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popee··on Petition to pardon Edward Snowden reaches 100,000 signatures
But if you have terrorism in collective consciousness then you can end as savior of your nation? I just hope normal Americans are not so stupid to buy that shit anymore. Anyway, this is final test for You as nation.
popee··on Edward Snowden: Saving Us from the United Stasi of America
Which one? Adjusting algorithms or start using it little bit more? In both cases all they need are some good arguments but you already see they even have, so called, arguments for current situation. At the end they are here to save You! P.S. ofc, if you can, please join the army. Forget the truth, there's a war out there, I tell you :-)
popee··on DuckDuckGo Sees Record Traffic After NSA PRISM Scandal
Don't forget link owners. NSA and other bastards can force data centers and link providers without knowledge of DDG. They can split, sniff and store all that data, even if they atm don't know how to decrypt some traffic. One day they will know. It's friking 1984^2
popee··on Sales of George Orwell’s ’1984′ up 69 percent on Amazon
Symbols of this new tyranny are highly sophisticated propaganda/subversion and bureaucratic repression. So, unlike standard totalitarian systems which are, in a sense, straight and clean, this system is not - you could say it's opportunistic. Bureaucracy is just formal execution of their will inside legal system (some people call that justice, but it's just tool of repression towards people). As you can see they are so strong that they can even play with constitutional rights.
popee··on Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (2008)
Yeah, they want people to vote because then they can say: "will of majority". If only 1 person voted, the so called democracy would fail (people would eventually get it), because 1 person is not representing majority and majority is what democracy is all about (with all respect to minorities). They only made semantic switch saying that if you don't vote then you don't care -> not true because what if you are against (for example corrupted?) system and want real change -> should there be an voting choice: "this is not working, change the system"? :-)
popee··on Coffee vs. beer: which drink makes you more creative?
Question. How cat focus help in creativity? If you want to make new connections in brain -> creativity -> isn't that opposite of focusing? Hmmm,

Sorry on bad english, 4 beers + not primary language :-)

popee··on Lisp Prolog and Evolution
At university we had to learn prolog and for me (C/perl) it was mind blowing experience. Fact that you are writing program as bunch of logical predicates was kind strange at first, but when you get used to it, it's such a great and powerful tool. Also, learning things like unification was just wooow. So, I'd recommend prolog to every programmer, especially today when most people use yet another standard language. On the other hand prolog is sooo out of the box.
popee··on What's next Google? Dropping SMTP support?
Google's wet dream is Linux kernel under BSD license.
popee··on A proposal for an always-releasable Debian
Just two things.

Debian guys should really do something like OpenBSD package flavors. Sometimes you just don't need X,Y or Z support and it's pain to do this kind of stuff with Debian. I'm not sure if that is even possible in such rigid package managemenet system. Other thing would be to allow files/libs as dependencies. Those two things would give people more freedom and flexibility, but they are from start trying really hard to be anal with packages (even given the fact that .deb system is , at the same time, best and worst thing about Debian). So, guess, just forget about it.

popee··on LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network
Privacy is not about tehnical details, it's about (ab)using users data. And btw you are also frontend to CIA,FBI,... so sorry to burst your bubble, same shit as facebook, amazon, ... You should all unite and call that corporation Little Bros United >:-)
popee··on Facebook buys Parse
Why do you think they'll move away from social? Asking because, for me, this looks like they'r going "all in" here. They want all private data and social is missing in their chain. But, hmmm, looks like it's much harder to become Big Brothers right hand >:-)
popee··on Ask HN: Why you do open source?
1. In FLOSS you have more execution freedom. Well it all depends on ownership, size and way project is govern, but developer can always choose to fork or to contribute to other projects. You can't do that in big companies.

2. You can, mostly, work on ideas you think are worth doing. This is really awesome because worth is subjective term and only way to see you were right is to do it (your own way). "Talk is cheap, show me the code".

3. With right license you can take others code to fill parts of your project (either temporary or permanent). Helps in time consumption and agility. Ofc, you can always rewrite whenever and whatever you want. Some people think that reinwentihg the wheel is bad, but it all depends on situation. Sometimes it's even better then using bad code.

4. If you share code, someone will eventually modify it, so you can choose to integrate changes back (if worth merging). Only problem here is situation when people are using non-compatible licenses.

5. More hacker's culture in FLOSS in general.

popee··on GCC and C vs C++ Speed, Measured
And this is relevant here because of?
popee··on Some dark corners of C
No comma operator on the slides. Whata pitty :-)
popee··on Some dark corners of C
[] really is very well known trick question. Wwll it was on my university before they switched to other language. I think they don't event learn C there. Shame.
popee··on Some dark corners of C
LOL
popee··on Some dark corners of C
At least
popee··on Ubuntu will switch from X window server to Mir
Or just install mint ;-)
popee··on The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea
Same as with Gerard Depardieu. He/they made choice not to be in one kind of dictatorship so they escaped to other. So it seems like pretty subjective stuff (personally i think it's wrong), but it's their choice so who cares. Why do you care?

Here is what they think:

"This is truly an ironic situation. We have been fighting for a free world, and our opponents are mostly huge corporations from the United States of America, a place where freedom and freedom of speech is said to be held high. At the same time, companies from that country is chasing a competitor from other countries, bribing police and lawmakers, threatening political parties and physically hunting people from our crew. And to our help comes a government famous in our part of the world for locking people up for their thoughts and forbidding access to information."

Is this false?

popee··on EU Data Protection: Proposed Amendments Written by US Lobbyists
Can you define Pirate party politics? When you think about it's not party, it's movement and because of that it should ugrently define coherent politics or it will be 'less elected'. Pirates don't have consistetnt politics! I had impression it's center to left, but talking to some member i got impression that spectrum is from total right to total left. Btw i'm (still) party memeber, but i don't freaking like when some conservative facebook hipsters (that, for example, don't know anything about GPL) talk about what it's all about. Sad stuff :-(
popee··on Iceland Kicked Out FBI Agents Who Flew in Unannounced to Investigate WikiLeaks
They were doing even worse things. And behind the curtains:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

Please read carefully, this is gold mine for all interested in work of US/UK puppet masters. Also it has nothing to do with communism and other ideologies, it has to do with destabilize EU over decades and even now.

popee··on Ortiz says suicide will not change handling of cases
What is her mission?
popee··on The Conscience of a Hacker
The Hackers Crackdown?
popee··on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C
It's ugly to see shift operator here? :-)
popee··on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C
> There are no frameworks for doing common high productivity tasks in C, only low level system operations, or > vastly complicated frameworks with terrible apis (>_> GTK). > I'll just whip up a C REST service that talks to mysql and point nginx at it. Um... yeah. I'm sure there's > an easy way to do that. ...perhaps...?

Search for libfcgi. It's nice and simple C library that can be used behind nginx and as the matter of fact anything that supports fcgi. In this case routes are defined on nginx. But just think a bit, it's nice little framework ;-)

Btw used exactly that few months ago.

popee··on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C
C doesn't care for fancy terms like VM, multicore, threads, ... But you can always make libary and implement what you need. This approach has advantages, for example you can share memory pages between processes, because that kind of stuff are part of hardware/OS, not C language. It would be stupid to implement it directly in C language. You will now say that it is reason why C is bad, i say it is reason why C is so popular all these years.
popee··on C11, yo
How do you "allocate" memory on stack? You can always do 'double arr[huge_constant]' and, depending on resources, overflow heap data. Or with recursion. Damn those bugs >:-)

The thing about C is that programmer should do check size before calling function with double arr[n]. Isn't that point of C? On the other hand, user can make fast stack allocation which, depending on situation, can be good. Stack is insecure by default, OS should put it really far from other parts. In embedded systems, well there you must always think about these kind of things.

Btw, how are (p)thread stacks implemented? Every thread has it's own stack, that's ein interesting situation.

popee··on Stroustrup on next-gen C++: I didn't want to let go of my baby
Whata possessive father :-)
popee··on Google+ Is Growing at Facebook Speed
One person once said that engineers are slaves of 21.century.
popee··on Nodejs on rails
Any ideas, comments?

Thanks.

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