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by nknight 15y ago
Some of the countries, like Spain and Italy, were to some degree trying to "catch up", weren't they? That is to say, Germans had a lot more purchasing power to start with.
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by nknight 15y ago
That doesn't mean ext3 is unmaintained. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Fl...
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by nknight 15y ago
Er, OK, I find that much closer to "quart" than "lark". Maybe we're dealing with some sort of accent/dialect issue here, and/or people are hearing something far more subtle than I am.
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by nknight 15y ago
I'm utterly confused. I've never heard it pronounced like "lark". When/where has that been common?
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by nknight 15y ago
> I doubt that this "GNOME 3 with a GNOME 2 interface" will get very far either It's already the default in the current release of Linux Mint, they've just been hamstrung by the limitations of extensions in fully realizing their visio
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by nknight 15y ago
You're assuming that extension compatibility is a priority for him. I didn't see any evidence of that in the story.
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by nknight 15y ago
Even something as asinine as, say, "Wow, you've got huge boobs!", might be a one-off extreme lack of social skills -- the first and only time it happens. But the kind of things she's talking about are the symptoms of much more fundamental d
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by nknight 15y ago
> They usually make it pretty clear that you are not permitted to do outside research on the case or the laws in question. Grand juries operate under vastly different rules and assumptions, and for very different (and varying) purpose
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by nknight 15y ago
It is my opinion that, based on their conduct past and present, Microsoft's existence and power is a net loss for the world. Google's past and present conduct lead me to the opposite conclusion. Naturally, I will treat these two entities di
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by nknight 15y ago
Do I have some obligation to be unbiased? I don't remember signing up for that. Opinions are allowed on HN, you know. This isn't Wikipedia.
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by nknight 15y ago
Providing obvious, useful functionality has no more relationship to the concept of a cargo cult than providing a cup holder in a car. Don't deny your users the 80% (more like 99%) case just because there's a complicated tool out there that,
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by nknight 15y ago
Because in my opinion, assisting Microsoft's acquisition of marketshare in any market is ultimately detrimental to everyone. They are a societal and economic evil, and directly aiding them is highly unethical.
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by nknight 15y ago
> I wonder if the community would accept the same clause if Microsoft/Bing were to provide the next three years of Firefox searching. Money is money. Absent some evidence of a conflict on the part of people at Mozilla, I would have no
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by nknight 15y ago
That behavior for fsync() is permitted by POSIX (and incidentally matches a permitted , but not required , interpretation of sync()). It's also something that, given reasonable application design, should rarely be an issue. Part of Firefo
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by nknight 15y ago
A reasonable question to which I have no clear answer, but this is the company that tried to turn a $420 million operating loss for 2010 into a $60 million operating income by amortizing their marketing and acquisition costs. Perhaps they
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by nknight 15y ago
I have absolutely no idea what Groupon's load actually looks like, but as for actual datacenter cost, $1,000/sqft would be a starting minimum, and that's for a decent sized datacenter where some economies of scale kick in. Google supposedly
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by nknight 15y ago
DEC went through a long and complicated dismantling during the 90s. In the late 90s, Intel did eventually end up, through two different transactions, with most of the chip IP and fabs, including the StrongARM and the Alpha. StrongARM/XScale
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by nknight 15y ago
China wasn't a growing economic powerhouse in 1950. In fact, it didn't have much of an economy, period. They've made too much progress, established too many economic links, gained too much international influence to throw it away on a stupi
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by nknight 15y ago
It's a lot less likely that someone will spend $4+ billion on a company just to shut it down, than a few million.
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by nknight 15y ago
> How would you cope with 90% unemployment? Special Economic Zones are the name of the game, and yeah, it'd take decades to transform the whole economy -- China's still working on it. But the standard of living can start increasing al
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by nknight 15y ago
Yeah, in the event of actual war, there's no way they intervene as long as the North Koreans are the aggressors -- they know North Korea will lose on its own, and they don't want to get into a fight with the US. South Korea's one of their m
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by nknight 15y ago
You're talking about what you think programmers should do. I'm talking about what they actually do. 99% of system() calls (regardless of language) will never be so adorned. It's used for quick hacks, rarely anything more. If the return code
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by nknight 15y ago
> I agree with the portions of this dealing in obsolete libraries (e.g. asyncore, SimpleHTTPServer, array). The existence of third-party libraries that are arguably more featureful does not render core libraries obsolete. Handling the
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by nknight 15y ago
One loads the subprocess documentation and is confronted by a (on my monitor/fonts) ~11 page morass. The little part you link to starts off simple, sure, but then says "Calling the program through the shell is usually not required.", and pr
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by nknight 15y ago
So here we have a NASA employee saying "we can't do it because the technology isn't already there" instead of "let's make this work". What a perfect example of the past 30 years of the US space program. By the way, being in space can be a s
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by nknight 15y ago
Funny, I don't even have a high school diploma much less a degree of any kind, and I instantly knew it was probably cache weirdness. Do yourself a favor, drop the obsession with formal CS curriculums, they're not a hallmark of competence.
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by nknight 15y ago
> This joke going over a few heads? That this isn't reddit seems to have gone over both your heads.
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by nknight 15y ago
We've educated many dictators and even more of their lackeys and family members. US-educated means very little in these situations.
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by nknight 15y ago
Not sure why you think you're expressing a minority opinion, you're stating generally accepted fact. We hit the soft limit years ago, that's why Intel finally dumped the Pentium 4, they realized they couldn't make it scale. Everything since
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by nknight 15y ago
> Anyone who disagrees, frankly, can go fuck themselves. I really don't think it's the recording industry that's making you look like an asshole.

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