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by mortdeus 11y ago
What is the patent policy?
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Every site with a comment mechanism also needs a auto-cache mechanism
8 points by mortdeus 11y ago|1 comments
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by mortdeus 11y ago
The point of piping is that output shouldn't ever be as complicated as this...
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by mortdeus 12y ago
Man, their new CEO is a breath of fresh air. Im actually starting to respect the MS brand again.
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by mortdeus 12y ago
Many of the families who lost their homes to foreclosure signed into a mortgage under the assumption that they would be employed/in-business for the next 20-30 years. Unfortunately, when one economic domino falls and sets of a chain re
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The reality of tech legislation(mortdeus.blogspot.com)
1 points by mortdeus 12y ago|0 comments
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by mortdeus 12y ago
I wrote a lengthy blog post in response to this post in hopes that it will help aspiring founders avoid a similar fate if their startup gets accepted into Y Combinator. http://mortdeus.blogspot.com/2015/01/y-combin
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by mortdeus 12y ago
This is the best way to help Africa's people. Moreso than providing charitable donations of free food and clean water; helping to empower this continent's people so they can provide for themselves is the best possible way to impro
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by mortdeus 12y ago
There just isn't a compelling enough reason to use ANOTHER social network. There is facebook, twitter, google+, instagram, snapchat, and to some extent reddit. There is only so much time people can attribute to this kind of social enga
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by mortdeus 12y ago
Though its fair to say that the ideas first introduced in plan9 lives on today as technologies like Go and Docker.
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by mortdeus 12y ago
Plan9 failed because of a failure of efficient marketing and executive management. http://usphoenix.net/science,%20technology/what_really_happe...
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by mortdeus 12y ago
Ooo, ooo I just thought of the cutuest name for this project.... xmarkdown! Get it guys? You know like XHTML... Cute right?
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by mortdeus 13y ago
What's funny about this discussion is the fact that Linus is supreme dictator of kernel.org. Whatever he decides to merge in his personal fork of Linux shouldn't be up for debate just because the Linux community willingly decides
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by mortdeus 13y ago
"If id asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a faster horse." -Henry Ford Stop arguing for faster horses just because cars don't run on oats and hay.
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by mortdeus 13y ago
"The PDP operating system." Unix?
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by mortdeus 13y ago
I'd say you hit the nail right on the head, but I find myself imagining this statement more like a compressed air nail gun shooting the nail so far into the wood that it splits; resulting in the entire house falling down.
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by mortdeus 13y ago
Finally.
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by mortdeus 13y ago
This argument is moot. Proprietary software doesn't have to live at a dissonance from FLOSS software, nor does free software protect the integrity of freedom. So there are proprietary compilers being derived from LLVM... How does that
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by mortdeus 13y ago
I'm not usually one for indulging in conspiracy theories, but if there was ever a shady coincidental happenstance. This "overdose" definitly deserves to be looked at more thoroughly under a metaphorical blacklight.
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by mortdeus 13y ago
Its not a brain dead idea from a corporate policy to maximize profits. Datacaps allow them to not expand infrasture to accommodate growth. Imagine if Google adopted a policy where each user was only allowed 300 queries a month. That means G
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by mortdeus 13y ago
And this ladies and gentlemen is when healthy capitalism turns into corporate greed. Internet needs to become faster with more bandwidth so engineers can design products that utilizes it. I can think of several ideas that are stifled becaus
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by mortdeus 13y ago
I'm a float. looks in mirror no wait... I'm definitely a double.
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by mortdeus 13y ago
Though it is worth pointing out that worldwide internet coverage would provide a great resource for those living without suitable education and work opportunities. One of the hardest parts in eliminating poverty from the poorest nations on
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by mortdeus 13y ago
He kinda has a point.
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by mortdeus 13y ago
Go might be young but the underlying compiler suite is derived from Ken Thompson's c compiler written for plan9 ~25 years ago. Also taking into consideration that the people developing Go have an impressive history of innovation; its n
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by mortdeus 13y ago
That or a metal gear. My hopes are on the latter.
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by mortdeus 13y ago
Oh and in case people want to see a demo of Acme. Here is Russ Cox giving a tour of acme. http://research.swtch.com/acme
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by mortdeus 13y ago
How about instead of writing just an opensource sublime text clone. We sit down as a community and discuss how we can create an even better editor than Sublime Text. There are some awesome text editors out there that have features I wish we
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by mortdeus 13y ago
All I know is that they need to start making decisions like minimizing their css and js scripts and fetching jquery from Google before I start taking them serious when they say the best engineers in the fed are working on it. <script src
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by mortdeus 13y ago
Im pretty confident that Go will be around for at least as long as C/C++, python, and java remain relevant.

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