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by redcap 17y ago
Which is the normal job that the code gatekeepers do anyway. For any piece of code that wants to swim upstream to the main repository, it gets checked by the respective maintainers along the way. Linus trusts these people to do their job,
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by redcap 17y ago
Knocking holes, but I'm sure there were a very large number of people who didn't attend university before 1900. Probably a lot of people also left school to get a job at some point before they turned 18.
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by redcap 17y ago
I don't see how - if more people stop buying Chinese goods (e.g. shitty plastic toys that you don't need), then they might do something different than feed the West's desire to spend and consume.
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by redcap 17y ago
But of course, with the current financial system it looks as though large financial companies have managed to create wealth out of nothing or horoscopes.
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by redcap 17y ago
Out of interest, do you have a link or source for your last comment regarding the Bank of Amsterdam?
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by redcap 17y ago
It's also nice to be paid as well. While I can understand saints who just contribute, I grok the argument that the author makes regarding making his latest package GPL instead of BSD-licensed if that will help him get acknowledgement and/or
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by redcap 17y ago
Surely state capitals count as capitals in the US?
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by redcap 17y ago
Haha, thanks - I guess the problem is in my parsing :)
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by redcap 17y ago
I'm getting x = 11/3 as well. My workings: (x-3)/(x-1) = (x-4)/(x-5) (x-3)(x-5) = (x-4)(x-1) x^2 -8x + 15 = x^2 -5x +4 -8x + 11 = -5x 11 = 3x x = 11/3 FWIW, wolfram alpha agrees with me.
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by redcap 17y ago
It still has a pretty mediocre takeup rate, regardless of the people around you that are using it. The latest stats I've seen (posted on HN) have been that Chrome is less used than Safari. FF seems to be the bigger winner at the cost of IE
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by redcap 17y ago
I wouldn't call it 'black-hat'. While there is the aforementioned illegality (breaking in), it's a bit of a stretch to call it 'hurtful' as the only reaction was a bit of hurt pride. The stadium burst out laughing, so I wouldn't call it s
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by redcap 17y ago
I'm sure that html,etc can be _written_ with a basic text editor, but I'm not convinced that's the easiest way to get things done.
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by redcap 17y ago
To be totally honest, I had to look up what tethering meant today as I had no idea what the term meant. Disclaimer: The closest I own to a smart phone is one of these email/phone/web devices they sell in Japan that has a pita interface to u
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by redcap 17y ago
There's also the Calculus and the primacy dispute between Leibnitz and Newton. The dispute itself isn't that interesting, but that something so complicated was created in the background of natural philosophy by two different people. (I've
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by redcap 17y ago
Just an aside - I don't know if Steve works at google or not, but I am put off by the attribution to googlepages.com above. It makes it seem that the content is google's, rather than Steve's.
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by redcap 18y ago
I'm working from a functional spec and just getting used to the business at my new job. Because the spec sometimes isn't very clear I have plenty of opportunities to talk to my supervisors to ask them to clarify things. Of course this is v
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by redcap 18y ago
But should that necessarily be the best way to go about living in the past? You may well end up as endenturing yourself to said warlord as the boomstick maker. Probably better off trying to be a merchant of useful stuff to begin with.
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by redcap 18y ago
As mentioned below, why on earth are these systems (still) connected to the Internet at all? Sure someone might have though it was a good idea, but surely someone has got to have pointed out just what a dumbfuck idea that is?
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by redcap 18y ago
You might have wanted this article from Exiled Online which includes details wrt to the new Chinese ASBM: http://exiledonline.com/the-war-nerd-this-is-how-the-carrier...
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by redcap 18y ago
Interesting article, but I don't see anything in there about a specific Chinese ASBM that can travel at Mach 10. The OP article suggests that the missile can do 2000 km in 12 minutes. To my mind that counts as bluewater as opposed to being
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by redcap 18y ago
The US is a perceived military adversary as far as Taiwan, and to a lesser extent, southeast Asia is concerned. I really do think (hope) that the chance of all-out war is unlikely, but military orgs prepare for all circumstances. There may
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by redcap 18y ago
I believe it's military lingo for a device (missile) that can completely take out some hardware (in this case a massive ship) and 'kill' it. This is a game-changer for the US Navy, and likely other military organisations too.
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by redcap 18y ago
I've heard about this story alllll week - so why this is on the front page of HN now is a bit strange. Forgive me for being a curmudgeon, but I would likely be voting this story down given the chance.
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by redcap 18y ago
Before thinking seriously about doing a penetration test think about the following: - Have you coded against malicious input? - Does your code intentionally stop the various types of cross-site scripting? - Have you done a code audit
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by redcap 18y ago
If you read the article, the author suggests a fairly marginal increase in tax for those with already much more than those in the middle-class. I wouldn't call this being 'punitive'.
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by redcap 18y ago
Except of course they don't. All tax goes into a pool that the government (as the representatives of the people, the majority if you will) decides what to do with it. I think a better question is why shouldn't 'the rich' be paying a bigger