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by rogerbraun 11y ago
There are lots of countries without a minimum wage that still have lots of unemployment.
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Theme Hospital Format Specification(connection-endpoint.de)
1 points by rogerbraun 11y ago|0 comments
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by rogerbraun 11y ago
Replying to stephenr: > Why? To prevent the vast majority of companies with the money to actually support and grow such a project the way LLVM has, from doing so? No, because the freedom of new languages in LLVM would be guarenteed. Agai
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by rogerbraun 11y ago
I'm not trying to insult anyone. The BSD and similar licenses are of course free software licenses, and the FSF does (again, of course) acknowlegde that. Still, a company like Apple can use these licenses to take outside contributions
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by rogerbraun 11y ago
I guess one aspect is that LLVM (which Apple doesn't completely own, as far as I know) should have been copylefted to begin with, then any changes (like adding a language) would need to be shared with the community. The exact same situ
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by rogerbraun 11y ago
>I think its both insulting and an incredibly narrow-view to call permissively licensed software "pseudo freemium". I don't mean the general case of permissively licensed software, but the way that the article expects Appl
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by rogerbraun 11y ago
Being a useful tool for businesses is not the main goal of free (FSF-style) software. The freedom of the user to read the source and modify the software is. That's why they care about the distinction between open source and free softwa
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by rogerbraun 11y ago
Lots of comments are talking about how Apple "doesn't owe [the FSF] anything" and that it's a "business decisison". This is all true, but it misses the point. The point is that the current trend of companies re
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by rogerbraun 11y ago
It's about educating developers to make an informed decision. I don't know why that's supposed to be religious.
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by rogerbraun 11y ago
At least you can be sure that it does what you expect. You can have bad architecture with and without tests, but testing will help you to avoid surprising behaviour, regressions, that kind of stuff.
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Hacking Elixir's Syntax(blog.heldscal.la)
112 points by rogerbraun 11y ago|6 comments
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by rogerbraun 11y ago
I think having the possibility to not be anonymous would ruin it for the team. Some people might want to show how much they love the company (honest or not) by switching of anonimity. The anonymous group would thus become suspicious.
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by rogerbraun 11y ago
I don't know why you think that it's impossible to regulate these technologies. There could be laws against biometric identification without consent of the identified.
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by rogerbraun 11y ago
One nice thing about an ID is that I can leave it in my pocket if I don't want to identify myself. That's much harder to do with biometric identity.
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by rogerbraun 12y ago
But how do you disrupt the industry, then?
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by rogerbraun 12y ago
It's not in a releasable state yet. You can do it yourself after reading the papers, though. I used node with the bittorrent-swarm, dht, ut_metadata and parse-torrent to build it.
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by rogerbraun 12y ago
Really cool idea. Using this paper and the referenced one at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1009.3681.pdf%3Forigin%3Dpublication_de... I was able to make a proof-of-concept passive DHT crawler in a few hours.
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by rogerbraun 12y ago
Yeah, I can, of course, see how the modern alternatives are easier to use. I'm just sad that, instead of making simple IRC clients, nicer frontends for newsgroups, easier mailing lists, we now have ad-hoc solutions that are mainly mean
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by rogerbraun 12y ago
I wrote a Zork bot[0] for IRC a few days ago, and really started wondering why the tech community more or less gave up on IRC, especially businesses. Instead of a free, open source, reliable, distributed multiuser chat we now have the walle
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by rogerbraun 12y ago
Maybe just reimplement some piece of existing software you wrote with a C version? I want to port a small node-based API to C in the future, just to see what it takes.
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2 Years of ArchBSD(bbs.archbsd.net)
2 points by rogerbraun 12y ago|0 comments
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by rogerbraun 12y ago
Isn't this just rewriting tail calls ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_call )? Am I missing something?
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by rogerbraun 12y ago
It's made to confuse and mystify. The Borges quote from ' Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' gives it away. Really well done, though!
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by rogerbraun 12y ago
When I read dystopic cyberpunk novels as a child, I did not expect them to become reality so soon. Also, why do all AI have to tell you about mount everest all the time?
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by rogerbraun 13y ago
You are looking for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Being_Right
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by rogerbraun 13y ago
That's not completely true. If it were true, nobody would use facebook because everybody already has email.
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by rogerbraun 13y ago
Yes, the feature situation sucks. If you look at the pull requests on Github you see that the transition from pseudo-startup to community project kept a lot of things in the pipeline. For example, someone implemented a working xmpp chat 2 y
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Diaspora* version 0.2.0.0 released(joindiaspora.com)
6 points by rogerbraun 13y ago|0 comments
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by rogerbraun 13y ago
I invited all my friends, nearly all joined. It's not impossible.
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by rogerbraun 13y ago
I think that in the case of Diaspora, you really have to be the change you want to see. I canceled my Facebook account, joined a Diaspora pod and invited all my friends with a long explanatory email for why I did this. None of them canceled

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