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by vog 9y ago
> Mergers and acqusitions are a massive driver of the market Pardon if I missed something in economics 101, but a large amount of mergers and acqusitions lead to market distortion, which drives the market into the opposite direction of
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by vog 9y ago
> makes me hopeful, that this will not turn out to be some sort of malicious or grey area project Looking at their "all-knowing, privacy-friendly algorithm", they are already there: https://blog.flattr.net/201
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by vog 9y ago
As long as that setting is opt-out and not opt-in, they deserve all the criticism they get for this shady business model.
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by vog 9y ago
I never understood why they decided to coorperate with the AdBlock Plus creators. From a technology point of view, that might have been a gain for them. But does this outweigh the loss of the "trust in advance" that they would oth
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by vog 9y ago
How is that different from option 2?
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by vog 9y ago
I hope this doesn't sound too snarky, but ... If option 2 will become illegal in the future, would that mean that startups would have to optimize to turn into real companies? You know, that kind of company that need to be profitable on
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by vog 9y ago
Those mentioned languages were designed to compile to JS. In addition, there are general purpose languages that compile pretty well to JS: * OCaml (js_of_ocaml, bucklescript) * Haskell * etc. Those have the advantage that
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by vog 9y ago
How does MiniZinc compare to other modelling languages, such as Pyomo? http://www.pyomo.org/
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by vog 9y ago
Note that the format "2017-10-31" is also an ISO standard (ISO 8601), so when in doubt, this is the most sane default you can have.
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by vog 9y ago
F-Droid is a great project. I wonder why it is not installed on LineageOS by default.
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by vog 9y ago
The whole purpose of a DSL is to make the whole system simpler, by separation of concerns. That is, the DSL as a language is still much simpler (fewer data types, fewer elements, fewer rules, etc.) than the whole application, which is built
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by vog 9y ago
To those who downvoted: Do you care to elaborate? What's wrong with demanding to document a DSL?
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by vog 9y ago
Why "late stage"? Nobody knows how long the current capitalism will stay alive. This might as well be "early stage" ... in the sense of "one of the many experiments of companies to find the best form of market segme
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by vog 9y ago
> No doubt Google uses its muscle for many worthier things than this I hope this doesn't sound too negative, but since Google's main revenue is ads, "worthier things" ultimately means "improved ad targeting&quo
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by vog 9y ago
Yes, this seems to have been replaced mostly by bittorrent. On the other hand, HTTP has the advantage that it works through corporate proxies and that is usually not blocked by over-cautious admins.
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by vog 9y ago
So the documentation was simply incomplete, because the DSL, as a language, was not documented properly. This is why the initial developers were unable to have it maintained by others. Essentially the same problem, just on a higher level of
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by vog 9y ago
Naive question: Isn't all that also true for Guix? If so, why do your prefer Nix over Guix?
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by vog 9y ago
Pardon my lack of knowledge, but what do you mean by "CFPB"?
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by vog 9y ago
If you didn't play it, and are into puzzle games, I strongly recommend you to try the Pushover reimplementation. I loved that one back in the DOS times, and the free clone contains may additional levels.
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by vog 9y ago
> A post ignoring the examples I gave immediately appears Not sure what you mean. Am I supposed to only reply if I disagree? Just because I did't express disagreement with your examples doesn't mean I didn't read them. Y
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by vog 9y ago
Payment is not sufficient, but necessary. Without payment, they either make loss or have ads, so of course your are the product. With payment, they can afford to have strong privacy rules and have others check their system integrity. But th
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by vog 9y ago
Do you imply that in general, the (perfectly valid) desire to make money would have justified bad behaviour towards a community? In general, if you have a community around your comany, you can do it properly, or you can do it Oracle style.
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by vog 9y ago
To add to this: The client model is different from the server model! Of course, it is not totally different, but different enough to warrant separate treatment, and the most differences are fundamental, not just differences in detail. The c
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by vog 9y ago
What does it mean to "be aware" of this? What should one do differently from one would otherwise do?
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by vog 9y ago
> and corporations don't make, pass or interpret law either The latter one is about to change, at least for certain non-vital topics. We see privatization in law enforcement for copyright, free speech / personal rights, and s
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by vog 9y ago
> That keeps you bus factor down Small nitpick: I assume to wanted to say this keeps your bus factor up .
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by vog 9y ago
> There is a saying that any complex project will end up mimicking the communication structure of your organization. I must confess I thought it was silly until I realized it happened to us. Is this necessarily a bad thing? I know this
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by vog 9y ago
Does it really make sense to apply the perception of loss for something that nature gives and takes without human influence? For example, all those interesting formations and places that disappeared 1000 years ago - so we've never seen
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by vog 9y ago
Very interesting library, haven't heard of it yet.
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by vog 9y ago
Maybe, but the terms "class", "method" and "interface" are more commonly understood than "functor" or "natural transformation". So for better understanding by the general public it may make

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