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by yarrel 12y ago
Emacs can display and edit vector graphics. I wrote a dedicated vector image editor a while back ("Minara") in which the application, tools, and images were all just Scheme code (using Guile). I'm now wondering about represen
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by yarrel 12y ago
Yes.
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by yarrel 12y ago
The Fun-O Dylan compiler highlighted text for performance didn't it?
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by yarrel 12y ago
I thought states' rights was just a code phrase for racism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States'_rights#Controversy
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by yarrel 12y ago
[citation needed]
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by yarrel 12y ago
I love Dylan. We should all be using it instead of C++ and Java. Particularly C++. Each time I type "friend" in C++ or have to use the STL, I miss Dylan.
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by yarrel 12y ago
This is mobile app cargo culting. Running untrusted code on your phone is not a good model for desktop software, particularly in UNIX.
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by yarrel 12y ago
Nope, not seen that. Sounds like resizing on a poorly written MacOS Classic application. Possibly it happens and my brain filters it out.
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by yarrel 12y ago
It does however concrete in a lot of awkwardness from working with compiling a static language into a dynamic one then running it.
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by yarrel 12y ago
Microsoft and Dell cannot stop IS using computers. Xerox cannot stop IS using photocopiers. Sanford cannot stop IS using pencils. BBC cannot stop IS listening to World Service. etc.
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by yarrel 12y ago
Botnet C&C can use IRC lookup or raw IP, so it's a particularly weak argument for DNS censorship.
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by yarrel 12y ago
Coleman's studied Anonymous at length. There's no contradiction between Anonymous being disorganized teenagers (sic) and them caring about their image. Quite the opposite in fact.
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by yarrel 12y ago
Following a script to start a conversation can help if you lack social confidence. But it shouldn't be a means of manipulating people. That seems a bit too much like being a Pick-Up-Artist.
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by yarrel 12y ago
If the answer is Eclipse, you're asking the wrong question. Unless that question is "how can I nuke my productivity?", or "we're developing in Java, what's the worst that can happen?".
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by yarrel 12y ago
> There aren't any decentralized alternatives to Facebook, Google, or Twitter because nobody's been able to ship one. Untrue. http://gnu.io/
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by yarrel 12y ago
Ad hominem, appeal to emotion, guilt by association, and straw man. Although to be fair that's the fallacy fallacy.
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by yarrel 12y ago
Or SchellingCoins - https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/03/28/schellingcoin-a-minimal...
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by yarrel 12y ago
They experimented through misrepresentation. It's the latter that's the problem, not the former. If your bank experimented with not completing transactions or your email provider experimented with not delivering emails, the proble
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by yarrel 12y ago
Yes what's their position on DRM?
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by yarrel 12y ago
Just checked on a new install, it's disabled.
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by yarrel 12y ago
The no-poach agreements were clearly made in good faith between the parties involved. It's the parties who were not party to the agreement but whose wage-earning potential was affected by it that are the problem.
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by yarrel 12y ago
You've much more more faith in Universal respecting fair use than I have.
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by yarrel 12y ago
How do you mean?
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by yarrel 12y ago
All software is algorithms, and the UI system can easily be tripped up by a patent on payroll systems precisely because of the universal underlying mathematics.
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by yarrel 12y ago
Does this support DRM on the audio files?
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by yarrel 12y ago
A DJ's investigation of denialist "critique" etc.
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by yarrel 12y ago
Bless.
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by yarrel 12y ago
With Firefox's new support for DRM this will be a killer piece of hardware! Said no-one ever.
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by yarrel 12y ago
If Python needs reviving then Python 3 is the reason. But I suspect what needs reviving is Python 3. If functioning unicode support isn't getting people to switch, it's got an uphill battle on its hands.
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by yarrel 12y ago
Rebol is doing better than Perl 6. Python 3 occasionally prevents work getting done in Python 2. That's it.

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