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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> we could go a bit further and No, sorry, I dont think you make any point worth further discussing.
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> People are just looking for excuses to justify their behaviour. You're right. My point was that if the majority of people want to copy stuff, it should be legal. > but then proceed to take a picture of it, make your own copy, and
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> I don't think we want to Who is "we" and when did those "we" give you the right to make claims in our name? Neither you nor anybody else can decide what "we" want. Only we can decide what we want. Let stop making assumptions and simpl
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> 1. Pirating other peoples work is morally wrong. No it isn't. It's your word against mine, who's right? There is no other way to find out what the majority of people think about copying than to let them vote on it. Copyright policy sh
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
After Gnome2 was discontinued, Canonical _could_ have listened to their current users and instead of Unity, developed something similar to Mint's MGSE. But Canonical suddendly decided to discard their current target group, desktop users, wh
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> because I just know they have a different agenda/priority in mind It seems to be a core part of (european) music industry's fight for profit-oriented internet censorship: http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/ifpis-chil..
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> As unfortunate as RIAA loosing millions of potential dollars is Why should it be? Somebody else will get those dollars, nothing is lost.
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> I still can't understand why Canonical doesn't just put out a Gubuntu Because they guessed that not many users would switch to Unity if they can keep using a Gnome-2-like. But they _want_ them to switch to Unity so they have to basica
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
Mint will be running "Gnome 3", the framework, but not "gnome-shell", the user interface. Unity itself is similarly just a interface atop Gnome 3. Mint will be running its own new environment called "MGSE" (mint gnome-shell extensions), whi
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
Whether all people go voting or not is irrelevant as long as they only can vote for so called "representatives" who then make all the important decisions. It is more important to implement unfiltered direct democracy first. I want to vote o
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
Interestingly, the leading bot language this year seem to be Java, while last years winner, Lisp, isn't among the current top 100 entries any more.
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
If there are people who can cut you off for not using FB, that means simply that you are less important to them than they are to you. It means that they are strong and you are weak. Are you seriously going to let such people emotionally bla
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> com.lang.lisp isn't "the Lisp community". It is "the Lisp community" in the sense that there is no other widely known, recommended way to get in touch with people using Lisp. The community may exist somwhere else, but they are hidden
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> Rather than asking "what's the time in New York?," I'll be asking "what part of the day is it in New York?" Except that the current time zones dont really tell you that, sice most of them are decided politically, not by mapping to sun
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
You could have asked this question anybody who tried to write SciPy or NumPy before they existed: "if you're doing science, why would you want to use python over fortran?" Or, befor ROR existed, "if you're doing web development, why would y
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> in fact Octave developers openly say that This is not true. They strive for Matlab language compatibility, but none of them refers to Octave as a "Matlab clone", nor are they working on cloning Matlab, nor was the project started to
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> extreme difficulty installing Today's Octave installs do not need more than click-click-ok-done or apt-get install octave. > for which the open source clone Octave is a bad joke I think you're not giving Octave enough credit, cons
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> For symbolic math it uses sympy My last information (could be a bit dated) is that Sage is using Maxima, has this been changed lately in favor of SymPy?
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> Sympy is arguably the most popular symbolic calculus library in any language. I thought Maxima was still the most widely known and most capable open source CAS and scipy still in early development? Do you have any evidence to back up
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
Surprising it isn't any more, but it is still striking how recklessly one-sided and opinionated the goverment can be regarding one particular business. We dont officially know whether this relatively small business is _really_ that überimpo
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> If we were talking about free software, users would have control of their data; not some distant programmers Example Gnome3, which is free software, even a officially sanctioned GNU project. Overnight, a few key people decide to aband
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> but why's it such a big deal? Because people copy&paste URLs all the time, and without the http:// they dont work where pasted. Not having http:// when youre copy-pasting feels like a part of your URL is missing. What I dont k
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
Shuttleworth once stated that they are removing configuration options on purpose in order to decrease the total number of exsiting different configurations, to build a configuration brand. The logic is that every time 2 users make 2 differe
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
Can somebody explain what benefits we have from having time zones _at all_? They are an absolute mess: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/World_Tim... Wouldnt it be easier to have one time for the whole planet, like we hav
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
Not only did he mention Mathematica again (doesnt he in every blog post he writes?), he even managed to somehow correlate Steve Jobs and NKOS (which he also does with every blog topic he writes about, like a broken record).
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
If you thought first-past-the-post was bad, wait for the new innovative top-two system to further spread, which is flat out eliminating the third party completely. * http://www.stoptoptwo.org/about/ * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califor
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
Italian editors may have done this as a stunt to merely alarm italian readers of what a law may be comming, but the "italian language" wikipedia, even if probably mostly populated by italian citizens, is in no way connected to or obliged to
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> How is this to be enforced? Mass surverillance, mass punishment, mass censorship. You have a vast amount of information that people are not allowed to communicate to each other, even inside their most private communication. > By w
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
Many people think that non-commercial, private sharing of arbitrary files with each other should not be illegal in the first place, and that enforcement of copyright is a form of for-profit censorship. Those alternate internets are built wi
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> I like FF and sad to see FF user base going down. I like HN and am sad to see HN user base going down because the comments are getting dumber and dumber. Sorry you just won the dumbest-comment-of-the-week award.

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