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by telent 13y ago
Compare http://catb.org/jargon/html/U/UTSL.html
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by telent 14y ago
George Bernard Shaw, iirc On the general question: there is an obvious distinction to be made between someone asking you for advice on what they plan to spend the next three years doing, and what they're hacking together on a single pizza-f
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by telent 14y ago
> My point is that Openness advocates seem to place Google on a pedestal That may be your perception, but I don't think it's universally true. Ask anyone who's tried to build a project on AOSP ...
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by telent 14y ago
> there's no semantic distinction between code and data I struggle to understand how this can be true, and I say that as a Lisper (spiritually if not currently), because 'this data does something meaningful when interpreted by a compute
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by telent 14y ago
As stories go, this one would be a lot better if it actually linked to some technical information about the bug. Does anyone have a reference for what the samsung_laptop driver's doing that is so bad? The kernel bugzilla link (#47121) tha
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by telent 14y ago
The article is from May 2012, perhaps the thread title could be updated to say so?
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by telent 14y ago
Indeed, the value of threading on usenet was that it provided data for the user-agent to decide in what order to present unread posts to the user - if the original topic A had drifted to subjects B C and D which were being discussed in para
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by telent 14y ago
Er, this is email we're talking about here, not http
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by telent 14y ago
So why is an article about the Metropolitan Police forensic lab in south London (UK) illustrated with a stock photo of what appears to be a US power socket? (It might be a Euro socket, but it's certainly not a UK one.) Do they not have el
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by telent 14y ago
The continual references to how much easier it was "ten years ago" makes me wonder if the author was actually in the industry ten years ago, or is merely using it as a shorthand for "grandpa's stories of how it was in his day" I'm pretty su
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by telent 14y ago
> The Linux kernel itself is a remarkably stable system as far as ABI/API is concerned If we're talking about userland applications, the Linux kernel A[BP]Is have IME historically been more stable than the Glibc interfaces (which are
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by telent 14y ago
Their (Smile) online banking is "not bad for a financial institution", and if that sounds like damning with faint praise ... Particular nits are: - pressing the browser 'back' button triggers an immediate logout - they don't use email for
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by telent 14y ago
Does anyone know of "friend discovery" services using OStatus? Most proprietary social networks have that "let me riffle through your addressbook" thing, which I imagine the privacy-conscious would eschew (I certainly do), but e.g. my Twit
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by telent 14y ago
I'd question the assumption that ftp was ever the old ftp, if by "ftp" we mean "deployment channel to production services". As soon as your web site is complicated enough to need a database, you have database migrations or their moral equi
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by telent 14y ago
> strip the input of all apostrophes or double quotes. This approach will be a hard sell for Father O'Reilly and Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
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by telent 14y ago
tl;dr Eric explains reasonably well why he thinks RMS is a fanatic, but fails utterly to explain why his opinion (on that or any other subject) matters.
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by telent 14y ago
I'm a cyclist but I've never worked as one
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by telent 14y ago
Building bridges may not be the best analogy. What if everyone started learning to dance the macarena instead? Seriously, cooking as an analogy highlights a difference between private recreational practice and public for-pay professional p
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by telent 14y ago
> there are still plenty of cases -- students going to exams, book that depend on exact layout, etc -- where ebooks are no substitute. Quite. Does anyone yet make an ereader that can safely and sanely be used in the bath?
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by telent 14y ago
Which is exactly why I'd rather use a library that doesn't make the choice of Rails and ActiveRecord for me.
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by telent 14y ago
The lack of a timestap datatype is a problem, but the lack of a 'link' datatype is imo a greater one, now that people are doing supposedly-RESTful APIs with JSON payload. Which is not to say that you can't layer that type info on top of JS
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by telent 14y ago
In a place and time where the motor lobby had not been so successful, the law would probably recognize this reality by imposing strict limitations on the use of machinery which, as you describe it, is so intrinsically dangerous. Locomotive
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by telent 14y ago
> in my mind it is the opposite, the biggest, heaviest vehicles should have ROW especially at this point in history when the average driver is distracted by so many things in his vehicle. Response times are going to be suboptimal This s
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by telent 14y ago
I think I agree with the general tone of the article, but his ordering is upside down: "data" is bad, but "data2" is worse, not better.
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by telent 14y ago
> not particularly professional… I am reminded of http://philip.greenspun.com/ancient-history/professionalism-...
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by telent 15y ago
> the focus is on the object rather than the process From a business apps point of view, this is exactly it. You might find that methods are subordinate to objects, but in the business domain itself, the objects themselves are manipula
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by telent 15y ago
For exactly that reason it's a really good example of the point I was making: what you really need to know is whether a given product is strategic to its supplier. "Am I paying for it?" is one indicator that it may be, but it's not conclus
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by telent 15y ago
> If all your algorithms are as trivial as calculating a weighted modulo 11 checksum, then the sort of case I'm thinking of doesn't apply. My estimate is that 98% of all programming everywhere is as algorithmically trivial as calcula
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by telent 15y ago
(with-devils-advocacy A Real Programming Language is one that can be used (and has been used) to implement its own compiler or interpreter ) That said, by this definition Python qualifies.
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by telent 15y ago
If I have a function/module/method buried deeply inside my system such that testing it requires either ten lines of setup code or backdoors ("special cases and privilege escalation tricks") in the deployed code, that might say something i

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