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🐌. Native speaker of American English. Linux user. Familiar with several programming languages in the procedural, OO, and functional paradigms.
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- Shakespeare bug in Ubuntu
- The Great Question Deletion Audit of 2012
- Chat
Link rot is evil. Archive everything. The keyboard is king. Correctness over performance. Canonicalize, normalize, deduplicate. Don't repeat yourself. UTF-8 > UTF-16. Use static typing: good for tooling. Re-use; don't re-invent. Correctness, then clarity, then concision and elegance. Play devil's advocate. First understand opponents' positions.
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Aug 18 |
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Remove documentation to save hard drive space Related: askubuntu.com/questions/177566/what-is-the-use-of-doc-packages |
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Aug 18 |
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What is the use of *-doc packages? It's a bit confusing though; extended documentation is often in packages not called -doc, and if I recall a few -doc packages do contain man pages. |
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Aug 18 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Aug 18 |
accepted | Is it acceptable to subscribe someone else to a bug report? |
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Aug 17 |
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Source code for 'df' command Re-order text to clarify how the reference is relevant. |
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Aug 17 |
suggested | suggested edit on Source code for 'df' command |
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Aug 17 |
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How do I legally make an open-souce version of a closed-source game? @NateC-K: And which can easily be extended in an expansion pack. |
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Aug 17 |
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How do I legally make an open-souce version of a closed-source game? Saying "based on" might falsely suggest it was endorsed by the original creators. You definitely have to re-code and use your own graphics, to avoid violating copyright. Arguably "Kingdom Era" is similar enough to "Age of Empires" that it could create a "substantial likelihood of confusion". This is a legal gray area, so I suggest you consult a lawyer to ask what specific things are acceptable. |
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Aug 16 |
answered | How do I legally make an open-souce version of a closed-source game? |
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Aug 16 |
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How do I legally make an open-souce version of a closed-source game? @ObsessiveFOSS: Alternatively you could live in a country that doesn't recognize software patents. |
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Aug 1 |
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Boot ubuntu - Arranque de ubuntu re-translate from the spanish, tags |
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Aug 1 |
suggested | suggested edit on Boot ubuntu - Arranque de ubuntu |
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Aug 1 |
answered | How can one disable shortcuts of chrome? |
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Aug 1 |
answered | How do I allocate more memory to Chrome? |
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Aug 1 |
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Customize color of selection rectangle when clicking-and-dragging on desktop More descriptive title; copyediting |
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Aug 1 |
suggested | suggested edit on Customize color of selection rectangle when clicking-and-dragging on desktop |
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Aug 1 |
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Grub rescue please help To be clear: you can recover, but you will need a live CD. |
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Jul 18 |
awarded | Student |
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Jul 18 |
asked | Is it acceptable to subscribe someone else to a bug report? |
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Jul 12 |
awarded | Tag Editor |
