thefre

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by thefre 15y ago
For you 1st point: because in most jurisdiction CP is absolutely forbidden and typically you are not protected if you don't proactively act to eradicate CP on your service with reasonable dilligence, whereas an upload of a film might or mig
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by thefre 15y ago
Change their government.
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by thefre 15y ago
The problem is the combination of this evil clause and Apple's general attitude and evilness. First on the EULA: even if you used a program to do a formatting, said formatting is still your work, and the EULA recognize that by using the ter
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by thefre 15y ago
> There's an essay somewhere I remember reading where an ITS hacker looks at Unix for how it handles the interrupted system call problem and comes away horrified at the discovery that it makes the user do it via EINTR. Not really the r
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by thefre 15y ago
Have you ever tried to write portable code for multiple unixes?
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by thefre 15y ago
So the next hot article will be "OMG a GNU/Linux distribution has a messy code base"? Once you are talking about a multiple GB system, of course it's messy. Except it is actually a very poor choosing to describe the situation. E.g. mixing m
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by thefre 15y ago
> This dream lasted a few days until we discovered that TeX, the typesetting engine underlying LaTeX, isn’t written in C. TeX is written in WEB, Donald Knuth’s “literate” programming language. Seriously, they discovered that after start
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by thefre 15y ago
are you high?
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by thefre 15y ago
> In your average company, a programmer is considered a glorified mechanic or janitor, a code-monkey if you will, well below the guys that "bring in the money" like sales and marketing. It is an expense, something that the company has t