Waywocket

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by Waywocket 16y ago
>If you wish to go to a system whereby there is no patent system, then recognize that people wouldn't be revealing their inventions, and thus things like android couldn't exist, because they wouldn't have a source of technology to copy.
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by Waywocket 16y ago
>I usually multiple bytes * 10 to account for overhead I don't disagree with your point, but this bit is faulty. If you want to account for some overhead you should multiply by a number lower than 8, not higher.
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by Waywocket 16y ago
So does almost everyone, when asked. The depressing thing is, when it comes to actual results, the x.99 pricing still works (well, I read this on the BBC a couple of months ago - don't have the link but the study they were quoting sounded p
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by Waywocket 16y ago
>You can also set up IPv6 for yourself or your home network via a tunnel (which is a pretty fun exercise), and get access to the IPv6-enabled Internet. All recent operating systems have very good support for it -- even Windows 7 will he
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by Waywocket 16y ago
>Finally, that's the first comment I get, instead of someone extolling the virtues of swap and babbling warmed-over 1990s rules of thumb about "twice the RAM is the recommended size of your swap file" as if I'm going to wait for even 20
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by Waywocket 16y ago
>emacs and vi are console based editors. Don't know about emacs, but vim has an (optional) gui. >In Sublime you can select text with your mouse And in vim - even in the console version in fact. It's useful being able to select text,
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by Waywocket 16y ago
Where did you get that idea?
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by Waywocket 16y ago
>For one thing, eFreedom.com actually answers your question. This is different from ExpertsExchange (which promises you might get an answer if you fork over $, yeah right) Not sure if I'm taking you too literally, but Experts Exchange d
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by Waywocket 16y ago
Indeed. My work's web server logs show that the number one referrer is a Google search for the full URL of the site.
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by Waywocket 16y ago
That's even worse. Users habituate themselves to the two-step process in exactly the same way, only now they're annoyed because you're forcing them to do extra unnecessary work.
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by Waywocket 16y ago
>Firefox doesn't hide that much of the details. You can still see the gory details of URLs and HTTP requests surfaced quite clearly, and the experience of using the web is that much richer if you know what they are and how to manipulate
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by Waywocket 16y ago
>USB drives are the most common form of data transfer because of the assurance that they will be compatible with most machines. At $orkplace I have the 'opportunity' to see how non-technical folks work - In the last three years floppies
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by Waywocket 16y ago
On average, I use a USB connector about 3 times a day. I have yet to see a Bluetooth device that isn't a phone (I literally don't know a single person who has a Bluetooth controller that isn't one of those never-used phone features, nor any
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by Waywocket 16y ago
>The alternative, and very likely real reason for the suit, is that Oracle actually cares about its intellectual property and would prefer that Google not do what they will with it. I think it's far more likely that Oracle has seen a wa
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by Waywocket 16y ago
It's not as sudden as that. For reference, I admin a mail server for a small charitable organisation, and our mail graph for the last year looks like this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4957647/mailstats/mail.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/495764
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by Waywocket 16y ago
I wish I could find a link to an article I was reading a while back, which pointed out that most users who actually use search engines beyond typing 'facebook login' every morning work out how to search within a couple of weeks at most. Giv
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by Waywocket 16y ago
I wasn't aware that the FSF agreement needed to be physically posted, so thank you for pointing that out. I will point out in return that their requirements have indeed caused a number of forks (some of which ended up being merged back in w
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by Waywocket 16y ago
If you honestly think there's a way they could plausibly have made it harder, start by naming a project which has a higher barrier to entry.
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by Waywocket 16y ago
I'm starting to wonder if anyone's even bothering to read what I'm writing. You've pointed out yet another example of a project which does not require a postal form, supporting my position. Requiring a disclaimer for works for hire isn't ev
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by Waywocket 16y ago
>The OpenJDK CA process was put in place a long time ago by Sun, generally well-liked in open source circles last I knew. Sun was never well liked outside of the Jave gated community. They - and their CA process - were used several ti
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by Waywocket 16y ago
Well let's see, the choice of license is a starting point. The EPL is, per se, a bad license (intentionally incompatible with the GPL and with the showstopping choice-of-venue clause), but it's ubiquitous in Java land so we'll let them off.
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by Waywocket 16y ago
>Patches, bug reports are welcome :) Well, not really. My biggest beef with clojure is that it masquerades as an open source project by strictly following the letter (it is released under an open source license), but not actually follow
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by Waywocket 16y ago
Dude, don't feed the trolls.
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by Waywocket 16y ago
Well, you live and learn - looking those up I think I've always called them 'those beans, you know, the black and white ones we used to have to rehydrate and which would sit in the cupboard for years before anyone bothered to eat them'. The
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by Waywocket 16y ago
>Green peas, alas, escape even the most practised forking, regardless of which method - balancing on the back or stab-them-to-death - one chooses. Personally I choose not to eat peas at all unless furnished with a spoon :P. (And what ot
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by Waywocket 16y ago
I've always felt lucky for being left handed when it comes to utensil etiquette. I'd be almost incapable of using a fork in my right hand so I've always felt some sympathy for all those right handers who have to use their cutlery the wrong
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by Waywocket 16y ago
Could be - it would make sense for them as it's a good way to increase their exposure. I wonder if there might also be some correlation with whether or not Spotify is available in the artist's country.
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by Waywocket 16y ago
>It has a radio mode, which while not praticularly smart, does let you do some discovery. Oh right. That's not available in the free version or listed in the quick version comparison (though it is listed in the full comparison) which is
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by Waywocket 16y ago
No it doesn't. (Or if it does, then the UI needs fixing to make it discoverable)
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by Waywocket 16y ago
>These days it is starting to become more likely for obscure, independently-distributed music to be there than not to be there. YMMV. I use Spotify a fair bit, despite having a fairly crappy UI (not that it's too bad, just annoying in p

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