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by 1gor 17y ago
I don't think anyone here has something against "aggressive promotion" in the form of interesting information I think you are the only one here enjoying reading PR releases. This sure looks like spamming (or a good PR work): http://www.g
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by 1gor 17y ago
Since when has Hacker News, with its highly entrepreneurial core, ever so viciously attacked publicity? Since when polluting valuable community information resource with paid commercial fluff became acceptable? Aggressive promotion poison
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by 1gor 17y ago
Wolfram's talent for self-promotion has been nicely demonstrated by the publicity campaign ahead of his WolframAlpha launch. Multiple pre-announcements, screenshots, peek-reviews, demos have been appearing on NH for weeks already. Which may
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by 1gor 17y ago
If you develop web based applications, Mac OS X has many limitations, strangely enough. Mac OS X is UNIX alright, but to pull most of libraries from MacPorts is the only sane way to manage dependencies. If you run Tiger (and see no reasons
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by 1gor 17y ago
Are you as well doubting Amnesty International findings simply because they are anti-torture? What is wrong with people having convictions and spending money to find facts that support these convictions? I find the trend towards quick chara
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by 1gor 18y ago
Unfortunately, religious fanaticism is a reality. People do die and kill in name of a religion.
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by 1gor 18y ago
I agree, 'artistic' design is often overrated. Functional (interface) design is not, but it can be done by a programmer. Just look at Google. There is no graphic design to speak of.
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by 1gor 18y ago
No, general public needs to learn about his integrity, erudition and impeccable scientific standing. This is important because Dyson's opponents as a rule try some sort of character assassination instead of sticking to the subject matter.
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by 1gor 18y ago
Religious beliefs are inaccurate, but they are a fact of life.
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by 1gor 18y ago
If basket of goods was priced in gold rather than dollars - then its price would also be more stable. There have been centuries when gold was legal tender and nobody complained (apart from some emperors who found debasing gold coins by addi
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by 1gor 18y ago
>would you please stop spreading this kind of FUD? And would you please stop using labels. In the original article there is an arguments that GPL makes corporate clients reluctant to use the software. This may be inaccurate, but this is
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by 1gor 18y ago
I would argue that USD and the rest of currncs are unstable vs. gold. Supply of gold is fixed. Supply of paper money is at the whim of greenspans.
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by 1gor 18y ago
Microsoft has not became dominant because they got a freebee or two from BSD. This is exactly the point - try imagine some evil company today grabbing Apache code-base and starting a commercial branch of it. So what? They will fail against
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by 1gor 18y ago
>the goal would be to create a reserve currency “that is disconnected from individual nations and is able to remain stable in the long run, thus removing the inherent deficiencies caused by using credit-based national currencies”. Gold
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by 1gor 18y ago
It was fascinating to learn about your personal preferences for a tone of a discourse and I'll patiently wait until you decide to dissect the argument. Meanwhile, ESR's point is an excellent one. MIT license has proven to help a project to
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by 1gor 18y ago
>While really nice for basic CRUD apps, as soon as you try to do anything advanced... And what is there exactly so advanced that you want to do? You have a problem domain object model that you have abstracted as database tables. Is ther
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by 1gor 18y ago
Does anybody know how to do this in emacs?
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by 1gor 18y ago
The following NH comment thread has predicted current recession http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=102176 but I doubt anyone has became rich because of that.
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Google's policy never to settle with patent trolls to discourage frivolous claims.(bloomberg.com)
10 points by 1gor 18y ago|2 comments
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by 1gor 18y ago
Draft is next?
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by 1gor 18y ago
China has been keeping the value of its own currency down in order to support its exports to the US, and in the process it has been accumulating dollars (which then are invested in US debt). There is a big question if they will continue to
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by 1gor 18y ago
As a mental experiment, let's imagine there were debtors' prisons in the US. Do you think this would restrain consumer credit card/mortgage borrowing and prevent people form getting into the current mess?
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Offshore programming idea: floating luxury hotel for developers 3 miles off US coast?(boston.com)
19 points by 1gor 18y ago|11 comments
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by 1gor 18y ago
Don't worry too much about standard Mac keybindings. Emacs shortcuts will soon be wired into your fingertips and you will be efficient on any platform - windows, linux and mac. In fact, you will very soon forget about the platform and focus
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Iran has launched a satellite into orbit(reuters.com)
26 points by 1gor 18y ago|12 comments
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Apple may use 'Nuclear Arsenal' of patents to delay Palm's iPhone rival(bloomberg.com)
1 points by 1gor 18y ago|0 comments
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by 1gor 18y ago
There is a great tradition of elitism and disdain for banality among intellectuals. Think of impressionists circle in the early XXs century, most of these guys' paintings are fetching millions today, but during their lifetime they were poor
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Ask HN: The best PHP book for Ruby programmer?
4 points by 1gor 18y ago|3 comments
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by 1gor 18y ago
You are right. Also, this website needs more lifestyle, social and political topics. Vote this up if you want to rename it Designer News.
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by 1gor 18y ago
Can anyone enlighten me what's the difference between Zumodrive and JungleDisk? I've been using the later for a year. It creates a 'limitless' network drive on my MacBook with 1GB local cache (size can be increased), while synching with my

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