nosefrog

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by nosefrog 13y ago
And I fail to see anything out of order with the agenda, "encourage women to program".
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by nosefrog 13y ago
His first complaint is about how how we simply can't see the invisible good that Microsoft is doing for the world. The public is so imperceptive! We just can't _see_ all the things that Microsoft is doing for us! And obviously tha
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by nosefrog 13y ago
Chromebooks are convenient if you fall on the lightweight side of the "power user" spectrum. With the help of Crouton, a chrooted "traditional" Linux environment is easy to set up. If all you need is Emacs, your command
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by nosefrog 13y ago
The GPL and MIT licenses both protect your freedoms to modify and distribute the software for any purpose. The "raging debate" is about whether or not derivative software should also be required to protect your freedom.
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by nosefrog 13y ago
You'd have to explain that to Richard Stallman, who wrote the GPL and also sold Emacs and other free[1] software commercially during the 80s and 90s. [1]: free software and open source software are accepted by the Free Software Foundat
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by nosefrog 13y ago
Yes, and a license that codifies that intent isn't "open source". Open Source Software (as defined by the Open Source Initiative, the ones who came up with the term), was actually a re-branding of the term "Free Software
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by nosefrog 13y ago
"The final work shall not compete directly with Wizard War, in any mobile app store or on the web." - This line is too restrictive and keeps your custom license from being an open source license. The point of free and open source
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by nosefrog 13y ago
I would be very surprised if either party was interested in PG being CEO of Microsoft.
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by nosefrog 13y ago
That's not the point. They're still human and humans still react better to faces than to words. I had the same complaints. I think GNUStep is a great project, but I watched the video expecting to learn what made the developers e
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by nosefrog 13y ago
How many Linux distributions focus so much of their efforts on elegant, usable, and consistent design? I would mark that as elementary's primary innovation.
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by nosefrog 13y ago
OS X and elementary OS share incredibly similar core design and usability ideals, but elementary is no mere rehash of OS X. They challenge a number of things people take for granted in OS X, such as double-clicking[0] and minimise[1], but t
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by nosefrog 13y ago
Mark my words: elementary OS is going to be big. I was on a beta version of elementary OS a couple months ago, and it was like a breath of fresh air. elementary OS sets out to settle the number one complaint casual users have of other Linux
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by nosefrog 13y ago
I've noticed similar but more subdued effects when going on and off coffee. I don't feel any physical effects from coffee (as long as I stay below about 3 cups), so I often take long breaks from it when it simply isn't conven
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A Short Introduction to the Art of Programming by Edsger W. Dijkstra(cs.utexas.edu)
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by nosefrog 14y ago
It is an assumption I've made because of a personal belief and a fact: I believe that women are just as qualified as men in the field of software engineering, and women are outnumbered by men 5:1 in that field [0]. There are many reasons wh
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by nosefrog 14y ago
When you want to solve a problem, is it better to wait until someone else implements what you believe to be the "right" solution (assuming you don't have the resources to do it yourself, which in this case neither etsy nor hacker school do)
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by nosefrog 14y ago
Any attempt to alleviate the gender inequality within the industry should be applauded, not derided. The current deficit of women programmers is because of our culture's discrimination against women who program. People in software developme
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by nosefrog 14y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure C doesn't use the 'new' keyword, it uses 'malloc'.
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by nosefrog 15y ago
Are you talking about the quote ten paragraphs down? http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/coders-at-work