rando289

8 ms·

31.
by rando289 11y ago
Nope. You are reading it completely wrong. It's saying patents can be declared invalid in more cases, nothing to do with "declaring a patent dispute invalid."
32.
by rando289 11y ago
"It's essential because", huh, small companies are going to pay 10-99,000 fee? I don't think so. small means that is around the same cost as settling, but it has some unknown % chance of working, wheras settling will wor
33.
by rando289 11y ago
Yes. If it was an extremely self interested cleanup of only a certain kind of pollution which it would only help with on the condition that other more important kinds of pollution increased or got much less attention, and would lead to much
34.
by rando289 11y ago
No mention of why this was rewritten, or any comparison to the existing code...
35.
by rando289 11y ago
I looked at the atwood article, which really didn't give useful numbers, except the one citation. I opened that, found the fit number, converted to ~ .5 errors per year and thought, eh, skipping ecc is fine. I didn't notice this:
36.
by rando289 11y ago
Always thought it was funny how most new msft employees, especially college grads, spent years pirating windows and pirating it for their friends and family. Instead of being pushed, they are rewarded with a nice paycheck, and given thousan
37.
by rando289 11y ago
See fwknop and the history of port knocking.
38.
by rando289 11y ago
> use cases of the 0.1% who are actually going to receive the patches It seems highly unlikely. They are not writing custom ordered security patches. They are selling general security support to whoever can afford it.
39.
by rando289 11y ago
"Open source" was designed for the sole purpose of being "clever" wordplay and an effective marketing strategy, so you really can't blame fsf on that one. Words matter. See "pro life" vs "pro choice&q
40.
by rando289 11y ago
Honestly I think hn, and generally internet commenting sucks because it's mostly all arguments. 1 person says something in a blog/article, 90% of top hn comments are criticism & counter argument, 95% of replies are arguments a
41.
by rando289 11y ago
> they did a lot to put open source on the map Nope nope nope. They've publicly been the biggest voice to erase "open source" from the map since it was coined. All while acknowledging that it has mostly the same goals as t
42.
by rando289 11y ago
If you care about software freedom, do donate to fsf. eff leaves that to fsf and they already have 50x more funding. Of course eff also has much broader and less well defined goals of things like "internet freedom."
43.
by rando289 11y ago
Instead just /thinking/, try reading the rest of the gnu site, including the article on android: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.html . Or you could buy a book which has most of the art
44.
by rando289 11y ago
Nice pacemaker you have there, unfortunately, we've ceased supporting the software, and you are too old for a new one to be implanted, so it might break or get hacked and you'll die. How long would you expect us to support it?! An
45.
by rando289 11y ago
They didn't post this to hacker news, it's /an/ article on their site thats been there for quite a while, and yes they call out Google elsewhere. For example http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and
46.
by rando289 11y ago
You like the FSF? Point #1 fsf makes is that proprietary = wrong/bad/malware, period. Malware is mostly just a synonym. So if point #1 is too far, you really don't get it.
47.
by rando289 11y ago
Yup. http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/08/25/for-the-children/
48.
by rando289 11y ago
It's not FUD. Your comment is FUD. The fact is that MS has well tested security patches sitting on their hard drives for software used by lots of people, which they are only selling for prices so high that 99.9% of people won't ge
49.
by rando289 11y ago
> it's just _obvious_ why Uh, nope. Most people use communication platforms due to network effects: because they were invited to use it, because their friends/coleagues use it. Slack is no different.
50.
by rando289 11y ago
> Prior to Slack existing, lots of people who now use Slack weren't using IRC, because Slack offers a lot more. Wow, going off the deep end here. Unless you are a time traveler, there is no way to not use IRC because of slack, &#x27
51.
by rando289 11y ago
> If IRC were good enough to handle the needs of small software company communication, people would use IRC. Given A and B, if A were good enough, people would use A... What if B is better? What if both are good enough? You go on as if y
52.
by rando289 11y ago
Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.en.html . They copyright over the code, not "intellectual property."
53.
by rando289 11y ago
> I wouldn't be eager to continue on with a project after getting that reception either. So google's feelings got hurt? Give me a break. Obviously they were primarily motivated by attracting the almighty user attention, and pos
54.
by rando289 11y ago
Here is where you do that: https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/08/06/2015-184...
55.
by rando289 11y ago
We've overwhelmed it. Instead: https://web.archive.org/web/20150811151807/http://mywiki.woo...
56.
by rando289 11y ago
The first command is distinguishing between broken links, and changing the -e to different letters, it can differentiate between 23 different attributes, and act differently depending on each. Your hypothetical examples do not do not have t
57.
by rando289 11y ago
Similar ruby library. not as extensive since ruby has more shell-like features built in http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.2.1/libdoc/shell/rdoc/Shell.htm...
58.
by rando289 11y ago
I'm reading various I made company/site/device x able do y, which seems like it would be 100x cooler if it was free for everyone to reuse and learn from. Could y benefit science, government, medicine, or diverse software whic
59.
by rando289 11y ago
Unison. Know where your data is. Don't sync oses. Instead, keep their setup in scripts. You can get faster sync if you can say which side is newer by using btrfs snapshot over the network.
60.
by rando289 11y ago
I was not weaseling out of it. I explained how it can go either way.

More ›