shiggerino

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by shiggerino 11y ago
That's the only thing I could see that they had in common in the picture.
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by shiggerino 11y ago
>e-cig-cafe >death of the nation state ∗tips fedora∗
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by shiggerino 11y ago
I went to an IMAX™®℠℗(U.S. Patent 3,494,524) theatre once. Having to recline and look up at the screen was annoying, and the size was gratuitous with most of it wasted to peripheral vision. That's definitely not something I'd want
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by shiggerino 11y ago
Very impressive. I've also seen how these cars get handled when they reach US ports. Absolutely atrocious. Shameful display, as they say.
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by shiggerino 11y ago
Great project. I'd sign up in a heartbeat if I lived in the US.
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by shiggerino 11y ago
That is absolutely ridiculous. Nowhere on the site is it implied that you have to be white to participate, and if someone flakes out at the last moment at the restaurant because it's not a "safe space" where they can talk abo
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by shiggerino 11y ago
That's because LLVM have those features, not because it has that license. A program designed to do analysis on code in the IDE will still do it even if the program is proprietary, which is the inevitable consequence of promoting permis
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by shiggerino 11y ago
There is no meaningful distinction between user and developer. All developers are users, and in cases like this, with compilers, all users are also developers.
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by shiggerino 11y ago
This kind of PR? A lot of backlash? Being anti-copyleft gives you nothing but pats on the back by the tech journalists. Just look at Github.
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by shiggerino 11y ago
The GPLv3 doesn't prevent them from using their patents defensively. Is offensive use of software patents really something we want to encourage?
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by shiggerino 11y ago
They discovered that the University of Illinois had been working on a compiler back-end called LLVM, and that being permissively licensed they could use it as a shortcut to making a proprietary compiler without putting in all the work.
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by shiggerino 11y ago
Proprietary software doesn't give the developers any freedom beyond what they already have by virtue of being the copyright holders to their code.
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by shiggerino 11y ago
They were never happy to use copyleft software, and they (then NeXT, now Apple) have been trying to weasel out of it since the 1980s, long before the GPLv3 happened.
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by shiggerino 11y ago
What they have done is pledge to kill software freedom. Whether they release Swift 2.0 now or later is irrelevant.
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by shiggerino 11y ago
Lucky for you and Mr. Blankfein, being “transracial” is now a thing: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/12/us/rachel-dolezal-social-m...
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by shiggerino 11y ago
Sadly, Unicode is a clusterfuck. But can anything be done about it? Or should we just be happy we for once have managed to get a decent adoption of something interoperable?
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by shiggerino 11y ago
Probably not a good idea to give feedback to the Russian and Chinese intelligence. But then they shouldn't have publicly admitted they were withdrawing spies, but kept the Russians and Chinese authorities guessing. Which makes it smell
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by shiggerino 11y ago
Reminds me of when VersionTracker was bought by Cnet, shut down and redirected to their scam site.
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by shiggerino 11y ago
That's pure nonsense. There is nothing that prevents languages like Lisp or Smalltalk from being used with a console editor and the compile-pray-debug cycle, but that's no reason to shoot yourself in the foot. This is true of any
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by shiggerino 11y ago
Yes, real projects like that. Or projects like OpenSSL.
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by shiggerino 11y ago
I think it's quite endearing.
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by shiggerino 11y ago
For some reason the only Apple-spawned startups that come to my mind are the ones that ultimately failed, like Be, Inc.
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by shiggerino 11y ago
How is it not really a language?
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by shiggerino 11y ago
Why someone would use this language for a real project is beyond me.
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by shiggerino 11y ago
The Dark Ages began with the Islamic conquest. Reagan, too, was a religious nutter, so you might not be so far off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog#Modern_apocalypt...
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by shiggerino 11y ago
This, and Unix pipes is basically dataflow, so there's two useful tools laypeople will be able to easily access and work with if they can grok dataflow. "Real coding" just isn't terribly relevant to laypeople.
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by shiggerino 11y ago
If we're going to have drag-and-drop programming, why not do dataflow, which is where it really comes into its own? Of course if you want to churn out code monkeys for conventional languages, this is great, but if you want to expand pe
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by shiggerino 11y ago
What is there to discuss?
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by shiggerino 11y ago
Seems excessive. But then again, I don't run a prison and don't stand to gain anything from it.
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by shiggerino 11y ago
What's the point of this? If you packaged it up as a library someone might actually be able to use it in a project.

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