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by rando289 11y ago
It's really twisting things in order to fit a wierd corporate narrative on FOSS. "Even companies like GE are helping to fund noncommercial software, having con- tributed $105 million to Pivotal, the home of projects like Cloud Fou
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by rando289 11y ago
> Using the GPL runs contrary to this goal. Saying "giving everyone the right to share it" is contrary to the goal of having it be shared widely (aka adopted), is at least a gross oversimplification and at most an absurd statem
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by rando289 11y ago
It maxes out my cpu, firefox 39.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
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by rando289 11y ago
> Harmless in itself. Since we know NSA is reading this, it's telling them that you (and they have a good idea who you are if you are connecting from a residential line) just launched your browser. I'd say that's pretty in
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by rando289 11y ago
Sorry. The sample size is not actually "minimal", and it's this is a common criticism where the critic, surprise surprise, never says what a non-minimal sample size is. "NCHS also typically requires at least 30 observati
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by rando289 11y ago
> From a statistics point of view working with such minimal samples is fairly useless. Not true at all.
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by rando289 11y ago
"Let's take a look at a comparison of the temperatures (yellow lines) on both sides of the Cascades (Sea Tac and Yakima) with the normal highs (red lines) and low (blue lines) for the past year." I assume the author means the
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by rando289 11y ago
I'm slightly confused. A PM url is a broken link for everyone else right?
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by rando289 11y ago
> it's already too late to try and retain them This directly conflicts with the most upvoted advice to go get a competing offer. I've read this before too. Is a company really going to think "he's talked to another co
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by rando289 11y ago
Trademarks are limited to the area of product they apply to. The purpose of trademarks is "identify and distinguish the goods/services of one seller or provider from those of others, and to indicate the source of the goods/se
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by rando289 11y ago
my god that site is unreadable grey on grey
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by rando289 11y ago
> you have to remember that you have 100% of the power It's simply not how humans interact with each other. Every person I ever meet face to face has a significant power over my emotions.
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by rando289 11y ago
Free as in freedom, not free as in free from nag notices.
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by rando289 11y ago
Specifically, GPLv3 or AGPLv3 to avoid consumer device lock down.
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by rando289 11y ago
And when a library has a security update, the software which contains it does not get updated, because it's repackaged by 10,000 different software companies that don't care or don't have the resources, and they sit side by s
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by rando289 12y ago
First off: You already have google results, this one will probably not be on the first page, and you can easily push it down further. Secondly: A good employer is interested in your current abilities to fulfil the role they need, and will i
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by rando289 12y ago
I am all for pacer reform, but I cannot see more than .05% of readers getting past the statues analogy around line 7, where this document has yet to even hint at the argument it is making. Also, lots of unexplained, unreadable, unrelated te
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by rando289 12y ago
Last month, I noticed their whole cloud domain returned 503 for several hours. Google gce uptime, google has nothing except a page of legalese. Yaaa....
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by rando289 12y ago
> I don't believe some parts in the story. Cool story, but I have trouble believing parts of it.
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by rando289 12y ago
Dan would later learn that there was a time when anyone could have debugging tools. There were even free debugging tools available on CD or downloadable over the net. But ordinary users started using them to bypass copyright monitors, and e
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by rando289 12y ago
What is Rosyna? Googled it and came up blank.
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by rando289 12y ago
I wouldn't call those places where sharing has been very effective. A certain level of knowledge is shared due to it's nature: open source, sometimes remote, sometimes volunteer run. But beyond that, domain experts who do not shar
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by rando289 12y ago
I wish there was a D comparison. It seems to have similar goals.
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by rando289 12y ago
I prefer smex for M-x command matching (which is self described as Ido-style).
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by rando289 12y ago
No. I think thats very wise and I've heard it recommended by some smart people. I think the OP is overreacting a bit.
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by rando289 12y ago
Afaik, it's much higher than 90%, more like 98%. Citation needed. And yes, it's horrible. The legal system is all kinds of screwed up.
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by rando289 12y ago
Ya, and what about the people like me who gave up on that scanning and came here to find the tldr, but instead just found your complaint, and then read this complaint about the complaint!! When will it end?!
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by rando289 12y ago
I was under the impression it was just one guy. But if he can make a business model out of writing and supporting gpl code and hire employees, then more power too him.
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by rando289 12y ago
> It took me 30 seconds to think of those > The revenue collected is minuscule I think it also took you 30 seconds to assume that. Also, the dev already was doing various ways to get income from businesses, including some which you po
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by rando289 12y ago
Yes, I agree this is an important point that author missed out on. There is a wide belief that there is physical addition which will affect anyone who makes a mistake of using too much of a powerfully addictive substance, then separately th

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