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by rwl 16y ago
I was pleasantly surprised to discover this library. I didn't really expect Google to have put effort into accessing their services from anything other than a browser -- much less from Emacs. It looks like there hasn't been much work on it
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Elisp library for communicating with Google services(emacspeak.googlecode.com)
6 points by rwl 16y ago|2 comments
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by rwl 16y ago
LISP is not on the timeline of languages!
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by rwl 16y ago
I don't think this is a fair assessment. RMS's insistence on "GNU/Linux" isn't about bitter or wistful emotions. It's about the fact that people accept names very easily as names , but then have a tendency to accept the meanings and valu
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by rwl 16y ago
Frankly, I don't know. But it seems that we have accepted that. Someone has, anyway, if the public debate is about how heavily to regulate ISPs, and not about whether we should have ISPs so big that they need a Federal-level regulator.
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by rwl 16y ago
"Mr. Genachowski has provided no evidence that the current regulatory approach is failing." Like the fact that ISPs are throttling the traffic of their customers, inspecting packets and giving preferential treatment to some in the name of
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by rwl 16y ago
"Some dystopian future"...like the U.S. in the 50s, when Joe McCarthy was demanding the removal of material he deemed "inappropriate" from State department libraries? (Wikipedia says some libraries actually burned the banned books: http:/
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by rwl 16y ago
Perhaps they aren't publishing non-anonymized data. But the fact that they are collecting and analyzing these data without any kind of opt-in system is a little disturbing. If they're willing to do that, how willing will they be to prot
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by rwl 16y ago
This is the latest in a long series of similar articles. I am fully in agreement with the premise: the movement toward closed, less-than-hackable systems like the iPhone are bad for individuals, bad for computer science, and ultimately bad
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by rwl 16y ago
"Besides, as much as we glorify it, teaching students sucks. Students do the bare minimum it takes to get the grades they want, and exhibit next to no real interest in the topics at hand." Teaching students sucks when students aren't engag
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by rwl 17y ago
I share the frustrations of others about this kind of article. Popularity isn't the point. Free software communities don't benefit from simply having a larger number of users who are just as helpless as they were when they were using a pro
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RMS to speak at WordCamp San Francisco(2010.sf.wordcamp.org)
1 points by rwl 17y ago|0 comments
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by rwl 17y ago
I see two other roles the government can play. The first is funding research into the best way to build a distributed trust network. The other, perhaps more important, role is in creating and enforcing standards. (This role might emerge n
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by rwl 17y ago
What's so special about this for Californians? The other states I have lived in have similar laws.
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by rwl 17y ago
You are assuming that a public entity couldn't run more efficiently than a system of private ones, which is exactly the point -- or one of the points -- at issue.
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by rwl 17y ago
I am always astonished by this, too. Finding housing and finding a job both seem like problems that are really ripe for some sort of optimizing solution. It's an incredible amount of work for the people on both ends of the process &md
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by rwl 17y ago
"Developer Guidelines: Voice over IP functionality, advertising, offensive materials, collection of customer information without express customer knowledge and consent, or usage of the Amazon or Kindle brand in any way are not allowed. In a
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by rwl 17y ago
Emacs' diary-mode and automatic editing of GPG-encrypted files: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AutoEncryption
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Bill introduced in Vermont to require state agencies to use FOSS [pdf](leg.state.vt.us)
1 points by rwl 17y ago|0 comments
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How to save the newspapers: (yet another) proposal(whereofwecannotspeak.wordpress.com)
1 points by rwl 17y ago|0 comments
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by rwl 17y ago
Yes, the article sounded like it was presenting a false choice: why, exactly, could we only have national wireless and broadband infrastructure if we stopped building bridges? (The only reason I could see was if we had some sort of budget
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by rwl 17y ago
For those looking for context, it looks like RMS jumped in on the discussion here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general...
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by rwl 17y ago
I don't know much about the College Board's reasoning, but I know that they don't seem to be able to make up their minds. In the 7 years since I was in high school, the AP course (which may have some freedom in the language it uses, but ul
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by rwl 17y ago
I honestly don't know what to think about all of this. I am a new graduate student at Berkeley, and my perspective is undoubtedly a little apathetic because of this: my department pays my tuition, I haven't been here long enough to experi
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My Favorite Unix Tool(whereofwecannotspeak.wordpress.com)
1 points by rwl 17y ago|0 comments