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by rainmaking 12y ago
The first statement is untrue: Stallman is also advocating measures to replace obfuscated JavaScript web apps with free versions: "Browser users also need a convenient facility to specify JavaScript code to use instead of the JavaScrip
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by rainmaking 12y ago
This is a noble goal. I would like to do this, too. It appears to me, however, to be theoretically impossible to achieve. The code is running on your hardware; there is simply at the moment no known way to give any kind of assurance about r
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by rainmaking 12y ago
I have started a petition on change.org for this, please sign it: https://www.change.org/p/spotify-ltd-pay-artists-from-the-pe... Suggestions for improvements welcome.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
I use text for documents and grep/find to search them. I do have them on my phone, Terminal IDE is a full git/grep/yada suite for android. Sharing with other geeks is easy, share a repository with them. Sharing with non geeks
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by rainmaking 12y ago
I use a git repository with text files and Terminal IDE to git on android.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
This is a nice taxonomy of estimation games, but stopping the games won't address the root problem: Software development is complex enough to be fundamentally unpredictable. The games are just about hedging against people not wanting t
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by rainmaking 12y ago
I agree that proactive service calls would be just awful. There is nothing I hate more than being pestered, by anyone. Having said that, it would be really good to have automatic systems that detect problems. This is done by us with technol
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by rainmaking 12y ago
Ah, nobody cares where I work so it didn't even cross my mind. Noted for future reference.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
Aw, I was hoping for another iteration of these: http://nastyicons.com/
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by rainmaking 12y ago
If it's a false misrepresentation, that would make it a true representation, no? Regardless, be appalled, I read it and all I heard was an obsolete species of man whining that it sucks to be a dinosaur.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
I can write part 2 in Perl. print "whine"x2716
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by rainmaking 12y ago
Okay, so those men who will only accept a woman's company if she is subordinate are having a harder time to find a willing partner. What's wrong with that?
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by rainmaking 12y ago
This is actually quite decent elevator music. For further development, I believe the randomness is quite clearly audible and would have to become more purposeful, i.e. stochastically deterministic. Perhaps machine learning could be used to
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by rainmaking 12y ago
This is great news and great progress! One remaining issue: Since the whatsapp binary is closed source, it cannot be verified that it does what it says.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
I'm not an expert, merely curious, but didn't Tesla do a test firing for their engine for the unmanned rocket? Couldn't they have done so too?
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by rainmaking 12y ago
Internet traffic tax, aka brain drain guarantee.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
I'm half American but have grown up and have been living in German speaking cultures all my life. I have found that people here simply respond well to a little bit of formal language, so it's not surprising the author would habitu
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by rainmaking 12y ago
Needing to give kids an iPad raises all sorts of issues: Cost, breakage, internet exposure... I would be very likely to buy a self-contained colored digital etch-a-sketch that logs everything ever drawn on it, which I can later put on my co
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by rainmaking 12y ago
Not a bad idea in the last, but I strongly suspect my kids would be more interested in creatively disassembling the iPad than playing with Osmo.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
I use "Starting Strength" by Mark Rippetoe. It's 45 minutes of barbell training 3 times a week and lots of dairy products. I've been at it for 2 years and squat 85kg and bench 65kg (3 sets, 5 repetitions). I obviously ha
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by rainmaking 12y ago
Oh this is great, this seems to be the most plausible reason.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
I'd only expect an ultra minimalist design from a unix shop, but showing nothing at all is a little over the top.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
Chose one project you really really want and then continue no matter what. I'm making a markdown-like format for sheet music in SuperCollider.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
The no-kill-GPL would just collapse under the additional complexity and people would just end up not using software licensed under it. For example, what kind of killing do you mean? Could you sue a doctor for using a medical device containi
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by rainmaking 12y ago
The Lenovo Ideapad series has (almost) always worked out of the box for me. You can even buy them without Windows. Tested and true: * Ideapad G780 (17 inch) * Ideapad Y560 * Ideapad G560 The casing quality isn't that great so if you&#x
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by rainmaking 12y ago
Yes, I understand that, and I believe it would be unscientific to do so. If psi does not exist, let science discover that, not preclude it.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
> leaves little room for outright ignoring what happened I'm not saying Randi is ignoring evidence. The scientific community is ignoring evidence in parapsychological papers that conform to current standards of scientific scrutiny.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
I'd say it's good enough as an argument for not outright dismissing psychic phenomena.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
Fair enough for 1-4. As for 5, it's just plain hard to get solid results when studying humans, which seems to leave plenty of room for outright ignoring evidence.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
My you have audacious work ethic, examining every human on the planet just to rule that out. Let it be law, then.

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