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Many upstream projects find it easier to bundle or “vendor” dependencies, but for Debian, this means that there can be many copies of some popular libraries. When there is a need to fix a security or other severe problem in such a library, Debian would have to find all copies to fix them.
Why Is Debian the Way It Is?
blog.liw.fi
The first intra-Party conflict to be fought through the press occurred in the mid-1950s, when Mao was eager to harness the wave of popular enthusiasm that had emerged with the new nation’s founding to drive through a rapid industrialization plan. The Party apparatus was opposed to this idea. In its capacity as the Party’s mouthpiece, People’s Daily published an article expounding the need to “oppose impetuosity and adventurism” and set targets that were in accord with China’s objective conditions (quoted in Cheek 1997, 172). Provoked by this and other signs of his increasing marginalization within the Party, Mao began to advocate the famous Hundred Flowers policy, which invited intellectuals and writers to publicly criticize the Party’s bureaucratism (MacFarquhar 1974). Still controlled by the Party apparatus, however, People’s Daily adopted a lukewarm approach to reporting on Mao’s efforts and even published an article arguing against the Hundred Flowers policy. Although Mao immediately criticized this article, People’s Daily did not report either on his response to it or on his efforts to further promote and expand the campaign. Blocked from conveying his views to the masses, Mao became openly irate and hostile to the newspaper and its editor-in-chief, Deng Tuo. Mao exerted the weight of his status as the Party’s charismatic helmsman to personally remove Deng from his editorship, and overrode the objections of the Party bureaucrats to have the Hundred Flowers movement scaled up to a major Party rectification campaign.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
With very few exceptions, URLs should be idempotent: *the same path should always take a user to the same resource*.
The UX of URLs
shalvah.me
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