PieterH

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by PieterH 10y ago
The article is a little old. How has the system run since you deployed it? Do you have any interesting figures?
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by PieterH 10y ago
The law is clear: complicity in copyright violation, for profit. It became a criminal offence across Europe in the last decade. This puts costs for prosecution on the state, not rights holders, and it allows for jail time. Whether the law i
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by PieterH 10y ago
And when Jobs died, we needed a new icon to worship and show us the Future. Musk was in the right place at the right time.
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by PieterH 10y ago
Since the book is not free to read online, would you provide a tl;dr?
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by PieterH 10y ago
Making the list of ingredients a 1st class citizen on the box could be good marketing, if the list is simple enough. I'd certainly like to see it.
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by PieterH 10y ago
If your formula is simple enough, listing it on the box might be good marketing. I really like the idea of caffeinated toothpaste. It is simple & brilliant and I hope you succeed with this.
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by PieterH 10y ago
Presumably the trip was planned ages ago, and there was a talk with someone from Apple marketing about sponsoring the trip. Apple needs some good news after the jack event.
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by PieterH 10y ago
If you've never used actors to write concurrent code, you've missed out on a glorious thing. You can even do it in older languages, like C, if you use a good messaging system (like ZeroMQ). See e.g. the CZMQ library, which provide
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by PieterH 10y ago
Go for it.
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by PieterH 10y ago
The question is whether that reward benefits society or not. Do we get innovation without it? Are there studies that show patents preceding innovation rather than following it?
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by PieterH 10y ago
It's my own blog. I spent two years fighting software parents in Europe as president of the largest NGO involved (FFII), and it was pretty clear that we were fighting a well organised and funded lobbying machine. After some years of an
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by PieterH 10y ago
This isn't a random shift in direction for github... in the end it will make the platform so complex and irrelevant for open source teams that they will go elsewhere. I wrote an analysis of this shift some time back: http://
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by PieterH 10y ago
Because it's a discovery rather than an invention. Though the mere concept of patents is already a fraud, as is clear when you start to look closely the arguments. See http://hintjens.com/blog:31 .
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by PieterH 10y ago
Very accurate wrt the narcissism. So much of this attitude of "raising children to rule the world" (literally, the claim of the article, which I found ludicrous) is to flatter the parents and educators. Same for children who are g
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by PieterH 10y ago
Taxes are widely used to raise prices and discourage consumption on unhealthy products. E.g. car fuel, tobacco, alcohol.
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by PieterH 10y ago
The lawsuits against Big Tobacco are a good template.
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by PieterH 10y ago
Probably, yes, IMO sugar needs to be regulated and taxed like alcohol.
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by PieterH 10y ago
See previous HN discussion from a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12480733
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by PieterH 10y ago
Apple flesh is 2.6% fibre. Where does this myth come from that fruit is high in fibre? It simply is not true. Some fruits are. Wild fruits certainly are. Domesticated table fruit is not. Google "fibre content of apple" if you don&
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by PieterH 10y ago
Orange flesh is about 3% fibre. 97% juice. There is no significant difference between eating an orange and drinking a small glass of juice, except the work involved. I don't think that changes "very easy" to "very very h
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by PieterH 10y ago
Lol, our big brains developed long after we left our jungle environment, and are fueled above all by protein (meat, so hunting). Our taste buds love sugar because fructose is a drug that plants evolved to get our ancestors working as seed d
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by PieterH 10y ago
Many of my extended family got sick and some died from adult-onset diabetes brought on by eating too much sugar. My father and grandfather suffered and died from low-fat diets (where sugar was never a concern because doctors were obsessed w
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by PieterH 10y ago
There are many different kinds of sugars. It's worth understanding. Fructose is what harms you. Glucose is harmless. Sucrose is fructose plus a glucose. Lactose is harmless as long as you can digest it. Maltose is harmless. Etc. Fruits
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by PieterH 10y ago
Oh, I'm a great fan of diverse thinking in a group. Trouble with dominant individuals is they wipe that out, since most people will accept someone's contradictory opinion if it's backed up by force and charisma. And yes, such
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by PieterH 10y ago
It is true that many monkeys are tree dwellers and are heavy fruit eaters. Humans and other primates are neither. They will eat fruit as part of a mixed diet that is more omnivorous than anything. And wild fruit is not as rich in sugar as y
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by PieterH 10y ago
Fructose and sucrose are chemically identical (as in, the same) except that sucrose has an extra glucose attached, which breaks off in the stomach. Fructose tends to come in fruit, surrounded by fibre, which arguably reduces its cost to our
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by PieterH 10y ago
My mother (1973, Edinburgh) bought "Pure, White, and Deadly," and we all read it. I was ten or so. Yudkin attacked white flour, white (processed) fat, and above all white sugar. It made perfect sense to us all, and cutting back on
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by PieterH 10y ago
It's this kind of personality that I look for in my organisations, mainly to isolate and slowly get rid of. The focus on "me" is so toxic. No amount of brilliance makes up for circles of damage to other, modest, hard working
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by PieterH 10y ago
It's a clever joke and rather cynical deconstruction of our industry. The author suggests that in 100 years the C language will not only still exist and be widely used, it will have advanced almost nothing at all due to the industry&#x
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by PieterH 10y ago
Probably impossible to makebas an Android app.

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