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by sfk 17y ago
I don't agree. Nowadays I'm practically forced to communicate with people using Gmail accounts, which means that my mail is scanned at Google against my will. This is not much different from being forced to communicate with people using W
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by sfk 17y ago
This site is perfectly readable. Would you care to let us know since when sites like these are out of fashion on a discussion board with the epithet "Hacker" in its name?
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by sfk 17y ago
Yes: Gnus, slrn, mutt, maildrop.
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by sfk 17y ago
http://www.google.com/intl/en/ is still non-bloated. If they are going to ruin that page too, Bing will suddenly become more attractive.
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by sfk 17y ago
Fair enough. Long before he went into politics, Fortuyn, a columnist and frequent guest in talk shows, had always expressed opinions that were not politically correct. I do not remember him being ostracized for those opinions in any manner.
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by sfk 17y ago
As an aside, we don't call it socialism here. We call it social market economy. Also, true socialist parties aren't nearly as big as social democrat parties, which are more moderate.
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by sfk 17y ago
"There are indeed things you can't say in Holland. Oops, yes, I forgot about the fate of Pim Fortuyn." I live in the Netherlands (as opposed to "Holland"), and this poor rhetoric device beats everything I've read about the matter in terms o
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by sfk 17y ago
They should move their business to Europe. Here, overly restrictive EULAs are regularly ignored by the courts. Which is a good thing.
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by sfk 17y ago
The change reverses the logic of the expression, so I would expect the program to stop working - regardless of the value of the null pointer.
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by sfk 17y ago
The quotation is simply a gigantic understatement. Usenet search is broken in almost every possible way and she should have said so. First and foremost, I rarely get results that are actually in the archive, but pages from the main web sear
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by sfk 17y ago
I suggest to wait at least two weeks before starting new threads about this topic. Give it a chance.
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by sfk 17y ago
For Mozilla, removing or renaming libnullplugin.so worked. I haven't checked this with Firefox yet.
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by sfk 17y ago
Unfortunately, this post is written like a troll: "All I need is this euro putz ..." "For your convenience of course, it's governed by the laws and regulations of Belgium."
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by sfk 17y ago
This thread would be incomplete without mentioning ed: http://www.dina.dk/~abraham/religion/ed-standard
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by sfk 17y ago
False. This is an example of an overworked dev who has to explain the same things over and over again to people who refuse to read the relevant docs. This has nothing to do with GPL inquisition. The exact thread could have happened on O
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by sfk 17y ago
I think Google found that they can make more money by directing Usenet searches to crappy archive sites full of Google ads. Which is a shame, since 5 years ago Usenet search was absolutely wonderful.
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by sfk 17y ago
He can trademark his site name, but it would be ridiculous to forbid the name "Programming Praxis" as a header for a column or subsection of another website. It's just too generic.
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by sfk 17y ago
As everyone who has written a C program of sufficient complexity knows, these warnings are not always correct. Google for "spurious warnings uninitialized", e.g: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6591 An unrelated example where gcc (and icc)
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by sfk 17y ago
Good advice, but compilers often issue warnings like "x may be used uninitialized" even when it cannot happen.
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by sfk 17y ago
I did not claim that forwarding email is a novelty. I'm against people using it in this very specific case.
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by sfk 17y ago
So you don't want your username exposed. On the other hand, some people do not like to reply to Gmail addresses because they don't want their mail to be scanned by an advertising company.
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by sfk 17y ago
I don't quite understand. What if there is an exploit for OpenVPN?
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Commercial grade mobile applications with Python(blog.twinapex.fi)
1 points by sfk 17y ago|0 comments
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by sfk 17y ago
Goto is often the cleanest way to jump to error handling at the end of a function. I always smile at contorted efforts to avoid goto at any cost. Recently I saw something like this: do { /* deeply nested code */ if (error) {
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by sfk 17y ago
Comment #20 is really worth reading. One of the best arguments against laissez-faire capitalism I have read.
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by sfk 17y ago
Now that qmail is public domain, surely this would be an easier option.
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by sfk 17y ago
If I'm not mistaken, the comment you responded to was highly sarcastic.
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by sfk 17y ago
"Dissident voices are ruled out of order and successfully demonized (Pim Fortuyn), killed (Theo van Gogh) or face such severe threats to their security that they are forced to emigrate, as in the case of Somali-born politician Ayaan Hirsi A
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by sfk 17y ago
I don't remember the exact words, but in his video lectures about linear algebra Gilbert Strang says he has no real visual concept of higher dimensions.
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by sfk 17y ago
Frivolous abuse of the DMCA in order to suppress reverse engineering for interoperability purposes?

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