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by yarrel 8y ago
All communities have benefits that those they exclude and other miss out on. But I'm not joining a communist cell just for the comradeship.
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AA SPEAKER: Your "higher power" can be anything. It doesn't have to be God. RON HOWARD VOICE-OVER: It's God
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by yarrel 8y ago
Yes philosophical admiration of Wittgenstein indicates a failure to take him seriously. If he was right, people should stop philosophising. But they don't. Wittgenstein failing to end philosophy not once but twice in the Twentieth Cent
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by yarrel 8y ago
The manhole and 747 questions test for obedience and bikeshedding, not problem solving. Likewise the linked list reversal question tests for lack of planning and critical thinking. These anti-skills will have been used quite regularly at Mi
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by yarrel 8y ago
Licenses like MIT don't give "the most possible freedom". I am not more free to modify and repair the software running on an iPhone despite the plethora of BSD and other permissive licenses on it than I am on a laptop running
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by yarrel 8y ago
This critique is never underdetermined.
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by yarrel 8y ago
In all fairness that isn't true. "Viral" and "cancer" are catchy memes but the GPL doesn't just inexplicably leap to software that is sat next to it minding its own business. The GPL is inheritance, not contagi
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by yarrel 8y ago
I agree very strongly with the penultimate paragraph there. "Methods of development are tools being used to protect software freedom, which in turn is a tool to protect user freedom. User freedom, and what we get from that, is what’s v
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by yarrel 8y ago
I'd use it for objects. Templates, exceptions, streams, the STL etc. are all badly thought out debugging and maintenance nightmares.
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by yarrel 8y ago
Minor notes: * BeOS was evaluated by Apple as a Copland replacement (along with Solaris, NT, and NeXTSTEP). * MacOS X discarded DPS for Quartz so it didn't turn out to be much of a feature. But very few applications touched that direct
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by yarrel 8y ago
Because it wasn't simply copying something from the 1970s like the Linux and NT kernels.
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Then it only taking a few clicks to install them would be just as good.
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by yarrel 8y ago
I had a similar experience with general anaesthetic. "10..9..oh there goes the left-hand side of my brain...8.."
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by yarrel 8y ago
If you want to see this page from outside the US, you'll need a VPN. :-)
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Pocket wasn't Mozilla's own service when they added it.
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by yarrel 8y ago
It's 2023. You develop on Windows, store your code on GitHub, and deploy to Azure with Docker. You are able to develop and deploy your code only because Microsoft allow you to. But it's OK, Microsoft love "Open Source".
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by yarrel 8y ago
It shares it. Each person pays for one node, not all the nodes.
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by yarrel 8y ago
Given the existence of quantum computing it makes sense as false advertising. I accept that it may just a terrible choice of name that is not deliberately intended to confuse though.
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by yarrel 8y ago
I'm going to go with the vets' opinion on this one. If Brinks trucks do the same work, use Brinks trucks. They are civilian vehicles and all of the tasks you list are civilian tasks. Militarization of the police force is a very, v
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by yarrel 8y ago
By this logic you are making the same mistake as both.
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by yarrel 8y ago
Reading the original article that The Register is recycling is good advice generally.
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The first time someone told something me this they felt they were being helpful and reassuring. Why did everyone else know what to do and I didn't? Oh don't worry, nobody does. Nope. That's not helpful. If there's no rul
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by yarrel 8y ago
Taler is designed as government spyware. Why it is part of the GNU project is a mystery.
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by yarrel 8y ago
A simple text editor built on top of Emacs.
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by yarrel 8y ago
I loathed "Infinite Jest" having got through it in one try. The advice I have since received is that I should have started with DFW's shorter pieces. I'm not going to now, but I do feel it's good advice given the lo
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by yarrel 8y ago
Weird. I had no problems cancelling earlier this year.
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C, not C++.
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If it isn't it doesn't matter. If it is, it has the same effect as if it isn't.
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It's a response that will improve the world. Opposing it is childish and reactionary.
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Can anecdotally confirm.

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