kryptiskt

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Actually using Ed(blog.sanctum.geek.nz)
139 points by kryptiskt 14y ago|89 comments
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Work on unimportant problems(yosefk.com)
115 points by kryptiskt 14y ago|51 comments
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by kryptiskt 14y ago
It's not called that yet: "Its working name is fishfish, but I hope eventually it will just be fish!" The ambition is quite reasonable as work on the fish shell itself has petered out, there was a recent dead cat bounce after a long fallow
1564.
by kryptiskt 14y ago
"Currently there is no economical or timely way of ascertaining if a manufacturer's specifications have been altered during the manufacturing process (99% of chips are manufactured in China)," That claim about 99% of chips being manufacture
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by kryptiskt 14y ago
> (practically no patent trolls!) There is Håkan Lans, probably the patent troll with the best PR in the world.
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by kryptiskt 14y ago
This means little for Oracle, it was always a long shot and certainly not anything they depend on for their future. The question is really why Oracle have bothered with this, mobile phones isn't a strategic area for them, Java ME wasn't goi
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by kryptiskt 15y ago
> But it prevented them stepping back and designing a crude little 30K transistor RISC processor from a blank sheet - which later goes onto rule the world. It's unfair to tick-tock to blame it for their failure to preempt ARM, it is far
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by kryptiskt 15y ago
> In addition to BitC, there's also Cyclone, Rust, ATS, and Deca -- all of which are in various stages of development. ATS has a stable release, IIRC, Rust is in alpha, Cyclone has made a release but development stopped, and Deca is in
1569.
by kryptiskt 15y ago
It could be the analogue of the Mac Mini compared to the iMac, it would fill a niche for those that want the Apple TV experience but already have a new fancy screen. So maybe the full TV would take over the AppleTV name and the little box w
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by kryptiskt 15y ago
In what way isn't open better? That way everybody can build on it. Just about every open source project started as a crappy copy of something or other.
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by kryptiskt 15y ago
I have to wonder if that isn't actually going to be a problem from now on, not a technical one but a marketing problem. Major version upgrades used to be a big deal and brought lots of publicity even outside narrow tech circles. Now they ar
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Vevo locking out non-Facebook sign-ups on March 9th(theverge.com)
2 points by kryptiskt 15y ago|0 comments
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Critical vuulnerability in PHP 5.3.9(h-online.com)
1 points by kryptiskt 15y ago|0 comments
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Apple removes iPad and iPhone from German store after Motorola injunction(theverge.com)
4 points by kryptiskt 15y ago|0 comments
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by kryptiskt 15y ago
> They don't want to provide their modified source code for these programs to their users, in violation of their obligations under the GPL. The fact that a Sony guy wants to build a non-GPL Busybox is not evidence of any Sony violations
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by kryptiskt 15y ago
Sony is presently shipping a lot of stuff with Busybox in, but they are not violating the license terms. Here you can download a zillion Sony-patched versions of Busybox to your hearts content: https://products.sel.sony.com/opensource/sour
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by kryptiskt 15y ago
It seems unavoidable that from now on lots of managers the world over will cargo cult the surface characteristics of Steve Jobs' management style in the hope of obtaining his "magic", everybody seems to have read that book. I hope it won't
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by kryptiskt 15y ago
A distribution that does just that is NixOS ( http://nixos.org/nixos/ ). It has to, because it's purely functional (new stuff shouldn't overwrite any of the old stuff) and it has to support several different versions of the same package bei
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by kryptiskt 15y ago
> Jail time for agreeing not to cold-call employees of another company? There are evidence of worse than that: "The evidence states that the defendants agreed not to poach employees from each other or give them offers if they voluntaril