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by sfk 11y ago
May I access your bank account and transfer some untouchable numbers to mine?
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by sfk 11y ago
I'm so tired of hearing this. If you copy a $100 bill that belongs to someone else, the original owner also still has it. Why are developers so eager to deny that code has any value?
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by sfk 11y ago
Friedman and Hayek were not socialists. One of the points is to get rid of the massive government overhead of distributing welfare. This particular aspect is anti-socialist.
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by sfk 11y ago
Did John Galt use free software?
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by sfk 11y ago
Wow, -3 for this horrible comment. HN is full of idiots. Now go on, make it another -10; it will be the only thing in your day that makes you feel that you have any influence.
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by sfk 11y ago
Obviously source control has its benefits, but ironically often tarball-only developers produce very high quality software (the most prominent example is djb at cr.yp.to). Conversely, GitHub is full of low quality software.
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by sfk 11y ago
I've said this before (and was downvoted naturally): Microsoft's new Open Source strategy needs to be viewed with exactly the same amount of suspicion as IBM's and Oracle's. It may just be a move to reduce their expenses
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by sfk 11y ago
And you are an idiot.
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by sfk 11y ago
Yes, sgtatham should move to a secure location like GitHub. Homakov is perhaps willing to guide the transition.
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by sfk 11y ago
I'm sure he'd appreciate a memo from Sam Altman about gratuitous negativity.
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by sfk 11y ago
I guess linking geniuses like Emmy Noether to the Google logo is also a "noble gift". It's advertising and manipulating people's semantic networks for fun and profit, nothing else.
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by sfk 11y ago
How does Bernard "know" the birthday when the set has been reduced to three possible dates (before Albert's final statement)?
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by sfk 12y ago
If there were an infallible procedure for a computer to detect which engine is malfunctioning, the fly-by-wire system could already refuse to switch off the wrong engine. I don't see why this is an argument for full automation.
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by sfk 12y ago
That's not what the donation page says: https://www.fundfill.com/fund/TrueCryptAudited There's no hint that the audit is for historic purposes. As for your second paragraph, I already said that the TC develop
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by sfk 12y ago
This fact must have been known to Matt Green et al.! Why did they waste 65k on an evidently obsolete project? Also, (as far as I know) all public evidence for your assertion is a purported email from one of the devs to Matt Green. He might
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by sfk 12y ago
In realtime?
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by sfk 12y ago
And the kind of hipsters who use neovim apparently have unlimited time for guarding threads and realtime downvoting.
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by sfk 12y ago
And the new comment was downvoted within seconds. The stakes seem to be high in this thread...
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by sfk 12y ago
I truly wonder what kind of idiot downvotes this. Pure propaganda.
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by sfk 12y ago
Which practically no one actually uses.
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by sfk 12y ago
And that revenue is large enough to justify the investment?
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by sfk 12y ago
You misunderstand completely. Of course small random projects like flappy-bird-in-cobol may benefit from a migration. I'm talking about well established projects. Also, the metrics you propose are quite meaningless. There are contribut
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by sfk 12y ago
And is it a good thing to outsource one's resume to a company that somehow, at some point has to justify a $100.000.000 investment by Andreesen & Horowitz ? How are they going to do that? By selling private repos?
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by sfk 12y ago
Someone who cares about the project and the code rather than peripheral issues like the choice of VCS, the hosting location or "social coding".
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by sfk 12y ago
Git has nothing to do with it: A while ago Homakov had an exploit that gave him write privileges to all GitHub repos. It's remarkable that no one really seems to care.
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by sfk 12y ago
I don't think that projects actually attract serious contributors by moving to GitHub.
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by sfk 12y ago
What mental change? To accept boring non-innovations as something fundamental?
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by sfk 12y ago
And the mechanism of putting items in a shopping cart is patented.
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by sfk 12y ago
The spinning machines were an actual technological improvement, whereas Uber (and many other valley companies) are just replacing old middlemen with new ones.
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by sfk 12y ago
That sort of teaches children to take orders from computers, doesn't it?

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