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by pilgrim689 13y ago
Ah. I tried removing all trailing characters to avoid resubmitting, but alas! Sorry about that.
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by pilgrim689 13y ago
QNX is a huge asset to the company, raking it customers worldwide in the embedded/real-time/safety-critical software markets. Open sourcing QNX would be a major move, as in a major loss, indeed!
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by pilgrim689 13y ago
Wouldn't Canonical be largely helping with the GTK+ port? Otherwise, that would mean that Ubuntu will only support Qt applications, would it not?
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by pilgrim689 13y ago
I never heard of elementaryOS but it looks great at first glance. I have a specific question I was wondering: how will distributions using non-Unity DEs/WMs such as elementary handle the replacement of X with Mir? I'm not familiar
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by pilgrim689 13y ago
Have you seen the Ubuntu mobile/edge/phone videos? It's not the same UI. They have the same "feel", but the UI is definitely different when you dock the phone compared to when you're using your phone directly.
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by pilgrim689 13y ago
I think its killer feature is how it's an all-in-one OS. In you pocket, it's a smartphone; docked, it's a complete linux desktop environment.
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by pilgrim689 13y ago
I wouldn't say QNX is waning... It's used in trains, nuclear power stations, cars, embedded systems etc. If anything, QNX is a good counter-example to your argument because it's one of the few really successful microkernels o
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Building LLVM using Shake(neilmitchell.blogspot.ca)
2 points by pilgrim689 13y ago|0 comments
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Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program(nytimes.com)
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Inside Google's Secret Lab(businessweek.com)
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by pilgrim689 13y ago
I wonder if pg considered this: replacing up/down arrows with such a scale (0-name calling, 1-ad hominem, etc.) to force users to think about what up/down means every time they vote.
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Terra: A low-level counterpart to Lua(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
4 points by pilgrim689 13y ago|0 comments
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Firefox, Heal Thyself(blog.mozilla.org)
154 points by pilgrim689 13y ago|102 comments
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Personalization with Respect(blog.mozilla.org)
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by pilgrim689 13y ago
Salesforce.com has some ridiculous domain names: work.com, data.com, force.com, do.com, database.com, desk.com, social.com, etc. I've never seen a corporation go after so many and so generic domain names... I'm assuming GP just meant that "
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by pilgrim689 13y ago
Saying they're both turing complete isn't saying much. Firstly, even when comparing turing complete languages, it can be sometimes easy to pick out a superior one with respect to development (e.g. Brainfuck VS Haskell, also see http://en.w
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by pilgrim689 13y ago
"Ubuntu will be ready for smartphones at retail in Q4 2013." http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/contact-us It'll be interesting to see it go head-to-head with Android. I think it has potential simply because of how popular Ubuntu is, whereas Goo
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by pilgrim689 13y ago
I'm having a hard time making conclusions based off of this data, except that Python/Ruby/JavaScript are slow, JVM is fast, and the rest are in between... It's odd how Haskell (Yesod) and C (Onion) are both slower than the JVM frameworks. I
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by pilgrim689 13y ago
You are again pushing the "beheading" and "murder" argument, which is not what people disagree on. People agree already that these things are wrong (wow!). But you just hinted at what the problem actually is when you said "That may not be m
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by pilgrim689 13y ago
Sure... and what caused the action? Was it not the belief? So should I have said "beliefs indirectly ruin lives"? Actually, does the action even directly ruin lives, or is it the way you react to an action that will ruin your life or not? B
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by pilgrim689 13y ago
I'm not saying I have proved that I am right. I simply provided an argument for the position (which you have failed to do). I just said that homophobia ruins lives (and it does, ask a homosexual). Now, it is up to the other party to say "ah
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by pilgrim689 13y ago
Serious issues like abortion must be approached with more care than you are offering it. Call things like they are, firstly, and avoid bending the English language for dramatic effect. Abortions deal with an "embryo" or "fetus", not a "baby
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by pilgrim689 13y ago
I'm pretty sure some beliefs actually ruin lives (sexism, racism, homophobia, etc.). Do you just accept all of them as being "weird and wacky"? Shouldn't we draw the line somewhere? Even the great thinkers in ethics like Kant or John Stuart
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by pilgrim689 13y ago
How should we measure "power", though? I mean, Turing completeness is Turing completeness. You can do in one what you can do in another. So is power conciseness, then? Is it clarity? Is it maintainability? All/None of the above?
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by pilgrim689 13y ago
The original post is right: Lisp by itself is an incredibly powerful yet incredibly basic language. It's a functional Assembly for declarative DSLs. The most talked about Lisp nowadays is arguably Clojure, and this is probably so because Cl
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by pilgrim689 13y ago
You're conflating "success" with "popularity". Lisps weren't invented to become "popular", they were invented to get something done in a way that other languages couldn't easily do at the time. One only "fails" if one cannot accomplish its
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by pilgrim689 13y ago
It (publically available cameras) actually is the basis of a French thriller released in 2011 called "Aux yeux de tous"... pretty good movie!
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
Do you have a citation on that? That you cannot print metal? What about all the mentions of being able to print metals using various techniques on Wikipedia [1]? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printing#Additive_processes
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
just yesterday I wanted to repair my phone but I needed a prying tool to pry some parts off of the chip. I could've just printed something like http://daydealx-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/images6/prytool.j... A week ago, something broke in
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by pilgrim689 14y ago
A workaround: the device you connect to has a bitcoin client running just to keep the block chain up to date. The USB key, upon connecting, syncs that block chain with the one stored on the key. When you connect to a new device, the block c

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