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by phillmv 15y ago
Why on earth would the GPL ruin your day? What's with all the fear mongering? The only practical difference is you're forced to put up your patches somewhere… which you've probably already done when you hit 'fork' on Github.
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by phillmv 15y ago
I think the argument goes, the more weapons out there period the easier it is for people to smuggle them into the hands of criminals. You can't just build a handgun in your basement; you need a tool and die machine, know-how, etc. In other
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by phillmv 15y ago
Well… of course you do. You're a well educated, well informed professional capable of using the internet who is solidly in the middle class. People like you are the core of every group of people seeking change. What do you do? You form an o
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by phillmv 15y ago
How else do you know whether you're breaking even on a project?
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by phillmv 15y ago
It's not a conspiracy theory. >However, it would be interesting to hear someone explain how they were designed by racists to be racist. No one in this thread has claimed this. Stop trying to invent a polemic. It just turns out that what
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by phillmv 15y ago
I don't see how TFA doesn't fall under counsel. He gives you a step by step process.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Well… I don't know if "willingly" is the right word. I can very easily imagine a near future where it's not rational for small vendors to opt out of it. You're not wrong; it's just… more complicated than I am capable of articulating at pres
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by phillmv 15y ago
I want to say something about sharecropping, but I have a hard time thinking of the appropriate analogy. It's making me think about the service model as being a superior revenue stream, for-better-or-for-worse. From a user's perspective, th
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by phillmv 15y ago
Can you currently do in-app purchases on the Mac App Store? That was my first thought as well.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Apples to Oranges. wc is a bad example. Better example is tar vs cp, where you go cp files you want to copy destination/ and tar destination.tar files you want to archive And yes, I would say that's inconsistent.
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by phillmv 15y ago
I forget my exact edge case. Something to do with wanting to unstage a folder, or unstaging a folder while wanting to preserve work in some of the files.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Huh. Out of curiosity, why would I ever want to do this? > git push heroku staging:refs/personal/phillmv/staging Will it still appear in git branch lists? I get what you're saying and I appreciate the lesson :). Is there a reason for t
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by phillmv 15y ago
>So I can use the same command in svn/cvs to switch branches and publish changes? No, it's about the notation for remotes and branches. It's confusing that sometimes when I refer to a branch I call it remote/branch and other times I cal
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by phillmv 15y ago
No. I should not have to understand how git works internally in order for me to use it. This is called usability.
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by phillmv 15y ago
> But I certainly wouldn't call the interface or syntax "inconsistent" or "random". Uhm, NO WAY. git checkout works on both branches and files. I can `checkout remote-name/branch` but I have to `push remote-name branch`. Deleting a loca
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by phillmv 15y ago
Make it into a mobile app that lets me sync with friends on facebook or twitter or w/e.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Mostly that the Mozilla docs are far superior, and it hurts all of us if newbs continue to hit up really confusing documentation.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Not to mention that it would cost (1Tb * $109 @ newegg) * ( 25,000 Tb) $2,725,000 just to replicate it.
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by phillmv 15y ago
When are we EVER covered in the media, other than to talk about how much money is flowing through our companies? This is amazing .
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by phillmv 15y ago
>I wish we could stop discussing this from the premise of "it's controversial whether we should stop locking people up for drug possession". I haven't been arguing about that all. At the root of it, I have a hypothesis that a majority o
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by phillmv 15y ago
Sure. Just can the silly paternalism next time. It's jading, and it really detracts from the rest of your argument.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Alas, it gets complicated to isolate variables when you consider the whole economic meltdown they're experiencing. Public policy is hard, let's go programming!
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by phillmv 15y ago
> these crimes can't be suppressed by legalizing, and in fact may be exacerbated by them. Since we're all pro-legalization, then this is a little funny thing to be arguing about but I have a straight forward counter argument to the abov
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by phillmv 15y ago
Thanks! That's the nicest thing someone has said to me in an internet forum. I'll take a gander at your books. I offer in return http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictably_Irrational . I haven't finished http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Be
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by phillmv 15y ago
I assume Devin is bokonist? I ignored his statistics because he was using an appeal to emotion with "residents were begging the police". I have now looked them up; he's not wrong - you could halve the incarceration rate and still put twice
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by phillmv 15y ago
Personal responsibility is an illusion afforded to those who grew up in certain environments. The social structure of gangs is such that, when you grow up in a tough neighbourhood and you have crappy parents it's safer to join a gang. When
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by phillmv 15y ago
Note how it's a conditional - drug possession OR trafficking OR (unrelated) non violent. If we release all drug possession, what ratio would it be compared to W. Europe? Would the highest still be orders of magnitude higher? -- I'm saying e
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by phillmv 15y ago
Yes. And the interesting thing is, all of that violence is directly related to overly harsh laws relating to narcotics. The problem comes down to economics: There is an immense demand for narcotics. Since narcotics are illegal, they are ris
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by phillmv 15y ago
>Also, note that many drug offenders have a violent history, but the police were only able to make the drug charges stick. Also note that in many cases the drug offenders were selling on street corners, playgrounds, and such, and reside
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by phillmv 15y ago
This is why you are being downvoted: You ask two unrelated question to which you provide no proof. >But what if our system is actually erring in the other direction? Okay. How ? Every other nation on earth has lower incarceration rates

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