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by mwfunk 11y ago
The joke is that permissive licenses allow you to make less permissive forks, whether that's proprietary or copyleft or anything else. So it's hard to see what the problem is. Anytime someone complains about the license for this o
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by mwfunk 11y ago
Maybe they have data that shows otherwise? Obviously there's no causality but it's feasible that there are high levels of correlation amongst users of their service. Or maybe not. I have no idea and neither does anyone else here,
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by mwfunk 11y ago
Unfortunately "pulling a Dell" is only feasible years after a company's market cap has completely tanked, and still requires a ton of capital plus no perceived value to anyone outside the company (otherwise someone else would
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by mwfunk 11y ago
I blame the stock market pressure towards growth. The stock market rewards growth at the expense of everything else. It's like a kid pinching his arm to blow up a mosquito that was biting him- it's forced to grow and grow and grow
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by mwfunk 11y ago
Not questionable at all- it's a gold mine for knowledge of value to advertisers. Every post, like, etc. on Facebook is spontaneously coming from a user. You don't have to infer what people love or hate based on browser and search
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It's best understood as a turn-based strategy game with real-time elements during and between moves.
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by mwfunk 11y ago
I think you're missing the point. If someone gets off on being a dick to other people in any context, whether it's online or in person, then that person has a psychological problem. They are under the impression that what they do
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by mwfunk 11y ago
Calling someone an "X company" means that they make their money from X. There are aspects of AI in targeted advertising, but not enough to call them an AI company rather than an advertising company. It doesn't really matter w
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by mwfunk 11y ago
Open source is a form of software licensing that lots of people develop and use for lots of different reasons. That's it. Everything else is politics and philosophy. Some people really get into the very specific politics and the very s
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by mwfunk 11y ago
As a human being, I don't chuckle at other people's pain, nor do I brag about it.
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by mwfunk 11y ago
Samsung (and Google, to a much lesser degree) are the only companies that make any profit on Android. Everyone else loses money on it, even if they have billions in revenue. "Lose money on every sale, but make it up in volume" isn
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by mwfunk 11y ago
When presented with something unexpected, you will be much happier and much more successful if you focus on figuring out what's interesting about it, than if you focus on complaining about why it shouldn't be there. Alternately, j
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by mwfunk 11y ago
What's depressing is that I think most of us would agree that America's best days are not the current era, therefore they must be in the past or future. :(
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by mwfunk 11y ago
When people talk about lowercase-f "free", they often aren't talking about copyleft- in my experience lowercase-f "free" is ambiguous to a lot of people. People who know nothing about open source software might assu
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by mwfunk 11y ago
Links are dead for me too, but IIRC that was in reference to the GLSL shader compiler.
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by mwfunk 11y ago
Shit has no nutritional value- it's just breastfeeding or formula for the first few months.
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by mwfunk 11y ago
You are using empathy in a different sense than (I think) most people are in this thread. I'm no psychiatrist, but usually when I hear people discuss empathy (or more often, someone's lack of it), they mean it almost in the sense
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by mwfunk 11y ago
The discussion is about C, so I would assume the post you're responding to was in that scope as well. Leading with an insult isn't likely to win any hearts or minds either.
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by mwfunk 11y ago
In what way are they insecure?
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I'm seeing way, way, waaaaaay too many commenters here who apparently came away from this thinking that "defensive writing", as described by the author, has anything to do with not offending people. That's totally orthog
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by mwfunk 11y ago
It's neither, it's a joke.
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by mwfunk 11y ago
Of course that's a fair thing to ask, but that post wasn't asking that question. That post wasn't asking a question at all, it was clearly intended as an insulting statement in the form of a question.
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by mwfunk 11y ago
Obviously you think it's a waste of time- the burden is on you to explain why not. Not why you don't work on it yourself, but why you think people who are working on it shouldn't be.
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by mwfunk 11y ago
You explicitly said the data was withheld (not missing), and theorized that it was to hide a spike in abortions. You follow it up by explaining that the missing data in the chart must be missing because PP didn't provide it.
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by mwfunk 11y ago
The existence of an arguably worse dictator someplace else with US support does not excuse China from providing support to a terrible dictator in Africa. That logic doesn't work in either direction. For example, if I think the US is do
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by mwfunk 11y ago
I would think it'd be even more efficient the more unknowns there are. If no one has the ability to listen to the differing opinions of the group and then initiate a course of action by deciding on one or more of the available paths, t
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by mwfunk 11y ago
No? Really? Seriously? See also pthread_spin_lock on your friendly neighborhood Linux box or other post-2001 POSIXy system.
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by mwfunk 11y ago
If you want a more detailed description, go to Wikipedia and read up on the difference between public and private key cryptography. What politicians are arguing for isn't just adding another private key to private key cryptosystems; a
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by mwfunk 11y ago
The clickbait potential for any headline involving Apple (pro or con or neither) is well-known, but for whatever reason Gawker properties seem to have been going out of their way recently to try to harvest clicks from a very specific segmen
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by mwfunk 11y ago
That's true, I think it's human nature to get defensive when there's any personal element. Same reason it's ineffective to say, "you're wrong about X", but rather more effective to say, "the thing you

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