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by zeth___ 8y ago
Here is a mantra every programmer should repeat every morning: >RMS was right. It doesn't matter what the topic, or how insane what he says sounds. He is always right and you're just not developed enough to understand why that&
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Because GNU has always worked that way and given us some of the best software ever written.
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If you read the waiver you have to sign before contributing anything to the fsf you surrender all your copyrights to them. This is so they can keep moving software into newer GPL versions. The maintainers are just mechanics working on someo
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by zeth___ 8y ago
If Stallman cared for what hill the mainstream thought he should die on he'd still be hacking lisp/emacs at MIT. Him being completely irrational about pet causes is the reason why we have an opensource community today. I trust him
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Fork if you don't like it. That's the whole point of free software. Edit: I find it disturbing that so many people want to erase hacker culture from the internet. Consensus is a Bay Area idea, one that came quite late to the world
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One of those physics graduates. If research paid above starvation wages I'd do it. But crud pays 10x as much as working on the latest particle accelerator and I can plan more than 1 year in the future.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
>should you get special welfare because of your nationality? Given that it's my country: yes. Why else spend so much money on bombs?
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by zeth___ 8y ago
And no one took it seriously. The only targets that people were worried about were PLCs in power plans and other things that go boom.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Tor, freenet, i2p.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
I've started using hidden services a lot more recently. They remind me of the internet I remember from 1998-2006. I wouldn't say it's the 'old' internet, because I wasn't alive for the supposed glory days of ar
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Unit tests are mostly worthless for machines like this, you need formal proofs.
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>The people who become devoted to a field or a technology - who make the business their passion, and focus on filling a need - these are the people who earn a fortune. I am always amazed people think this is the case. The people who make
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by zeth___ 8y ago
That's not true. The permanent ledger means that every transaction is stored forever. Unless you want government to know you bought drugs you're much better off using something actually anonymous.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
>A case, that is not quite a simplification is removing code re-use. Instead of using function in three different ways, you use three separate optimised functions. Now changes to one use case don't cause bugs in the others. That&#x2
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Bitcoin is the eniac of crypto-currencies. Good for the time, no, you shouldn't have one in your garage.
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>IME, optimizations frequently boost both simplicity and performance, usually by unifying disparate code paths and making logic orthogonal. I would really like to see some examples where this is the case. Optimizations in my experience h
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by zeth___ 8y ago
And here we see capitalist apologists trying to jettison capitalism and move over into feudalism. By definition the only time a market can function is when no firm is large enough to have an impact on prices. Amazon can. Amazon is too big a
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Ireland's language is actually Gaelic. It's the only country in the EU that does not require it's language in translations because even in Ireland nearly no one speaks it.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
>If the author changes his views, it wouldn't be acceptable for someone else to print new copies of the book. When the author burns their own book and forbids new ones from being made is the only time that it's acceptable to pr
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by zeth___ 8y ago
If no one can read an a book what good is it? You are purposefully muddying the issue of access. If you upload your pictures on a password protected ftp server no one will know or care when you delete them. If you upload them on a publicly
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Not since England left the EU.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
A simple solution: don't publish things you don't want people to read. This is no different to burning books that the authors no longer support the views in.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
To quote George Carlin: The Earth will be fine, you're screwed though.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
People paid to do something are rarely the best at it. They are however consistent since their pay check depends on it.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
>I've always thought it'd be nice to be able to code at the speed of thought - you can often envisage the code or classes that'll make up part of a solution, In my experience that 'solution' isn't a solution
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by zeth___ 8y ago
There is some interesting work being done that also restores topsoil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svNg5w7WY0k
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https://github.com/wting/hackernews Sure.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Hackernews, not "install proprietary software to have a peak at a walled garden" + "news".
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by zeth___ 8y ago
100k is very little. I have wasted that much several times over. It's not until you get to the double digits in millions that you're dealing with serious money. My last idea tanked, ate all my savings and now I'm back at a jo
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Ocean acidification isn't helped by nuclear weapons.

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