Hi all! Recently I worked on the "Subversion Links" Greasemonkey script: http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/bits-and-bobs/greasemonkey/grease.html I...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Oct 11, 2008 9:48 pm
Hi all! I recently spotted a new shell called Squirrel Shell on Freshmeat.net: http://squirrelsh.sourceforge.net/ Here is my impression from it: 1. Doing the...
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Ori Idan
ori_i
Oct 12, 2008 1:30 am
Didn't you forget the standard open source sentence "Release early release often"? It is probably a very early release and you should have wrote this to the ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Oct 12, 2008 9:08 am
Hi Ori! Please separate paragraphs with an empty line, and avoid top-posting. ... "Release early, release often" does not mean "Release crap" or don't do ...
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Arik Baratz
arikb_
Oct 12, 2008 9:37 am
... My guess: It's A niche product. Don't use it, Shlomi - it's not for you. I'm surprised you even wasted your time on it, since you're evidently not a part...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Oct 12, 2008 1:59 pm
Hi all! I uploaded a new riddle to the Math-Ventures section of my homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/MathVentures/two-angels-and-two-gates.html It was...
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Arik Baratz
arikb_
Oct 25, 2008 12:57 am
Hi folks, As you may or may not know, I'm the owner of these two domains: hacker.org.il hackers.org.il They are up for renew soon, so: 1. As for...
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Eli Billauer
eli@...
Oct 25, 2008 11:04 pm
Hello, This may be the opportunity to discuss a related issue: Are there are any impressions from the new Israeli registrars? Personally, I moved my domain to...
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Arik Baratz
arikb_
Oct 26, 2008 12:12 am
... I've moved a couple of domains (python.org.il included) to LiveDNS. Their interface looks like it was designed by a newbie, and it's using ASP (GASP!) but...
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Omer Zak
w1@...
Oct 31, 2008 12:29 am
http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/10/27/why-there-will-always-be-programmers/ Summary: Programmers are always needed, because big programs have lots of ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Nov 3, 2008 7:06 pm
... Well, I never initiated large-scale projects on my own, just contributed to large-scale ( > 100K LOCs) projects that other people initiated. Well, first of...
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Ori Idan
ori_i
Nov 3, 2008 8:28 pm
... I certainly agree that code should be self documenting as much as possible. Sometimes even in line documentation in the form of comments, tends to stay out...
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Hadar Weiss
whadar@...
Nov 5, 2008 7:07 am
I am think about the best ways for technical young entrepreneurs (like me) to start startups... Here's the post - ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Nov 5, 2008 11:33 pm
Hi all! (for linux-elitists : I'm sorry about my last post about the KDE 4 rant. I thought it was acceptable, but it turned out to violate this list's...
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Omer Zak
w1@...
Nov 6, 2008 4:40 pm
... It is my understanding that you do not have to make your modifications available to people, who don't surf your Web site. So if you install the stuff on...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Nov 6, 2008 6:34 pm
Hi Omer! ... No, you are right. I should have phrased it as an "on a public web-server". However, this misphrasing still doesn't make it a better licence, or...
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Amit Aronovitch
amitar1
Nov 7, 2008 7:15 am
... Possibly all. The reason is that "freeness"; is not a boolean parameter. Not even a single parameter real-valued scale. There are multiple criteria, ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Nov 8, 2008 5:24 am
... Well, generally speaking one should strive for endorsement as free (and preferably GPL-compatibility) by everybody. Otherwise, you may be facing problems....
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Omer Zak
w1@...
Nov 8, 2008 11:36 pm
... I understood that you are (not strongly) against all viral licenses, regardless of whether they provide us with protection against the unfair software...
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Arik Baratz
arikb_
Nov 9, 2008 4:27 pm
Answering to myself... ... Since there are no takers, and since the domain is in use, I will renew it myself unless someone contacts me by mid-December and...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Nov 19, 2008 4:31 pm
Hi Omer! Sorry for the late response. ... I am against them in the sense that I prefer not to use them for my code. But I accept the fact that some people want...
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Nadav Har'El
nyharel
Nov 23, 2008 9:08 am
... Thinking of future threats is hard (in the banking business, this is a whole profession, and as you can see lately, the haven't been doing a very good job....
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Nov 23, 2008 11:51 am
... I agree this is a problem. However, if X-Windows were GPLed, then the people who made Exceed and wanted to sell it, would not have made it in the first ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Nov 25, 2008 8:50 pm
As I was working on a new Greasemonkey script today, I needed a way to parse the date from a string, and format it into DD-MM-YYYY. Parsing the date turned out...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Nov 25, 2008 9:23 pm
Hi all! I ran out of books to read, and while I can buy some more, there's always the more cost-effective way of borrowing them with fellow mongers. Here is an...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Jan 9, 2009 6:10 pm
... Now that I think of it, I have another vital thought experiment to add to this. If X11 had been initiated under a non-BSD-style-licence, then it is ...
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Amit Aronovitch
amitar1
Jan 10, 2009 9:48 pm
... In this case, your recommendations are also not free enough. Only license that would work is something like: "You can do with this work whatever you like,...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Jan 17, 2009 3:41 pm
Hi all! I started to coordinate the Israeli participation in the Google Summer of Code program for this year. For this end, I created a page on the wiki: ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Feb 10, 2009 5:17 pm
See: http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=1845 http://www.fsf.org/news/reoppose-tls-authz-standard for a call-for-action...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Feb 18, 2009 9:35 pm
See the forwarded message below for the question. You can find my response here: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/sanfrancisco-pm/2009-February/002161.html ...
