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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
> Basically you want free beer like Linux? Get a distribution from OpenJDK. After the Oracle lawsuit, why should people feel safe believing that Oracle will respect the terms of the license instead of trying to extract more money and sub
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
> With an internal repository, everyone in your enterprise will be able to view the Page with the same credentials they use to login to github.com Public service announcement: "login" is a noun; as a verb, you should write &quo
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
I thought this was obvious.
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
> You can see the running version at https://bitchin.net > 502 Bad Gateway Yeah, it’s written in V.
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
Scott McNealy, under direct examination on 2012 April 26: "you can't license GPL code and then resell it for a profit" Source: Official Reporters for the US District Court for the Northern District of California (regarding Or
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
Just like your last message[1], the answer is "but why male models?" (in other words, I just answered that[2]; do you want me to repeat it[3] or something?) 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25847574 2. htt
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
This is a perplexing response. Oracle's case against Google is about copyright infringement. On that point, you are correct, but that's where your comments part from reality. Oracle in its case against Google is not arguing that
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
It's like we're not even having the same conversation. McNealy, founder of Sun, testified under oath that GPL doesn't permit commercial use. What was unclear about this the first time it was stated?
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
https://xkcd.com/774/
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
This comment is playing fast and loose with the facts. No part of Oracle's suit against Google relied on the claim that "Java wasn't open-source at the time Google copied it" (for good reason). > they are really bad
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
There's no reason to think that you're safe even if it were Apache-licensed. One of the things that was made clear in Oracle v. Google is that Oracle effectively treats litigation as an essential expense for exploring all revenue
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
This is an argument about checked indexing, not about where indexing should start; after all, whatever the index base, you still need to check that the index fits within the bounds of the array. It doesn’t matter if a behaviour is technical
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
But zero is an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number_(mathematics) . The unintuitive step is apparently identifying the index with the cardinality of the collection from before the item arrives, not after
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
Zero- versus one-based indexing actually matters somewhat for correctness. The real trivial ‘small syntactic technical’ bikeshedding is braces versus indentation (and: which kind of indentation) or semicolons versus no semicolons.
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
I don’t know why 1-based-indexing supporters insist on pointing out this distinction. Whenever one indexes some kind of a map with numbers – and it actually matters that they are numbers that you can perform arithmetic on, not just opaque s
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
> But we don't need to rely on Dijkstra's opinion at all. I don’t. I refer to Dijkstra’s opinion because it happens to coincide with my opinion, it’s already written down, and it would be silly to spend effort explaining it ove
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
IDDQD, IDKFA and I'm in.
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
It comes with the territory; aiding you in the quest for cool is one of GitHub's only value propositions. Because it's certainly not about productivity. People substitute having a conspicuous social presence for getting work don
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
It's partially related the webmail-vs-IMAP problem: direct access and control over your data. An example: There is a pending suit that will ultimately be settled with an insurance company by the courts. Crucial to the case is data col
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
Right, there’s still the photorealistic CGI version to be made.
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
This is nothing more than apologetics, and not even good apologetics. Instead, speculative apologetics, i.e. no solid footing by which to understand the premise.
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
> I genuinely have no idea what point you are trying to make. The point, as already stated, is that people who were official mouthpieces for Mozilla said for years that the default search engine simply wasn't up for sale to just who
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
Pfft, please. The staff cuts are among the least offensive things done under the Mozilla name. Much more value was created earlier by unpaid volunteers who were rewarded by having their project hijacked by a Valley-inspired corporate mani
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
> in 2015 Mozilla negotiated a deal with Yahoo netting them an additional $100+ million ... after spending years saying that the relationship with Google regarding search royalties was a serendipitous one that involved getting paid for a
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
Once upon a time, someone affiliated with Thunderbird project maintenance/governance posted a detailed reply to HN describing how hard it was to get Mozilla to release funds that it had been been collecting from Thunderbird donors. Th
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
gcc and g++ use the same backend.
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
JavaScript became successful simply because it was the only real choice, and it would have been so even if it were less permissive. VBScript’s failure stems mostly from the fact that only Microsoft supported it (and as I remember, it wasn&#
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
I share your childlike optimism. But another thing (that neither of the sibling comments mention) is write speed. Having a ton of capacity to store massive amounts of data at rest is not the same thing as being able to easily make near-in
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
int ftruncate(int fd, int64_t length) { if (!IsWindows()) { return ftruncate$sysv(fd, length); } else { return ftruncate$nt(fd, length); } } You get the idea. The OS is detected at startup and
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by pwdisswordfish5 6y ago
It’s a libc implementation accompanied by a linker script that tricks the linker into generating a polyglot executable file, simultaneously interpretable as an MZ executable, x86 boot sector and a Unix shell script, the latter of which re-w

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