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by skeptical 15y ago
__Probably because he/she recognizes that any such discussion will not lead to any possibly productive output and instead be a pointless match of tilting at windmills.__ Yet he/she takes the effort to right that down? I love it when people
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by skeptical 15y ago
No, the opposite. By 'photographers' we're refering to those who take advantage of their copyright. This excludes for example wedding photographers which are only payed to press the shutter but end up giving away their 'artwork'.
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Azulejo - unobtrusive window tiling(github.com)
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by skeptical 15y ago
I'd give you a strait answer, but do you realize that the Free Software Movement is much more widespread than royalty free photography or music? Furthermore, among the crafts you mentioned, being a programmer is by far the less profitable o
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by skeptical 15y ago
I find this kind of rant rather silly. Whatever, he should be paid for his work, it's his artistic value etc. Just like he (or any photograph with a reputation) is able to set a very high price because of his quality seal, he doesn't have t
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by skeptical 15y ago
Really? Did he really expect wordpress would ship those specific features out of the box? Come on. That is not even a mater of feature richness, it's simply keeping it bloat free to some extent. I can agree with him on things like lack of a
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by skeptical 15y ago
I'm not stating I am Iranian (I'm not) just trying to point out that you jump into quick conclusions about others' judgements on Iran. And that you would most likely not do it if you knew in advance that the person you're talking to is an i
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by skeptical 15y ago
I'm sorry, if I'm Iranian myself does your reply still applies? Just wondering. I'm tired of this political correctness, it's so 90's. But it will take more than a couple of downvotes to shut me up. This "everybody has the right to their wa
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by skeptical 15y ago
While I agree with you, your last paragraph is just non sense. What's specifically bad? Honestly, if you ask this question you're shouting out that you have no idea what today's iran (or most of the muslim countries) are like. Quite frankly
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by skeptical 15y ago
Good to see people getting into dangerous (read 'political incorrect') discussions. But we still have a long way to go. It's rather obvious that articles authors of articles like this still walk on eggshells.
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by skeptical 15y ago
On the flip side,a mantra is a very powerful marketing trick.
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by skeptical 15y ago
_Wait a minute now. Are those really a user's basic rights? Who is Stallmam to decide for both users and developers what our rights are? If users get those rights then developers have theirs taken from them._ He didn't decide anything, he s
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by skeptical 15y ago
Well, I don't know if you're aware of it, but you just repeated what I replied to you with a different phrasing.
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by skeptical 15y ago
If you've seen other interviews with RMS, this is pretty much one more, a good one to be fair. Spoiler alert! Best part of the interview: Journalist: Are you married? RMS: No, I'm not. Journalist: Well, I am, I don't want to be free.
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by skeptical 15y ago
Why would you expect to do one thing once and then resource to virtually cost-free copying to get money from it? If people won't pay for it is because they feel is not worth to pay. Indeed if I can get something for free I'm not so much in
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by skeptical 15y ago
Err... no. He associates evil with charging money for software but not letting the buyer having his basic owner rights. Being that the right to modify, use and redistribute. Read this on the gnu website and understand how wrong you are: ht
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by skeptical 15y ago
How would you evoke such code? Squeezing it into an http reply? Calling it from PHP CLI? If doing it on your webapp, don't! You're doing it wrong. Otherwise why would you need php specifically? I mean I guess you could, but what advantage d
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by skeptical 15y ago
Am I the only one to think that is nothing but free advertising? Come on, a link to 'click here to buy' page? I don't understand how this got to the first page. This is not so honest because the title is totally misleading. The link does no
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by skeptical 15y ago
Considering PHP's scope and its limitations (lacks things like threads for example) I would say that is an extremely rare scenario. If you're storing 100.000 integers on a PHP data structure you're most likely doing it wrong.
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by skeptical 15y ago
I don't know if you visited the countries you mentioned nor if you have any idea of their academic standards for example. Many people in here are used to american technological society and have no idea what it's like in other parts of the w
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by skeptical 15y ago
Yes you are. Because others use the same openid in every openid enabled site where you open yet another openid account.
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by skeptical 15y ago
It doesn't aim to solve that issue. It aims to solve the issue of maintaining multiple passwords on multiple sites.
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by skeptical 15y ago
Such neatness is contrary to Microsoft philosophy, but hey, I see microsoft making wise thought through moves more and more often. Maybe they will slowly become an interesting company again. They're still enjoying the aftermath of the great
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by skeptical 15y ago
You seem to try to debunk some [imaginary] point about women being somehow 'inferior'. I never said such thing. Women and men are different, that's all I said. I even started by stating that girls outperform boys in school to a very large e
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by skeptical 15y ago
It's the only implementation almost everybody knows of. I've never heard of any other, don't know if there is other. In defense of the author, he does explain why it will most likely always be a language that will be implemented in a compil
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by skeptical 15y ago
I tell what you could do of that point. You could admit that you deliberately picked a sensitive topic (black people being oppressed in the past) as a counterexample to push the discussion in a dead end because race is a 'dangerous' topic
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by skeptical 15y ago
If any of this is "crystal clear", then you need to revisit your username choice. Well observed, but no. What makes me skeptical about many things is having a clear opinion/view about other things. For me that's the true essence of skepti
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by skeptical 15y ago
The examples you pick and the way you present them are very relevant. your observations are also very well made and in my opinion very reasonable. In fact i agree with you. I just think your conclusion is undermined by your unwillingness to
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by skeptical 15y ago
well, that depends on where you live.
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by skeptical 15y ago
I just made a simple observation yes. Whatever reason we find will fallback to men being different than women. That is in fact the only think we can say for sure. The outcome might not be fair, but it's not by denying this fact that we will

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