nona

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1. 91.▲
   by nona 15y ago

   That's right - I remember when the DMCA got passed and there was just as much opposition. Now the DMCA is the new "sanity". Something tells me we're losing the war. I find myself accepting that some of the things I would like to do are jus
2. 92.▲
   by nona 15y ago

   While I think you probably have a point that drug trials costs are difficult to recoup without patents, I also have the impression pharma patents introduce a whole bunch of other distortions - to the point that patents in that field probabl
3. 93.▲
   by nona 15y ago

   I liked the original Freshmeat too. It feels a bit too generic now.
4. 94.▲
   by nona 15y ago

   Two reasons I'm wary of Chef wrt Puppet 1) the declarative vs imperative aspect 2) Chef's heavy dependencies As a Ruby developer, I like Chef's Ruby DSL; but I somehow feel that its imperative DSL will lead to something similar to Bash Hell
5. 95.▲
   by nona 15y ago

   We do - nothing wrong with Debian stable's 1.8.7 and/or 1.9.2.
6. 96.▲
   by nona 15y ago

   I have to contradict you (unless I'm misunderstanding you): the debian package named ruby1.9.1 is actually 1.9.2. The 1.9.1 refers to the ruby ABI. Blame the ruby devs for breaking the ABI in a minor version update (1.9.0 -> 1.9.[12]).
7. 97.▲
   by nona 15y ago

   Tell him you'll make sure he'll lack the numbers to get elected.
8. 98.▲
   by nona 15y ago

   Doesn't seem to work on Epiphany 3.0.4 - but I like it in Firefox. I don't mind the lack of scrolling, but it would be nice if the mousewheel event was used for page flipping.