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by tjr 11y ago
Even if true, why should obsolete technology be banished from the public sphere? Should I avoid being seen in public with my mechanical wristwatch? My mechanical metronome? My 2010 Mac Book Pro? My 1963 Fender Jazz Bass?
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by tjr 11y ago
I have fond memories of my favorite math professor, always looking somewhat disheveled, and often with streaks of chalk on his clothes or in his hair. Whiteboards just aren't the same.
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by tjr 11y ago
I did not read the article as literally suggesting that Amazon change the name of its service, but rather, as a means of conveying the crux of the idea behind the services. I also did not take this particular description to indicate a liter
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by tjr 11y ago
For me, part of it is literally the whiteboard. I do almost nothing in real life on a whiteboard. I don't like writing on them. I'd much prefer a pencil and paper on a desk. I'd even somewhat prefer a chalkboard.
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by tjr 11y ago
I've done LLCs [edit: for the kind of business arrangement you described]. I've been happy.
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by tjr 11y ago
Good points. This sort of program has traditionally been paired with taking a class on the subject, with the program used as a means of practicing the material, rather than as a means of learning it in the first place.
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by tjr 11y ago
In theory, yes. I found, though, that the sort of non-urgent correspondence that often went unresponded-to by friends and family when sent over email resulted in comments and "likes" on Facebook, offering a higher sense of engagem
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by tjr 11y ago
Interesting. Would not a service like this suffer from the same "discoverability" problems like the iOS App Store? Why would it be better to be part of a service like this rather than running your own store?
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by tjr 11y ago
The Idea Factory, by Pepper White
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Who actually reads the code?(fsf.org)
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by tjr 11y ago
As in, pay for the graduate education program? The company I work for does. I get the impression that a lot of larger companies do, just so long as the academic program is related to what the company does.
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by tjr 11y ago
While I didn't particularly like it as a student, looking back on university ~15 years later, the educational component that I feel like I got the most out of was being forced to take a variety of sundry non-major classes. Most of the
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by tjr 11y ago
Most people seem to either not realize it's bad for you, or not care because they are so used to it. I significantly cut back on soda last year, and haven't had any at all for months. I drink mainly water. I don't miss soda;
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by tjr 11y ago
Perhaps government funding for their space exploration programs dried up, industry regulations interfered with commercial space exploration programs, and they all just gave up and shifted technology resources to making games for their mobil
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by tjr 11y ago
I was about 12 years old. I had been engrossed with both the family Apple IIe computer and the fleet of Apple computers installed at my school, learning how to write BASIC programs. Wandering through the local shopping mall with my dad, we
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Meet Minion Yellow by Pantone: the world's first character-branded colour(theguardian.com)
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by tjr 11y ago
Sure, well, I wrote that in the context of, if any GPL software developers want their software to be used more in a non-copyleft setting and are willing to negotiate a difference license. It very well could work both ways; some proprietar
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by tjr 11y ago
From what I have witnessed in industry: It would probably be immensely helpful if the GPL software developers who were open to alternate licensing schemes explicitly said so on their web pages. Otherwise the only licensing option listed f
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by tjr 11y ago
As a free / open source software developer, why should I care? In what situations would I want to make sure that a proprietary software vendor could embed my free software into their proprietary product?
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by tjr 11y ago
Which entire meta-categories of horrific errors do you ascribe to software development for jets? Commercial avionics, while not error-free, is surely one of the most stringent sectors of software development around today.
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by tjr 11y ago
Often, the raw knowledge regarding programming is just as freely available as the tools: official documentation for compilers, interpreters, libraries, whatever, or, failing that, the tool itself as a source of knowledge. Many such resource
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by tjr 11y ago
Not to detract from the contents of the story, but note that it is from last year. (I thought this was a new story at first.)
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FSF endorses embedded GNU/Linux distro ProteanOS as fully free(fsf.org)
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How Ads Follow You from Phone to Desktop to Tablet(technologyreview.com)
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Noah Webster – 'Father' of the American Copyright System (2010)(thejanuarist.com)
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David Cameron: Twitter and Facebook privacy is unsustainable(politics.co.uk)
64 points by tjr 11y ago|62 comments
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by tjr 11y ago
Certainly on the informal side, but you might find interest in: http://www.catb.org/esr/jargon/ Or in printed book form: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/new-hackers-dictionary
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by tjr 11y ago
Could be a territorial copyright issue. Mechanical license rights, in my experience, aren't global.
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The Logic of Surveillance Capitalism(ieet.org)
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by tjr 11y ago
Maybe. Looks like R4RS got it from R3RS. :-)

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