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by severino 8y ago
I always find interesting to read comments from people who actually lived in the former eastern block countries, like the DDR. Most of what you can read about socialism in english-speaking communities like this one comes only from people wh
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by severino 8y ago
Thanks for your advice. Being my first computer a MSX, it's good to know the GameBoy CPU is similar to the Z80. When I read it was a custom Sharp one, I thought it was a completely different world.
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by severino 8y ago
So, how does one guy not familiar with this low level stuff, nor with GB internals or those 8-bit processors starts writing an emulator like this? Is there any suggested road one could follow, or something like that?
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by severino 8y ago
I'd never turn an application down automatically just because the candidate didn't list the javascript framework of the month in their CV. In my job -where I'm not in HR- I've seen plenty of candidates with hundreds of s
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by severino 8y ago
It was Sun, wasn't it? I mean, ZFS has always been CDDL licensed, even before it was acquired by Oracle. If it once was native in OSX, then it was under the same licensing terms it is today, right?
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by severino 8y ago
So has been Cocoa with Gnustep for more than 20 years. And it's completely useless. Nobody does Objective-C in Linux for anything serious.
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by severino 8y ago
> Oracle remaining evil and Microsoft making waves in open source these days That's just PR. But real projects need sound technical motivations for making such a move.
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by severino 8y ago
I don't use any product from Microsoft. I understand Microsoft is for-profit, but there's no way they can get a single dime from me, and I don't want to become a second-class citizen. That's why I would be leaving.
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by severino 8y ago
Well, considering all this "telemetry" thing they have been pushing down its customer's throats, I wouldn't be comfortable at all with this move.
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by severino 8y ago
Yes they want... yet it has been Windows only for a year and a half, so far. That's the problem with Microsoft buying big things like Github. It turns people not using their flagship OS into second class citizens.
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by severino 8y ago
Well, you know, this wasn't just an "insane" guy at the top who now left the company and everything's cool. Companies have culture, and while we can agree today Microsoft's not the same Microsoft from 10 years ago,
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by severino 8y ago
Azure, VS... Yes, I know Microsoft has tons of things to offer to their customers. But not everybody in Github is into Microsoft tech. In fact, most are not. So that's what worries me: trying to tie Github to their products and strateg
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by severino 8y ago
Let's also not forget this only runs on Windows.
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by severino 8y ago
> I think the Microsoft of today is very different from the Microsoft of the nineties. If they've managed to change that much, then nothing prevents them to make the opposite turn and return to the monopolistic Microsoft as soon as
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by severino 9y ago
Well, I know Microsoft XML format has the word "Open" in its name. But is it open? Can other vendors achieve 100% compatibility with the official Office products' formats? I don't think so.
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by severino 9y ago
I'm talking about all the Microsoft software available only for Windows, and all the closed services they won't let you use without the official client. I think it's the same story.
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by severino 9y ago
> Google didn't produce Windows Phone apps, which they're entitled to not do, but then Microsoft tried to make apps for Google's services[0] which Google also shut down Well, you know, that's what Microsoft has been d
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by severino 9y ago
That's not true, but I bet it takes a little more to install a new OS in your computer than to install a new browser.
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by severino 9y ago
> If the result is that we have moved from MS straight into the arms of Google we have won nothing We would have won, at least, the freedom to use the operating system of our choice. Microsoft software means you eventually need to use th
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by severino 9y ago
There're some open source alternatives, such as this one, with less features, though: http://dcevm.github.io/ However, I couldn't make it work with my current project when I tried some years ago. I haven't tr
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by severino 9y ago
Well, it's never too late! I mean, when reading articles like this one: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2015-07-08/choosing-a-linux... Linux tracing looks like a mess, where there're dozens of incompati
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by severino 9y ago
Why would you want to do that? What do you find missing in 2017's Java and JVM comparing to other solutions?
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by severino 9y ago
So what? Members of the former Spanish totalitarian regime are now in politics too, and I think it's great they changed their minds to now respect the most basic human rights. Don't you?
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by severino 9y ago
It's sad but true. People's Party has been using our terrorist problems to attack other parties when they were the opposition. They feel very comfortable with everybody talking about nothing but Catalonia or the Basque Country.
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by severino 9y ago
This is not Spain, indeed, so don't expect people to support violence against voters, no matter what they were voting for.
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by severino 9y ago
As a Spanish (not from Catalonia), I'm totally ashamed about what my government is doing to address a political issue.
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by severino 9y ago
Well, that's happening already: half the population does not want to belong to the state. The "democracia" here is you don't vote and never will. What can be worse than that?
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by severino 9y ago
What you describe here happens not only in Catalonia, but in every other region of the world. Every government has its media, they control education in a way or another, etc. However, things get bad when your central government is perceived
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by severino 9y ago
No, I won't. We use SQL Server only in some legacy projects, but newer ones are using Postgres or Oracle, running Linux. We know open-source RDBMS like Postgres, and the ones developed by Unix/Linux vendors like Oracle, are unlike
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by severino 9y ago
> in today's Catalonia people have to fight for basic things like the right to educate their children in Spanish I don't think there's a right to be taught in the language of your choice, the same way you can't decide

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