iolsantr

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by iolsantr 12y ago
Java's start up time makes it pretty crappy for command line utilities.
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by iolsantr 12y ago
I think that pg's observation is probably perfectly valid. People who are mean to pg (and his peers) fail.
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by iolsantr 12y ago
Gamma radiation (i.e. ionizing radiation) is just a highly energetic photons. Alpha and Beta particles are not photons, and are not referred to as ionizing radiation.
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by iolsantr 12y ago
I think paredit is one of the best arguments for simple sexp style syntax. It allows you to build easily comprehensible tools that manipulate code on syntactic rather than textual level. Its definitely possible to build the same kind of t
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by iolsantr 12y ago
> You are the only one who controls what can hurt you, emotionally. While this may be true of sociopaths, it's not true of anyone else. I hope that someday you'll have a real meaningful relationship with someone else. Until
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by iolsantr 12y ago
Yeah I noticed that as well, it makes me wonder about the rest of his technical assertions that I'm less able to judge. Just in case anyone was wondering here's the HTTP 1.1 rfc: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc26
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by iolsantr 12y ago
Doing it in someone else's facility I think is what makes it illegal. IF you had exactly the same scheme but hosted the equipment in your customer's houses, Aero's business model would be perfectly legit. (I think, it's
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by iolsantr 12y ago
The viral patent grant in gplv3 is very scary to companies that that hold a lot of patents. This seems to be a decent overview: http://www.internationallawoffice.com/newsletters/detail.asp...
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by iolsantr 12y ago
I think contracts signed without some sort of comprehension test having been performed should be considered suspect. This would have the effect of preventing things from being hidden in the small print, and making for much shorter (and pr
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by iolsantr 12y ago
At least nobody thinks MITM attacks are only of concern to big corps, militaries and paranoiacs now.
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by iolsantr 12y ago
As I understand it, server updates run counter to the idea of servers as static, externally configured fixtures ala cloud formation or its competitors. To merge the concepts you'd need to have aws or whoever manage your cloud formati
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by iolsantr 12y ago
I've no idea who made this map: http://img.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image/1376/37/1376372253480.... , but it looks like people who live in or near Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus or Cleveland would ha
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by iolsantr 12y ago
Extreme emegency preparededness is insane, but buying a yacht is not? I don't think there is anything wrong with someones hobby being building and stocking their secret fort in the back yard.
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by iolsantr 12y ago
I get that. I just dread the days when malpractice for programmers is as common as it is for doctors. I like building functionality, not fortresses.
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by iolsantr 12y ago
Stories like these make me never want to make a http webservice again. HTTP(S) is just way too complicated for me to ever be confident I've done everything right. It's getting to the point where webservices are like crypto: on
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by iolsantr 12y ago
> 1. innovation does not only benefit the "rich west" - computers are everywhere, man. While this is true, the evidence so far is that innovation (at least of the kind we have been engaging in) benefits the rich far more than t
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by iolsantr 12y ago
They are soliciting donations using the project name. I don't think that falls into nominative use. It'd be really weird if I could use the logo of the Salvation Army to solicit donations for my own organization even if I intende
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by iolsantr 12y ago
If a project name was trademarked, you might be able to get them for trading on that name, maybe?
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by iolsantr 12y ago
I don't think that's just officialese. They are going to be under enormous pressure to find out what went wrong as quickly as possible. Orbital Science's future may be significantly affected by how well (and quickly) they d
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by iolsantr 12y ago
Because that's clearly the name of a Java project.
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by iolsantr 12y ago
I don't really disagree with you, but. These suggestions ignore the (soft) limitations of human agency. The degree of difficulty in (not) eating an additional (something) has never been really quantified in sufficiently broad spectru
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by iolsantr 12y ago
They may be from scottland, but I bet anyplace they distribute their driver can claim jurisdiction. After all, the crime (or tort or whatever it is) is not writing the offending driver, but distributing it to an unsuspecting public.
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by iolsantr 12y ago
hah... Assuming the prototype is actually identical to the delivered product. People who want to skim money off the top aren't stupid, the prototype will probably contain the specified part and so will the first few lots. To insure v
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by iolsantr 12y ago
It may be unreasonable, but I think it is pretty common. I always feel a little guilty about billing clients when I take on contract work. There are personality types that are always going to find that kind of self assertion difficult.