Canuteson

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   by Canuteson 14y ago

   I'm pretty sure PEP 8 makes a sImilar argument for why privacy of underscore variables isn't strictly enforced in python.
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   by Canuteson 14y ago

   Add to that a licensing fee payable to the treasury for commercial use of tax payer funded research, e.g., prescription drug patents.
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   by Canuteson 14y ago

   You mean people shouldn't be surprised when their livelihood disappears after building a business out of shady marketing techniques?
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   by Canuteson 14y ago

   I came to say the exact same thing. And they still carry "The Hacker Quarterly". http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/2600-magazine
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   by Canuteson 14y ago

   So I guess they should rename it Skipe open source.
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   by Canuteson 14y ago

   I agree. A lot of the points in this review are simply irrelevant. They're talking about support for HDMI and other features not being available in default Debian distributions, the abililty to render Quake 3 (seriously), and other ridiculo
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   by Canuteson 14y ago

   Reminds me of the old adage: You don't learn to hack, you hack to learn.
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   by Canuteson 14y ago

   There are so many other problems with email that could be addressed by a new protocol, eg: spam, security. There are measures to address these issues more broadly with SMTP, but they are not widely adopted, something that could be standardi