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Re:Servo Nightly Builds Available on Friday July 01, 2016 @08:38AM (#12015491)
Sounds like it's based on Trident to me
To be fair, most Linux distros haven't followed the Unix philosophy for a long time.
Re:GNU Taler 0.0.0 released on Sunday June 05, 2016 @05:45PM (#11843292)
While I don't consider myself a libertarian by any stretch, typically roads and utilities are two of the things that have pretty easy counter-arguments - make utilities free market (or something of the sort) and roads can be paid via tolls.

If you want something that doesn't have a good counter-argument, look at policing and contract enforcement (basically, a public legal system). That's something that can't be done very well by a private entity or multiple competing private entities.

Another problem without much of a counter-argument is looking at e.g. utilities and roads together (i.e. a monopolistic infrastructure with a non-monopolistic infrastructure). Roads are monopolistic because they control that land - in order to use it, you have to pay the owner what they want. This isn't too big of a problem because if you feel one route costs too much, you can simply take another route. Utilities on the other hand, can be provided by anyone, as long as they run the pipes, lines, etc. out to you. In itself, if you feel one utility costs too much, you can pick another utility. The problem comes with combining the two - typically to deliver the utility to you, they would also have to pay the road owner to run the lines along and/or make some agreement. So what happens when an exclusivity agreement comes into play?

Well, unless you don't want the utility at all, you have no choice but to either pay whatever fee they want you to, or move. When you move, it's possible an exclusivity agreement exists there too. One could argue that it's not any better the way it currently is (Comcast, etc.) however you couldn't make it better by making everything privately-owned without regulation, and you could make it better by going further towards the public side.

Re:Microlight.js, a code highlighting library on Monday May 30, 2016 @05:12PM (#11803224)
Something like that would probably be better off with Aho-Corasick, with is similar to a trie but ends up with more compact FSMs
Re:Fable: F# to JavaScript Transpiler on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @07:32PM (#11774022)
This hasn't been updated in two years and doesn't support the latest Elm version (0.17), sadly.
Re:SELinux is beyond saving on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @05:57PM (#11773460)
You can make it enforce rules strictly over everything, rather than selectively enforce it on specific applications.
Re:Cargo: predictable dependency management on Thursday May 05, 2016 @07:02PM (#11640363)
What would be really nice is if there were a system like how debian, ubuntu, etc. does it, and allow for official (and unofficial) mirrors
Re:GNU LibreJS on Saturday April 30, 2016 @12:47AM (#11600416)
The idea is that we'll verify things as a community; not necessarily that we each have to individually audit things
This looks like something you'd find in a cult.
> If you don't see the contradiction between these two statements, I don't know how to help you.

Just because it's in a browser doesn't mean it's remote access. Javascript APIs can be accessed locally.

Re:Announcing Scala.js 0.6.8 on Saturday March 19, 2016 @08:15PM (#11321151)
The best skeleton I've found (if anything, it does too much even) is Otto Chrons' SPA tutorial: https://github.com/ochrons/scalajs-spa-tutorial

That's what I've used for one of my projects and it's worked out pretty well!

Re:Why YC on Thursday February 18, 2016 @02:05PM (#11128333)
The title of this post is the same as the Calgary Airport's IATA.
Re:Kill Your Dependencies on Thursday February 11, 2016 @02:22PM (#11082433)
> It could be that those who use large number of dependencies just prefer less dynamic languages when dependencies are very explicit and manageable.

Tell that to anyone using NPM.

Re:$250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups on Thursday February 04, 2016 @11:27AM (#11035027)
Re:The Controversial State of JavaScript Tooling on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @01:25PM (#11021294)
Yes, but the end result is the same
Re:Announcing TypeScript 1.8 Beta on Thursday January 28, 2016 @08:26PM (#10992862)
Someone in Mozilla came up with a language called LLJS, that took full advantage of and compiled down to asm.js.

It looked like it had some promise, since it wasn't nearly as heavy as emscripten, but I don't think much has happened with it since it was created.

Re:HTTPS provides more than just privacy on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @12:52PM (#10974718)
HTTPS doesn't directly provide it, sure, but it's still a benefit you get when using HTTPS.

This is just pedantic.

Re:The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment on Thursday January 14, 2016 @06:41PM (#10905733)
> Money is an artifact of the state; always has been, always will.

This is patently false. Money has existed before states, and it has existed without states.

Re:ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @05:50PM (#10898285)
Forking isn't possible when the code is not there, and when the company that created/copyrighted the code is openly hostile to forks. By them releasing under MIT, this issue is resolved.

As for the manpower behind Microsoft, git has made it very easy to merge code from relatively similar source code - in the cases that they make large important changes, those can always be merged in, and usually without too much work involved.

The only way they could succeed with something like that would be for them to go closed-source again, in which case you're still better off than if they never went open in the first place because you still at least have some code to work from.

Re:ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @04:14PM (#10897550)
But the thing he's saying is that having io.js happen was possible. It's also possible in this scenario too.
Re:The password hash Argon2, winner of PHC on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @09:22AM (#10894406)
This is actually incorrect. "kilo-" always means 1000, and computers are not given some exception. 1024 is a KiB, 1000 is a KB.
Re:Project Rider – A C# IDE on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @09:09AM (#10894308)
Because Visual Studio Code is more of a code/text editor than it is an IDE. It doesn't compare to regular VS with R#.
Re:Why I love Rust on Friday January 08, 2016 @10:11AM (#10865364)
Sure, but you could argue the same for things like COBOL
Re:The password hash Argon2, winner of PHC on Friday January 08, 2016 @08:33AM (#10864675)
You're angry because they properly measure base 2 data?

Even if you disagree on how proper it is, that seems like an extremely small and unimportant qualm.

Re:Gobby: A Collaborative Text Editor on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @01:42AM (#10849023)
immediate feedback.
Re:Gobby: A Collaborative Text Editor on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @01:23PM (#10844945)
Just search "Gobby text editor" on google images.
Re:Working fewer hours would make us more productive on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @08:18AM (#10843067)
Nice!

The question is not whether or not you're as productive, but rather, are you more than 80% as productive as you were before.

Re:10 GB Blocks on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @08:12AM (#10777523)
Actually around 75%
Re:Wireshark 2.0: Now with Qt on Friday December 18, 2015 @01:08PM (#10759851)
You mostly disagree with him entirely?
Re:Show HN: Acme-tiny, a tiny 200-line Let's Encrypt client on Friday December 04, 2015 @02:26PM (#10678469)
That's why he said "paired with your"

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