You have to allow only un-patented tech. That way everyone can compete and no-one has the edge because no one can implement their tech. It would allow the best mix of tech choice and tuning skills. There wouldn't be a car (Honda on freon cooling?) that would win only because of the tech.
Why does an open-source application fall so miserably behind a closed-source competitor? The trend is the inverse.
This is simple. People like you who like to bitch about memory usage don't want to code and people who want to code think that the memory usage is just fine. I myself think that the memory usage is not too bad and if I think I need more ram its easier to buy more ram than to spend several hours doing space optimization. Excessive space optimization makes the code harder to read anyway.
I won't use Opera just because is uses a bit less RAM, I value the freedom to study and to hack code more than that. In case you are wondering, I did looked at the Firefox sources. Not to fix it, just to learn how they do vector rendering and I learned a lot more than I would have done reading a book. This right to look at how things work is important and what Opera does by preventing me from studying is evil.
Mr. Wales said. 'What does define Wikipedia is the volunteer community and the open participation.'
Fair enough but he should know that Wikipedia is not an experiment in democracy. From the beginning is was acknowledged that to treat all users as equal was not a goal. If you don't like that, don't use Wikipedia. I think that current rules make sense given actual political context and I fully support the Wikipedia editors.
Most security updates in Open Source software like Firefox or Linux are due to implementation flaws (i.e. buffer overflows), but the problem we're dealing with here, is a DESIGN FLAW.
A long time ago when someone was crazy enough to let me lead a small team I had every one sing "no bug in unfixable, only bad design is!" three times in choir every morning. No I don't lead a team anymore but I'm sure my old team is still doing buggy implementations of bullet proof designs.
Today I plugged BBDB into Gnus (yes I use Gnus for my emails) and I also started to use emails as my TODO list. I used the emacs' todoo-mode before but it sucks. Not, I just love emails even more than before. When I receive an email that requires action, I copy or move it to my "todo" folder. When I can't proceed with action because the ball is in someone else hand, I move it to the "waiting" folder. I also have a simple rule to move all the mails with TODO in the subject to the todo folder.
With Gnus I can assign score to mark priority but a simple scheme like making the tasks that I want to perform today as unread is really efficient.
I loved emails before but now I love them even more. The fact that I can use emails for plenty of stuff that the original creators did not plan but didn't restrict either (remote backups anyone?) is what makes email so great.
The spam isn't a problem either, I plugged Spam Orable into Gnus and it let really few ones go in and I haven't seen a false positive in months.
A really big thank to the creators of emails, I love it!
Exactly. In the first place if their service didn't suck we wouldn't have to use Bittorrent. They offer me some web space so I can share and the offer me upload so I can share but those are so ridiculously crippled that I have to ask other to help me with their bandwidth if I want to share anything larger that a few kilobytes.
I made some fractal animations and I use bittorrent to share them because thats the only way I can push something that big. I provide the movies for free, people who like them pay me by leaving their torrent client on. What is the net if people who have something interesting to share have to shut up because they cost too much?
Would you force a genius violinist to suffer parallel parking trial each day if he just can't figure out how to do the damn thing
If he can't park his car, he is too dumb to drive. Come on, this is not rocket science. Its just about evaluating a distance and an angle, which are not optional skills if you want to drive. I hope those car will have a big "dumb driver" sign on them.
I don't plan to run Vista and I really don't see why a slashdoter would want to run it. We don't see stories about new latest AmigaOS, why all this hype about Vista. Is it that/. is now filled with windrones ? Are those stories just trollish click baits?
That kinds of piss me off, is there a news site for real nerds out there or is/. my only option? Now go ahead you windrones, mod me down into oblivion. You are still windrones.
If they don't have backups they obviously don't give a shit about your work and can afford to lose it. Why are you wasting your time with these losers?
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How long will it be, though, before being "Trusted" is required for other things? Like connecting to the Internet, for example ('cause we gotta stop those damn hackers)? How long will it be before Free Software is banned entirely, since it's fundamentally incompatible with DRM (regardless of what Linus thinks)?
As great parent post said, this is only movies. Do you need movies? Do you want DRM everywhere? Then vote with your money and and stop watching those crappy movies. All off them. And tell your friends why you do it, just bitching on/. is ineffective. I ditched my TV some times ago, now I also avoid cinema because I find it unbearable to give money to someone who use it to take my rights away from me.
When I search for some keywords, I'm not after free music (unless the keywords are "free" and "music" of course), I'm after relevant search results. Unless Yahoo can feed me those (and they can't at the moment) no amount of free music will make them a usable search engine.
And anyone who requires access to the datacenter to do their job, such as operators and sysadmins, cannot DO their job unless they get the implant. And if they cannot do the job, how are they expected to maintain employment?
They have no problem to do their job without physical access, they installed telnet on all the servers.
The lambda in Python is not quite right. You can't close over a writable var in it (in fact its really awkward to close over a writable in Python) and you can't use ifs and other statements in lambdas. Well we have a point here, why are there statements at all? In Common Lisp if is an expression and it has a value, that is the value of the branch that gets executed.
You are right though, Common Lisp is not purely functional, and thats a strength. In CL you can use functional programming when the problem calls for it and OO when that makes you feel better. Yes you can express all loops as a tail recursion but there is nothing as good as while loop instead of pulling mental contorsions out of a hat.
But there is more than just better functional programming that CL has (some implementations as least) and that Python lacks. There are macros, tail recursion, symbols, type inference, rationals, multi-methods and a syntax the easy programming a lot. Its really convenient to grab a branch of an if and to move it up in place of the if in only two key strokes. The indentation trick with python produce clean code but what a pain it is to play with blocks... and to grab that piece of code that happend to use two space per level instead of four.
Yes, there is a problem with deployment in CL and Python wins there. The packaging system in Python is pretty neet too. And Python doesn't look too scary so you can start to do functional code even if you boss is an OO zealot. Norvig as a nice summary of the pros and cons of each language:
You are right but I still haven't found a way to say this on/. without being modded down into oblivion as a troll...
If we can introduce him to functional programming, he will find Lisp by himself.
This is really good advice but it needs more details:
1) Wrap your legacy libs with SWIG 2) Code a working prototype in Python 3) Profile it (never skip this step) 4) Use SWIG to write the bottle neck parts in C++ 5) Use Valgrind to ensure you are still OK memory wise 6) Profit!!
He also provides a pretty good implementation guide for those who want to set up IPv6 at home.
Of all the places that don't need IPv6, home if the last place that I'll allow that abomination to creep in. Why would I need one million routable addresses per square millimiter of my apartment floor? In fact, why do we need to trade speakable addresses for 10^17+ routable addresses per square millimiter of Earth surface, including oceans?
Seeing that it was used before you doesn't tell you anything useful about who the person was who did the editing (unless their nick or IP is one you recognize as someone you know outside of Wikipedia).
Please see the Skywater Gallery for examples of what you can see with their excellent and affordable telescopes. I really like the Mak90 because I can take it with me on a motorcycle.
It is getting chilly here (Central New York) at night. If I were to stay out with a jacket, I would be freezing in about an hour.
I live in Montréal and I'm pretty sure the night is colder here than it is in New York. Yes, soon it will be too cold and I wear gloves so I can hold binoculars without freezing. But until it gets below -10C at night you can easily lay without freezing for at least an hour (about 20 meteors if you go out tonight) so stop looking for excuses and enjoy the universe in all its glory at least once.
The summer night is already so short. By artificially moving sun
set later you have to be pretty damn motivated if you want to
look at the stars. But looking at the stars is something free,
something that doesn't require energy and something that anyone
will enjoy if they have an opportunity to see them. Instead, we
only see the sun in the evening. So every one just sit inside,
with the lights on, just because they see better that way, event
if the sun is still high and they watch TV because they have
nothing better to do.
Wanna save energy? Why don't you shutdown or at least dim all
those fscking lamp posts after the rush hour? Do we really need
to light up the streets so bright that at in any large enough
city (and you know its not that large) the night sky looks like
dawn all night long. Just try it, stop reading/. and go
outside. Mars is in opposition and we are in the peak of the
Orionids meteor shower. There is quite a show going on and its
not too cold yet to stay hours laying on the ground.
But before you do so, have a look his voting history.
No doubt that your MP is doing his best to represent you but it
is your job to tell him when you think he should support
something else than the party line. Do you want a Remote sensing
space system ? Tell him.
(1/16)^n is positioning the rest as the nth hexadecimal digit, if you are reciting the digits you obviously skip it. Note that this formula is for hexadecimal digits. There is a formula for base 10 but it is not as pretty.
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You have to allow only un-patented tech. That way everyone can compete and no-one has the edge because no one can implement their tech. It would allow the best mix of tech choice and tuning skills. There wouldn't be a car (Honda on freon cooling?) that would win only because of the tech.
I won't use Opera just because is uses a bit less RAM, I value the freedom to study and to hack code more than that. In case you are wondering, I did looked at the Firefox sources. Not to fix it, just to learn how they do vector rendering and I learned a lot more than I would have done reading a book. This right to look at how things work is important and what Opera does by preventing me from studying is evil.
A long time ago when someone was crazy enough to let me lead a small team I had every one sing "no bug in unfixable, only bad design is!" three times in choir every morning. No I don't lead a team anymore but I'm sure my old team is still doing buggy implementations of bullet proof designs.
Today I plugged BBDB into Gnus (yes I use Gnus for my emails) and I also started to use emails as my TODO list. I used the emacs' todoo-mode before but it sucks. Not, I just love emails even more than before. When I receive an email that requires action, I copy or move it to my "todo" folder. When I can't proceed with action because the ball is in someone else hand, I move it to the "waiting" folder. I also have a simple rule to move all the mails with TODO in the subject to the todo folder.
With Gnus I can assign score to mark priority but a simple scheme like making the tasks that I want to perform today as unread is really efficient.
I loved emails before but now I love them even more. The fact that I can use emails for plenty of stuff that the original creators did not plan but didn't restrict either (remote backups anyone?) is what makes email so great.
The spam isn't a problem either, I plugged Spam Orable into Gnus and it let really few ones go in and I haven't seen a false positive in months.
A really big thank to the creators of emails, I love it!
He've been doing it for some time. As soon as Free Software, Free Society hit the shelves you could order a signed copy and in fact, I did. That way you support the FSF and you get something neet in return. Remember kids, members of the FSF get, among other things, a 20% discount on all GNU Merchandise. That include the impressive GNU Age t-shirt! So waste no time and join the FSF as an Associate Member so I can get my voice mail message by Richard Stallman.
Ever heard of false advertising?
Exactly. In the first place if their service didn't suck we wouldn't have to use Bittorrent. They offer me some web space so I can share and the offer me upload so I can share but those are so ridiculously crippled that I have to ask other to help me with their bandwidth if I want to share anything larger that a few kilobytes.
I made some fractal animations and I use bittorrent to share them because thats the only way I can push something that big. I provide the movies for free, people who like them pay me by leaving their torrent client on. What is the net if people who have something interesting to share have to shut up because they cost too much?
Would you force a genius violinist to suffer parallel parking trial each day if he just can't figure out how to do the damn thing
If he can't park his car, he is too dumb to drive. Come on, this is not rocket science. Its just about evaluating a distance and an angle, which are not optional skills if you want to drive. I hope those car will have a big "dumb driver" sign on them.
I don't plan to run Vista and I really don't see why a slashdoter /. is now
/. my only option? Now go ahead you windrones,
would want to run it. We don't see stories about new latest
AmigaOS, why all this hype about Vista. Is it that
filled with windrones ? Are those stories just trollish click
baits?
That kinds of piss me off, is there a news site for real nerds
out there or is
mod me down into oblivion. You are still windrones.
If they don't have backups they obviously don't give a shit about your work and can afford to lose it. Why are you wasting your time with these losers?
How long will it be, though, before being "Trusted" is required for other things? Like connecting to the Internet, for example ('cause we gotta stop those damn hackers)? How long will it be before Free Software is banned entirely, since it's fundamentally incompatible with DRM (regardless of what Linus thinks)?
/. is ineffective. I ditched my TV some times ago, now I also avoid cinema because I find it unbearable to give money to someone who use it to take my rights away from me.
As great parent post said, this is only movies. Do you need movies? Do you want DRM everywhere? Then vote with your money and and stop watching those crappy movies. All off them. And tell your friends why you do it, just bitching on
When I search for some keywords, I'm not after free music (unless the keywords are "free" and "music" of course), I'm after relevant search results. Unless Yahoo can feed me those (and they can't at the moment) no amount of free music will make them a usable search engine.
And anyone who requires access to the datacenter to do their job, such as operators and sysadmins, cannot DO their job unless they get the implant. And if they cannot do the job, how are they expected to maintain employment?
They have no problem to do their job without physical access, they installed telnet on all the servers.
I'll bite.
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There are things pretty hard to do the functional way in Python. As an example if you wanted to get a sorted list of the foo for all bars you'd do:
(sort (mapcar #'foo bar)
but in python you have to use a temporary variable here and there which breaks an otherwise nice functional pipeline:
foos = map(foo, bar)
foos.sort()
foos.reverse()
return foos
The lambda in Python is not quite right. You can't close over a writable var in it (in fact its really awkward to close over a writable in Python) and you can't use ifs and other statements in lambdas. Well we have a point here, why are there statements at all? In Common Lisp if is an expression and it has a value, that is the value of the branch that gets executed.
You are right though, Common Lisp is not purely functional, and thats a strength. In CL you can use functional programming when the problem calls for it and OO when that makes you feel better. Yes you can express all loops as a tail recursion but there is nothing as good as while loop instead of pulling mental contorsions out of a hat.
But there is more than just better functional programming that CL has (some implementations as least) and that Python lacks. There are macros, tail recursion, symbols, type inference, rationals, multi-methods and a syntax the easy programming a lot. Its really convenient to grab a branch of an if and to move it up in place of the if in only two key strokes. The indentation trick with python produce clean code but what a pain it is to play with blocks... and to grab that piece of code that happend to use two space per level instead of four.
Yes, there is a problem with deployment in CL and Python wins there. The packaging system in Python is pretty neet too. And Python doesn't look too scary so you can start to do functional code even if you boss is an OO zealot. Norvig as a nice summary of the pros and cons of each language:
http://www.norvig.com/python-lisp.html/
You are right but I still haven't found a way to say this on /. without being modded down into oblivion as a troll...
If we can introduce him to functional programming, he will find Lisp by himself.
This is really good advice but it needs more details:
1) Wrap your legacy libs with SWIG
2) Code a working prototype in Python
3) Profile it (never skip this step)
4) Use SWIG to write the bottle neck parts in C++
5) Use Valgrind to ensure you are still OK memory wise
6) Profit!!
Of all the places that don't need IPv6, home if the last place that I'll allow that abomination to creep in. Why would I need one million routable addresses per square millimiter of my apartment floor? In fact, why do we need to trade speakable addresses for 10^17+ routable addresses per square millimiter of Earth surface, including oceans?
use "dig -x" my friend:
There are games are fade away when you realize how dull the graphics are. There are games that let your mind make all the graphics.
Please see the Skywater Gallery for examples of what you can see with their excellent and affordable telescopes. I really like the Mak90 because I can take it with me on a motorcycle.
I live in Montréal and I'm pretty sure the night is colder here than it is in New York. Yes, soon it will be too cold and I wear gloves so I can hold binoculars without freezing. But until it gets below -10C at night you can easily lay without freezing for at least an hour (about 20 meteors if you go out tonight) so stop looking for excuses and enjoy the universe in all its glory at least once.
Wanna save energy? Why don't you shutdown or at least dim all those fscking lamp posts after the rush hour? Do we really need to light up the streets so bright that at in any large enough city (and you know its not that large) the night sky looks like dawn all night long. Just try it, stop reading /. and go
outside. Mars is in opposition and we are in the peak of the
Orionids meteor shower. There is quite a show going on and its
not too cold yet to stay hours laying on the ground.
But before you do so, have a look his voting history. No doubt that your MP is doing his best to represent you but it is your job to tell him when you think he should support something else than the party line. Do you want a Remote sensing space system ? Tell him.
Savoir-faire Linux is one among many. I think the magic spell is "consultant". (yes, this is shameless advertizing)
(1/16)^n is positioning the rest as the nth hexadecimal digit, if you are reciting the digits you obviously skip it. Note that this formula is for hexadecimal digits. There is a formula for base 10 but it is not as pretty.