"In addition, the Government will work with organizations such as the Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative to fund and secure commonly used internet “utilities” such as open-source software, protocols, and standards. Just as our roads and bridges need regular repair and upkeep, so do the technical linkages that allow the information superhighway to flow."
Soros is a very manipulative gentleman looking exclusively after his own interests. When he says A it doesn't mean it's true, it merely means that saying A benefits him the best.
You're probably right (and you'll remain right if "Soros" is replaced with the name of many, many people), but I don't think you're the kind of source the grandparent asks for; I think they wanted evidence that Soros shorted the euro or something similar.
Even if he's short the euro, it kinda seems that no single famous, connected billionaire can make or break the euro. It's, like, a really, really big, erm, thing. He ought to believe his bet to be correct rather than hope that him talking about it will move the market very much. So if he's indeed short the euro, I'd guess you're hearing his true opinion (which doesn't make him right, it's not like he's never lost money, it just probably means he's honest in this particular instance.)
>Even if he's short the euro, it kinda seems that no single famous, connected billionaire can make or break the euro. It's, like, a really, really big, erm, thing.
The euro is bigger than GBP, but:
You do know he broke the British Pound, right?
Your link says John Major instituted a fixed exchange rate regime and made pounds overpriced. Soros didn't even break the news (a German official did), he just made the most profit shorting the pound. I wouldn't call it "breaking the pound" unless you think the pound was priced about right and he made his profit manipulating the public opinion and thus moving the market.
BTW, I found the interview rather trite; he's really full of it.
But if he didn't think it would be true he'd bet the other way. Of course he's going to put his money on what he thinks/thought was going to happen. I can see how it's not true but I think it's likely he believes what he's talking about.
I don't plan to make a version that gets its data from local man pages, but it would be great if such a tool existed.
Parsing the data out of man pages is messy, and my process currently involves a lot of steps. I actually only started collecting the data for this as a side-effect of trying to make man pages render nicely in browsers.
I would like to open source more of the backend, but I've started with a tool I wrote to extract man pages from project repos: https://github.com/jacksonp/manlib
"The gethostbyname(), gethostbyaddr(), herror(), and hstrerror() functions are obsolete. Applications should use getaddrinfo(3), getnameinfo(3), and gai_strerror(3) instead."
For a long time: getaddrinfo() and others are specified in susv3[1] (since 2003 I think). However, gethostbyname() and gethostbyaddr() are still very commonly used, and won't be gone soon.
The main reason gethostbyname is deprecated is that it doesn't support IPv6. The implementation of getaddrinfo uses gethostbyname, so you're using it either way.
That seems like a weak argument. It's still going to do the wrong thing when the local machine has a 10.x.x.x address and the local server has a 172.16.x.x address. The right solution is for the local admin to have the local DNS server return only the local address for local clients.
getaddrinfo() is also a much more complicated function than gethostbyname(). If you need the extra features, fine. If you're writing new code, fine. But going back and trying to update existing code is just going to introduce new bugs.
When you go to your sales team and the new goal is 7 rather than 9, morale gets a boost and you try a bit harder to sell those cars. The goal is closer and within reach.
