Shamanmuni

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Libreteca.net: a network of projects to update ebooks for the Information Age(libreteca.net)
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by Shamanmuni 8y ago
I suppose you're talking about OWL. The thing is most programmers look at OWL, see the words class and property and immediately think that it's OOP, that they don't have to look more into it and it has the same problems. But
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by Shamanmuni 11y ago
Yes, picadas (which means chopped in Spanish) are pretty common in Argentina and people usually drink beer with them. You can order them at pubs and they are something standard in social gatherings. But I think mezze includes more elaborate
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by Shamanmuni 11y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but asado de tira is one of the two most common cuts in Argentina's parrillas, the other one is vacío (flank steak). It's so common that you can just order "asado" and you will get that.
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by Shamanmuni 11y ago
That's probably right, Fernet with Coke is a kind of national drink, especially in the province of Córdoba, where everything suggests it was invented. If you order a Fernet in Argentina, it is assumed that it includes Coke. Nobody tha
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by Shamanmuni 11y ago
I try to be as cautious as any free software loving programmer when it comes to Microsoft, but it's hard to see how they could get away with that strategy in TypeScript's case. The code uses the Apache License 2.0 (FSF approved, O
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by Shamanmuni 11y ago
No, the AGPL uses strong copyleft, so any future derivative work must be released under the same terms (and the same license or later versions if I'm not mistaken). The only possibility is to start a closed source clone that doesn&#x27
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
I don't know about the JVM, but what you mention about MySQL has to do not strictly with the GPL but with it being dual licensed (GPL and propietary) and as a result many Linux distributions like Red Hat, OpenSUSE, Fedora and Arch deci
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
But that's perfectly OK and working as intended. I mean, if you want to distribute a closed source product, then you're working against what the FSF and GPL were created for, and it's wise to stay away from them. Remember, fr
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
You have some guarantees of access to the present source code (and as jdjb points out, not necessarily), but you're certainly not guaranteed access to changes made in the future by that or other parties like the GPL does. That's t
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
Yes it is because people expect their office suite to handle MS formats flawlessly as a basic requirement, and the best at that is naturally MS Office. Nobody cares how or if Word handles ODT files, but if another word processor doesn'
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
The article mentions Kary Mullis' use of LSD helped him develop the polymerase chain reaction, which revolutionized genetics and for which he won a Nobel Prize. But I suspect from your tone that I could give a thousand examples and you
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
If you read "What the Dormouse Said" by John Markoff you could reach the conclusion that a fellowship of LSD-fueled Übermenschen existed during the 60's and 70's and we had the personal computer revolution as a result. A
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
> Please enlighten me on the ideas! concepts! Microsoft held back again and again that were not available on free software systems? Are you joking? I'll just give you one example: IE 6 and its complete disregard for open standards,
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
So, for you this is an all or nothing thing. If I made some things public through Facebook then I'm automatically OK with Echo possibly sending data to Amazon about the things I didn't want to make public? Perhaps I want to be in
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
I assume you haven't used Chromium. It's not an issue, as I said they don't come by default as in Chrome, but those codecs are easily installable through the package manager. I hadn't even noticed Chromium doesn't h
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
I know that you know it, I was talking about your hypothetical user. Except for the color of the icon and the lack of support by default for AAC, H.264 and MP3 (I have support for those 3 in Chromium in Arch), do you find anything relevant
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
We owe a lot to those who work on package managers and the packages, but he has a point in that if it works so well it has a lot to do with the software being free. Important things like good and efficient dependency management and library
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
I use Transmission regularly. I have tried Brasero, Rythmbox and Simple Scan. These last three aren't bad, I just think that K3B, Amarok and Skanlite offer more and aren't that difficult. I just installed Shotwell to make a more i
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
VLC, Scrivener, Skype, Spotify for Linux; I think they all qualify as quite usable applications. On the other hand, in GTK you have GIMP and Inkscape, which aren't exactly an UX expert's dream. In Qt you can find similar counterpa
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
Well, I won't deny that there's some truth in what you said, but first a couple of comments about the examples. Transmission is as much a Gnome as a KDE application. It has both Qt and GTK clients that look the same. Brasero looks
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
But that's not what he wanted to point out, at all. It's not about percentages of contributions. He classified them as coming from KDE or not and wanted to demonstrate that many important Qt contributors started in KDE. If someone
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
From what you say I assume that you think a publishing house's only job is to take your manuscript to the printer. Well, no, there's much work involved in the editing and design process prior to that. There's people working o
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
It's not just a matter of how much money the writer will get. And even when talking about that, you assume that any published book will sell, and that's not true. When you publish through a publishing house, they assume the financ
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
AFAIK green threads were removed from the core language but are available as crate green (also known as greenlib). You can use that for building servers. http://doc.rust-lang.org/green/
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
Well, I'm a Qt fanboy, but I think a Linux distro + Qt5 + KDE5 will probably be quite close to what you want. Take a look at Qt Quick and especially QML, which is being used for developing KDE 5. QML is basically a Javascript-based dec
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
I don't agree with everything he says (the invasion of desktop linux seems completely unsubstantiated) but there are a couple of problems he points out that worry me, and I think we should pay attention. Maturity: it certainly feels ru
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
What you are saying doesn't make much sense. The "private property" of the ISP's is valuable for content providers only when the public is using it. An ISP with 10 users has exactly 0 power to demand money, even if they
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
Read what the other commenters are pointing out. Maybe the situation is better in C++ now than it was before, but it doesn't mean you can't shoot yourself in the foot, specially for a beginner. Rust was built with safety in mind f
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by Shamanmuni 12y ago
I like Go and feel quite productive when building web services with it. It works well, but I think the Golang team neglected many advances in Computer Science, particularly the ones coming from the functional world, and the result is a nice

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