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by nzp 13y ago
˙ƃuıuɐəɯ əɥʇ uɐəlƃ ʎləɹəɯ uɐɔ noʎ ɟı ʇxəʇ əsɹɐd ʎlısɐə oʇ əlqɐ ƃuıəq ʇnoqɐ dɐɹɔ ɐ səʌıƃ oɥʍ ˙əəɹƃɐ ı
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Apostrophes, proper capitalization, punctuation, properly dividing text into paragraphs... all these orthographic conventions are essential to communicating ideas. So if ideas matter, apostrophes matter too. Capitalization even more so,
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As a non-native speaker I agree with this. But I've noticed something interesting: before I was aware that mixing up the two was common with native speakers it would never happen in my own writing, but once I realized people do make t
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Which they can already do with accounts they most likely already have: Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIN any OpenID provider... So the only potential benefit of Persona is the privacy, and if a user doesn't care about that then it&#
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by nzp 13y ago
Why do you assume he meant it in a deprecatory (is that a word?) way? By analogy, when one says Lisp has no syntax it's not meant in a derogatory sense, on the contrary.
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The Computer Chronicles: Unix (1985) [video](youtube.com)
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We have a free OS + kernel (and mind you, GNU/Linux is not the only viable free software OS) because RMS hacked relentlessly in the 80's on GCC and other C toolchain components. In fact, so relentlessly it destroyed his hands wit
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by nzp 13y ago
"Unwilling to accept" was meant in the sense "doesn't recognize the issues even exist", not "unwilling to let the issues go unsolved". He's been explicitly not willing to consider issues I'm ta
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The biggest problem (possibly the only problem, but still a severe one) with Stallman's views on software copyright licensing is that he seems either unaware of, or unwilling to accept, broader social, economic and political issues of
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Well, when you spin it like that... I'm no Steve Jobs apologist, but I think it's important to get the facts straight. NeXT wanted to distribute the frontend as .o files which the user would link with the backend, true. Now, th
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The whole point of BSD-style licenses is that there is hardly anything to enforce at all. With such a license you are simply stating that you allow the receiver to do whatever they want with it. This statement is just necessary because by
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It's really not complicated at all. RMS is simply a social-democrat. He is the shining example of what social-democracy is really in practice. His position is not utopian at all, it's a very limited and specific, socially liber
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My feeling is that they're not more zealous (to be honest, I don't think there's anything wrong with being zealous when you're fighting for a good cause) but rather dilettantes who don't actually understand what FSF
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> Does RMS go trolling on dev lists for permissively-licensed projects? Actually, he does. I remember when he went to an OpenBSD list a few years ago[1] and insisted they take out ports for non-free software out of the ports tree. [1]:
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by nzp 13y ago
That's exactly relevant! Your premise is that <insert entity> (in this case Apple) objects to releasing things free, and the only thing that made them do it is GPL. GPL is simply not relevant here, no one cared. Apple in turn
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Your argument, that GPL was KHTML's only advantage, doesn't make any sense because it then follows that Apple chose KHTML because they just love GPL and won't accept anything else despite KHTML's supposed technical infer
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by nzp 13y ago
Note: OpenXYZ, not OpenSomethingSomething. Anyway, OpenBGPD, OpenOSPFD, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, OpenSSH, OpenIKED. OK, so it's more like OpenABCD and I should probably have written "many" instead of "most". :)
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> Why do you say that lxc (and cgroups) are less powerful than FreeBSD jails? If I was wrong about this it's because I'm not up to date on things that happen in the Linux kernel, it wasn't my intention to bash it or anythi
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by nzp 13y ago
Yeah, don't get me wrong, I think Docker is great. I remember when I first heard about it thinking "Finally, something approaching jails functionality in Linux." Of course, I know it's a different level of abstraction
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Right, that's what I said[1]---there's a shim pkg in base to install pkg proper from ports. The real pkg is in ports so it can receive continuous upgrades, which wouldn't be possible in a RELEASE (or STABLE for the most part
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Linux in there is probably just because of CloudFlare. I had no idea what was HN running on until that outage a week or so ago with the switching of servers etc. A Tell HN[1] about the incident says they were using UFS and now switched to
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by nzp 13y ago
It's the default alright, but that has nothing to do with it being in the base (yes, it's an exception to the rule). You can look it up on the freebsd-ports@, there were somewhat heated discussions concerning this and some other
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> What kind of things to people use FreeBSD for? HN for start. And then there's (off the top of my head) Netflix, NetApp, Juniper, Sony, countless ISPs, DuckDuckGo...
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> but sqlite should be there, as it is being used in the system (if I am correct, at least by pkg, the new package manager). AFAIK, no. PKGNG is intentionally not part of base, it's meant to always remain in ports. The reason is t
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Well, I had a hunch it was for this reason. I usually get grumpy when an arguably superior solution is presented as an 'alternative' to something that's just more popular because it's easier that way for people to grok
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This project seems great, but I feel there's something wrong with the submitted article title, it sounds weird (plus, there's no mention of Docker on the linked page). Sure, you can draw parallels between Docker and what FreeBSD
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It has been stated by Andrew Godwin (author of South and the new native migrations) that there will be a clear path to switch from South to native migrations. And also for people who can't upgrade to 1.7 there should be South 2 with s
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> I believe HN also runs on OpenBSD too, if I'm not mistaken. On FreeBSD.
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> while simultaneously asking for strangely large sums of money It's not a strangely large sum for what they need it for.
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by nzp 13y ago
Most FOSS projects with the name pattern OpenXYZ fall under the OpenBSD umbrella in one way or the other.

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