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by zppx 16y ago
Saying as a Brazilian, since the Economist published its series of articles about Brazil last year I've been reading articles that says a lot of bullshit about Brazil and economics, they generally ignore the fact that the country growth is
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by zppx 16y ago
This line resumes everything: "They posted a video on YouTube with a smug smile on their face as they unveiled the iPhone a couple of months before Steve Jobs could." I do not think he is angry because of Gizmondo (low) standards of decency
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by zppx 16y ago
> "And even now (after we peaked at the No. 7 paid app), we still have no relationship with anyone there." This, for me, is a real problem with the Apple model (the "hide the engineers" model, also followed by Oracle), we can not simply
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by zppx 16y ago
upvoted, really good response, but calm down man, it appears you're barking.
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by zppx 16y ago
Much of the book is still valid, unixes still uses X, which sucks. Plan9 tried to address some of the shortcoming pointed by JWZ, sadly it failed. 10 Things I Hate About (U)NIX[1] and 10 Things I Hate About U(NIX) Revisited[2] are also good
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by zppx 16y ago
I think this will happen in the next 3 years or so, but I think that Linux will support three compilers, gcc, clang and pcc which is being developed by OpenBSD hackers[1]. [1]: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=2009122823114..
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by zppx 16y ago
The LGPL adopted by Webkit is much more restrictive than the MPL adopted by gecko (gecko still adopts GPL and LGPL, just because them it can link with GPL software), if you're blaming gecko for supporting Theora but not H.264 I must remembe
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by zppx 17y ago
H.264 hardware decode acceleration has nothing to do with WebKit, Microsoft based mobile devices will not come with WebKit and yet they probably will play H.264. By the way Chrome supported Theora last time I used it. Maybe this relates to
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by zppx 17y ago
I do not said that WebKit is an application, I said it is a layer on top of WebCore.
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by zppx 17y ago
There are a great number of application that does not have a native look and feel, does not use built-in resources from the operating systems that I use and yet I think they are great (Firefox, Vim, Apache Directory Studio), even WebKit (an
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by zppx 17y ago
The situation isn't new, what type of company press their employees to not write blogs or have twitter accounts about something they should be proud? This is my main instance against Apple, Apple is partly a soviet style bureaucracy, it's i
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by zppx 17y ago
Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1252428 Could the same legal argument, in some way, be applied to the new section 3.3.1 of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement(iDPLA)? Someone with a legal expertise could say something
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by zppx 17y ago
I read it will supports 'SSL VPN's' does anyone know if this will include openvpn support
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by zppx 17y ago
Better results in school measures what exactly?
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by zppx 17y ago
upvoted that was a good one.
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by zppx 17y ago
It's not exactly a new "Linux based OS", Joanna is a well known security hacker and so if you think about the reasons them you will see that what she's trying to do is a new security computing model for operating systems based on virtualiza
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by zppx 17y ago
> "Your comment comes across as though there's an implication that someone that laughs at an indvidual is racist in some way" No, I'm not, you could simply exchange "Sikh with turban" with "guy with a female swimsuit in Manhattan financ
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by zppx 17y ago
Just because someone adopts a different lifestyle I do not think we should laugh at him, or do you laugh when you see a sikh with a turban?
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by zppx 17y ago
The associated bugzilla ticket was posted here on hacker news earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1244164 Resuming the matter, the SSL system is broken, as it works today, one of the messages clearly states: Both "RSA Secur
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by zppx 17y ago
Microsoft, Ballmer in fact, also sees iPods, iPhones, Google, Amazon AWS, IBM, Nintendo and Sony as enemies, and not only open source. If there are some people in the community that wants to see Linux as a platform that fits everything (mob
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by zppx 17y ago
Can we just forget about this iPad stuff and return to our everyday hacking?
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by zppx 17y ago
Apple has a negligible global penetration, and I believe iPad will have a user base smaller than 1% of the total number of computers in the globe in the next 5 years, so even if Apple intends to be evil this will not affect any would be dev
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by zppx 17y ago
I mastered a little about Rails internals by looking at the source code (of the framework), changing some methods (and entire classes) sometimes and by reading the development mailing list, I recommend the same way of learning for everyone
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by zppx 17y ago
Thank you for point this out, I promise I'll read more from him, I generally only read the iPhone-related articles from his blog and this is the way I saw it, of course I could be biased, and generally I am, to comment about anything. But t
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by zppx 17y ago
If Gruber was not a well known defender of whatever Apple wants to happen in the world I would say that his viewpoint was meaningful, but it's not, he simply want to advance the Apple wishes... if we will need to migrate to other formats af
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by zppx 17y ago
This list only includes problems from theoretical physics, I prefer a list that also includes some problems from experimental physics and applied physics. Problems about superconductivity, neutrino detection, among others areas.
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by zppx 17y ago
Thanks, as you demonstrated, it does not includes the password hash, searching on google I found that the password is stored in /var/db/shadow/hash/, a file for each user, I'm reading these: http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2008/06
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by zppx 17y ago
In Unixes that uses the shadow system you just mount the partition and simply delete the string between the first and second colon to clean the password (in the /etc/shadow file), the string before the first colon is the username, but this
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by zppx 17y ago
So, why the hell are you using some Apple software that is much more restrictive than the the GPL?
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by zppx 17y ago
As far as I know Introductory Microeconomics is much more than that... not intending to disrespect to Joel, but my father, being a formed economist with a master degree, laugh reading this some years ago. Watching two courses on Introductor

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