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I suppose you're talking about OWL. The thing is most programmers look at OWL, see the words class and property and immediately think that it's OOP, that they don't have to look mo…

Yes, picadas (which means chopped in Spanish) are pretty common in Argentina and people usually drink beer with them. You can order them at pubs and they are something standard in …

Maybe I'm missing something, but asado de tira is one of the two most common cuts in Argentina's parrillas, the other one is vacío (flank steak). It's so common that you can just o…

That's probably right, Fernet with Coke is a kind of national drink, especially in the province of Córdoba, where everything suggests it was invented. If you order a Fernet in Arge…

I try to be as cautious as any free software loving programmer when it comes to Microsoft, but it's hard to see how they could get away with that strategy in TypeScript's case. The…

No, the AGPL uses strong copyleft, so any future derivative work must be released under the same terms (and the same license or later versions if I'm not mistaken). The only possib…

I don't know about the JVM, but what you mention about MySQL has to do not strictly with the GPL but with it being dual licensed (GPL and propietary) and as a result many Linux dis…

But that's perfectly OK and working as intended. I mean, if you want to distribute a closed source product, then you're working against what the FSF and GPL were created for, and i…

You have some guarantees of access to the present source code (and as jdjb points out, not necessarily), but you're certainly not guaranteed access to changes made in the future by…

Yes it is because people expect their office suite to handle MS formats flawlessly as a basic requirement, and the best at that is naturally MS Office. Nobody cares how or if Word …

The article mentions Kary Mullis' use of LSD helped him develop the polymerase chain reaction, which revolutionized genetics and for which he won a Nobel Prize. But I suspect from …

If you read "What the Dormouse Said" by John Markoff you could reach the conclusion that a fellowship of LSD-fueled Übermenschen existed during the 60's and 70's and we had the per…

> Please enlighten me on the ideas! concepts! Microsoft held back again and again that were not available on free software systems? Are you joking? I'll just give you one example: …

So, for you this is an all or nothing thing. If I made some things public through Facebook then I'm automatically OK with Echo possibly sending data to Amazon about the things I di…

I assume you haven't used Chromium. It's not an issue, as I said they don't come by default as in Chrome, but those codecs are easily installable through the package manager. I had…

I know that you know it, I was talking about your hypothetical user. Except for the color of the icon and the lack of support by default for AAC, H.264 and MP3 (I have support for …

We owe a lot to those who work on package managers and the packages, but he has a point in that if it works so well it has a lot to do with the software being free. Important thing…

I use Transmission regularly. I have tried Brasero, Rythmbox and Simple Scan. These last three aren't bad, I just think that K3B, Amarok and Skanlite offer more and aren't that dif…

VLC, Scrivener, Skype, Spotify for Linux; I think they all qualify as quite usable applications. On the other hand, in GTK you have GIMP and Inkscape, which aren't exactly an UX ex…

Well, I won't deny that there's some truth in what you said, but first a couple of comments about the examples. Transmission is as much a Gnome as a KDE application. It has both Qt…

But that's not what he wanted to point out, at all. It's not about percentages of contributions. He classified them as coming from KDE or not and wanted to demonstrate that many im…

From what you say I assume that you think a publishing house's only job is to take your manuscript to the printer. Well, no, there's much work involved in the editing and design pr…

It's not just a matter of how much money the writer will get. And even when talking about that, you assume that any published book will sell, and that's not true. When you publish …

AFAIK green threads were removed from the core language but are available as crate green (also known as greenlib). You can use that for building servers. http://doc.rust-lang.org/g…