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by timonovici 11y ago
That's a rather naive way of looking at the outcome. For one, do you really think a someone with the training, experience, and exposure violence of a cop could be outmatched by you? Second, the statement above didn't say much abou
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by timonovici 11y ago
How would heavily armed citizenry help solve the problem? Are you going to put a hole in the head of the officer who takes your cash out of your car? Won't that lead to anarchy or civil war, eventually? Maybe...consider changing the la
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by timonovici 11y ago
Oh, sorry. I though they have the same policy. I shouldn't wander away from my waters :)
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by timonovici 11y ago
Well, we can't blame the costumers - what they have is good enough - how do you motivate them to keep buying the new version? It sounds kinda like the conundrum Adobe had :) Maybe there's a market for the GoPro CC edition?
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by timonovici 11y ago
After some long searching, I found it. The story is a bit olderd than 1 year though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5858065
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by timonovici 11y ago
Sorry for my ignorance, but then how the "brew" thingy works? that seems to install a lot of software without Apple blessing - is that suddenly ok?
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by timonovici 11y ago
didn't they do the same thing with the iphone meteo app? It was on the front page a year ago or so... PS: I'm not very familiar with this expression, but isn't it like.. "co*k blocking"?
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by timonovici 11y ago
Most of your OS is not open, so why bother? That's like spraying perfume in a room full of skunks ...
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by timonovici 11y ago
Well, that might be true. But if you base your whole project around somebodies service, and they change the ToS, or shut it down, what right do you have to complain? On the other hand, if you use GMaps only on the contact page - no big harm
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by timonovici 11y ago
Once you're no longer the underdog, your views on the world shift 180 degrees :) But worry not, everyone is riding a "sine wave" - Google comes, Google goes. There's some physics theory that applies here - entropy, I gue
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by timonovici 11y ago
Depends. If they are the only providers, you might want to avoid it. Take OSM - you could use the API with leaflet and their server, but if they can no longer afford the hosting costs and close the service, you could download a copy of the
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by timonovici 11y ago
Put yourself in Mozilla's shoes. Why would their users have to take the punishment for no apparent reason? Wouldn't you be protective towards your users/reputation?
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by timonovici 11y ago
Also, I think much of the panick arise from the fact that they don't play along with "the great american plan", like many other countries do. They are torn in their side, but so far not such a big threat. By the great america
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by timonovici 11y ago
I've read the comment. Unfortunately, I lack the motivation right now to read history books, but leaving that aside, a good start would be the USA themselves to lead the way, and get rid of those weapons. Like South Africa did. We cann
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by timonovici 11y ago
They already lost a massive chunk of their users. Do you think things will get sweeter if people start to notice that Firefox videos are crappier than on Chrome?
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by timonovici 11y ago
Yeah, its age is showing, truth to be told. That's why we have now AGPL for network programs, and LGPL for libraries. About the ambiguity - my feeling about it is that they (Stallman and the lawyers, I suppose) leaned towards the usual
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by timonovici 11y ago
"If we fight a war and win it with nuclear weapons, what history will remember is not the ideas we were fighting for, but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan, who brutal
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by timonovici 11y ago
A half brain dead criminal would just do what the Paris guys did - use SMS. Finding a relevant SMS among all other, it's worse than the needle and haystack problem. Also, have you seen those messages? They might as well been some guys
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by timonovici 11y ago
Oh. I haven't thought of that :) Yeah, given that the school has root on those laptops, they definitely can do that.
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by timonovici 11y ago
If my comment was meaningless platitudes, what can I make of yours? My arguments was that it doesn't matter what one is claiming - in the end what matters is what you do. The americans are the only ones so far to have nuked other peopl
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by timonovici 11y ago
The russians, which are not that different from URSS, if you ask me, have nuclear missiles. They haven't used them in Syria, or any other conflict that I'm aware of. They are stupid enough to have detonated the worlds largest nucl
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by timonovici 11y ago
Who knows? They are just talking big - it's even more ludicrous for the only nation who ever used nuclear weapon on civilian population to still have them, am I rite?
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by timonovici 11y ago
If you've ever read some ToA, or EULA, you won't find GPL that bad regarding the language and length. Also, simplified/explained versions exists, which should make it more digestible. As the author of the article said, it&#x2
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by timonovici 11y ago
Unless, of course, you read wget documentation and realize most of that stuff is available as flags, you can log errors, you can use GNU parallel and a bunch of other specialized tools. It still complexity in the end, but you just have to f
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by timonovici 11y ago
How is that gonna work? You can't just sniff the traffic between Google and the students(SSL & stuff), and I very much doubt that Google itself will let you take a look in their datacenter.
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by timonovici 11y ago
I stumbled across this talk, and it really left an impression, although I'm just a humble web developer. At the end of the presentation, he talks about sampling and using transient data, rather than storing and mining it. Are there any
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Haunted by [big] Data(youtube.com)
4 points by timonovici 11y ago|1 comments
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by timonovici 11y ago
AFAIK both GTK and GIMP severely lack Windows contributors - what else is to be expected, than shitty experience on that platform? If I remember well, a few years ago GIMP even stoped publishing it's Windows builds, because there wasn&
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by timonovici 11y ago
GPL wouldn't made a difference here, since it's a web service. The AGPL story is different. I think you are too trusting when you say that the creator goodwill will prevail - as an author, you are better off making this enforceabl
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by timonovici 12y ago
Somebody already said it: while using the chat through a different client than their web chat, you're not looking at their ads, you're not installing their proprietary mobile app, and so on.

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