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by mapgrep 7y ago
Awesome. I’d add smartOS to that list. ++Qubes. Although as far as package management in Qubes you’re still stuck with dnf and apt. But they’re pushing progress in other ways. (Are you able to run nix on qubes?)
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by mapgrep 7y ago
Five of his switches were to nextcloud, which is self hosted and open source. One was to self hosted email. Many of the others were things like web search, browser, etc, where it’s hard to avoid a company.
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by mapgrep 7y ago
Used to spend a ton of time writing Perl (see username). Moved on to better designed languages. Which are not hard to find. There are a few big issues with Perl 5 but the biggest is easily the mess of references vs flat values. Python, Ruby
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by mapgrep 7y ago
Fully agree it is ironic but the fact that it is structured this way is the key reason we saw any of the content. The ideal format for this is probably a text file or simple html page on a personal website. Linking that from Twitter is one
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by mapgrep 7y ago
I vote for the second option :-) IMO taint mode is a great example of what Linus is talking about. Too subtle. I cut my teeth on Perl and actually believed the books when they said you should always use taint mode when touching data that ca
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by mapgrep 7y ago
It wouldn’t, OP said the government would review the _merger_ - federal antitrust review pretty standard in mergers this large.
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by mapgrep 7y ago
Even the press release from the accusers says he allegedly violated the statute. It is not established he broke any law until he is convicted in court. And court != justice.gov != ycombinator.com.
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by mapgrep 7y ago
You’ve moved rather quickly from reductively summarizing the accusation to accepting it as fact. Last I checked, not everything federal prosecutors say turns out to be true.
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by mapgrep 7y ago
Doesn't Clojure have a pretty good concurrency story as well? (Which I find particularly relevant since it is a Lisp.)
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by mapgrep 7y ago
“The authors intended redisplay to be used on text terminals over slow links. Emacs, to this day, has code that activates if it thinks you’re running on a connection slower than 2600 baud.” https://m.facebook.com/notes/
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by mapgrep 7y ago
Blocking AdWords — sponsored search results — is very different from blocking display ads. I would be surprised if most users found that sort of blocking desirable in the first place. Some might, and I would not be surprised if it were an o
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by mapgrep 7y ago
The idea that Google would cut off Mozilla to advance Chrome seems to me at least rooted in a deep misunderstanding of how Google makes money. Something like 75% or more of their revenue comes from AdWords - ads run against search. This is
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by mapgrep 7y ago
The article calls ipv6 an “easy way” to decentralize but I don’t see it. If you click the link on how to get your own ipv6 space you get two options: Ask your ISP for an address or set up a tunnel to someone else who will give you one. Thes
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by mapgrep 7y ago
I really hope users and developers can embrace the amazing technology that is present in illumos and its derivatives, much of which came out of Sun Solaris. Things like ZFS, Zones, DTrace, SMF, and Crossbow were locked up inside Sun Solaris
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by mapgrep 7y ago
That's great. It reminds me of a comment by Rich Hickey, the inventor of Clojure: " Before we had all this high falutin' opinions of ourselves as programmers and computer scientists and stuff like that, programming used to be
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by mapgrep 7y ago
He said he was told at checkin, your options are pretty limited at that point. Especially when you have only soft/anecdotal evidence it is actually in some vague way not legit. “If anyone asks, you’re guests of Tiffany” is not a defini
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by mapgrep 7y ago
Did you come into aolserver via Philip greenspun and arsdigita like so many folks?
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by mapgrep 7y ago
I remember being at Zellerbach Auditorium at UC Berkeley in 2001 or 2002. Bill Gates had come to urge students to please consider majoring in CS.
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by mapgrep 7y ago
This conclusion of “a phenomenal success” is based on “a span of several days.” Again, several days. I want this to be true. I support this policy decision. I don’t own a car, live in NY, and want to see the streets reclaimed from drivers.
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by mapgrep 7y ago
I’m setting up a SmartOS server on a little NUC right now and loving it. Zones are very nice, pkgsrc package manager is better than I expected, man pages wonderfully written, even ipfilter feels more elegant than iptables. Service and zone
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by mapgrep 7y ago
If you read the (short) story to the end, you will see it was first reported by the New York Times.
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by mapgrep 7y ago
I enjoyed this comment because I only I only recently tried Sqla for a project and agree fully that it embraces sql, in large part by NOT renaming/rethinking things at the oop level - methods very much tend to be named after sql verbs.
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by mapgrep 7y ago
Ya I’ve heard this one a lot. It’s kind of funny to say and does humorously underline the complexity of the problem but people take it seriously. So to take it seriously for a second: There was no good reason to be in Vietnam; even taking t
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by mapgrep 7y ago
Being racist goes beyond having an opinion. I’m talking about what is clearly a much more limited viewpoint, about a specific situation. Racism is deeply held, applies (by definition) incredibly broadly, and is reasonably expected to affect
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by mapgrep 7y ago
>None of these apply to what happened with Stallman That’s the point. If it were harassment, false accusation of a colleague, etc, it would not be merely expressing a bad opinion. But as you say, none of those apply. And I think it’s cle
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by mapgrep 7y ago
I also disagree with his opinion on this topic. Strongly. But is it reasonable for someone to be essentially fired for having an incorrect opinion?
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by mapgrep 7y ago
Punishing relatives for the crimes of family members is barbaric. I’d be surprised to see anyone at HN defending this sort of legal system.
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by mapgrep 7y ago
My 8th generation wife asked me to convey that everything has been downhill since they put in running water and the iron horse.
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by mapgrep 7y ago
I think of myself as someone who cares about bloat — I define it by practical impact. For example, I keep Facebook off my phone, and when I need to download it (for example to rsvp for an event) the app is ~100MB, which means 1> I can’t
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by mapgrep 7y ago
>the release binary is now 5.9M A typical smartphone ships with around 10,000 times this much storage capacity and enough RAM to hold it 100 times over. This is bloat? I mean, I get it, the binary used to be only 2MB, 1/3rd the size

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