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by mantap 7y ago
Stallman is probably a little bit further along the spectrum than you then. This is a man who commiserated someone for having a baby because it would distract them from emacs development. He has been playing social minesweeper for decades a
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by mantap 7y ago
Probably, but it doesn't really matter because the real damage was done by his comments ~15 years ago, it just took the Internet an unusually long time to notice.
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by mantap 7y ago
Because he has autism.
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by mantap 7y ago
To your caveat, I can access thepiratebay even though it is supposedly IP blocked in the UK because the courts are not willing to order a block of the whole cloudflare IP range. With so many websites using cloud hosting, it has become very
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by mantap 7y ago
I get what you're saying, but minors can and do legally consent under various close-in-age laws, and the age of consent is usually lower than the age of legal majority anyway. I certainly don't agree with Stallman's comments,
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by mantap 7y ago
Many of those software developers are in developing or middle income countries and can't afford a Mac. Just because software developers have a higher rate of buying Macs it does not follow that 1/4 of Macs are bought by software d
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by mantap 7y ago
If you have a comment on your personal website expressing a certain view, then people will reasonably expect that you stand by it.
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by mantap 7y ago
Stallman is to the FSF as Elon Musk is to Tesla. He is not its leader, he is the FSF - its human manifestation, for better and for worse. Edit +1 hour: this comment certainly aged well...
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by mantap 7y ago
TextMate's key innovation was its method of parsing using regexes to build a syntax tree, which was extremely general while at the same time being approachable. This lead to a huge variety of grammars, more than any other editor and it
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by mantap 7y ago
The same reason that you can tell if someone really enjoys your cooking, because they will be quiet while eating it. People tend to leave comments when they disagree. It's easy to disagree; it's harder to agree while also adding
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by mantap 7y ago
What is the result of "badger"+2 If + is to be defined on a string and a number then the only sensible meaning is string concatenation. All numbers can be converted to strings but most strings cannot be converted to numbers. The
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by mantap 7y ago
What I don't understand is that while multicopter drones may only be a decade old, RC planes have been around forever. Why are people only just noticing the problem?
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by mantap 7y ago
Disengagement is orthogonal to voting . You can be disengaged from politics but still vote for representatives who will be engaged on your behalf.
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by mantap 7y ago
To be pedantic, the dirac delta is not a probability density function.
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by mantap 7y ago
It's not just the UK people. Most people in the world live in countries that have oppressive internet laws. Swiss people are a tiny privileged minority. The author should travel the world and see exactly how the internet is outside of
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by mantap 7y ago
The previous UK law, RIPA, was abused for investigating minor crimes such as fraudulently obtaining disabled parking badges. It's not just about national governments but local municipal authorities too. Yes I would prefer another juris
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by mantap 7y ago
Why shouldn't it be the default? Switzerland has a population 8 million. Why should the default be geared towards a small minority when there are billions of people not just in the UK but in Asia and Africa who would benefit from this
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by mantap 7y ago
This misses the forest for the trees. In the UK ISPs are already legally mandated to log your web requests and provide them to the government. Those who live under free regimes should not deny those of us who live under oppressive governmen
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by mantap 7y ago
It's about risk. Python is a scripting language. That means that it's often auxiliary to a primary programming language. Your project might be in C++ but you use Python to package it or generate some assets, etc. Do you really car
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by mantap 7y ago
You couldn't switch to Python 3 until the middle part of this decade unless the stars aligned with your dependencies, the library support wasn't there. And the first releases of Python 3 were glorified betas, the first "usabl
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by mantap 7y ago
The 2nd amendment has become an absurd right because due to technological advancement it must necessarily be severely limited for the good of society - you can't carry an RPG or a machine gun or most kinds of arms that have been inve
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by mantap 7y ago
In my humble opinion, Haskell uses big words and obscure category theory terminology for simple concepts in order to make Haskell programmers look smart. It's actually rather selfish because it reflects poorly on other FP languages, pe
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by mantap 7y ago
This is true and all, but he doesn't just speak standard Malaysian, he speaks Terengganu Malay. Having white skin is a necessary but not sufficient condition for fame.
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by mantap 7y ago
If that was the intention it backfired because it highlighted several problems to National Grid that they weren't aware of before.
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by mantap 7y ago
The pre-chiclet keyboards were okay for their era but the <=2015 chiclet design is just so much more comfortable because of the lack of sharp edges and does a much better job at keeping dust out than the old open design.
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by mantap 7y ago
If you have to be DJB or Bellard to write good code in a programming language, that programming language probably has a problem. I used to write a lot of C back in the day, but I have to admit that C++ code is far more reliable and maintain
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by mantap 7y ago
Not really significant, compared to the impact of living. You are much better off changing your lifestyle than worrying about your coffin.
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by mantap 7y ago
You can judge a moral system by how society would evolve if everyone followed it. If nobody pirated anything then we would still be buying music for 99 cents a track (or more) and music streaming would have been quashed by the labels. On th
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by mantap 7y ago
If this is not satire I can only applaud the balls of the marketing. I am certainly not going to forget the name (reminds me of that airplane company "Boom"). On the downside all the HN comments will be about the name.
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by mantap 7y ago
There's reason to believe that a shared catalog would be more profitable for the non-Netflix streaming services, not less. It's not like it's hard to track who watched whose IP and distribute the revenue appropriately. The cu

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