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by yosh 17y ago
Those makefiles wouldn't have to be as complex if automake only targeted GNU make. A lot of the messiness is there to support conditionals.
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by yosh 17y ago
"make it work with the autotools" ? The auto* family of tools have a ton of complexity to make things work with non-GNU tools. Automake would be vastly simpler if there wasn't the specific design goal of working with non-GNU make.
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by yosh 17y ago
There's also debate on whether Neanderthals are a subspecies of human or a separate species altogether, so there's obviously enough genetic differences to fuel that debate.
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by yosh 17y ago
All those are power user features though. Most users don't even know they exist, and why would they, since they aren't very discoverable.
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by yosh 17y ago
IIRC, koala isn't considered endangered, but I think various agencies want to do a current population assessment.
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by yosh 17y ago
For Eurostar (Paris<->London) there's a security checkpoint with x-ray and metal detector too. No shoes-off, but you don't have to do that for air travel in Europe either. I guess they're paranoid about the Chunnel... The legroom on
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by yosh 17y ago
If txt was _really important_ to Twitter they'd have actually got the length limits right: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=660986 Summary: for languages like Arabic, Hindi, etc., you only get 70 characters total.
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by yosh 17y ago
You favorite example isn't actually true: http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
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by yosh 17y ago
"Normally that's not a security problem" ? PulseAudio allowing arbitrary code loaded into a suid root app via command line parameters is a gaping security hole by itself. This exploit used a trivial root exploit to setup a deeper kernel lev
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by yosh 17y ago
LZW encoding was patented, decoding was never patent encumbered. So web browsers never had to worry, since all they were doing was decompressing. For the H.264 case, decoding is also encumbered, so it's not the same situation.
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by yosh 17y ago
Careful now, GIF uses Lempel-Ziv- Welch or LZW, which was patent encumbered in the US until 2003, and a few other countries until 2004. Not all Lempel-Ziv compression algorithms were patent encumbered though: LZ77 with Huffman coding is th
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by yosh 17y ago
Yeah, I always thought faking meat with vegetables has a certain amount of hack value, but people who are serious about a vegetarian diet are better off mostly eating cusines that are designed to be vegetarian, to get the proper nutrient ba
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by yosh 17y ago
They may feel that, but they never really got that right in the first place. Twitter has a 140 character limit. SMS has a 140 byte limit. There's a 7-bit GSM character encoding which gives you the 160 characters, but that only covers ba
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by yosh 17y ago
It's questionable how valuable those metrics are, considering that a number of Twitter clients follow the shortened links to get the real URLs for their users, which means a hit doesn't necessarily translate into a view.
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by yosh 18y ago
That's inaccurate, you can statically link closed source to an LGPL library, as long as you provide the object files so the user can relink it against a modified version of the LGPL library.
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by yosh 18y ago
Uhm, yes it does. It's realtime data. And since it's backed by actual scientific instruments, you can tell immediately if it was a magnitude 3 in Berkeley, or a magnitude 6 in Parkfield, which is better than some tweet of "I just felt an ea
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by yosh 18y ago
Earthquakes are a poor example. http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm is going to give you more timely and accurate data than someone's random tweet.