swa14

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by swa14 14y ago
>>open hardware MIPS netbook made in China More specificly, the Lemote Yeelong, which is not only made in China (like most hardware I guess), but also designed there. It's neat enough if you can find one, with actually a pretty de
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by swa14 14y ago
For a moment there one might have been thinking he meant atrocious actions with high death tolls against a civilian population, in which case the OP is definitely failing to understand it with his "for something no other country has ever fa
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by swa14 14y ago
>>There is no shame in asking for someone to pay for what they have purchased. True, but what have they purchased ? >>Safeway is not greedy, begging or anything of the sort when they ask me to pay for a loaf of bread. No, bu
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by swa14 14y ago
Not silly. It's supposed to be this way. And don't skip out on the angst. A starting businessman should be apprehensive of sending out invoices and questioning himself. Yes, it does feel like "begging", but it makes sure you don't lose ou
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by swa14 14y ago
>>Oracle is just a business. It's just that it's the kind of business that makes me glad kitten stomping doesn't have an appreciable ROI .
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by swa14 14y ago
Well, price dumping, I would say. Normally centos users would "grow into" payed support from RH. Now Oracle claims to give them that support without cost. Unbreakable Linux was never an attempt to have their own distribution, it was to unde
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by swa14 14y ago
Thanks for the brtfs, but no thanks. I'll only touch your stuff with a GPL pole and with a non-oracle maintainer. If you want support for Centos, please consider redhat * I'm sure there are some good people at Oracle, and maybe this is a ge
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by swa14 14y ago
And once again, by your proposed model to fund science. How are we even going to know there's a comet hurling towards earth ? Gazing out there for neat stuff in the cosmos isn't even a problem in the first place, so it's completely useles
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by swa14 14y ago
>>if the problem cannot be addressed than why even bring it up? Because an engineer ( not a research scientist) somewhere , given the right model, and access to the right information, has a basis on which to start working on a so
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by swa14 14y ago
>>Take special note of my words above, particularly "DEEP DOWN" Especially DEEP DOWN, that's where the problem lies. It's called "Appeal to nature", and it consists of explaining one concept in term of another (love in reproductive
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by swa14 14y ago
>If a male were to sexually harass a female, it would not be sexism because he is not giving males special preference over females Well, seeing how he's not sexually harassing the males I'd say there's a noted difference in "special p
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by swa14 14y ago
>>you know what I mean I'm afraid not. Your implication does not really define anything. >>If you want to argue I don't. But I'd like to impart the following. >>If you <snip> maybe you are the type of person
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by swa14 14y ago
I'm sorry. I meant "the business" as in "the business you're representing", not the "business" as in suits. So in this case dressing in wacky t-shirts and mohawks. Actually, as you put it, wearing a nice business suit might be a good solut
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by swa14 14y ago
It's not that I disagree with the general sentiment, but there's an undertone of self-righteousness there. " I was already thinking about what clothes I would avoid taking to Las Vegas for Defcon. Short skirts, low cut tops, tight dresses,
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by swa14 14y ago
the git dcvs has a git-blame feature. I guess it depends on the right environment for such a feature to be productive, which would basically mean an environment where "Blame Jim" means, "Go directly to Jim, he's either the goto person for t
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by swa14 14y ago
Because when programming in any language, you can't rise above your own proficiency in C. That is my observation anyway. I think it has something to do with the deeper understanding of references and dereferencing, and the inner workings of
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by swa14 14y ago
Raymond, as is his wont, sets up a strawman and proceeds to set it on fire pitching himself as a champion of "the just side". It's a strawman, because in truth the only important part about Turing's life in view of his accomplishments is th
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by swa14 14y ago
Ah. I guess I didn't express myself very clearly. I'm not advocating starting with 'ed' and transitioning to 'vi'. I'm an emacs user myself. But as you know, emacs is not always installed by default (especially on remote server installation
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by swa14 14y ago
not a joke at all. A regex you use in 'ed' command mode, you can use directly in vi after typing ':' I never made any heavy use of 'vi', but I can use it because I know a little 'ed'. Conversely, if one knows 'vi', it's easy to use 'ed' whe
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by swa14 14y ago
well, if he was referring to 'unix' as specified in the Single Unix Specification (which incorporates IEEE Std 1003.1) then all unix systems have 'ed' http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/ed.... If arch linux doesn't i
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by swa14 14y ago
It's not whether 'vi' is available (it usually is), but whether it is behaving properly. Situations do occur where any fullscreen editor will fail and where 'ed' will work as expected. And at such moments, even though you don't know the fu
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by swa14 14y ago
Even today 'ed' has practical uses apart from being the default emergency backup of the backup editor. One situation where I always use 'ed' is when I reinstall a machine (with the same ip) and ssh tells me the keys don't match together wit
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by swa14 14y ago
I think I see your point, and it has merit ... but ... :) in a way, the 'find' program is like what you envision, except it's just for files. That means that someone somewhere along the road, had the same idea/problem (but limited to files)
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by swa14 14y ago
>>Let me ask you this; how would you do the equivalent of this hypothetical command? >> $ ls | structured-grep 'file.size > 1M' # find . -maxdepth 1 -size +1M really, flat text is fine. Maybe it's not perfect, but it's
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by swa14 14y ago
GNU's a little more than some userland tools thrown in for good measure. It is actually an operating system. If you look at the posix spec, which defines what a real "unix" should have and how it should behave, there's a tremendous amount
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by swa14 14y ago
on >>RMS' approach to a business which produces proprietary software is, essentially, "Your business is evil, you are evil, and I will crusade to end your evil." He's been around for some years now. He's had the time to formulate hi
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by swa14 14y ago
esr has long become open source's Colonel Kurz. Being stuck somewhere in his own little piece of the cyber jungle, together with those who adhere to his peculiar view of life. Some might know him from his work "the Cathedral and the Bazaar"
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by swa14 14y ago
>>he's probably got some disorder but when he's punching himself in the head publicly you can't help but wonder if maybe we should reevaluate our faith in his ideas That's a bit of a leap of faith from a second hand account from a c
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by swa14 14y ago
rms received the MacArthur Genius grant at some point, which comes with a decent sum of money. Now before some might get the wrong idea (that it would be easy to be an rms if financial worries were taken care of), rms had a job teaching bef
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by swa14 14y ago
CS to a programmer is no more "theoretical" than anatomy is to a surgeon.

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