tehwalrus

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by tehwalrus 15y ago
Indeed, I hadn't spotted the difference - thanks. Reading the linked articles, the Free Software lobby is saying that this decision will destroy the coalition agreement commitment to create a level playing field ( http://www.direct.gov.uk/
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by tehwalrus 15y ago
Member and campaigner. We have a major perception problem on that score - the work our ministers do tempering policy is inside the opaque government bubble, and the public (and indeed activists like me) have no idea who thought what before
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by tehwalrus 15y ago
sorry? this decision relates to the government's own IT procurement, not anyone's right to use OSS.
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by tehwalrus 15y ago
As a Lib Dem, I'm actually very embarrassed about this. Especially since it was Vince Cable's department (BIS) who seems to have led the charge against OSS from within government. Ridiculous.
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by tehwalrus 15y ago
A law stating/clarifying that only individuals, not companies, have first amendment rights would sort much of it out, coupled with caps on political donations per individual, including donations in kind (like sympathetic campaigns.) (I'm fr
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by tehwalrus 15y ago
has anyone thought of just having a bunch of cloud servers with LaTeX built there, and then writing a front-end which uploads your docs, compiles them and downloads the resulting PDF? with fast enough servers and good enough data speeds, th
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by tehwalrus 15y ago
Voted for you. Good luck!
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by tehwalrus 15y ago
hmm, it also mentions completely disabling 3rd party software sources, and not downloading stupid things from forums. If you're developing for android, you're going to install your own APKs from sd card. Even if you "don't install other app
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by tehwalrus 15y ago
indeed. this: http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/... cites research that shows that people work waaay less hard on something when monetary reward is offered, than when it's just for free.
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by tehwalrus 15y ago
do you have a source or reference for this effect? I'd love to be able to reference it, but this HN post might be stretching the definition of a reference... Thanks, great point! :)
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by tehwalrus 15y ago
I agree with @stcredzero , the password hash thing is nonsense. If you expose the hashes to allow other people to authenticate your users, which I think the author suggests, 3rd party sites can simply cache the password the user provides fo
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by tehwalrus 16y ago
This sounds awesome, but it would be good if I could try it without giving your app unlimited access to my twitter account forever. (much as @ra has pointed out.) Is there scope/resource for a demo version without the API features (i.e. jus
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by tehwalrus 16y ago
Open source and extendable software makes this argument redundant, surely? We write good code (as opposed to quick code) in order to make it re-readable and updatable later; making the logic machines more dynamic and, ultimately, functional
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by tehwalrus 16y ago
Anyone found the DOI link yet? The explanation in the article is, I agree, awful, and I want to read what they actually did! If it was only moving a bit of information from RAM to a register (or the quantum equivalent) which it sounds like.
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by tehwalrus 16y ago
so it is true - free plans never work.
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by tehwalrus 16y ago
hmm, this is why I never scroll in big lists: just search. the phone only caches about 100 emails per inbox anyway, so odds on the email just isn't there by scrolling. searching will go and fetch older ones from the server too, and the resu
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by tehwalrus 16y ago
this made me sad. I am tempted to post them my set of 20 sided dice.
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by tehwalrus 16y ago
The paper itself says it can't separate out the effects of the pesticides on the corn (or produced by the corn) and the GMness of the corn itself - you think greenpeace would fake a paper this inconclusive? (That said, I have no special kno
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by tehwalrus 16y ago
Ahhh, I had misunderstood. I thought the example include was a required step... Thanks, btw, excellent post.
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by tehwalrus 16y ago
Koza's "gp.lisp" seems to be a prerequisite for getting any of this stuff working, but I can only find dead links to it. I tried copying and pasting the stuff in here: [ http://www.genetic-programming.org/gplittlelisp.html ] into a file and