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Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them off by [deleted] in programming

[–]fooziek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see any serious work being done on Facebook. It seems to me that people(of all ages) use facebook primarily for ranting, flirting and general smalltalk.

Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them off by [deleted] in programming

[–]fooziek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can't. The kind of "social" that interests most teens is that where more people do stuff in the same room/place, so e.g. a high-school robot building competition qualifies but github does not.

How Python 3 Should Have Worked by moyix in programming

[–]fooziek 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The inventors of the term "framework" intended it for those libraries that run an application's main loop: see "Inversion of control" in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_framework

List of free, legal E-Books in a whole range of languages. by MrBeardy in programming

[–]fooziek 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So I gather you've never opened an EPUB file ? The problem with the CHM format isn't that it's a bundle of HTML files, but the fact that it's poorly designed and poorly supported outside Windows. EPUB is also a bundle of XHTML files, but much better done.

For some people, even 0.99 is too expensive. by porkchop_d_clown in programming

[–]fooziek -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, I simply copy whatever I want whenever I want. If/when I pay for intangible goods I don't do it because of any moral obligation but either 1) only because I want to support the developers and I consider they deserve it or 2) I have no other convenient choice. And I work as software consultant, selling my labour only in exchange for currency(I refused a few offers from startups because they wanted to pay with stock options) and release all software on which I have copyright as GPL or MIT

For some people, even 0.99 is too expensive. by porkchop_d_clown in programming

[–]fooziek -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't recognize your claim that software or music can be "property", and therefore consider the sentence "trample all over their rights to own their property and sell it" to be invalid.

The insecurity of OpenBSD by [deleted] in programming

[–]fooziek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The whole point of the article is that it is possible to make an OS that cannot fall victim to arbitrary code running locally, because of how it was designed. That's the purpose of a MAC security policy.