stelonix

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by stelonix 13y ago
He brought up another point . Given the known NSA revelations so far, it seems ignorant at best to welcome people who have ties with the NSA without putting their opinions under some scrutiny.
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by stelonix 13y ago
Nintendo isn't doomed. Period. People have been saying this since the Gamecube days, and what happened after that? Nintendo Wii. This link[1] has an enumeration of quotes saying things like "Nintendo should stop making hardware&qu
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by stelonix 13y ago
I use dumbphones. Dumbphones do not pause the music (at least not the ones I've been using for the past 10 years), which is probably why I'm against this behavior.
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by stelonix 13y ago
Yeah, pretty much. I'd be pissed and amazed if the default was to pause the song. I don't want the device to try to figure out what I'm trying to do, I want the device to do exactly what I tell it to do , which, in this ca
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by stelonix 13y ago
Yeah, it's not like people care about a (mostly) harmless illicit drug - specially when compared to a poisonous licit drug as alcohol - is illegal based on factors of which none are scientific . I mean, why not make things illegal jus
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by stelonix 13y ago
Do you mean Lavabit? There's a donation link at the end of the post.
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by stelonix 13y ago
Latin American countries also wouldn't have the power to tell the US to piss off (as we've seen in July). He asked for asylum there but there was no way he could fly to these countries.
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by stelonix 13y ago
What I find odd are people finding odd he went to US's rivals in such a situation. I wonder, where do you suppose he should have gone? US-controlled Europe? The enemy of my enemy is my friend should be pretty obvious once you're r
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by stelonix 13y ago
Vivendi was never a publisher for Activision, Blizzard or Activision Blizzard. It was merely their owner. Both companies as well as the merged version of them were always self-publishers. They were always independent of other publishers (sa
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by stelonix 13y ago
I'm working on a system based on Bret Victor's "Programming in Principle" talk. I believe to achieve such a system, you need to find a way to add semantics to code, as well as the utilization of proofs in order to ha
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by stelonix 13y ago
That one is pretty neat. I remember it had interactive demos, but I can't find them in that site (skimmed over it while at work).
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by stelonix 13y ago
That's a nice view. What sucks is that you need money in order to get elected. And if you're not a millionaire already, chances are corporations won't be willing to lobby for someone proposing to change the status quo.
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by stelonix 13y ago
I believe he means that, once the copyright on the code runs out (in 120 or whatever ridiculous number of years the copyright monopoly was able to extend further), that version, which is illegal right now (and not legally under the GPL) wil
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by stelonix 13y ago
everytime i choose an option, i am just hoping that it is not to use my real name, i find that really sleazy. This. So much this . I have not yet received any email asking me to upload a photo of myself, but the constant pestering whil
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by stelonix 13y ago
Why would anyone be bothered? I believe this whole ordeal has shown no western country takes human rights seriously. We've known for a good while about Guantanamo, shady extraditions (from US allies), Israel's complete disregard
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by stelonix 13y ago
It doesn't bother me. I suspect many people go to SO in order to solve a problem. Sometimes it's nice to find gigantic answers explaining the theory behind the question itself and giving the answer & examples in the end. It&#x
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by stelonix 13y ago
Are we talking about the same Sweden which had lax laws on copyright but upon pressure from the United States (including threats of trade sanctions) ended up arresting The Pirate Bay founders?
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by stelonix 13y ago
Does anyone else think the 2 posts about this issue here on HN have quite a bit of shills commenting? I hate to point fingers like this, but some posts I've read yesterday were so "weird" (read: "neo-con" propaganda) compared to usual HN cu
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by stelonix 13y ago
I don't know about you, but I don't usually record myself while working just so I can prove it to my employer[1]. He's not being evasive, Etsy is asking for too much (it's not even in their ToS). [1] http://programmers.stackexchange.com/
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by stelonix 13y ago
I believe you're missing the point: there are people who are way more lonely than the average person. From the article, I believe it is talking about people who are lonely and do not enjoy it (even if unconsciously).
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by stelonix 13y ago
Being from a country where owning a gun is frowned upon (we have uneducated citizens who blindly trust a government that has screwed over them for the past 70 years) and mostly illegal, I couldn't agree more. The idea that you should give g
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by stelonix 13y ago
What I don't understand from you (and most anti-3D-printed-guns) is why you think it should be controlled in the first place? Even if you somehow found a compelling argument, the kind of control you're asking for is impossible . It's lik
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by stelonix 13y ago
I believe I know which Moglen talk the article is talking about (it convinced me to close my Facebook account and eventually switch to Linux from Windows). I believe what he means is that Facebook makes it easy for you to share informatio
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by stelonix 14y ago
And if they release it, they can be held accountable [1]. Of course, single individuals rarely if ever take action on those violations, but when the copyright for a codebase is possessed by a large body (company/organization like FSF) they
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by stelonix 14y ago
Would you care to elaborate why you think GPL's premise is false? And I believe you're right, the GPL is (and was designed to be) a political statement.
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by stelonix 14y ago
What's wrong with Yahoo email compared to, say, Gmail or Hotmail?
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by stelonix 14y ago
Both of you talk as if generally, people never worry about such things. It seems unusual to me. Is it because the first language I learned was 65816 assembler?
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by stelonix 14y ago
Not really, code in low-level GPU shader language (I believe that's no longer allowed though) and compare it to HLSL. Compare intrinsics speed with inline assembly. Sadly, we live in a world where the lie that compilers can optimize bette
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by stelonix 14y ago
Yes, but standard C has no way to tell the compiler a variable is immutable (immutability != constness), so unless you go non-standard (and very verbose at it) Erlang is still a better tool for the job.
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by stelonix 14y ago
Well, it's time to disallow functions, since someone can misuse their names. And exceptions, since someone might use it as goto. Might as well get rid of non-primitive types, there might be a very bad person willing to name a class with a c

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