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   by quadhome 16y ago

   "monthLy."
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   by quadhome 16y ago

   IANAeconomist, but a currency is back by trade. You and I accept a dollar or a gold coin because other people accept them at (usually) parity for value-- call it a network effect. But, a dollar or a gold coin has limited value if you can't
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   by quadhome 16y ago

   Am I right in that Bitcoin isn't backed by computational complexity; but, instead the continued ability for machines on the network to communicate with one-another?
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   by quadhome 16y ago

   Is software good at amplifying or replacing people? The idea that a system (software or whatever) of any complexity could lose every person involved in it, exist without problems by itself, and then new people could easily pick it up solely
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   by quadhome 16y ago

   What single project requires more than 5-10 programmers? Places with 1,000 developers spread throughout are working on hundreds of interacting projects. But, the communication and coordination isn't between all 1,000 developers.
6. 246.▲
   by quadhome 16y ago

   > But there has been a significant increase in both earthquakes and major earthquakes over the last few decades, and it is possibly connected. Unrelated to the improvements in seismological monitoring, no doubt.
7. 247.▲
   by quadhome 16y ago

   I had a similar response to Blizzard over bnetd[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd
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   by quadhome 16y ago

   Though I presume you know about it, I haven't seen Homebrew[1] come up yet. It has native support for installing from tarballs and pulling from repos. [1] http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
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   by quadhome 16y ago

   Because the left-wing continually redefines itself in terms of "progress," where the right-wing is reactionary.
10. 250.▲
    by quadhome 16y ago

    Voyager I[1] has left the solar system. Though, that photo was taken from much closer. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1
11. 251.▲
    by quadhome 16y ago

    Proof of example.
12. 252.▲
    by quadhome 16y ago

    But are they cliqueing in publicly readable ways?
13. 253.▲
    by quadhome 16y ago

    What kind of idiocy is in the MP3 codec? Did Mark publish anything talking about this? That's fascinating!
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    by quadhome 16y ago

    Yes. VS, amongst other tools, is used to develop "Windows." (Where "Windows" is amalgamated thousands of separate projects with their own bits.) This is the Microsoft. The company with an almost fanatical commitment to dogfooding.
15. 255.▲
    by quadhome 16y ago

    Those sure sounded like software complaints...
16. 256.▲
    by quadhome 16y ago

    > Doctors don't sell medicine, plumbers don't sell pipe, why should developers sell copies of binaries rather than hours of work? Because selling copies is far more scalable and profitable?
17. 257.▲
    by quadhome 16y ago

    There are two cases that we're addressing: 1. A developer writes an end-user application, but doesn't want to free their software. Clearly, this person isn't going to use GPL libraries. 2. A developer modifies an end-user application licens
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    by quadhome 16y ago

    So, you're saying that for an end-user developer, it's "appropriate and beneficial" for their infrastructural components to be GPL. But, it's not for components that directly link to their end-user product, because it forces their product t
19. 259.▲
    by quadhome 16y ago

    Then why not have the network self-organize into its lowest latency form with the "server" acting as a trusted arbiter / validator?
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    by quadhome 16y ago

    Maybe we simply disagree. I don't think software, personified, has the capability to appreciate freedom. And, I think both the FSF and Stallman think the same[1][2]. Apple lost (or, more accurately, never had) the freedom to distribute VLC
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    by quadhome 16y ago

    You said that Webkit didn't have a license that required contribution back and used it as an example to highlight the difference in innovation. But, it does . So, it's not a good example for your argument. That was all I was pointing out.
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    by quadhome 16y ago

    There is no official "OS exception." But, the GPL does discriminate against "System Libraries" Can you link to where RMS expressed that opinion? It goes directly against GNU's FAQ on the GPL[1]. It is a copyright violation to distribute c
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    by quadhome 16y ago

    The LGPL is copyleft too. The comment was about copyleft licenses.
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    by quadhome 16y ago

    Aren't large portions of Webkit under the LGPL? Though, perhaps the differences in innovation in the BSD kernels vs. Linux is demonstrative?
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    by quadhome 16y ago

    I think I see where we're misunderstanding each other. The freedoms the GPL ensures aren't for the developer of the software; but, for the users of that software. The point is that, from the perspective of your users-- your "audience"-- the
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    by quadhome 16y ago

    What do you mean "run the program in public?" I don't think you mean putting a projector up and showing it off to an audience. (Which would be OK.) I'm guessing you mean a web-app where your "audience" is running the software provided as a
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    by quadhome 16y ago

    wrt. freedoms 2 and 3, yes, you can. See: any GPL software on Windows. Maybe you meant you can't distribute a closed source program that depends on a GPL library?
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    by quadhome 16y ago

    The client/server separation for prediction never made sense to me. The article notes the trust and cheating aspect, where a client could lie about whether a particular player was hit. But, since the authoritative information about actions
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    by quadhome 16y ago

    When did Anonymous disable an interbank network?
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    by quadhome 16y ago

    I didn't realize Vim 2.3 came with this! This is me, happily switching from my hacked together aesfilter solution.