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by rwallace 10y ago
HTML Tidy does the same job for HTML.
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by rwallace 10y ago
> What's the alternative? As an EU company, if I need to do business in the US then I can't say "let's schedule a meeting in a year while I go on a boat cruise". Virtual meetings only work to an extent -- they la
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by rwallace 10y ago
It makes nonzero sense, but be careful of applying it too literally; very often, outfits of a similar size to you, either don't need you or don't have any money to spend.
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by rwallace 10y ago
I agree with your overall sentiment, but Microsoft didn't start the patent trouble, or even the extreme overreach of copyright law; they were the victim, not the aggressor, in the first round of such.
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by rwallace 10y ago
One of the things about the F-35 is, the smart helmet with sensor fusion is conceptually very powerful but they're having a lot of difficulty getting it working properly. Why? Well, to get user facing software working properly, you nee
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by rwallace 10y ago
My best guess would be that the people in charge of the juggernaut realize if you equip it with a steering wheel, if you create a way to fix it with regard to quality of output, that same steering wheel could also be used to fix it with reg
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by rwallace 10y ago
I'm curious; do you have any details on exactly why the existing implementations are too complicated to be usable, and on whether this looks likely to be just some specific design flaws or inherent in the concept?
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by rwallace 10y ago
Out of curiosity, what is the difficulty in migrating from the U.S. to Canada? All we usually hear about is the difficulty in migrating to the U.S.
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by rwallace 10y ago
Ah! That probably is important actually; aren't some big projects, including the Linux kernel, GPL2 and going to remain so?
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by rwallace 10y ago
So while I previously had regarded the MIT license as the one to generally use for any project where one has decided not to go the copyleft route, this guy seems to be saying it's fine but Apache 2.0, being a little clearer about some
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by rwallace 10y ago
You can ask that on their website: enter your email address along with your operating system, language and editor, and it'll let you know when support for that combination is added.
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by rwallace 10y ago
Consider the cost of polio vaccine versus the cost of keeping a polio victim undead for a year in an iron lung. It's ineffective medical treatment that really costs. Even if you don't care about human life, even if money is your
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by rwallace 10y ago
In fairness, given that he cites George Washington, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela as inspiring examples, I don't think that's the intended message here.
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by rwallace 10y ago
Ah! Thanks, those are actually clearer answers than the ones on stackoverflow. It's true that I'm using a several years old version of git. I might try reinstalling it.
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by rwallace 10y ago
Personally I'd be happier being told honestly I don't warrant interest, unsupported platform, I need to look elsewhere, than being strung along with false impressions.
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by rwallace 10y ago
> Windows is first-class-no-questions-asked-supported by Haskell. I would have hoped so, but when I tried it recently, the package managers didn't work. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42562702/haskell-o
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by rwallace 10y ago
The reason I'm using F# at the moment is indeed the platform, but not because of .Net; it's because when I tried Haskell on Windows, it didn't work, from which I conclude Haskell is primarily about Unix; I want an FP language
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by rwallace 10y ago
There are lots of scenarios where you need to represent an unknown/indefinite date, but this can be done with null; are there any reasonably common scenarios where you need to distinguish between unknown past and unknown future in the
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by rwallace 10y ago
Did people (in general, not users of the device) know that? I think people got the impression that everyone wearing Glass was always recording everything all the time. So what you're saying is all the more reason why a recording indica
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by rwallace 10y ago
Are there statistics on how often such searches have found the missing person alive? Or even some representative cases?
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by rwallace 10y ago
You say that, but in recent decades, Intel was more profitable than the typical PC manufacturer that bought chips from them. Hard technology can be a very lucrative competitive advantage.
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by rwallace 10y ago
Ah! I was under the impression that the C API was quasi-deprecated relative to the C++ API, but from what you're saying, it sounds like that's not the case?
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by rwallace 10y ago
Right. So if Git detects a SHA checksum failure, it should complain immediately instead of silently trying to muddle along, and so it does. But I don't think that's what was going on in this case?
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by rwallace 10y ago
I was under the impression the API is also unstable between releases. Has the API broken less often than the text format over the last few releases?
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by rwallace 10y ago
> Is Facebook's use of the tools merely somewhat unreasonable, such that the tools should still hold? Or is it sufficiently past reasonability that they shouldn't have to hold any longer? A fair question. The most reliable way
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by rwallace 10y ago
Be careful of casting a float to a boolean. Criticism of the government from someone who has experience running a large bureaucracy, negotiating, balancing groups with competing interests et cetera will rightly, other things equal, be taken
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by rwallace 10y ago
> they have a code quality issue, and the tools are entirely justified in breaking under the load that's being put on them That's not one conclusion, it's two. Suppose for the sake of argument we grant the first part and s
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by rwallace 10y ago
Why does he say alarm is always the wrong answer? I've used alarm to kill the current process after a user-selectable timeout if it's taking too long, and it seems to work fine.
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by rwallace 10y ago
Alexandra Elbakyan is staying in Russia, yes. That's why she's still alive while Aaron Swartz unfortunately isn't and given that the award has to go to a live political activist and champion of human rights, that's why
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by rwallace 10y ago
And in fairness, one of the better reasons to do a side project is to get up to speed on some fashionable technology so you can get a better job; that may well be of more value to you than the nominal deliverable, in which case it could mak

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