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by tacos 10y ago
Is anyone aware of a source for this type of news that isn't quite so one-sided? It seems all we have is hyper-lefty "sky is falling" stuff and hard-charging right-wing "shut up kids, the government knows what's bes
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by tacos 10y ago
And the most popular girl in my high school can't ride a motorcyle. I took her to prom but I'm not inviting her on my next cross-country ride. What's your point? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measuring_pr
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by tacos 10y ago
Not new. Javascript is not the most popular language, does not have the largest "package manager" (nor standard library, nor package library which is what I think you mean) and more importantly it does not have the most programmer
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by tacos 10y ago
You're wrong on about three of those statements, but note that the same hand wave could have been made for Perl ten years ago. That would've been a poor choice then for the same reason Javascript is a poor choice now.
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by tacos 10y ago
There comes a time when the only competition for a massive corporation is governments. And you can't win that one (AT&T) even when you do (Microsoft). Tread carefully Google (and Apple...)
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by tacos 10y ago
It's actually not that uncommon. The scam can be as simple as: "please wire money to XXX" sent to the right underling from his boss on a weekend. All data mined from LinkedIn. Personally aware of multiple $10-20MM scams. The
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by tacos 10y ago
I got burned by App Engine so I get the vibe but frankly a bot could post this same argument on every Google thread and it wouldn't move the needle one way or the other. Would I put containers on Google Cloud in return for free upload
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by tacos 10y ago
You can't have a convincing cloud story without CDN. I'm an Azure guy but Google's investment here is clear. I'll take that bet.
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by tacos 11y ago
Winner! Plus style points for providing code.
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by tacos 11y ago
"911 Metallurgist, which helps mines and recyclers extract precious metals from ore and, apparently, phones, has exhaustively checked the iPhones and other mobile devices. Each iPhone 5, for instance, contains $1.58 of gold, $.36 of si
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by tacos 11y ago
Great idea! If the EFF were half as organized as the NRA, then they'd have a scorecard of my representative's voting record with regard to electronic freedom. I bet that post a week before election day would get more than 60 comme
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by tacos 11y ago
Grandparent (me) feels that if the EFF is trying to fight massive corporations and lobbyists with blog posts -- and the end result is three posts an hour on HN -- then perhaps the EFF needs to reflect upon its strategy. Also killing every b
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by tacos 11y ago
When a "terrifying" bill that "really is the end of the Internet as we know and love it" generates a whopping total of 60 comments on HN, then you've made my point for me. I'm not blaming the EFF; I'm not
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by tacos 11y ago
Building a defense to Liberty based on outrage is what does not scale. Though I'm not sure you can get citizens to read 150,000+ pages of legalese a year. Hell, we can't even get our Representatives to do that.
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by tacos 11y ago
Any activist organization that accepts donations has a motivation to keep their name in the news. And all of these types of organizations overstep on occasion. In this case I found the EFF to be on point whereas the Engadget article reads l
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by tacos 11y ago
Because laws are not rigid computer programs that solve logic riddles. They are broad strokes designed for the long term, to be interpreted by Judges. ANY contract can be read at least three ways. One of the comments here discusses advocacy
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by tacos 11y ago
Templatizing/de-templatizing enough code to see a difference would be a significant effort on any non-trivial code base. But I'll spare you the trouble: instantiating a template is less work than parsing a duplicated file. Some of
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by tacos 11y ago
Pro tip: when someone makes a comment that's structured in the argument/persuasion form, you can look to the final sentence for something to riff on if you feel obliged to comment. Is there enough Senate support to override a veto
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by tacos 11y ago
The EFF really needs to spend their bullets more carefully. And instead of these panicked press releases in response to the normal machinations of government, perhaps find a way to get their opinions heard and words inked while the bills ar
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by tacos 11y ago
With the exception of pathological metaprogramming examples -- and even those have largely been fixed -- there's no way you could even measure this, let alone justify such a strong, broad opinion. You're using incomplete informati
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by tacos 11y ago
It's as if he's never spoken to a Carnegie Mellon grad as to why they get the hell out of Pittsburgh after graduation...
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by tacos 11y ago
Oracle's position is that their interfaces were Copyright (C) Oracle and to use them you had to abide by the license from Oracle. The whole point of open source licenses is to make it explicitly clear what you're allowed to do wit
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by tacos 11y ago
Those are effectively "header-only" and clearly documented as GPL. This is the basis of the entire movement!
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by tacos 11y ago
libc is LGPL. The "problem" you're highlighting here is EXACTLY opposite what the entire open source movement was designed to prevent. It couldn't be less of an issue.
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by tacos 11y ago
Sorry, "improve" is not in the list.
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by tacos 11y ago
The success of GitHub's shell, native versions of Python and Perl, plus MSYS and warty Cygwin prove that there's demand. This is a better solution for many of those cases. Giving more people access to common code and frequently-up
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by tacos 11y ago
It's not an instant thing. They roll it out gradually.
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by tacos 11y ago
"seems to"
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by tacos 11y ago
Microsoft's ongoing, massive internal investment in the NT kernel speaks for itself. They already ship multiple kernels. And they ship software that runs on multiple kernels. SQL Server on Linux is announced. Most of the chatter here d
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by tacos 11y ago
To clarify: commenter above states that the pretty rainbow "drops the perceptual uniformity that often makes HCL useful." My point is that you shouldn't claim one is more useful than the other without specifying the problem d

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