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by smosher 15y ago
I think you misunderstood. I wasn't commenting on the likelihood, I was commenting on the justice of it. I'm not speaking as a practitioner of law (I am not one), I'm speaking as a subject of the law and it's equally my responsibility to re
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by smosher 15y ago
While I think the AT stance amounts to arrogance more than anything, enforcing compliance with robots.txt with law is absurd and unjust. To the best of my knowledge it's not a part of the HTTP standards or codified in any law.
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by smosher 15y ago
the value of information is determined by the visitor That may be so in a sense, unless the visitor has no means of making the call -- or does so poorly. I promise you that every robots.txt ignoring bot makes terrible judgments in that re
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by smosher 15y ago
Ah very good! I was trying to think of a short example that wasn't contrived with this very behaviour.
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by smosher 15y ago
The rationale is weak. Some data is simply not worth indexing, and not worth serving up to bots. The flipside is: your crawler doesn't need to fetch everything on my site, and I'd be happy to ban all non-conforming bots site-wide. It's not
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by smosher 15y ago
I have no idea whether BitCoin will do well, and after reading all that I still don't. I do know that equating BitCoin with the Gold Standard is an analogy that doesn't support the points being made. Meta: I have noticed that I've yet to re
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by smosher 15y ago
You can learn to be useful in Go in about 5 minutes, and it has some extremely convenient support for concurrency. On the flipside, I think learning OCaml (if you've no experience with that family) will make you smarter in a way that Go won
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by smosher 15y ago
ichi ni san shi Go.
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by smosher 15y ago
I was about to post this when I saw your reply. I'll add it here instead since it's similar: The term 'competitor' is all wrong. Ostensibly, the point of WikiLeaks is to publish the truth. If WSJ wants to compete with that it sounds like th
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by smosher 15y ago
The simple solution is to let it fall in a vacuum, which seems to be what they're doing in this case.
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by smosher 15y ago
I think the "falling up" argument comes from the conception that antimatter is the time-reverse of matter.
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by smosher 15y ago
Amen to both points.
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by smosher 15y ago
I think it's lost on me because a lot of these simple problems it allows you to solve with simple code are also equally specific problems. (In a "how many times have you written this routine?" sense, my answer is almost always "once" or "ne
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by smosher 15y ago
Is perl5i really a good practice? I got a "PHP API" vibe when watching a talk about it and immediately wrote it off. Am I wrong?
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by smosher 16y ago
Generally, adding "undo" of some kind doesn't seem like a great idea. Too much complexity to solve a simple problem which virtually never arises in my experience. I've always found the "«save» «discard changes» «cancel»" dialog to be effect
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by smosher 16y ago
Consistently astonished? Not really. LKML is probably not the best place to go bikeshedding. Of course it will be met with hostility. More to the point, Linus is known for that kind of comment. A lot of the time his point is as important as