OrderlyTiamat

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by OrderlyTiamat 7y ago
If the book is as "technical" as this article than I don't think I'll be reading it. The sole argument, it seems, is that computers lack the nebulously defined "concept". If you don't define it, than you m
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by OrderlyTiamat 7y ago
A work of art. Good refutation and enjoyable to read.
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by OrderlyTiamat 7y ago
Does mr Barr not understand that criminals will simply use free non-backdoored software instead? Of course he does. It's hard not to read this as another attemt to listen in on the conversation of regular citizens instead.
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by OrderlyTiamat 7y ago
The above commenter may not be, but the author of the article very much seems to think that gpl is exclusively socialist. As a non socialist myself and a gpl fan, I hope people will see that gpl is perfectly valid in a non socialist context
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by OrderlyTiamat 7y ago
The requirements list reads as a description of farenheit, which the author then uses in a roundabout way to conclude his presupposition that farenheit is the better unit.
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by OrderlyTiamat 8y ago
Interesting, Doesn't match my experience. I'm wondering what the age distributions are on those. Thanks for correcting me!
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by OrderlyTiamat 8y ago
You're missing out on networking, an important part in getting business.
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by OrderlyTiamat 8y ago
Many people don't use facebook. I thinks WhatsApp is a better example, it's even more ubiquitous, though I'm sure there are still people who don't use it. Heck, I'm personally thinking of stopping, it's just th
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by OrderlyTiamat 8y ago
He's not the only one. It's a recurring comment here on hacker news and a problem I've encountered as well, and I'm running the latest stable release.
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by OrderlyTiamat 8y ago
But the conclusion doesn't jive with the comments he was responding to. I found the article a bit annoying because of that, though otherwise interesting.
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by OrderlyTiamat 8y ago
Feedly sends it's regards, it's a good experience as opposed to this.
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by OrderlyTiamat 8y ago
It's modus ponens, no logical fallacy here.
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by OrderlyTiamat 9y ago
apart from the fact that mozilla has standards it (supposedly) holds itself to, firefox is a beloved tool. It's not a piece of content, it's a tool. My content can be messed with, for sure. My tools can not.
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by OrderlyTiamat 9y ago
> Running a company by polling random employees is not an established successful management style. Its only you who is suggesting it, He's suggesting that the most simple, stupid check one could think of (polling random employees) w