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by hakl 15y ago
A copyleft license [1] could probably eliminate most invasive proprietary "value-add". Though that might hinder adoption, being just a dump pipe or a box mover isn't very profitable. Hopefully companies are getting desperate enough to give
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by hakl 15y ago
Apparently Einstein had an FBI file: http://www.fbi-most-wanted.com/albert-einstein.php
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by hakl 15y ago
The page sends the filename to desktop browsers base64 encoded. Cute :).
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by hakl 15y ago
High-level languages are more than just syntactic sugar.
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by hakl 15y ago
Even Symbian recently got a POSIX-layer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.I.P.S._Is_POSIX_on_Symbian I have no idea how complete it is, but they did manage to port Qt.
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by hakl 15y ago
Google Chrome Frame could also be helpful here. Macromedia somehow managed to get most people to install their terrible plugin.
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by hakl 15y ago
Yeah, but false positives would cause non-hilarious problems.
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by hakl 16y ago
I can't wait to see the implementation. Maybe they'll do something interesting like making use of Cygwin or virtualization.
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by hakl 16y ago
I don't know anything about the details, but apparently it's mostly GPLv2 or later: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/doc/COPYRIGHTS
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Objective-C: Not just for Macs and iPhones(youtube.com)
3 points by hakl 16y ago|0 comments
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by hakl 16y ago
IIRC, The not so Short Introduction to LaTeX is good: http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort
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MeeGo, Qt and Nokia – Feb 11th 2011(carrypad.com)
1 points by hakl 16y ago|0 comments
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The Problem(s) with the Browser(infoq.com)
2 points by hakl 16y ago|0 comments
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by hakl 16y ago
It's compliant with FSF's definition of free software ( http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ) and Debian's guidelines ( http://www.debian.org/social_contract ). Stallman himself agreed that it was a good thing for Xiph to relicense t
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by hakl 16y ago
I don't think it's mean to be useful; just male nerds bonding over their (presumed) shared sexuality.
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by hakl 16y ago
That's probably the cruelest thing I've ever read.
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by hakl 16y ago
You may not be able to just feed Flash WebM files: Adobe has only committed to supporting the VP8 codec, not Vorbis or Matroska ( http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2010/05/adobe_support_f... ). I wonder if the primary purpose Flash vide
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by hakl 16y ago
Does anyone know why the link to the fast version is called Linux/Unix? Is it just to make it salient to nerds?
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by hakl 16y ago
Most porn is quite distasteful, and streaming sites' tags are generally a mess (if they are even implemented).
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by hakl 16y ago
I think the Whitehead quote applies as is: unnecessarily complex syntax makes me stupider.
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by hakl 16y ago
They licensed tech from Imagination Technologies for their low-end GMA500 chip.
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by hakl 16y ago
Found an article on switching to Vim after two decades of using Emacs: http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca/notes/Thoughts_on_editors.ht... And another one on converting to Emacs from Vim: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/10/from_Vim_t
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by hakl 16y ago
Oracle has a project to run the metacircular JVM Maxine directly on Xen: http://labs.oracle.com/projects/guestvm/
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by hakl 16y ago
This could create interesting situations with botnets.
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by hakl 16y ago
Oops, that's embarrassing. Should've read all the way through.
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by hakl 16y ago
I remember something like this called Liskell, but I think it died.
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by hakl 16y ago
From the chief GNUStep maintainer: http://heronsperch.blogspot.com/2010/11/gnustep-is-not-opens...
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by hakl 16y ago
I'm reminded of this post: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1562#comment-18623
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by hakl 16y ago
If Notepad understood Unix newline characters, I'd have no complaints.
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by hakl 16y ago
The source code inanimate. The GNU manifesto says that users shouldn't have arbitrary restrictions imposed on them; this has individual and collective implications.

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