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by tbirdz 12y ago
I don't think this is true. Consider the popularity of emulators for older systems. People still care about and use old programs and games. You can even still buy games released 35+ years ago from online retailers like gog. Think about
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by tbirdz 12y ago
Requiring your users to click on ads is a form of click fraud, and is banned in the TOS of many advertising networks. This is to help keep the site from "stealing" money from advertisers who are not particularly interesting in get
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by tbirdz 12y ago
Is blocking all JavaScript (including the scripts used to load the ad) with a plugin like NoScript also stealing? What about using a browser that doesn't support JavaScript like netsurf? Or even browsing the web in a text only browser
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Cracking Candy Crush(jodoglevy.com)
5 points by tbirdz 12y ago|0 comments
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by tbirdz 12y ago
The problem is, where is the line between empathy and anthropomorphism? How can you tell if the animal is actually feeling the way you think it is feeling, and that you are not just projection your own emotions and assumptions onto it?
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by tbirdz 12y ago
Nix
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by tbirdz 12y ago
In my experience code bloat from templates comes mostly from libraries whose authors are much less skilled than those of the standard library.
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by tbirdz 12y ago
Please note that this is the actual title of the talk given at AsiaBSDCon. I am not personally saying "OpenBSD sucks", or editorializing in any way.
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OpenBSD sucks least – AsiaBSDCon 2015(quigon.bsws.de)
15 points by tbirdz 12y ago|6 comments
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by tbirdz 12y ago
What's the criteria for a "substantive story"? Not being snarky or difficult, just genuinely curious.
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by tbirdz 12y ago
C'mon Ted, you knew what he meant, there's no reason to be that snarky. For anyone who does not know, __david__ is most likely referring to the GNU coreutils and GNU diffutils, which do indeed credit Richard Stallman in the AUTHOR
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by tbirdz 12y ago
There is also the approach used for linked lists in the Linux Kernel: http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/LinkedLists
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The Blurred Lines Copyright Verdict Is Bad News for Music(eff.org)
24 points by tbirdz 12y ago|12 comments
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What Software Testing Looks Like to a Hardware Engineer(danluu.com)
6 points by tbirdz 12y ago|0 comments
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VMware update to GPL-enforcement suit(lwn.net)
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O'Reilly HTMLBook Specification(oreillymedia.github.io)
3 points by tbirdz 12y ago|0 comments
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by tbirdz 12y ago
>Does anyone know why NASA's open source code isn't in the public domain like it's supposed to be? That only applies to works done by federal employees. Most of the coding is probably done by contractors, who are not requi
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by tbirdz 12y ago
floating point is just one way of representing non-integral numbers, you can also use fixed point, rational types (integer numerator and denominator), and there are also types for arbitrary precision decimals, like gmp or BigDecimal.
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by tbirdz 12y ago
With any IMAP client your mail will not be stuck on one machine, you can maintain a copy on the server as well, and access it from any other IMAP client.
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by tbirdz 12y ago
It would be more worthwhile to show various shells implementations of echo, because most of the time you are going to be running your shell's builtin echo instead of /bin/echo.
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by tbirdz 12y ago
Try applying to more research oriented companies. You could also always take a post-doc or something while you are searching.
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by tbirdz 12y ago
You're thinking of the GPLv3's anti "tivoization" clause. Linux is released under the GPLv2 only, and that license does not include that clause.
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by tbirdz 12y ago
Isn't this essentially just projecting a 3d sphere onto a 2d surface, but evaluating the transformation components without putting them in matrix form?
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by tbirdz 12y ago
Code that you didn't write but that is being executed still consumes clock cycles. Standard library functions and data structures still have code that executes on the machine, you can't just handwave it away as consuming zero cycl
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by tbirdz 12y ago
I agree with this post whole heartedly. Another related issue is the common advice to "not reinvent the wheel" and use standard library routines and algorithm implementations, often stating how unlikely it is that you would be abl
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by tbirdz 12y ago
I don't quite see how this requirement changes anything. You could have a full Turing complete instruction set, and still have a CHESS instruction that plays a game of chess with the user. The "Chess program" would still be 1
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by tbirdz 12y ago
I'll define an instruction set with a single instruction CHESS that when executed will play a game of chess with the user. I'm sorry, I know this is a bit of a "snarky" type reply, but I don't really understand what
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by tbirdz 12y ago
Many machines do come with wireless only, but they also come with USB and there are many USB to Ethernet adaptors that are well supported (at least by Linux, I don't know about OpenBSD).
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by tbirdz 12y ago
Please note, the actual essay in question is here: https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
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by tbirdz 12y ago
As someone who doesn't care about sports, care to watch movies, or read fiction, you must find me quite ludicrous :)

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