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901.
by yarrel 13y ago
These efforts should not be made because quite apart from being immoral in themselves they are ineffective and have negative side effects.
902.
by yarrel 13y ago
The Register is hiring? As a licence fee payer, I object to the BBC taking my money and favouring proprietary platforms. They bend over forwards to work with and on DRM-encumbered platforms, so they're no strangers to "complexity".
903.
by yarrel 13y ago
The contemporary Mac Operator.
904.
by yarrel 13y ago
Agreed. You don't want frontend requests tied up for a fraction of that. If you have long-running tasks then this is what task queues are for.
905.
by yarrel 13y ago
Can you point to a historical example of a true free market system that robustly supported work/life balance?
906.
by yarrel 13y ago
The screeching brakes sound of context switches in Vim is not more "efficient" than just pressing a key combination to perform whichever transformation on text you wish to effect in Emacs. I use Emacs to edit text, and I have limbs I'd rath
907.
by yarrel 13y ago
This didn't become a less bad idea in the last two days.
908.
by yarrel 13y ago
The W3C DRM plug-in standard requires proprietary plugins to work. So you're right.
909.
by yarrel 13y ago
Yes. I've made that hire.
910.
by yarrel 13y ago
s/problems/money/
911.
by yarrel 13y ago
Buy his album, people.
912.
by yarrel 13y ago
It's a fundamentalist version of economic liberalism certainly, but not of political liberalism in the sense of vaguely leftist centrism.
913.
by yarrel 13y ago
To be removed in 3..2..
914.
by yarrel 13y ago
You work at a co-op?
915.
by yarrel 13y ago
Politically I agree, but Objective-C is a better language than C++ or Java, and Cocoa is a better framework than the STL or the Java core libraries. That's before we get to the GUI experience. Learning it will make you a better programmer.
916.
by yarrel 13y ago
Working pst 8 hours a day adds bugs that you then have to work more hours to fix. This feels like a lot of work because it is. But it's not "achieving more".
917.
by yarrel 13y ago
Using it about a London event shows a degree of historical ignorance that a knowledge of glam rock's excesses is tangential to at best.
918.
by yarrel 13y ago
There must have been better names for the event than a "Blitz'.
919.
by yarrel 13y ago
Article doesn't answer question posed in title.
920.
by yarrel 14y ago
Bachelor of Arts.
921.
by yarrel 14y ago
Idiocy of opinion piece journalists correlates inversely with penis size.
922.
by yarrel 14y ago
Once it became the top comment on this discussion, further upvoting would be redundant.
923.
by yarrel 14y ago
Because waaaaaaah!
924.
by yarrel 14y ago
If the judge can find the image in Google, that's not going to end well.
925.
by yarrel 14y ago
Yes. The author is Andy Orlowski...
926.
by yarrel 14y ago
A DRM API in HTML5 harms users by legitimizing and enabling restrictive technology under the banner of the free and open web, with all the practical harm (lack of control, reduced bargaining power, security issues) that loss of freedom enta
927.
by yarrel 14y ago
From the original article that you mischaracterise: "According to a public mailing list thread, Google is doing this on purpose, to handle a spam problem. We sympathize; we spend a disappointing amount of energy combating similar problems o
928.
by yarrel 14y ago
I'm familiar with corporate personhood but not state personhood.
929.
by yarrel 14y ago
Err no.
930.
by yarrel 14y ago
Ideologue, not philosopher.

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