matthewmacleod

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by matthewmacleod 13y ago
For one, I'm pleased - it will hopefully mean it's much easier for me to move to the states with my (male) partner, who's a citizen. In particular, it means I don't have to fret about finding a sponsor and opens up the o
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by matthewmacleod 13y ago
> It would seem that you're conflating open source with free software I'm really not. Windows is closed-source in that the source is not readily available - nothing to do with "Free"ness. Agreed that Java is a good ex
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by matthewmacleod 13y ago
Windows is, by any reasonable definition, closed-source. It is possible (in some cases) to gain access to parts of the source code if you're an OEM, partner or large customer - but this is true of almost any software project, and such
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by matthewmacleod 13y ago
That's also not true - all you need is to bring down a high enough percentage of nodes, which will effectively take down the network through capacity constraints. Combine this with auto-updating clients and you've got a crashing s
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by matthewmacleod 13y ago
I don't know about that. I've seen a few tech jobs around the £70-80k mark at the BBC, which is about $120k. Throw in the additional benefits and it's probably not far off.
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by matthewmacleod 13y ago
Good, it's about time this happened. There's little more frustrating as a website user than attempting to visit a page that precisely matches your query, only to be forced to try and navigate there from the home page. Awful, awful
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by matthewmacleod 13y ago
Rather more annoying, the same issue occurs if Screen Sharing is in use when DVD Player.app starts. Needless to say, this is a total pain when controlling a media machine remotely. VLC's DVD playback is a little ropey in my experience, but