octo_t

15 ms·

91.
by octo_t 12y ago
I feel like the nice here should be in quotes.
92.
by octo_t 12y ago
part of the balancing test is the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; I don't think anyone can (reasonably) claim that a 10-20 second long clip (with no sound) is an any
93.
by octo_t 12y ago
Note that this was published in March 2014
94.
by octo_t 12y ago
aka "Oh, that's the key I have been hitting by accident"
95.
by octo_t 12y ago
because browsers in the 1990s were radically different to how they are today. Writing one from scratch lets you learn from past mistakes. Its immature to start with, but if you have a reference engine (say gecko) and source test data (say t
96.
by octo_t 12y ago
I think the most significant part is that the founders at Mojang are leaving: > The founders: Notch, Carl, and Jakob are leaving. We don’t know what they’re planning. It won’t be Minecraft-related but it will probably be cool.
97.
by octo_t 12y ago
+1 from me for the `curl | sudo sh` disclaimer. Even if the only thing it does is stop people complaining about it :)
98.
by octo_t 12y ago
I suspect it has to do with gnome trying to get more and more functionality into the kernel/closer to the kernel. Things like systemd/logind for example are kernel level functionality.
99.
by octo_t 12y ago
It wasn't his "sexual history", he sexually assaulted two women (and his lawyer admitted it - what he did was a clear breach of consent). I'm not surprised one of the women backed down, they were both being harassed by i
100.
by octo_t 12y ago
I think for 99.9% of the human population (I hope!), they understand what inappropriate means. ask an adult if you aren't sure.
101.
by octo_t 12y ago
Thats what happens when you used a language which has an ISO or similar standard.
102.
by octo_t 12y ago
plenty of opensource-but-with-enterprise-offerings do the exact same thing, with high levels of success (although I can't think of any examples of this off the top of my head)
103.
by octo_t 12y ago
communication is a basic service (and human right!)
104.
by octo_t 12y ago
its even worse when you're in the meeting with the client when the sales people say you've already got this feature and you're thinking "no, no we don't dear go this is going to take a massive database change and...
105.
by octo_t 12y ago
This is incredibly common behaviour amongst sales people. Or what is also common is 'oh, funny you should mention that, we have a team working on that feature as we speak'. 90% of the time it is fine, contracts tend to be organise
106.
by octo_t 12y ago
I wouldn't want my salary to be measured in BTC. If you got hired in December, when the price was $900/BTC, at say 1000 BTC pa salary (so $90k pa), these days you would be on a $60k salary.
107.
by octo_t 12y ago
You can get servers with 384GB of RAM now from a vendor like Dell, without needing to call them for just under $14k.
108.
by octo_t 12y ago
do s/China/USA/ and your comment also makes sense :)
109.
by octo_t 12y ago
that was a simple example. A better example might be memorizing quotes from a book to regurgitate in the test* * (I had to do this as part of GCSE English in the UK - I expect a similar situation in the US)
110.
by octo_t 12y ago
If a maths teacher wants to teach category theory, or algorithmic analysis (things which can be both interesting and relevant to a someone growing up), they can't. Is that a better use case for you?
111.
by octo_t 12y ago
you're right, you do sound overly critical and judgmental.
112.
by octo_t 12y ago
debian is also switching to systemd
113.
by octo_t 12y ago
it is true for basically every programming language, from haskell to C++ to python to ruby.
114.
by octo_t 12y ago
getting a large block of bitcoins without crashing the price.
115.
by octo_t 12y ago
I was hoping this would be getting V8 to run on the bare metal, removing the need for an operating system underneath. That part would be very cool.
116.
by octo_t 12y ago
Given an uncertain amount of time. Your process requires access to their email account while you go through and reset all their passwords. Whereas if the passwords are in plaintext, you can download all their email and get access at your le
117.
by octo_t 12y ago
> and in effect becomes a mandatory leave this is a good thing, as the rest of the evidence presented in the OP suggests. People should take all the leave they are entitled to.
118.
by octo_t 12y ago
This exist: -Weffc++ http://cpptruths.blogspot.co.uk/2006/08/g-compiler-option-we...
119.
by octo_t 12y ago
what about in the case of something like: auto it = std::find(vec.begin(), vec.end(), value);
120.
by octo_t 12y ago
Whats the harm? At most, people can encrypt things with your public key and then...?

More ›