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by mwfunk 10y ago
No, not really. He's got no one to blame but himself for that one.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Why would it make a difference? If I'm eating alone, an empty dining area is infinitely less awkward than a packed one.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
That seems...totally plausible? Occam's Razor and all.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I don't think anyone was suggesting that you should reply to them. The complaints are about people who are unresponsive to direct questions from their co-workers that require timely responses (at least that's how I interpreted it)
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by mwfunk 10y ago
That's the "A's hire A's, B's hire C's" concept. A sign of a bad manager is that they never recruit people that they feel are equal to or greater than themselves in any way. The outcome is that that manage
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by mwfunk 10y ago
C++ is a little different in that templates have to go in header files. A lot of template-based C++ libraries are entirely templates in header files. It's weird because it does feel like it violates the separation of interface and impl
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I'd go so far as to say that any C programmer at all (whether or not they've read K&R) will know everything in this article. However, it's probably interesting or useful for people who are either in the process of learnin
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by mwfunk 10y ago
There was a sort-of kerfluffle between the FSF and NeXT with regard to what was required for NeXT to be GPL-compliant. This is RMS' account: "I say this based on discussions I had with our lawyer long ago. The issue first arose w
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Whether or not that's true, your lifestyle isn't dictated by what "everyone" does, it's only dictated by what you do. I know lots of people who are workaholics or spend all of their non-work time with their families
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I would assume that the whole point of the project is to be able to do SQLish queries on a git repo, and that it was written by and for people who are familiar with SQL and have a preference for it over other query languages. And they proba
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by mwfunk 10y ago
The terms and conditions are right here, you can evaluate it for yourself (you are the only person who knows if it suits your needs or not): http://www.mersenne.org/legal/#TCU
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by mwfunk 10y ago
He does this stuff all the time, he's always used language in a very Orwellian manner. It's much easier to promote "freedom" (which means all sorts of things to different people, all of them positive) than it is to promo
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I've long felt that RMS/FSF's very specific and nonintuitive usage of "free" was intended to be misleading. If someone says "free" (which has many, many different meanings, all positive) when they really m
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by mwfunk 10y ago
What is highly unlikely about that? That seems more plausible than, zlib is magically 1000x slower when used by Archive Utility.
555.
by mwfunk 10y ago
One reading of this is that people in open source JS community should be more professional, but I think you could make similar complaints about electronic communities in general. A blogger in 1999 writing about woodworking might have had si
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I'm very curious to what degree there even is an AI boom right now, vs. AI and machine learning going through a phase as the buzzwords du jour used in corporate PR. People have doing all sorts of fascinating things with machine learnin
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Exactly. There's a huge difference between saying something is objectively terrible, vs. saying that it's not the right choice for you (or that it's bad based on your subjective preferences).
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Democratic republics are forms of democracy.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
In recent months, "pretentious" (along with "elitist" and "smug") is starting to sound like a high compliment. Humanity could really use a few more pretentious nitpickers right about now.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I can't imagine what's arrogant about it. It's hardly the only reason someone might choose an Android device, but it definitely influences many consumers, and thus the market as a whole. If someone wants to spend $100 on an u
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by mwfunk 10y ago
You could say that about anything that isn't personal income tax. There's nothing about personal income tax that makes it any more authentic than any other kind of tax. The federal government spent most of its existence supported
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by mwfunk 10y ago
No, it's not. Touchpad is a synonym for trackpad and has been forever.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
The touchpad is the touchpad, i.e. another term for the trackpad. It's called the touch bar because the name touchpad was already taken by the thing below the space bar. "Touchpad" isn't some weird marketing term, it&#x2
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by mwfunk 10y ago
It is a problem and it is difficult to fix, but the short term solution is not to do nothing, which is all anyone seems to propose (if they propose anything at all) when this topic comes up. In general I disagree that toxic/hateful twe
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by mwfunk 10y ago
You literally just responded to yourself.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
It doesn't, it sounds like something that a Markov chain would say. It sounds vaguely critical of Clinton, but doesn't quite parse as English and is devoid of actual information or analysis. I fear that Markov chains aren't j
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by mwfunk 10y ago
If enough people were concerned that Clinton had won because of fake stories that circulated throughout the campaign, and there was incontrovertible evidence that Clinton benefitted from it, then yes. Of course. Duh.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I don't think anyone is gleeful about it at all. I think people are freaked out, angry, and frightened and have a right to feel that way. The candidate drew on that extremist faction for support during his campaign, didn't make an
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by mwfunk 10y ago
That is true. Similarly, you shouldn't identify yourself with the FSF or GNU or RMS either. Tribalism in general is a dead end for humanity.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I agree 100%. Various attempts have been made to design "human readable" programming languages, where someone who wasn't familiar with the syntax (or with programming in general) might be able to read some code and get a sens

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