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by vfclists 8y ago
I think Dijkstra put paid to that argument ages ago. The program is an abstract that the compiler implements. If the compiler is faulty that doesn't make the program faulty. It is like arguing that because a ship's navigation syst
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by vfclists 8y ago
Mozart/Oz??? I never heard of it. Now there is another rabbit cave to spelunk in my search for the perfect programming language.
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by vfclists 8y ago
Banks are always like that. They are more than happy to take your money, but unwilling to let you take it out for spurious reasons.
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by vfclists 8y ago
C++ only still exists because by the time every software developer and their dog had realized that C++ was the wrong way to go it was too late.
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by vfclists 8y ago
This seems similar to the scheme in which Microsoft diverted the no-ip.com DNS to their servers some legal shenanigans, namely some system of being able to get a judgement without informing the owner of the domain they were going after. Ars
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by vfclists 8y ago
I thought closed source device drivers and restrictions on the distribution were the biggest restriction on the mobile business, rather than control of software and platforms by Google and Apple. Am I wrong? How many mobile phone platforms
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The EU fining Google over Android is too little, too late, say experts(theguardian.com)
2 points by vfclists 8y ago|1 comments
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by vfclists 9y ago
This stuff needs to go too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhNbGTnA53s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAedktI1nyc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIsVGDq8nd8
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by vfclists 9y ago
My problem with round earthers is that their rebuttals to "specific" arguments made by flat earthers are not adequate. It is one thing to say that satellites and Foucault's pendulum prove that the earth is round, but if someo
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by vfclists 9y ago
It looks like they've started, but no meaty arguments for and against over here yet.
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by vfclists 9y ago
Let the Flat Earth commenters begin. They are already some on the blog itself, but I think the HN commenter has a higher class of eruditon, scientific exposition and rigor. I tend to go with Flat Earthers because I find the counter-argument
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by vfclists 9y ago
Pedant note - The pronoun you want for the unspecified gender is 'they', not 's/he', and it was well established before the gender-fluidity brigade adopted it.
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by vfclists 9y ago
The purpose of the license is to enable the end user to fix the software if it is broken and extend it if they want to. It is to remove restrictions on the use of the software, not the sale of the software. If avoids the current situa
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by vfclists 9y ago
The GNU vision of the desktop needs to be rebooted and more dedication and skill applied to it. I got into a discussion on it on the emacs reddit, https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/701v90/guile_need
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by vfclists 9y ago
I don't get why people pretend not to understand Stallman's view point. If you buy a physical device which isn't controlled by some software black box, you can fix or improve it so long as you have the materials, skills and t
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by vfclists 9y ago
> I for one am glad that someone decided to contribute a C interface that is friendly to most languages with C/FFI capabilities to allow people to more easily integrate whatever language they want, rather than providing tighter inte
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How to Protect a Drug Patent? Give It to a Native American Tribe(nytimes.com)
1 points by vfclists 9y ago|0 comments
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by vfclists 9y ago
Why the downvotes, I meant 18 not 21? And technically a person is in their 21st year of life in the year leading up to their 21st birthday.
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by vfclists 9y ago
Isn't America the place where in some states it is a criminal offence for 21 year olds who serve in the military to consume alcohol?
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by vfclists 9y ago
It isn't sad. Historically that has been the condition in most parts of the world. African governments are constituted of people who for the most part have no legitimacy rooted in historical relationships with their people and no sense
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by vfclists 9y ago
What about the banksters from 2008? Inspite of trillion dollar frauds, money laundering and what nots no banker has been prosecuted. Is it because the engineering companies do not bribe the legislature enough, or because there is no threat
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by vfclists 9y ago
I feel a "Use Nim" but sorely need to restrain myself.
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by vfclists 9y ago
Why hasn't the EU charged Apple for abusing the monopoly position? Didn't they do that to Microsoft, or has Apple sweetened them up in some other way?
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by vfclists 9y ago
And I thought he only did Emacs
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by vfclists 9y ago
You mean `deferral of gratification`. I couldn't help myself.
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by vfclists 9y ago
Looks like a classic case of controlled opposition.
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by vfclists 9y ago
That page is virtually unreadable. Why the fancy CSS, Javascript and fonts?
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by vfclists 9y ago
Still no Linux client?
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by vfclists 9y ago
This is what Smalltalk and Lisp workstations promised and went some way into accomplishing, but they have never been built into the current generation of desktops like Linux and Windows. We even have Emacs where everything is configured wit
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by vfclists 9y ago
What is happening with Ubuntu is what happens when the top executives realize that it may be more profitable to mothball their companies' developments and sellout to the main competition rather than compete with them. With Canonical an

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