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by sfk 12y ago
It's the pop culture mentality which is now worse than ever: [2004] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523 "So I think the lack of a real computer science today, and the lack of real software engineering today
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by sfk 12y ago
Since you have such valuable insights, perhaps you should discuss them on openbsd-tech.
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by sfk 12y ago
So, apart from GitHub, we now have another opportunity for coding slaves to prove themselves worthy. Spartacus, open your mouth, I want to see your teeth.
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by sfk 12y ago
The opposite of too regular is not necessarily "abuse of the C++ preprocessor" or unwarranted cleverness. The same phenomenon exists in natural languages: The sentence structure in some passages of the bible is just too regular
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by sfk 12y ago
I'm still trying to force myself to like Go. The basic problem is that Go is too regular for me, which makes it painful to read other people's code. I don't have this problem with functional languages or C written in a free
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by sfk 12y ago
How are errors in deferred functions handled? How about division by zero?
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by sfk 12y ago
A tulip?
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by sfk 12y ago
No, I never thought that. I was extrapolating what might happen when an (almost) monopolist like GitHub would start to mine, analyze, and sell data like Facebook.
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by sfk 12y ago
A further step towards the gamification of Open Source development. On the other hand, maybe that's Github's future business model: Rank Open Source slaves and sell that information to recruiters.
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by sfk 12y ago
Are you a sockpuppet trying to derail the discussion or is this serious?
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by sfk 12y ago
Could you stop downvoting michaelochurch all the time? Several responses who agree with him are in the plus, this comment is <= -2. It's ridiculous.
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by sfk 12y ago
That is what the Go developers claim. I don't see this abuse very often in C, either. If a speed sensitive function in C is documented to work for integers in the range 0 < x < 256, then it makes sense to put in an assert() as a
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by sfk 12y ago
This is utterly ridiculous. West Germany was FAR better off economically when the D-Mark was strong.
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by sfk 12y ago
Fine, I assume he'll apologize for the treatment of Ben Noordhuis then. EDIT: And the ministry of truth voting is on the side of some rich silicon valley guys again.
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by sfk 12y ago
The corporations see the benefits, but the population does not. Same as in China.
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by sfk 12y ago
The downvoters should educate themselves: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
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by sfk 12y ago
In a naive world it's called community. These days open source is a vehicle for multinationals to get suckers to write and test their software for free. Microsoft has caught on to that, hence the move.
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by sfk 12y ago
This is a silly discussion that distracts from the real issue (humans being tortured), but here you go: https://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/offenders/psipso/psi-20... "2.1 Showing films on DVD or video
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by sfk 12y ago
No professional opinion is needed: The copyright warnings at the beginning of DVDs often state that it is forbidden to perform the work in "restaurants, prisons, ..." (sometimes they even mention oil rigs).
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by sfk 12y ago
whoishiring leads the "Artistic interests" section.
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by sfk 12y ago
Interesting that the git hipsters are downvoting factually correct information. "Unruly hackers" (pg) seem to be perfect fodder for groupthink and monopolies.
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by sfk 12y ago
Linux is on https://git.kernel.org/cgit/ .
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by sfk 12y ago
I disagree. GitHub looks cluttered and the contrast is too low for speed reading. I prefer the hg interface, for example: https://hg.python.org/cpython/ Another interface I prefer is: http://cvsweb.openbsd.o
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by sfk 12y ago
The proper analogy is this: There is a city where a road service provider (RSP) builds and maintains all roads. At strategic places, there are road checkpoints where the RSP can block traffic. Recently, there has been a series of bank robbe
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by sfk 12y ago
The price of really valuable goods (housing, education, health care) is steadily rising. Cheap trinkets in the form of silly websites, iPhones etc. are just a distraction from the fact that the majority of the population is worse off tha
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by sfk 12y ago
http://frama-c.com/
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by sfk 12y ago
Overloading productive open source devs with spam and administrative bullshit is parasitic. (Allegedly) collecting money after a project has told them to stop is parasitic at best.
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by sfk 12y ago
Their ISP appears to be LINODE-US. But the other commenters are right that DMCA probably does not apply to trademarks.
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by sfk 12y ago
DMCA being relevant or not, my understanding is that the takedown notice goes to the website's ISP (LINODE-US in this case).
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by sfk 12y ago
If open source parasites like tip4commit don't learn, the next logical step is to trademark projects and send DMCA notices without wasting any further time. Also, with this kind of sleazy behavior, the advertising clause in the BSD lic

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