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by wnoise 15y ago
In .ssh/config: Host alias Hostname realname.domain Port alternate_port
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by wnoise 15y ago
A lot of people have mentioned ugly diffs when lines are considered the basic unit of granularity, often giving examples that are much cleaner if words are considered fundamental (e.g. latex, or lists of files in makefiles). But there are
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by wnoise 15y ago
Which means that UIs should not be patentable. They're inherently public already.
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by wnoise 15y ago
It's not the Unix way if it's restricted to one programming language.
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by wnoise 15y ago
[citation needed]
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by wnoise 15y ago
All three are set upright in _The Princeton Companion to Mathematics_ (Gowers).
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by wnoise 15y ago
The whole concept of "contraband information" is anathema to a free society.
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by wnoise 15y ago
> Megaupload never complied with DMCA requests - I made several as part of some research and never received any response. A response is not required for DMCA compliance -- only disabling access to the content. Did you test that the lin
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by wnoise 15y ago
I'm not saying copyright violation is not illegal. I'm just saying it's not theft. It's a different crime, with different characteristics, defined in a different section of the US code.
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by wnoise 15y ago
That's clearly theft. The record store had a CD, and then you took it. But what's that got to do with copyright infringement?
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by wnoise 15y ago
I'd be quite surprised if they allowed write access. (Yes, they mean "no downloads", but it's a rather ridiculous way of phrasing that. And if you can read it, you can save it for later.)
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by wnoise 15y ago
Their code doesn't suddenly become GPLed. A copy or derivative of their code becomes GPLed. Their original code maintains it own original status. Yeah, if you want to avoid any copy of your code becoming GPLed, avoid GPL compatible licens
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by wnoise 15y ago
I say this as a copyright minimalist: the comparison to used bookstores is a bit disingenuous, for two reasons. The fact that used bookstores exist, and that you can sell old books means that a new book is worth not just the value derived f
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by wnoise 15y ago
SOPA is a war on communication, not directly on computation.
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by wnoise 15y ago
It has a set of const-correctness rules. They're much simpler than the C++ rules. While they handle the simple cases perfectly well, they forbid some assignments that really can't get you in trouble, and would be quite useful in practic
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by wnoise 15y ago
And they still haven't adopted the C++ const-correctness rules (for pointers to pointers to ...), which really do help in writing correct code, and correct code that has flavor of C89.
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by wnoise 15y ago
> Nullified jury cases were one of the tensions that led to the American Civil War. Sure, but in that case it was Juries refusing to enforce the (truly odious) Fugitive Slave Acts.
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by wnoise 15y ago
One problem is that even unambiguous legislation gets twisted by agency interpretations and case law to no longer mean what it originally said.
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by wnoise 15y ago
I don't specifically block ads, but I only execute white-listed JavaScript which effectively does block ads.
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by wnoise 15y ago
Three false negative, one false positive, and one "whoops".
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by wnoise 15y ago
NeXT services. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Services_menu
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by wnoise 15y ago
It's not clear to me that "impeding U.S. foreign policy" is a bad thing in this case.
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by wnoise 15y ago
> to have functioning relationships governments need to know that some level of confidentiality will be kept when requested. To have relationships that function the exact same way they do now. It's clear that things would be different.
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by wnoise 15y ago
I was hoping for unnoticeable cameras built in to the ear buds...
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by wnoise 15y ago
> simply draw attention to the fact that the driver is a nervous tool owner. Or rather, nervous about break-ins, which are damaging whether or not there are tools or other valuables in the van. A broken window costs money to replace; a
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by wnoise 15y ago
Do we need another story about a Groupon half-price special?
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by wnoise 15y ago
You might be interested in the program "par", which uses dynamic programming to optimize the line breaks, and can automatically handle such things as text prefixed by "> ". http://www.nicemice.net/par/
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by wnoise 15y ago
The exact answer is (2n choose n) * (1/2)^(2n). This is approximately sqrt(1/Pi n) as n grows large, with error O(n^(-3/2))
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by wnoise 15y ago
ALSA emulates the OSS devices.
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by wnoise 15y ago
Capitalizing, not capitalizing on. As in spelling with a capital M, rather than a lower case m.

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