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maddev

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    Comment #8179911

    The abstract: Power exists to be used. Some wish for cyber safety, which they will not get. Others wish for cyber order, which they will not get. Some have the eye to discern cyber…

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    Comment #8160971

    Good work! Really like how you narrow the selection at the end of the worklow!

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    Comment #8156732

    Got any jungle or hardcore?

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    Comment #8038810

    Right Bill Gates is so stupid he didn't know about Ctrl-F on his own damn OS.

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    Comment #8030299

    > It's like wanting Google to be the legal shield for everyone committing copyright infringement on their sites. It's not remotely economically feasible. Watching a little bit of y…

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    Comment #8030294

    No need to remain safe. Just set an example right now and get over this forever. What their decision means is that I can't host code on GitHub because I might have down times (at l…

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    Comment #8027590

    > If they want Safe Harbor protection under the DMCA they have to honor the request. They shouldn't want safe harbor then.

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    Comment #8027556

    > the slow erosion of privacy expectations, etc. > slow SLOW?????? More like super-sonic.

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    Comment #8027514

    Disappointing that GitHub honored that request.

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    Comment #8027500

    It's not like am speculating. I implemented these things. The hardest part is agreeing on TZ symbols (e.g. Indian Standard Time vs Ihoa Standard Time). E.g. its not very hard to ge…

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    Comment #8027482

    Not acceptable at all. Whoever came up with that scheme is a psychopathic criminal for all I care. But then again, once you start using proprietary software you expect there is a g…

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    Comment #8004869

    Why would you ever need to convert a timestamp? You typically parse a timestamp like "1999-03-29 20:02:04 CEST" and return a number of seconds since a given point in time (e.g. UNI…

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    Comment #8004806

    ALSA is a piece of CRAP so its easy to compare with. OSSv4 was the last sane thing in the linux audio department. :(

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    Comment #8004213

    > POP, no. My time machine didn't go back that far. ;) Imho this remark comes across as quite unprofessional. Ignoring the fact that POP and IMAP weren't born that far apart in tim…