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   Linux Kernel Design Patterns - Part 1(lwn.net)

   21 points by vorador 17y ago|0 comments
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   by vorador 17y ago

   I think that bing will get even more free PR
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   by vorador 17y ago

   I don't think that the analogy is right : after all, when all the players are more than two meters, short players get an advantage over them. I don't see why it wouldn't apply to programming.
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   by vorador 17y ago

   and that people who really cared about could have easily downloaded apache And what if I'm not a techie but I still want to control my data ? With a lot of the sites I mentioned above, you do have the option of privacy settings so that o
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   by vorador 17y ago

   Freedom how? Unless you are doing some seriously shady shit, most of the above services won't even blink an eyelid at what you're doing. I know that facebook has banned photos related to breastfeeding. Your arguments are practical but it'
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   by vorador 17y ago

   Clarinets are in A or B bémol iirc.
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   by vorador 17y ago

   I think that there's something you aren't realizing : the open source communities don't scale. After a certain limit, they tend to go downhill.
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   by vorador 17y ago

   Could you give examples of it ? You could also write horrible python or ruby code.
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   by vorador 17y ago

   Why are you against shell scripting languages ?
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    Debugging the Mars Pathfinder(vst.ensm-douai.fr)

    6 points by vorador 17y ago|2 comments
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    by vorador 17y ago

    C is portable assembly, I see no reason for it to disappear, and actually it would bother me to have to write low-level stuff in python.
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    by vorador 17y ago

    This is an example of blatant plagiarism - besides, the content has already been submitted : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=574301
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    by vorador 17y ago

    I don't listen to anything because I think that music is something much more important than background noise.
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    by vorador 17y ago

    Not everyone uses firefox. However, it could be an option like "noprocrast".
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    by vorador 17y ago

    The dialog boxes could be better, and for some unknown reason, the income/expense charts always overlaps them (I'm using ff3.07 on linux).
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    Darcs' Theory of patches(darcs.net)

    20 points by vorador 17y ago|8 comments
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    by vorador 17y ago

    By the way, on what grounds does the chinese authorities want to fight porn ?
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    by vorador 17y ago

    The ide is just a tool. Concerning learning 3d programming, NeHe is a good place to start with : http://nehe.gamedev.net/ .
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    by vorador 17y ago

    Simplicity is not something you learn in books.
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    by vorador 17y ago

    It was more like a database that you could program graphically and that was accessible for newbies. And actually, Ward Cunningham wrote the first wiki with it. http://www.jaedworks.com/hypercard/
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    by vorador 17y ago

    You are maybe to young to have known it, but HyperCard ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercard ) is typically the kind of application that could be distributed via Opera Unite.
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    by vorador 17y ago

    And don't forget that you have to know the location of an url to access its content.
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    by vorador 17y ago

    But things have been like this since ages in the software industry : think to the CON device under windows or termios under unix, to use examples that appeared recently on hn.
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    by vorador 17y ago

    But practically it's impossible to write a bootloader with equivalent functionnality.
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    by vorador 17y ago

    I think that this couldn't and shouldn't happen. It couldn't happen because of the services are provided by third parties. First open apis vary greatly from one service provider to another - and this differs _vastly_ from the plan9 idea of
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    The Shrinking of Detroit(mapscroll.blogspot.com)

    33 points by vorador 17y ago|22 comments
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    by vorador 17y ago

    I think that the twitter and irc people are two very different categories of netizens that almost don't overlap.
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    Alan Cox: How I ported Linux to the 68k Macintosh(linux.org.uk)

    40 points by vorador 17y ago|8 comments
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    by vorador 17y ago

    I can't see why the presence of MFCs and of the registry make windows more user-oriented.
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    by vorador 17y ago

    I think that the main problem of webapps at the moment is that webapps are like islands : generally you can't get your data out of the webapp, you can't take the data of a webapp to put it into another one.