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by devcpp 10y ago
Then I guess it's wrong. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=years+in+(2%5E64)%2F2+...
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by devcpp 10y ago
A more accurate conclusion would be that London's bad hotels are a popular option. During my tour around Europe, I quickly realized that all the hotels in the City of London (other than extremely expensive ones) are very cheap but also
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by devcpp 10y ago
Promotion websites and server-side engines are nice (even though we know Reddit Inc runs a slightly modified version), but malicious client-side apps can be significantly more harmful by abusing permissions. That's why I'm very ca
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by devcpp 11y ago
No offense, but did you even read the parent post? The person above clearly points out that a sudden shock may cause more genetic changes through selection than slow deaths. Such a case has never happened in the past, unless I didn't l
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by devcpp 11y ago
I can relate, I just dropped from medschool to pursue an MSc in CS without thesis. The reason? Everyone convinced me that I'll have a better life as an engineer. I gave up my dreams for personal comfort and I'm probably not the on
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by devcpp 11y ago
Or you could use free software, and stop hoping for people around you to be honest.
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by devcpp 11y ago
Secret courts.
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by devcpp 11y ago
That was an inclusive "and". I think that by "slow and methodical", the author was going for the tank approach rather than just slow like a slug, which doesn't do much good.
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by devcpp 11y ago
That's the thing. the public actually believes that the hood welded shut is a good thing because they don't get these things, and immediately forgets that their "mechanic" won't be able to repair their stuff anymore
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by devcpp 11y ago
It's more of an offer-and-demand thing. If you don't treat veterans well (and, I mean, get your expectations a lot lower, not look at their actions too hard, and so on), no one will do that job. I know I wouldn't.
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by devcpp 11y ago
But going the other way hinders progress in the name of very few people (if any) who may benefit from this kind of measures in very early stages. When the company gets a broad audience, then it becomes a concern. And since the founders have
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by devcpp 11y ago
Apple "I-want-all-your-data" and AT&T "you-have-to-opt-out-of-tracking". Of all companies. We have to count on our enemies to protect us because we are powerless. Let's just hope they start privacy wars.
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by devcpp 11y ago
The first part is rather pertinent. Android is precisely bad because it contains very little of GNU, which allows Google to develop the OS on an Apache license, and is the root of our closed-source Android problem. See https://ww
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by devcpp 11y ago
Really? I'm getting serial number 0X043f60 (instead of 0x1599c5), validity starting on May 7 2015. Might that have to do with using Firefox or anything client-related? Or he switched it?
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by devcpp 11y ago
>Who would want to compete in this space if you have to disclose trade secrets to do so? Someone who wants money. It's the same argument that Big Pharma presents against those who want to make the patent system lighter, or any compa
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by devcpp 11y ago
If you take people who feel so strongly against libertarianism, the country won't remain libertarian for long. Of course, it means the person is charge is shaping his society, which is non-libertarian, but it's a sort of trade off
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by devcpp 12y ago
Free for educational and personal use only. I doubt your use would include that. Free for business would kill Microsoft, as much as they bet on their hardware locked in devices these days. They're not Apple just yet.
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by devcpp 12y ago
Welcome to the free market. If the price decreases, it means the offer is too large and it should happen. I'm very afraid the government would one day impose a minimum price for everything, and poor families will never have a shot at a
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by devcpp 12y ago
Linux developers are generally very smart people in my experience. It's consensus of many experienced and smart people that makes it significant.
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by devcpp 12y ago
Explain to me why this is wrong: the last mile is what costs a ton to ISPs (much less than what Comcast charges though) to build and maintain. So why would you make it more expensive for people to use their personal pipe, which just stands
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by devcpp 12y ago
What if Popcorn Time made the user click a button 100 times before granting full access? Is that enough effort? Or if a link was proposed 2 clicks away from the homepage of a major browser? Is that too little effort? Where do we draw the li
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by devcpp 12y ago
It does has a bearing on the ability to migrate to an alternative if it turns out to become awful, because someone will probably write an export script in that case. It's one of the big advantages of FOSS: no vendor lock-in.
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by devcpp 12y ago
>wouldn't you No I wouldn't. I've hoped too many times that this kind of monopolist-but-beneficial scheme would work for the best, only to be consistently disappointed that the company behind it will use it only for its ow
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by devcpp 12y ago
All it takes is replacing the actual phone dialer app (which AFAIK can only be done in AOSP-based distributions) to make it work transparently. You'd also have to add a phone number broadcasting service to make it work with phone numbe
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by devcpp 12y ago
Let's face it: besides its high price and average specs, Blackphone is a normal phone with a proprietary AOSP-based ROM. That's it. No hardware mic/wireless switch whatsoever, no open hardware, no open baseband, not even open
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by devcpp 12y ago
That's wierd, I can't notice FF being any slower than Chrome.
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by devcpp 12y ago
You shouldn't have to already be a monopoly to have your acts qualified as anti-trust. Just like the law should punish you for trying to scam people even though your scam didn't work. Otherwise, everyone would at least try to scam
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by devcpp 12y ago
Yeah, I don't use Spotify for that reason. But that guy was just answering a question.
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by devcpp 12y ago
Threes wasn't FOSS so it's legally easier to say "2048 clone".
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by devcpp 12y ago
Yup welcome to the slow hours in the weekend on HN. Personally, I like the change.

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