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pinkythepigon Learning from Ada

Actually yes, you can pass a compiler flag, -fdefer-type-errors, which makes type errors turn from compilation errors to simply warnings. That said, any code that does not type check will also not run and instead will throw an exception at runtime if called (laziness is key here). But if Part B was giving type errors and you only cared about testing Part A, then you are good to go.

pinkythepigon YC set to launch one-year minimum income pilot project to figure out logistics

The basic premise is that everyone is taxed some percentage of their income and then they are paid back some flat amount. For those (probably) in the middle class, this tax/payment will be exactly the same. You pay X per year and gain X per year in benefits. For those who make less than that, they will end up earning more from the payment than they pay in to the system. Those who earn more money than that will pay more into the system than they receive back in benefits.

>Do only certain people qualify for basic income?

The good part about it is that everyone qualifies for the exact same payment, this reduces the cost of administering the program significantly. No need to fill out forms, check if you are covered, prove you make under a certain amount, or talk to 20 different agencies, the only thing that has to be confirmed is that you are a legal resident.

pinkythepigon Lawyers who won Happy Birthday copyright case sue over “We Shall Overcome”

This article makes a pretty good argument for a shorter term: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/oct/07/shorter-c...

pinkythepigon ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external drives/SD cards

As the OP of the /r/linux thread... What inspired the thread is that I bought an SD card and while on the dev build of chromeOS I was unable to use it with ext4. I distinctly remembered it being listed as supported at one point a year or so ago and then I ran upon this thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/2iuix3/trying_to_i...

So I made a thread on /r/linux and it absolutely exploded. I made it figuring that a number of users would click through and post that this was a stupid change and hopefully get the decision reverted. They claimed there was no userbase for such a feature and I knew exactly where to find one. That said, it blew up way more than I was expecting.