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by elehack 14y ago
nit: firewalld does not replace iptables, it replaces system-config-firewall, a GUI, TUI, and startup script generator around iptables. iptables is still the underlying tech, we now just have a much better way to manage it.
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by elehack 14y ago
One thing: Gnome 3.6 is moving farther towards making use of the application menu. Good in general - it was stupid in 3.0 - but it plays very poorly with focus-follows-mouse.
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by elehack 14y ago
Arch? Don't know if they support SELinux, but they use SystemD and are rolling-release. For me, the 6-month release cycle is a major reason why I am using Fedora rather than Arch. With a rolling release, I am constantly distracted by monito
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by elehack 14y ago
I've successfully installed the last two Fedora versions by DD'ing the ISO to a USB stick. Pre-F18, it was worthless to do this for anything but the net install image, as Anaconda wouldn't locate packages on the USB stick. I don't know if t
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by elehack 14y ago
With the exception of reShaper, YouTrack, and the Obj-C environment, I think that's called IntelliJ…
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by elehack 14y ago
Stallman disagrees: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.dev...
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by elehack 14y ago
Umm, no, it isn't. He's talking about Judea Pearl, the developer of Bayesian networks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea_Pearl
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by elehack 14y ago
Ridiculous attention to detail. It isn't the big things, mostly, that draw me to IDEA (though some of them, like the way it handles projects and that Maven Just Works, help a lot), but the thousand little things that someone, somewhere, got
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by elehack 14y ago
Didn't intend to imply anything negative by "abnormal". It just isn't the "traditional" way to use processes for a user-facing, semi-desktop system. But given Android's special-purpose, single-user nature, it is a perfectly logical system (
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Motif now freely available under the LGPL(motif.ics.com)
1 points by elehack 14y ago|0 comments
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by elehack 14y ago
I simultaneously welcome and fear this development. It's a great move for security, as a well-configured SELinux deploy can provide much finer-grained access control than standard Unix permissions (although, given that Android uses the Unix
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When does one byte equal four kilobytes?(phpmanualmasterpieces.tumblr.com)
18 points by elehack 14y ago|1 comments
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by elehack 14y ago
Why not? Classes are just one implementation/realization of OOP. They're the most common, to be sure, but they're by no means the only way to do objects, nor are they necessarily the best. “There is more to OOP, Horatio, than is dreamt of i
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by elehack 14y ago
Yes, not all complexities are created equal. Haskell, and to a bit of a lesser extent Scala, have a lot of their complexity arise from combinatorial explosion of interactions of simple features. Also, relentless abstraction (particularly in
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by elehack 14y ago
I've also found my Scala experience to feel disturbingly reminiscent of C++ (and I have grown to love Scala). I find a significant difference, though, in that C++ has a lot of complexity, while Scala has a lot of complex emergent behavior f
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by elehack 14y ago
I think it depends a lot on what you're wanting out of the language. If your primary goal is Java sans pain, then Xtend, Kotlin, or perhaps Groovy should fit reasonably well and have a gentle-ish learning curve. Both Xtend and Kotlin seem t
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by elehack 14y ago
I think that this kind of abuse is an irresistable temptation of a walled garden. If the garden's curators don't succumb to it themselves, the single-point-of-pressure is too much of a temptation to would-be government or external private s
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by elehack 14y ago
First-to-file doesn't nullify the idea of prior art. If your invention is published before first filing, it still counts as prior art for invalidating patents.
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by elehack 14y ago
I hope Jeff succeeds in promoting an alternative to the level of ubiquity of PHP. I think PHP is a generally awful language, eclipsed in sheer programming linguistic badness only by such systems as MUMPS (which, fortunately, I have never ha
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by elehack 14y ago
Tin-foil-hat reason: it has been shown that there exist a set of numbers with a particular relationship to the elliptic curve numbers, and that it is possible that whoever generated the elliptic curve numbers may also have generated the oth
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by elehack 14y ago
Yes, but Apple was the first to make lockdown an acceptable, or even desirable, thing for general-purpose consumer computing devices on a large scale. The idea was around, and implemented in a number of places (especially on phones), but Ap
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by elehack 14y ago
There is a fine line between slippery slope as a fallacy, and the legitimate concern that the very existence of a feature like this invites abuse. Or the even more legitimate desire to build a world in which bad actors (corporations, gove
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by elehack 14y ago
We have a solution for this: preliminary injection. IANAL, so perhaps this is still opening up for lots of liability, but I'd much prefer Apple say "You want it taken down? Ask the judge for a preliminary injunction. Until then, go away." P
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by elehack 14y ago
There's a crucial difference: it's easy to tell when someone violates a Do Not Call list. They call you. It's a lot harder to detect, and probably harder yet to prove, when they're engaging in illicit tracking.
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by elehack 14y ago
Bing gets everyone's search terms merged together, with no way to distinguish individual users. To Bing, it looks like one user doing a bajillion searches on all manner of topics. In the AOL case, while IP addresses were stripped, users wer
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by elehack 14y ago
Very nice - this will make RFC reading much easier. Would be nice to have DuckDuckGo use it - will submit !bang request. Any timeframe on finishing RFC coverage? RFC 3514 isn't prettyfied yet.
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by elehack 14y ago
> 1. The applet to inhibit screen sleeping went away. Without it, I often look up from working on a hard problem to discover that my screens have been blanked out. The Presentation Mode shell extension fixes this - adds an option to the
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by elehack 14y ago
I've been quite pleased with TinyTinyRSS lately - it's got some UI bugs, esp. in the web client, but self-hosted web-based RSS reading + sync to Android client is full of win for me.
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by elehack 14y ago
I tried not to confuse them, but don't seem to have done a good job. You are correct, the non-redistributability of many O'Reilly books is what they would they would object to, not cost. And not all O'Reilly books are non-redistributable -
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by elehack 14y ago
You go over to O'Reilly and buy a DRM-free e-book. Now, the FSF likely won't suggest that because they don't like mentioning the existence of “non-free” documentation, but IMO one of the best ways to protest DRM is by saying, with our pocke

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