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by yarrel 10y ago
The "wrong" is where that software prevents you from exercising precisely the kind of choice that you are arguing for.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Software written in JavaScript may be free or non-free, like software in any other programming language. In this particular case the code is not freely licensed and so (by rms' definition) is not free.
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by yarrel 10y ago
I always enjoy following people's journeys through particular artworks, and on that level I greatly enjoyed this article. On the level of philosophy of art I found that its starting premise (art's non-discursiveness) is undermined
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by yarrel 10y ago
I hate puzzles. Using brain-teasers to evaluate coding ability is like using lockpicking to evaluate orienteering ability.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Really glad there's a license that protects my freedom to use the software in there.
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by yarrel 10y ago
> When people say kids are the most fulfilling thing in their life, is it because they are didn't have anything really fulfilling in their life before that? No. > Did you have something that gave you a lot of fulfillment before y
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by yarrel 10y ago
"If you've nothing to hide you've nothing to fear."
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by yarrel 10y ago
It's used for the same things as that much more widely exploited anonymous currency, cash. If you've ever bought gum without using a credit card you're associated with underground markets, ransoms, money laundering, etc. The
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by yarrel 10y ago
Rust: people use. D: people don't.
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by yarrel 10y ago
I'm selling my Rift and buying an OSVR headset.
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by yarrel 10y ago
And that's how Remain lost.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Free software operating systems don't tend to encrypt resources against their users. If the users want to encrypt them that's another matter. If the Linux kernel was encrypted, you'd expect the (root) user to be able to unenc
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by yarrel 10y ago
I read the article. The author is credulous, and clearly had a wordcount to fill.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Send at the end is like return-once or tail recursion. Does - http://www.joeykrug.com/home/a-serpent-send-exploit change things at all?
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by yarrel 10y ago
....to succeed. ;-)
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by yarrel 10y ago
> Companies treat workers well because they have to compete to get them. Not because the government forces their hand. Assuming economic rationality then arguing that people ignore incentives is incoherent.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Europe cannot compete with Russia and China. And the NHS will be dismantled thanks to TTIP whether the UK leaves the EU or not. Brexit is therefore a choice between political elites. A remote, unseen, neoliberal, corrupt political elite or
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by yarrel 10y ago
It wouldn't be the first time that's been proposed.
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by yarrel 10y ago
I'm pro-taxation, but cryptocurrency with built-in state surveillance doesn't seem like a good combination.
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by yarrel 10y ago
They need to open up the wire protocol. Let people innovate outside their walled garden.
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by yarrel 10y ago
The CV1 that Oculus gave me, which I'm very grateful for, won't even turn on when I plug it in. I'm not installing Windows and a sub-Steam walled garden to use it. I should have kept the DK1. :-/
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by yarrel 10y ago
Common Lisp is compiled and has a type system. Several type systems.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Article is much better than headline, including a case study and constructive proposals.
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by yarrel 10y ago
You're joking.
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by yarrel 10y ago
D isn't going to happen. Go is a wonderfully boring language. That's its technical strength and social downfall. Rust is the anti-Go. It's an adoption cult with a good language attached. Swift is pleasantly surprising me with
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by yarrel 10y ago
Also smurfiness.
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by yarrel 10y ago
More systemd bloat. I guess Windows adding an app store made cargo cutting that approach irresistible.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Writing articles like this? You've probably got a wordcount to fill.
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by yarrel 10y ago
Loading drum samples into this will be hard.
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by yarrel 10y ago
The tyranny of "The Tyranny of Structurelessness".

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