as it was intended, b
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by krichman 14y ago
If number of users was equivalent to quality you would be correct. But it isn't. Under your argument, Wal-Mart is a purveyor of family heirlooms.
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by krichman 14y ago
One of the things Knuth is famous for is writing a lengthy program for word counts that was equivalent to no more than 6 lines of shell script. I highly doubt that he's wrong regarding his own programs, but it's most certainly wrong for the
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by krichman 14y ago
An adult isn't required to carry/produce an ID unless they are operating a vehicle. Will that still be the case in five or ten years?
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by krichman 14y ago
I guess then, assuming the appeal works, schools cannot force students to wear arbitrary things. Would that be so awful? On the contrary, a legal precedent like that would be ideal.
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by krichman 14y ago
It's not impressive, though. It's not surprising that someone is able to create a program using a Turing-complete language. It's just surprising that they decided to waste their time with an unreadable one. It's far more impressive to do ba
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by krichman 14y ago
I wish all websites would use TLS. I've seen ISPs do a bunch of shady bullshit like redirecting misspelled domains to their own landing pages and placing an advertisement in third-party pages by sending fraudulent HTML. A secure connection
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by krichman 14y ago
It reminds me of that bash.org quote. "0 is false and 1 is true, correct?" "1" - "0"
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by krichman 14y ago
You wrote that because research costs money, nobody will fund it without patents, completely disregarding the argument that there are other ways to fund research.

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