Ologn

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by Ologn 13y ago
Yes, the Flushing Quaker Meeting House is listed as 1900 as well, although actually it was built in 1694. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Quaker_Meeting_House_%28Flu...
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by Ologn 13y ago
> You learn how (and how not) to run your own business—on someone else’s dime. I have worked everywhere from startups where I was hired employee #1 to Fortune 50 companies. Odds are your own business will start small. You learn about h
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by Ologn 13y ago
I used to use Debian Stable. In December 2002, Python 2.2 was released. Seven months later, Debian 3.0 was released - with Python 2.1. ...time passes... In November 2004, Python 2.4 is released. Debian stable is still using Python 2.1, and
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by Ologn 13y ago
Google's Admob is shutting off Paypal as a payment option a month from now. It is already shut off for new Admob customers. https://support.google.com/admob/v2/answer/2772061?hl=en
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by Ologn 13y ago
> According to some very sound economic currency theory, you're 100% wrong. I should first say that what that web site talks about is not a crank theory. They base their arguments on what many consider a very sound economic curre
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by Ologn 13y ago
Cow's milk is a commodity. It does not make a good currency. It must be kept refrigerated, and even with this becomes useless in a short amount of time. Nonetheless, it is a commodity and is useful. Gold is a commodity. It makes a
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by Ologn 13y ago
Labor goes into mining gold, extracting gold etc. But it can then be used for capping teeth, heat shields, photographic equipment etc., as well as for a currency. Labor does go into "mining" bitcoins. People build Bitcoin ASICs,
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by Ologn 13y ago
Gold's use as a currency is apart from its use as a commodity. It makes a good currency for several reasons - it is durable, storable, standardized, portable, easily divisible. Beyond its use as a currency or as jewelery, I don't
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by Ologn 13y ago
Bitcoins are worthless. They never had any value, and never will. Valueless meaning they are as worthless as Bernie Madoff fund shares, Dutch tulip bulbs, Pets.com stock and Flooz and Beanz, Reichsmarks and confederate dollars and so forth
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by Ologn 13y ago
> I have never shared code or given references before a job offer and I never will. Yes, I think our concerns are different than the OP's. A scenario that has played out for me is that I get an e-mail or call from a headhunter. They
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by Ologn 13y ago
I did a submission from the New York Times about how the IRS was targeting open source groups, and the title said as much. The title was changed to "Documents show liberals in IRS dragnet". So I had to write a short HN-adapted b
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by Ologn 13y ago
> A number of productivity software startups are creating great new apps that are mobile-first, solving specific problems like...spreadsheets (Grid). I'm not sure why they call Grid a spreadsheet. It has very little of the function
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by Ologn 13y ago
A decent picture of the history is given in the OP: * "gcc 2.5 (at the time) had a few bugs, but not many" * "schism between gcc 2.8, conservative...and the ``Pentium gcc'' group...[Pentium gcc group was] stretching
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by Ologn 13y ago
> too burdensome for individuals to make sure their works stay registered. Four people in the world are currently verified to be 114 years old are older. An eighteen-year-old taking a photograph in 1923 would be 114 in 2019 when their 1
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by Ologn 13y ago
Some people here are supporting keeping works from 1923 on in copyright. Before 2019, Congress will surely take up legislation to prevent works from 1923 from entering the public domain, and this legislation will surely pass. The argument
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by Ologn 13y ago
I'm happy to see the video of the Zipkin presentation at Strange Loop was put up a few months ago ( http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Zipkin ). People working on distributed tracing systems all tend to eventually
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Nobody in Boston Wants Free Money (youtube.com)
2 points by Ologn 13y ago|0 comments
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by Ologn 13y ago
Yes. I'm still watching issue #7147 aka #20814 ( http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7147 ). The programmer who created Dalvik was working on a fix to this prior to his leaving Google in
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by Ologn 13y ago
From the blog post: > But what does Android stand for? They don’t seem to have any coherent philosophy or aesthetic. Maybe you could argue that Android stands for “openness.” I've been almost totally focused on Android since spring
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by Ologn 13y ago
From the blog post: > I recently wrote about Apple’s overall philosophy and distilled it to, "Revolution, Great Products, Delight." Basically, they are one of the few corporations where money is second to the greater purpose
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by Ologn 13y ago
If you leave mail on your mail server, and are fetching mail over a WAN, with IMAP you only fetch messages with a higher ("newer") unique ID on each connection. With POP, you scan the entire map of unique identifiers each connect
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by Ologn 13y ago
Former Microsoft Business Division head Elop became Nokia CEO in September 2010. In February 2011, he wrote his burning platforms memo. By the time April 2011 rolled around, Nokia stock was still worth more than HTC's. That month th
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by Ologn 13y ago
You can tell what Elop is saying is nonsense just from the article title. Specifically the word "choose". Choose? Why did Elop have to "choose" Windows? Did Samsung have to choose between Android or Windows? Did HTC
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by Ologn 13y ago
I had an appreciation for FreeBSD. They were smart about some things. Especially circa 1996 era. It was an easy install. Pop in a 3.5" disk and do a network install. It had drivers and automagic support for obscure ethernet cards
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by Ologn 13y ago
If you look at the smartphone:handset chart, North America was above everyone else for years, then Western Europe began catching up. Of course, the US has an oligopoly running the wireless market: Verizon, who also controls the local loop
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by Ologn 13y ago
This happened to me on Google Play - http://bit.ly/129W8u2 It actually was more blatant before - my app had two reviews, one from "Michal", one from "Mi", both giving my app a 1 star rating (it has a 4.4
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IRS was targeting open source groups(vartmp.com)
6 points by Ologn 13y ago|0 comments
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by Ologn 13y ago
The most relevant point for here I included in the title before it was changed by someone... But groups with no political inclinations were also examined. “Open source software” organizations seeking nonprofit status “are usually for-profi
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Documents Show Liberals in I.R.S. Dragnet(nytimes.com)
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by Ologn 13y ago
> Further, their store is plagued with malware and shady apps that never get removed. I know because I've reported them and continue to see the same apps by the same developers on the Play Store. I often read the Reddit Android and

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