MBlume

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by MBlume 15y ago
To be fair, I spent a few days trying to wrap my head around Mercurial so I could commit to PyPy, lost a bunch of code, and switched to just using the hg-git bridge. It's mostly about what you're used to.
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by MBlume 15y ago
Who ever said they have the right to profit from it? There was a century or two there where they had the ability to profit from it. Now? Looks like we might be done with that. Kinda sad, but these things happen.
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by MBlume 15y ago
Interesting assertion -- explain?
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by MBlume 15y ago
This sounds way too much to me like a VC trying to teach startup founders a brand of ethics that mostly benefits VCs.
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by MBlume 15y ago
> prevent idleness, which in turn keeps things like crime down This, this right here is exactly the kind of puritan thinking I find infuriating. Seriously, leisure as a terminal negative term in your utility function?! Never mind the
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by MBlume 15y ago
Guaranteed income. If the economy doesn't require everyone's labor, a bunch of people just shouldn't work, so make sure they can eat and you're done. I don't understand all this American obsession with jobs for everyone.
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by MBlume 15y ago
"When I first looked at Git source code two things struck me as odd: 1. Pure C as opposed to C++. No idea why. Please don't talk about portability, it's BS." Come on. Dude was picking a fight, and he got it. Maybe there are other examples
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by MBlume 15y ago
I meant eugenics and using IQ as one way of streamlining the immigration process.
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by MBlume 15y ago
As I said, an individual startup doesn't have the resources, but collectively we can -- and absolutely should -- find ways to get these laws changed.
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by MBlume 15y ago
...how are these things related?
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by MBlume 15y ago
> Many serial killers have high IQs and there are many average-IQ people without graduate degrees that still deserve a chance at a better life. Some of the smartest people have done some of the worst things in human history. Irrelevant.
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by MBlume 15y ago
This is simple. The startup community needs a lobby, a real one. We need a lobby to push for: liberalized IP policy, including 28-year copyrights, an end to software patents, penalties for introducing frivolous copyright suits, an end to an
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by MBlume 15y ago
The term you're looking for is "open" vs. "closed" headphones. "Open" headphones are generally considered to have better sound quality for the price if you're listening in an empty quiet room, but they a) leak sound to the room b) let sound
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by MBlume 15y ago
At risk of bikeshedding, I think the "most pythonic" approach would be mock(obj, x=1, y=2) Seriously though, cool lib, thanks for it =)
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by MBlume 15y ago
I don't understand why you're so determined to hide my friends. I like my friends. I might conceivably want to date some of them, and in any case, I'd like to show them my profile for con-crit. Is there a way to turn the "feature" off?
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by MBlume 15y ago
Thanks! That made a lot more sense.
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by MBlume 15y ago
But the exchanges were unhappy with being institutions solely for the benefit for their members. They decided to go for-profit and allow anti-competitive behavior and destructive (but high-paying) new "customers" to suck all the life out o
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by MBlume 15y ago
Historically, the copyright lobby has been even more successful in lobbying the state department to bully other nations to adopt draconian copyright laws than it has been in lobbying our own congress to adopt such laws.
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by MBlume 15y ago
The actual protections are embodied in laws passed by congress. The claim here is that under the constitution, congress had no authority to pass those laws except insofar as they promote science and useful arts.
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by MBlume 15y ago
Teens are humans. Iff encouraging humans to share personal information online was creepy before, it's creepy now. All this changes is that they're not unfairly discriminating. Well, they're still unfairly discriminating against those under
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by MBlume 15y ago
They're never going to. The former is providing cover for the latter. The latter's where the real money is.
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Project Euler problems in Haskell(github.com)
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by MBlume 15y ago
Wow. I've been referring to myself as self-taught because, well, I came from a physics background, taught myself Python using google, and started kibitzing on a friend's startup. But it occurs to me reading this, that I probably had more di
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by MBlume 15y ago
Hurting is how you convert.
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by MBlume 15y ago
SOPA encourages litigation -- of course the law firms would be salivating for it.
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by MBlume 15y ago
Remember that the primary power the average HN reader has to fight abuses like this is simply not to work for the companies that engage in this chicanery. Good hackers are valuable, and companies fight for them. When companies do things m
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by MBlume 15y ago
This article looks nearly content-free to me: > It’s true that there was little diversity in the racial sense but what struck me most was the lack of diversity of backgrounds, attitudes, and personality types. OK, what backgrounds did y
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by MBlume 15y ago
If you think that people less prudent than you should be "protected" from Facebook, then your participation may be harmful to them because it's part of what encourages them to participate.
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by MBlume 15y ago
It sounds like you're implying: a) This strategy (the co-op model) is overwhelmingly likely to fail b) But every once in a great while, it will succeed c) And some random fluke for whom it succeeded will think it's a great idea and write a
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by MBlume 15y ago
Simple != easy. That said, there's been a lot of links on the front page suggesting a seller's market for developer talent.

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