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by ordinary 15y ago
'Seems like a bad business decision' sounds like you think that's a decision to make in the first place. Basing your company on operating systems/database systems/tooling that you got from bittorrent might be a 'business decision' in the s
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by ordinary 15y ago
I just took a couple of minutes to figure out how baud translates to kbps. Turns out, it doesn't. Back in The Day, 300 baud translated to 300 bits per second, but "as modem technology advanced, compression and other techniques were able to
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by ordinary 15y ago
It doesn't take any significant amount of money to comply with the GPL. Indeed not, but handing over your improvements to your competitors knowing not all of them will do the same seems to me like a bad business decision. Those companies
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by ordinary 15y ago
MD5 is not an encryption algorithm. It is a hashing algorithm. You're right though, it is broken.
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by ordinary 15y ago
Reversible does not mean the same thing that symmetric does. Encryption, by definition, is reversible. If your algorithm is not symmetric, you will not be able to decrypt it with the same key as you used to encrypt it, but it would still be
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by ordinary 15y ago
That does not follow. See TSP.
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by ordinary 15y ago
This is not really a feature , as such, but it is a classic work-around for one emacs' many silly defaults: ; Ask for y/n on all queries that normally ask for yes/no. (fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
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by ordinary 15y ago
We're currently 24 hours in. Saving results for posterity: United States - NYC and SF area 1473 points Canada 519 points UK 590 points (Rest of) Europe 1632 points Australia/Oceania 271 points South America 181 points (Rest of) Asia/Pacific
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by ordinary 15y ago
NAND doesn't replace RAM functionally, but if you're a chip maker, you can make money from both. If sales of the one drop and those of the other go up, a shift in strategy (less DRAM, more NAND) is decidedly unsilly. This is especially true
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by ordinary 15y ago
This is not about the article, but about the page itself: can someone explain to me why you would load all the content statically, hide everything through CSS, and then show it by Javascript? I mean, I realise that I'm an exception and that
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by ordinary 15y ago
Bethesda games tend to be very moddable.
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by ordinary 15y ago
Demand encourages supply.
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by ordinary 15y ago
I checked up on it too. The more notable Pokemon (like Bulbasaur) still have a page to themselves, just like most major characters in popular TV shows[1][2][3]. Minor Pokemon are indeed collected into lists[4], just like the GP said. [1] h
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by ordinary 15y ago
Thanks for those references, though it's aioe.org, not .net.
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by ordinary 15y ago
In my experience, nothing helps you change a muscle-memory habit as much as instant negative feedback. It doesn't help to remember 2 seconds after you did it, because then you've already told your brain "this works", and you can only go thr
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by ordinary 15y ago
Let's not forget that this is Carmack we're talking about. The fact that one of the best 3D graphics programmers in the industry has invented something independently does not tell us much. This thing happens in science all the time and not
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by ordinary 15y ago
I have NoScript and get this message: This site requires JavaScript. You can still visit a non-dynamic version of this blog. With a link to: http://biomesplus.blogspot.com/?v=0 Works perfectly.
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by ordinary 15y ago
Is it sexist to refer to a male programmer as "brogrammer"? No. Is it sexist to state you're only interested in hiring male programmers? Yes.
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by ordinary 15y ago
I am apparently not allowed to edit something that has been downvoted It's because the post is more than 2(?) hours old, not because it was downvoted.
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by ordinary 15y ago
I wasn't being intentionally deceitful, I'm sorry if I didn't make myself clear enough. With regards to "charging money for GPLed software", I agree with you completely: if you write GPL software, it is almost impossible to make money by se
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by ordinary 15y ago
Or how about you produce a module, I see the module, recognise that I could make it substantially better, but with a non-legligeable investment of time. I would like to be compensated for making the software better, or I'm simply not going
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by ordinary 15y ago
Like, a fee of $50, for example? I would say that your position is diammetrically opposed to Stallman's stated goal. This is incorrect. I quote: "Free software" is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should thin
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by ordinary 15y ago
Everyone seems to assume that he meant this in a serious fashion, but for all we know he meant it in jest and had a huge grin on his face while he said it. It's easy to jump to conclusions, the internet being what it is (the biggest 24/7 ne
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by ordinary 15y ago
IANAE(pidemiologist), but it's my understanding that if you fast and hard enough, the critter doesn't have time to adapt. See smallpox.
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by ordinary 15y ago
The German word for octopus is indeed "Kraken", and looking at the pictures in the article linked by the GP, I'd bet on the former, rather than the latter.
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by ordinary 15y ago
"Money as in beer"?
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by ordinary 15y ago
> There was a gas station with leaking tanks about 50 feet from the edge. Why not fix the problem at its source (as well)?
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by ordinary 15y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP0kWqJJZa4 "Log, by Blammo"
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Direct link to article, bypassing aggregator: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/drone-virus-kept-qui...
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I did not say they are equivalent cases. I said that both should be considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. That did not happen in either case, and I'm not willing to accept the summary execution of anyone, not even Osama

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