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by zeth___ 8y ago
I find it odd that people in 2011 didn't know about Git blame. Or have the ability to simply script the tools they were complaining about not having.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Huh, interesting. Probably someone who experienced that themselves. I'll be reading that, thanks for the suggestion.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
I was in the beta in middle school. I'm in my 30s now. I won't be playing the game because it was about the people you met, not the places you went to. There is that screenshot floating around of the last player left in a guild un
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by zeth___ 8y ago
That we no longer pay rents to the owners of the kernel is a huge victory for everyone. That you mistake market failures for successes is a rather sad reflection on the state of the soul of most technologists. The commodification of service
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by zeth___ 8y ago
The majority of servers are open source, the majority of consumer devices are open source, all super computers are open source. How is open source not eating the world?
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by zeth___ 8y ago
You mean something that throws out g completely?
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by zeth___ 8y ago
The banking crisis says otherwise.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Really? I look at kids these days and see hyperactive idiots with access to all the knowledge in the world but who choose to watch fuzzes of color that nearly give me seizures. I'm not saying older generations were better just that thi
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by zeth___ 8y ago
What are you on about? Women made up between 5 and 8% of the Gulag population. If we suppose that men and women are completely equally likely to follow each other you would need 1 man to follow their wife for every 20 women that followed th
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Somehow there weren't that many engineers in Guatemala. Plenty of child prostitutes though. I guess capitalism really gives you want you want.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Every communist nation had a much larger high technology sector than similarly developed capitalist nations. Unless you want to talk to me about the fabs in Portugal and Mexico in 1990 when compared to the ones in Bulgaria and the USSR you&
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Fair enough, there's a bunch of fully open source computers that let you really build things from the ground up: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A10/open-source-ha... Completely out of time to
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by zeth___ 8y ago
How does this deal with the binary blobs that need to start the boot loader? From memory the older models needed to launch the graphics chip first which was a hack-y nightmare with no open source way of doing it.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
They were the first movers so they cornered the market with an inferior product. Now that China has no hope of capturing the market to extract rents the next best alternative is to make extracting rents impossible, destroying the business m
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by zeth___ 8y ago
That you mistake a monopoly for a victory and not a market failure says a lot more about your values than about the relative merits of open source vs closed source.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
If Chinas leadership was smart they would push for open source commodity ics. Opensource always wins and they could do a run around the US where old technologies like x86 die and all the experience built around then becomes irrelevant.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Having all humans exist in the solar system leaves us very vulnerable and a single point of failure. Having all humans exist in the local stellar neighborhood leaves us very vulnerable and a single point of failure. Having all humans exist
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by zeth___ 8y ago
>As a simpler example, the other day I helped a high school student write a program to do basic numerical integration. No external input needed. So how are the functions fed into the integrator? The second you want your program to integr
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Plenty of Russians aren't Russian. As long as you speak Russian and don't look obviously non-white you can pass for one pretty easily. As an extreme and over the top example: Stalin wasn't Russian.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Compared to where? Most of the world is China, India and Africa. The rest of the developed world is vastly better than Japan when it comes to treating immigrants better.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
>Uh... am I missing the joke? Yes, yes you are.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
When your messaging protocol is Turing complete you have no hope of a secure web server.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
And those c programs call binary files. Anyone who uses C is a hypster that just wants to use a cool language instead of of good old 1 and 0.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
This isn't about cool this is about dangerous. C makes shooting yourself in the foot so easy and efficient it even asks for artillery support. The time and effort to secure a C program against malicious input is absolutely huge. It wou
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by zeth___ 8y ago
It's hilarious when people are so wrong they don't even realize they are wrong. We have a whole generation of people who work as coders but don't understand the first thing about computers. And there are so many of them that
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences turns out to be a really shitty idea when it happens to people you agree with.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
The difference between parsing and everything else there is that every single program longer than 200 lines will need to take a string from somewhere and change it somehow. If you don't know how to parse a context free language you wil
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Regular expressions should only be used for either interactive search or a tokenizer. Everywhere else they will be abused and lead to sphagetti code.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
If you spend decades being a better juggler you won't be a better programmer, the same is true for all the meta-programming jobs.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Parsing is the fundamental task of programming: taking information, performing a transformation on it, passing it along. If you can't do it you might use computers but you're not programming. Tuning DE solvers might take as much s

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