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by cbd1984 10y ago
Aside from marketing, which you mentioned, the quality McDonald's pays for is standardization. Standardization is why chain restaurants exist at all. They give people a way to get a meal they know is going to be of a certain quality at
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Please stop disrupting conversations.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
OK, this goes from DNS, to email, to... something which is not Usenet, which surprised me, because Usenet fulfills most of the goals of being a social network much better than either DNS or email can. Usenet can, in fact, be built on top of
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Near as I can figure, the goal is to build your own Linux distro to run as a guest in a virtual machine (hypervisor virtual machine, not bytecode virtual machine). If you want to make your own distro, this is certainly friendlier than the o
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by cbd1984 10y ago
I think the usual rule is that the size of a variable's name should be a function of the size of the scope in which it's visible: If it's a global, it should have a long, descriptive name, perhaps with_underscores or CamelCas
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Historically, i wasn't even an abbreviation: It was the first variable name which would be assumed to be integer by FORTRAN compilers which implicitly assigned types to variables based on name. The choice was probably further influence
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Everyone forgets about ltrace: Like strace, but for calls to dynamic libraries. It gets you something closer to what the program looks like at the source code level: You get calls to printf (well, __printf_chk on a modern Linux) instead of
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by cbd1984 10y ago
JANET, which routed email to Czechoslovakia, as the legend goes... Back then mainly the Computer Science departments had email, so they'd have domain names beginning with a cs. in the ARPA scheme, but, since JANET did it backwards, you
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by cbd1984 10y ago
You're the one spoiling HN with your insults and disruption.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
This is how atheists define atheism.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
> I can be productive in bash, but I think we all agree "stringly typed" is not as good as most other approaches to programming language design. That depends on the language, and how central text is to what it does.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
And now you're disagreeing by downvoting.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
> The problem is, most of the dynamic proponents know next to nothing about the PL theory anyway. This is either a "triumph" of theory over reality, or an insult of a whole group of people. In short: A lot of people like dynami
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by cbd1984 10y ago
This kind of moderatorial bickering does not belong on HN.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
This post is exactly what I come to HN to avoid: Moderators abusing users for no reason, disrupting discussions in the process.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
> I haven't seen enough of the universe to feel confident that I'm correct in my atheism That's what atheism means: Lack of dogmatism. You're an atheist.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
If you're going to make a distinction, make it between individuals, not groups. Grouping people is harmful and breeds stereotypes.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Frankly, I'm kind of interested in the prospect of specialized hardware coming back. The trend since the mid-1980s, when the Intel 80386 was introduced, has been for specialized chips to be replaced due to commodity chips beating them
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by cbd1984 10y ago
> Atheists frequently evangelize. It is a religious belief. It isn't, and it's insulting to say so: You're imposing a category on people based on deliberately misunderstanding their worldview. Atheists say their lack of be
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Atheists are atheists. If you're going to make a distinction, make it between individuals, not groups.
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by cbd1984 10y ago
FidoNet was and is an interesting system, but it relies on a system which is a public utility and/or publicly subsidized in most of the world: the telephone network. Dial-up networks like FidoNet only work if there's enough phone
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by cbd1984 10y ago
> He actually tries to justify (or deflect) stealing the Let's Encrypt trademark by claiming LE stole the concept of a 90-day cycle. Ridiculous. You can patent business methods, but saying a 90-day cycle is an "inventive conc
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by cbd1984 10y ago
> "Intellectual copyrights", wtf is that? Either someone who doesn't know the law trying to look smart, or someone who does know the law trying to bullshit their way into being able to own more than the union of copyright
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by cbd1984 10y ago
> Why do you think other networks wouldn't have grown global? Because privately-run networks have to turn a profit by the end of the fiscal year, if not sooner. It's too easy for a company to engage in profit-seeking behavior w
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by cbd1984 10y ago
Changes in the environment screw it up, too. As an obvious case, if your software is screen-scraping a website and the website's layout changes, your software's just rotted even though your code hasn't changed one bit. Anothe
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by cbd1984 10y ago
> What significant subsidies did Microsoft/Google/Apple/Oracle/etc. get? Existing in a country where a private company is a profit center as opposed to something for bandits to loot?
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by cbd1984 10y ago
How much has the Internet done for your business that a smaller, proprietary network wouldn't have? Metcalfe's Law only kicks into high gear when everyone is capable of joining the same network. If there are three or four propriet
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by cbd1984 10y ago
> They're alike enough that you could probably make a mashup with just those few chords and it'd sound nice, but the entire rest of the songs are utterly different. To amplify your point: You can mash up "Hot In Here"
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by cbd1984 10y ago
That's nice, except the BMP doesn't encode all of Chinese, and it includes a number of weird control characters for compatibility with ASCII. Like Vertical Tab. Who uses Vertical Tab anymore? The dream of a 16-bit Unicode washed u
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by cbd1984 10y ago
NoScript does not prevent pages from "rendering Unicode", whatever that's supposed to mean. I use it myself, and the only thing it does is selectively block Javascript.

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