tspiteri

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by tspiteri 14y ago
Using the GPL is not really comparable to saying something foolish or wrong, and is certainly not comparable to cheating on a spouse. Such arguments reek of anti-GPL zealotry.
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by tspiteri 14y ago
I too find the CLA decision a bit strange, though I have no issue with their dual to single license transition. Dual-licensing under MIT and GPL is effectively like licensing under MIT; if someone wants to write a proprietary fork, or a GPL
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by tspiteri 14y ago
I don't like how you brand Denis-Courmont a zealot or bad apple for not letting others break the license terms of his code. He licensed his code under the GPL for a reason, and if someone doesn't like his license, they shouldn't expect him
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by tspiteri 14y ago
While they are similar in some ways, they are not as similar as the article makes them out to be. From images I found elsewhere, the iMac seems to have its components behind the screen, and a very thin stand, while the Spectre One seems to
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by tspiteri 14y ago
Thank you for the pointer.
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by tspiteri 14y ago
The FSF uses the words lax and permissive to describe licenses which do not have the requirements of the GPL ( http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html ), and describe the GPL as a copyleft license. If you want to describe the GPL with
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by tspiteri 14y ago
Many times, improvements come from just iterating over the text and rewriting parts of it. Native speakers will need less iterations, and very few people can write really well the first time round.
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by tspiteri 14y ago
And they were given plenty of time to right themselves. My cats could land on their feet when dropped with about two inches clearance between their backs and the couch. And to do this experiment without thick gloves, the cat has to be tre
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by tspiteri 14y ago
While 8 kHz is low if you look at the carrier of the speech signal, which is something like the pitch of the speech, it is pretty high compared to the envelope frequency of the speech signal. You do not move your jaw, tounge and lips at any
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by tspiteri 14y ago
I know it's not ftp over ssh. I meant what I said in the context of the original comment; if ssh is the ftp replacement, then there is an application which transfers files over ssh with commands similar to those of ftp, which is sort of a c
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by tspiteri 14y ago
And it comes with a compatibility mode (sftp).
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by tspiteri 14y ago
Maybe it's a fast meal at midday when there are still places to go, and a good meal in the evening to wind down.
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A 12pt font should look useful everywhere(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
24 points by tspiteri 14y ago|16 comments
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by tspiteri 14y ago
She didn't overreact, she just sent him a private email. How is that unhealthy? Now if she felt frustrated by his behaviour and bottled it up, that would be unhealthy.
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by tspiteri 14y ago
It's not as simple as that. Confirming something will make it more attractive to build on and extend. And it will save time that would be spent looking for fundamentally different theories.
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by tspiteri 14y ago
I guess the plural in some languages is used to address royalty. And about the usage of "they", I tend to use it, and the only thing that I find a bit strange is sentences like: "If a user needs something, they have to do something." Note "
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by tspiteri 14y ago
I don't get the point. Why not use the generic function type? void *(*routine)(void *) If you have a function already, just create a simple wrapper once. In the code shown, the wrapping has to be done by the caller of apply(). And
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by tspiteri 14y ago
Some people transcribe improperly too, e.g., "they'd of" instead of "they'd have". (Or is that "they'd've"?)
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by tspiteri 14y ago
There are quite a few privacy concerns about these technologies, and I think that proper legislation is necessary to address them. Most people trust a bank to hold their money, and there is legislation to control financial institutions. Now
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by tspiteri 14y ago
The most common use of a butter knife is not murder.
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by tspiteri 14y ago
I don't know if it's only me, but I saw the young male stereotyping as a way to justify their behaviour, as in: it's not that bad, it's just boys being boys. The things that were really bad were the things dealt with later.
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by tspiteri 14y ago
It seems that the meaning of "fair" depends on the location. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-10869722 "Fair" is one of those concepts that doesn't quite mean the same thing on either side of the Atlantic.
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by tspiteri 14y ago
He first goes on about how "open source" is not about making the world a better place, but then states that the GPL is all about fairness. Well, that's the point - we want a fair world, where everyone's freedoms are respected. The fairnes
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by tspiteri 14y ago
And before that it was people using 2000 because they said XP was a horrorshow.
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by tspiteri 14y ago
I'm not so sure it would work like that; the costs of mining an asteroid are a bit too high for that. Mining in space is not even new yet, it is still a plan, and if it goes according to plan, it will still be very expensive, and there will
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by tspiteri 14y ago
Oh I think the visionaries do know about all that, after all, they do know a bit about how money works at large scales. I'd be really surprised if they are in for that realization.
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by tspiteri 14y ago
Why should the goto be to one single target? Multiple goto statements are good for multiple clean ups without adding indentation levels and without having artificially long logic ands. For example: int init_abc() { if (!in
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by tspiteri 15y ago
Oh, I was ambiguous. I meant to say I'd dislike that they do not use something, not that I'd dislike the people.
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by tspiteri 15y ago
There was a blueish light flashing on Brin's eyes.
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by tspiteri 15y ago
I don't speak for the blind, but I guess if I were blind, I would dislike people not using what I wished I could use just because I couldn't.

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