nixos

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by nixos 10y ago
Then if the team works hard (say, they're superhuman and can work 24 hours a day 7 days a week straight) and do what other teams do in 3 months in one, will they get the other two off? If not, you're just pushing responsibility up
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by nixos 10y ago
>hypothetical nuclear waste. Chernobyl isn't hypothetical. And neither is Fukushima. And those weren't as bad as they could have been. And we still don't know what to do with all the waste we have.
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by nixos 10y ago
Can we remove undefined features? We can get rid of the GCC optimizations which rely on the premise of undefined behavior to break code to win a speed prize or something, but undefined behavior exists for a reason: It depends on the CPU. Th
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by nixos 10y ago
> it's that the field is young The opposite. When the field was in its infancy, one was able to keep whole stacks in his head. How complicated were CPUs in the 1960s? How many lines of assembler was in the LM? How many lines is Linu
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by nixos 10y ago
The problem is that software engineering is hard. Immensely so. On a scale of engineering "hardness" (meaning, we can predict all side affects of action), software engineering is closer to medicine than to, say, civil engineering.
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by nixos 10y ago
Also, there's literally no way to clean it up in case of accident and you have to keep it out of harms way for thousands of years. Theoretically, we can put CO2 back in the bottle. Practically, we can do it now, just not with enough ef
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by nixos 10y ago
> Cheap (and preferably clean) energy This is the difficulty. Right now, the only cheap and clean energy somewhat on the horizon is fusion, which is 50 years in the future for the past 50 years.
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by nixos 10y ago
His biggest (current) problem regarding SpaceX is that satellites aren't mass-produced. If it was, buying a spot on a Falcon or on a Delta would be simple: TCOFalcon = cost of launch + self-insurance-markup. TCODelta = cost of launch +
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by nixos 10y ago
My question is how would this affect the market? Apple will stay Apple. I don't think they'll go anywhere. The question is Google. If this happened in 2008, I don't think Android would have taken off anywhere close to the way
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by nixos 10y ago
More and more are self selecting into facebook because it's where everyone is. Everyone was on blogs ten years ago. Had Google kept up their product, people wouldn't need to leave.
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by nixos 10y ago
Theoretically, Google could let you "hide" certain posts if you're not logged in. The thing that killed blogs as they are is that they're too serious. When signing up you need a title, subtitle, and input is optimized fo
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by nixos 10y ago
All it lacked was a built-in phpbb forum (FB groups)
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by nixos 10y ago
>And a massive stampede of advertisers and small businesses blowing their whole marketing spend on said chicken That's what newspaper execs said in the 90s
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by nixos 10y ago
Google killed its golden egg. Google lives off the open web. Two out of four of its main products depend on the open web: 1. Search - the less of an open web, the less is searchable by Google. Facebook is a classic example. 2. AdWords/
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by nixos 10y ago
>as in, bring in designers That's the mistake. You bring in UX experts (who also happened to understand your primary users) Graphics design != UX
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by nixos 10y ago
Yes, but you can have static typing and ease of use
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by nixos 10y ago
And in Java, and in any language with operator overloading
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by nixos 10y ago
> The point isn't to prevent people from customizing their use of the software. The point is to create a system where developers get paid and projects are financially sustainable, instead of being abandoned or barely maintained. The
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by nixos 10y ago
The problem is that it doesn't help. Commercial open source tends to be done for two reasons: 1. Common goal development. Several companies needs a UNIX. Rather than do all the development themselves, they work together. That's ho
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by nixos 10y ago
Though those contributions aren't strategic. As of now, most of Android APIs are in AOSP. How many Apple APIs are?
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by nixos 10y ago
> I personally was VERY excited for Windows 7 and it proved to be a very solid edition. VERY VERY excited for Ubuntu bash in Windows 10 in the preview edition. You can't compare the need for Windows 7 vs XP and the need for 95 after
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by nixos 10y ago
> Microsoft is selling services more. Maybe, but what I'm saying is that: Apple costs, is closed-source but (somewhat) cares about privacy. Google is free, (somewhat) open-source but actively doesn't care about privacy. Window
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by nixos 10y ago
They're not copying Google. They're taking the worst of both worlds. Windows isn't free. It just happens to come with the cost of your PC, but the PC manufacturer pays for it (and passes the cost to you). They just noticed th
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by nixos 10y ago
https://michaelfranzl.com/2016/10/31/raspberry-pi-debian-str...
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by nixos 10y ago
What I also don't understand is why doesn't Debian package it? Is it not fully free or does it have licencing issues like Atom?
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by nixos 10y ago
Doesn't compile on my system.
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by nixos 10y ago
The one unfortunate thing about it is that it doesn't work/isn't packaged for Raspberry Pi. I don't understand why they don't make a package for the pi, if it's a JS app anyways
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by nixos 10y ago
>That doesn't make any sense. Hits to 25 KB Wordpress blogs are trivial for ISPs to serve, nor is there usually any practical or economical way to bill the owners for serving them Or you create a white-list (which is slowly being ma
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by nixos 10y ago
You can also vote in advance (in person), which overrides the e-vote
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by nixos 10y ago
>most verifiable voting protocols are fiendishly complex for the average voter to validate It's easy. You get a large screen "Thanks for voting, hope you trust us!" When you use a SaaS, you have to trust the provider.

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