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Comment #9841886
Might I recommend not using the prev/next executables and instead adding another directory level to indicate search page, e.g. ytfs/search/1/video.mp4 would make it easy to reexpor…
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Comment #9335454
I think it's a safe assumption that most Netflix subscribers want to watch Netflix on their TV with ease. My grandpa has a Netflix account. If he wants to buy a tv that can play Ne…
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Comment #9335341
Just because literally everyone you know uses those platforms doesn't mean they have meaningful pull either. That's unless you know every TV owner in the world. Your anecdotal expe…
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Comment #9335267
I think you're in the minority. Most TV owners don't have xbox or chromecast. Netflix bundled with a TV strictly reduces the friction to watch Netflix.
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Comment #9220178
Or in other words The way you feel when you can't use GPL code in your startup Is the same way I feel when I can't use Mickey Mouse or Mario for a toy in my toy company.
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Comment #9220007
> That doesn't mean you have to support every particular choice about how it is wielded I never wrote you have to support how it's wielded but that it is wielded. Your freedom of s…
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Comment #9219680
It's possible but it's not logical! If one supports the level of power that current copyright law provides for authors, then you must support the fact that any particular author wi…
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Comment #9219565
The GPL is a hack on copyright law. If you disagree with the GPL then you disagree with copyright law. The GPL is only as powerful as current copyright law allows it to be. Don't h…
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Comment #9145631
hehe someone has been watching house of cards a bit too earnestly.
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Comment #9142830
C++ templates do have "protocols," they just aren't necessary. The result is that the perpetrator of a template error is ambiguous. check out type traits: http://en.cppreference.co…
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Comment #9142774
reinterpret_cast ?! that's implementation-defined. not to mention type-aliasing which is undefined behavior. what you want is: template typename std::enable_if ::value, T>::type ge…
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Comment #9125566
I wish all of these C++ template metaprogramming-based javascript binding generators would standardize into a single API. Embind is another one for use on the client side: http://k…
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Comment #9105891
You really could have just said "dream."
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Comment #9090458
Why aren't you using nullptr instead of casting NULL to your pointer type?
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Comment #9088102
thank you for sharing byuu a+
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Comment #9088074
it's art, there's no single metric for quality. you can like them both in different ways. it's not a competition. try something new.
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Comment #9069958
On your Mac the stack trace hints that the bug is due to a bad pointer/offset/size being passed to fwrite() but in the debug builds it looks like it's in the fastcmp() function. Is…
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Comment #9026584
It's not a false contradiction (dichotomy?). In general, non-standard modifications can break the default configuration, even in your hotplug example. If they can break the default…