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bnr··on MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL
Depends on whether you consider redistribution under a different license a part of "whatever you want".
bnr··on Norwegian backup provider promises NSA-free data storage using Norwegian laws
It's open source, allright. Free Software is the term you are looking for.
bnr··on You know, Google, the web already had this feature
How much more can you trust a profile pic and a real-ish name than "someguy443"?
bnr··on It was not a DDoS: MtGox got 20k new accounts per day
It briefly crossed the 200€ mark yesterday. Maybe a lot of people wanted to cash out at that point. As soon as the price was dropping, more people decided it was a good time to sell.
bnr··on CodeMirror's creator's Tern.js reaches its funding goal
Looks like they use a point when the campaign is in EUR and a comma when it is in USD or GBP. With the exception of Ireland, that pretty much matches the map from the wiki article. But I think they should rather honor the user's locale in any case.
bnr··on Five days with Pebble
A very early version of the SDK is available to the 200 Hacker Special backers, who had to sign an NDA.
bnr··on Petition: Stop bundling crapware with Java
Please point me to where I can buy non-public data about potential backpack purchasers (or any person for that matter) from Apple/Google/Microsoft.

Until then, your statements are nothing more than FUD.

bnr··on How long would it take for a Foxxcon worker to buy an iPad?
I don't know, how long would it take a US factory worker to buy one? How long would it take for a Apple employee in Cupertino?
bnr··on Why we've decided to stop producing TNW Magazine for Android
What differences between the Desire and S3 were causing you problems? Screen size/resolution? API versions?

I have developed and tested apps that run just fine on both of these devices. No different builds, not even different layouts. You're right, fragmentation is real, but it is not an unsolved problem in the Android world.

bnr··on Date and Time in Java 8: Timezones
What's the use case for storing a time with timezone instead of just storing the UTC value?
bnr··on GitHub Enterprise
Keeping their code within their own firewall is a big deal for many companies.
bnr··on Show HN: I built a website that lets you freelance for bitcoins
You could create a login-token signed with your bitcoin private key. Wallet software would have to implement that, though.
bnr··on Chrome gets date and time pickers
> I'd love to have a little more control over this. Perhaps adding: > lang="fr"

No, please, don't! Leave the users in control, developers will just screw this up with country=language=locale logic.

bnr··on CyanogenMod 10.0 Release
Cyanogen, the initial author, was hired by Samsung some time ago. But CM is still a volunteer project, the developers don't get monetary compensation for their work, so there's nothing to buy out.
bnr··on Why is Linux more popular than BSD?
Quora?
bnr··on TypeScript: a language for application-scale JavaScript development
The Language Specification looks pretty extensive[1].

And TypeScript is just the language, so there's no API to document besides what your browser exposes in JS.

[1] http://www.typescriptlang.org/Content/TypeScript%20Language%...

bnr··on Beta Late Than Never (Steam Linux Beta)
Maybe they haven't found that one hardware configuration yet.
bnr··on “grep -R doesn't automatically search amazon”
Great to see Shuttleworth taking it easy...

> grep --universe might be a better shortcut ;)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bu...

bnr··on Ask PG: Is There A Startup You Regret Not Funding? (Like Fred and AirBnB)
Barely anything on reddit is original content, I don't think the users should complain about reposts on other sites. If it keeps certain demographics away, it might even be a good thing for reddit's content/comment quality.
bnr··on Open source author pulls code after GPL abuse
> creating closed forks (fine with the gpl IMHO)

That's not fine. At the very least, you have to provide the source code for your (entire) product if a customer demands it.

bnr··on Captchas Are Becoming Ridiculous
Look at the "download MP3" link's URL, the audio captcha comes from google.com/recaptcha.

I agree that the button itself should be easier to discover for blind people, like an image link with a title tag.

bnr··on Sparrow made downloadable to conform to LGPL
I'm sure all the assets, including the code, were part of the acquisition.
bnr··on Java for iPhone
The advertised benefit is reusing your code across platforms.
bnr··on Bitcoinica MtGox account compromised
Another possible explanation for the increasing rate is that someone is offering 7% interest on BTC: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822.0

If that offer is really enough to make the price rise, this might be exactly what this guy is speculating on.

bnr··on Bitcoinica MtGox account compromised
But they were only cashed out from MtGox today. So he could have done it earlier, but only did it today. At least that's how I read it.
bnr··on Sexism red/yellow cards at Defcon
Of course it's not acceptable. But the victim being female does not automatically make the act sexism.
bnr··on What PHP 5.5 might look like
If the attacker has one known password in the database, finding the pepper has the same difficulty as finding one password in a DB without pepper.
bnr··on Making Chrome better on iOS
a) http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instruction...
bnr··on How Facebook Ships Code
You don't. Reproduce the issue on a development instance.
bnr··on PHP Bug #18556 : Setting locale to 'tr_TR' lowercases class names
PHP registers classes (and functions) at parse time, not at execution time.

i.e. this will print "bar":

    <?php
    echo foo();
    function foo() { return "bar"; }
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