yarrel

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451.
by yarrel 10y ago
Generics for a language with a common base class object are a category error. Java's current popularity is due to Android, not the bloated corpse of enterprise Java.
452.
by yarrel 10y ago
Then they should use less political and value judgement entailing language. That they don't indicates that they enjoy the attention doing so brings to their otherwise dry mathematical endeavors. Or that they aren't very good at ra
453.
by yarrel 10y ago
Why?
454.
by yarrel 10y ago
They care about the freedom of software users, not weird corporate policies. Non-adoption by non-respecters of freedom isn't a downside.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Why? You still can't control, fix or trust the software as a whole. It's like a parachute that almost opens.
456.
by yarrel 10y ago
Completely fails to demonstrate the relevance of this as a critique here. (Proof of Stake, Sharding, and depending on your use case zero-confirmation transactions or shorter block times solve the problems you identify here.)
457.
by yarrel 10y ago
How much were you paid to post that? And if you were in a coma for three days, how much would I have to pay you to leave the coma and work on fixing a bug for that time instead?
458.
by yarrel 10y ago
Dylan.
459.
by yarrel 10y ago
I use it frequently. Even if I'm only using add ., I check the staging area before I commit. Reverting wouldn't be faster and wouldn't separate out files that are meant to be committed from those that aren't. It's a
460.
by yarrel 10y ago
My first thought was agriculture...
461.
by yarrel 10y ago
All of our food is produced and distributed using oil. Starvation would end our world pretty quickly.
462.
by yarrel 10y ago
In the third one the children mention a nuclear apocalypse. That was a retcon.
463.
by yarrel 10y ago
Yes. I'd say early Douglas Adams is comparably funny, although ironically PG Wodehouse probably requires less cultural knowledge now.
464.
by yarrel 10y ago
From a quick skim, it has the potential to become a GTD-style geek cult. So yes-ish.
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by yarrel 10y ago
We just need that support in Emacs...
466.
by yarrel 10y ago
If you change someone else's words, they are no longer their words. Most licenses require modified versions to be marked as such. So misrepresenting a modified version of, say, the GNU Manifesto as Stallman's original wouldn'
467.
by yarrel 10y ago
Proof the GPL protects you from getting screwed.
468.
by yarrel 10y ago
It's very tempting to write: (if a (something because of a) (something more because of a)) Requiring a progn for the else clause means that the above is caught by the compiler.
469.
by yarrel 10y ago
It's quicker to recover from a hack than it is to deal with SELinux every day.
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by yarrel 10y ago
For those of you who don't know what GCHQ is, it's the UK's NSA with all the problems that entails - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Communications_Head... "In 2013, GCHQ received considera
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by yarrel 10y ago
It seeming neat is the point. This is propaganda.
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by yarrel 10y ago
But surely the idea of p-zombies is so inimical to the idea of a self that only p-zombies could believe in them? (Sips tea.)
473.
by yarrel 10y ago
It doesn't contain the bug tracking, the wiki or the project sites. It doesn't include the team organization and access control. It doesn't include the bot integration. And it doesn't include the merging workflow that pe
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by yarrel 10y ago
No. They're distributing the binaries, so they have to provide the source code to users of the binaries on request. Publishing it like this satisfies that requirement.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Plugin to add crypto signatures to comments and validate them? :-)
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by yarrel 10y ago
The loud cheers on hn whenever they announce their latest "open source" moves show that it's working.
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by yarrel 10y ago
It's not cynical to learn from repeated experience and to correctly understand your work environment. As you yourself point out. Where that work environment is misrepresented by a manager, that isn't balance. It's a manager c
478.
by yarrel 10y ago
The claim that systemd doesn't just fix init scripts packs two lies into a very small amount of space.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Don't worry, they can appeal to the European courts.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Welcome IBM. Seriously.

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