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George Bernard Shaw, iirc On the general question: there is an obvious distinction to be made between someone asking you for advice on what they plan to spend the next three years …

> My point is that Openness advocates seem to place Google on a pedestal That may be your perception, but I don't think it's universally true. Ask anyone who's tried to build a pro…

> there's no semantic distinction between code and data I struggle to understand how this can be true, and I say that as a Lisper (spiritually if not currently), because 'this data…

As stories go, this one would be a lot better if it actually linked to some technical information about the bug. Does anyone have a reference for what the samsung_laptop driver's d…

The article is from May 2012, perhaps the thread title could be updated to say so?

Indeed, the value of threading on usenet was that it provided data for the user-agent to decide in what order to present unread posts to the user - if the original topic A had drif…

Er, this is email we're talking about here, not http

So why is an article about the Metropolitan Police forensic lab in south London (UK) illustrated with a stock photo of what appears to be a US power socket? (It might be a Euro soc…

The continual references to how much easier it was "ten years ago" makes me wonder if the author was actually in the industry ten years ago, or is merely using it as a shorthand fo…

> The Linux kernel itself is a remarkably stable system as far as ABI/API is concerned If we're talking about userland applications, the Linux kernel A[BP]Is have IME historically …

Their (Smile) online banking is "not bad for a financial institution", and if that sounds like damning with faint praise ... Particular nits are: - pressing the browser 'back' butt…

Does anyone know of "friend discovery" services using OStatus? Most proprietary social networks have that "let me riffle through your addressbook" thing, which I imagine the privac…

I'd question the assumption that ftp was ever the old ftp, if by "ftp" we mean "deployment channel to production services". As soon as your web site is complicated enough to need a…

> strip the input of all apostrophes or double quotes. This approach will be a hard sell for Father O'Reilly and Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower

tl;dr Eric explains reasonably well why he thinks RMS is a fanatic, but fails utterly to explain why his opinion (on that or any other subject) matters.

I'm a cyclist but I've never worked as one

Building bridges may not be the best analogy. What if everyone started learning to dance the macarena instead? Seriously, cooking as an analogy highlights a difference between priv…

> there are still plenty of cases -- students going to exams, book that depend on exact layout, etc -- where ebooks are no substitute. Quite. Does anyone yet make an ereader that c…

Which is exactly why I'd rather use a library that doesn't make the choice of Rails and ActiveRecord for me.

The lack of a timestap datatype is a problem, but the lack of a 'link' datatype is imo a greater one, now that people are doing supposedly-RESTful APIs with JSON payload. Which is …

In a place and time where the motor lobby had not been so successful, the law would probably recognize this reality by imposing strict limitations on the use of machinery which, as…

> in my mind it is the opposite, the biggest, heaviest vehicles should have ROW especially at this point in history when the average driver is distracted by so many things in his v…

I think I agree with the general tone of the article, but his ordering is upside down: "data" is bad, but "data2" is worse, not better.