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by luriel 14y ago
That most C++ programmers are so confused about how to properly use their language says quite a lot about C++ itself.
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by luriel 14y ago
All the problems with Linux over the last five years can be summed up in one word: Pottering.
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by luriel 14y ago
There is a big difference between using and loving.
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by luriel 14y ago
Link doesn't seem to work anymore, here is the same video (I assume) and a the original paper describing the Blit: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/blit/
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Jwz: The CADT Model(jwz.org)
7 points by luriel 14y ago|0 comments
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by luriel 14y ago
JWZ identified the issue Miguel discusses in this post ten years ago, he even gave it a name: CADT http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html Also, part of what killed the Linux desktop was Miguel and his total lack of understanding of the unix phi
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Iothrottler: Making Elastic Applications More Friendly with Go(evanfarrer.blogspot.se)
3 points by luriel 14y ago|0 comments
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by luriel 14y ago
"Zynga creative chief" sounds like an oxymoron.
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by luriel 14y ago
I don't even understand, what are "import fees"? Tariffs? I keep forgetting that we don't have even remotely free trade, so absurd and economically senseless, sigh.
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Go's unique approach to OO(drdobbs.com)
108 points by luriel 14y ago|18 comments
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by luriel 14y ago
What about blaming the insane counterproductive patent system instead?
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by luriel 14y ago
> "Innovative startups that try to disrupt anything" will be safe, IMHO... And you expect people to invest in business in the hopes that your "Humble Opinion" holds true? I'm sure most startups are safe from being sued by Apple... as lo
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by luriel 14y ago
In slightly similar news, the second issue of Golang-Weekly is out: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-weekly/uDITHQVeKdY/...
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by luriel 14y ago
We all know well enough that bugs are an universal constant. But even assuming software without bugs was possible. Walled gardens still would suck, by design.
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by luriel 14y ago
> Apple is all about streamlining and optimizing for the common case. Not providing options for the minority with different preferences. So "think different" really means "think exactly the same as every other Apple user". Thanks, that
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by luriel 14y ago
Just because Samsung perhaps did something morally or legally questionable it doesn't make the patent insanity any less insane.
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by luriel 14y ago
> Sometimes people do awful things for simple and awful reasons. But I believe that's rare. I believe some people are forced to do awful things that they would never otherwise do given the option. I think in this case people didn't want
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by luriel 14y ago
> It was one thing when they were the scrappy underdog but the idea that I need the OK of the richest company in the world to install software on my (mobile) computer just suddenly seems equally laughable and creepy to me. It astounds
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by luriel 14y ago
> You have no way of knowing whether this is true. There is a whole field dedicated to answering this kinds of questions, it is called economics, and there is quite a bit of research in this area analyzing historical evidence from diffe
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by luriel 14y ago
As usual the only ones that will really win from this insanity in the long term are the lawyers. And even the lawyers will not win as much as they think, because they will have set back technological progress decades behind.
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by luriel 14y ago
This is the kind of craziness you run into when the absurd oxymoron that is "intellectual property" collides with the real world.
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by luriel 14y ago
> I do not think it matters much that there is a crime involved, it can still be extortion. Not even a crime, an accusation .
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by luriel 14y ago
> It seems to me that the US patent law is a system for transferring money from those who actually do stuff to those who don't. This is not surprising from an economic point of view once you realize that the patent system is basically a
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by luriel 14y ago
The philosophies of acme and vim are so completely different that is very difficult to even compare. One of my favorite things about Acme is that it requires basically no configuration, you can write small scripts to perform certain tasks,
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by luriel 14y ago
As one of the original instigators of dwm and wmii before that (mostly by shouting at garbeam) I want to point out that this kind of tiled window management was first introduced in larswm (that is sadly discontinued), which in turn was heav
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by luriel 14y ago
> Scala's on top of Java and the JVM; not a reimplementation of it. Oracle appears to be okay with this, and sometimes encourages it. Oracle could change their mind at any time. Some people at Sun appeared to be Ok with Android and some
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by luriel 14y ago
> Darcs was pretty neat at the time, especially since it was the only open DVCS. You are forgetting Tom Lord's arch, which had a really bizarre interface (even more so than Darcs), but was conceptually very nice.
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by luriel 14y ago
As much as I love the idea of the Raspberry Pi, until it has open video drivers it can't really be considered an open platform. Anyone knows what is the status of that?
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by luriel 14y ago
In many ways Plan 9 is simpler than Unix, and Go is simpler than C. Unix was also much simpler than Multics. Software doesn't need to always grow in complexity, but it takes lots of determination to accomplish this.
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by luriel 14y ago
Not just that, he coauthored Go together with the coauthor of C.

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