antonovka

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by antonovka 17y ago
If Stephen McIntyre is all about openness and taking advantage of the abhorrent disclosure of internal communications, why doesn't he follow suite by posting all of his personal e-mail correspondence, unedited for external review? I'm sure
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by antonovka 17y ago
Yeah, because this is definitely the argument this article is about... You're saying that your solution isn't to develop for Free Software platforms? I apologize for making assumptions based on your comment history. If that's not your sol
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by antonovka 17y ago
I read McIntyre's site regularly, and find very little evidence of this. His 'political ends'? McIntyre spent 30 years in the oil/gas exploration business ("mineral exploration"). You don't think there are some vested politics here? You
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by antonovka 17y ago
... I guess one reason for it is that BSD license put off more developers compared to GPLv2. No, it was just timing. The AT&T lawsuit cast a palor on the BSDs just when Linux started hitting its stride. By the time the lawsuit was set
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by antonovka 17y ago
Well, what this showed us is that some respected climate researchers are just making shit up. What proof?
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by antonovka 17y ago
He has a clear political agenda. He's not an independent scientist (he's not even a scientist). What possible good can come of interacting with someone who -- in addition to being grossly underqualified -- has a consistent history of applyi
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by antonovka 17y ago
If I had a persistent gadfly like Stephen McIntyre who would use every opportunity to twist my data and words to his own political ends -- and the media accordingly -- I might also behave in such an untoward manner regarding the release of
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by antonovka 17y ago
Then don't read them. I'm tired of the vagaries of Linux on my desktop, but I solve that by not using it.
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by antonovka 17y ago
If you stopped developing for the iPhone and started developing web applications or desktop applications or, indeed, almost any other type of software, you wouldn't have to ask anyone's permission to sell your software or improve your soft
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by antonovka 17y ago
Politicized science is not good science. Please support the claim that they "hid" their data. Note that citing an unqualified politically biased source is not adequate support for such a serious scientific claim.
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by antonovka 17y ago
As a scientist why would I invest my time in providing additional support to someone that will simply twist whatever assistance is provided to support his own agenda? As a programmer I wouldn't certainly not waste my time assisting someone
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by antonovka 17y ago
The only people afraid of sunlight are those people with something to be ashamed of. There are plenty of reasons to be afraid of exposing internal communications due to the vagaries of political processes and vendettas. To claim otherwise
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by antonovka 17y ago
Of course, the email wasn't private, was it? It's a government funded (your money) institution. This justifies breaking federal law and then excising context as to leverage out-of-context statements to dishonestly support your position? I
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by antonovka 17y ago
An ignorant, unqualified gadfly complaining about a lack of assistance and collaboration from working scientists is not a compelling argument.
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by antonovka 17y ago
You're ranting like a loon about brainwashing, cheering on the hacking of private e-mail, and you're getting upvoted for it? If my e-mail was hacked and out-of-context quotes were levied to take ignorant pot shots at my work, I would be
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by antonovka 17y ago
Are these people telling me i can't smoke in front of my computer? No, they're telling you that they won't fix damage caused by smoking, and they won't force their computer technicians to clean up a disgusting and harmful mess of sticky t
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by antonovka 17y ago
Other than Lessig, that trio does not even begin to represent me or innumerable other open source developers. RMS and Linus represent GPL and Linux developers, who are are only one component of the broader community. The GPL/Linux ideals ar
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by antonovka 17y ago
Open source has long existed and thrived without RMS and the GPL.
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by antonovka 17y ago
Your argument makes the unfounded assumption that those vendors would have done the work you "lost" if the code had been GPL licensed. As a counterpoint, FreeBSD has progressed at a steady clip -- I fail to see how it is significantly behin
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by antonovka 17y ago
Read the parent comment. I was replying to the specific statement that one cannot download apps onto the device other than through the App Store, not addressing whether it is useful or not as a channel to distribute apps. I can get out an
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by antonovka 17y ago
The big appeal of C for me is that it's portable (as long as you know to avoid the non-portable parts, anyway). Sorry, but I won't be using any language extension that will only compile on mac. I agree, but the compiler changes are open s
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by antonovka 17y ago
Ad-hoc distribution requires that you: 1) Share your unique device identifier with the developer. 2) The developer registers that device ID with Apple. Only 100 devices per developer may be registered in one year. 3) Apple signs a signing c
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by antonovka 17y ago
People are used to more, and we need to do it with less time. They don't want to wait for loading screens, they want to load their smoothly scrolling images over the WiFi on-demand from Flickr while performing high quality interpolation to
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by antonovka 17y ago
As someone with a mildly neglected (but understanding) wife and and an on-hold personal life, I couldn't disagree with your comment more -- but it's also not what the article said. The article said: [Your] business is rarely so fragile tha
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by antonovka 17y ago
Which means that the original corporation won't participate (unless forced to by accidentally including GPL'd code) because there are a lot of very good reasons for a corporation to not share their source code (ie, competitive advantage), a
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by antonovka 17y ago
I don't see how one could possibly sanely think that I would find a copy of, say, Civilization 4 without models, textures, and sound to be useful. Are you serious? It's a drop-in game engine. You could create a variation on Civilization 4
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by antonovka 17y ago
FWIW, I contribute to an app that has been on the App Store for ~10 months now, been in the top 100 for its category since release and is open source (under a BSD license). We've had several people tell us that someone could do this very t
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by antonovka 17y ago
There's nothing about the GPL that says you can't sell your product. I wish this tired GPL counterpoint would be put to rest. If you provide the source code for your software, someone else will compile it and distribute a binary legally a
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by antonovka 17y ago
For this vision to become reality, the process would need to get much, much easier. I think that's the whole point. The services provided by Flickr and Facebook used to be quite a bit more difficult to achieve, too.
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by antonovka 17y ago
There is a very simple solution to getting your stuff to run on many linux distros without too much trouble: static linking. That's not simple at all. If I want to integrate properly with your desktop, do I write my code against gnome or

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