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by SwellJoe 8y ago
That doesn't make any business sense for Microsoft. They might do a server fork of RHEL for their cloud offerings (as Amazon has done, very poorly, for AWS), but desktop? That'd be nuts. It would just lend an air of respectability
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Yes, Craftsman stuff is great, and I like Shaker furniture styles, as well, which is similarly simple/utilitarian, but has its own characteristics. All of my favorite stuff I've owned has been from American makers. Not surprising
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
That's funny as hell. I dunno about the effectiveness of the tactic, but, the comedy is top-notch.
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
The guitar market is dealing with this problem, too. Moving to other woods that aren't quite as difficult/expensive to come by. And, they're even beginning to use artificial woods.
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Also note that it doesn't have to be an antique to be great furniture. Quality, solid hardwood furniture was being made for the mass market, and is thus widely available on the used market, well into the 70s (though particle board bega
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Whether intentional or not, it is just a basic fact that particle board wears extremely poorly. If it gets damp, it expands and warps and veneers lift up and crack, if the veneer gets scratched deeply enough to expose the particle board, yo
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
If price isn't a major concern (i.e. you're willing to pay prices only slightly lower than new furniture prices for antique and older furniture from the era when it was all made of real hard woods), and want to just buy something
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
My mom's been an antique dealer for most of my life, and she's noticed this trend as well. Her customer base has aged along with her, and younger folks are not, generally, as interested in antiques as the previous few generations.
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
My mom is an antique dealer of ~35 years. Her experience is consistent with the article's assertions. The market for antique furniture (and antiques, in general) has fallen off considerably.
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
The last time I went into an Ethan Allen (with a girlfriend that wanted nice new furniture), I noted that a lot of their furniture is at least partially made of particle board. I was astounded...they aren't super expensive, as furnit
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
That doesn't seem like a realistic answer. It requires a lot more knowledge on the part of consumers than consumers have or can readily obtain, and puts the onus on those least able to affect the behavior of those companies and puts th
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
0) Address the fact that the vast majority of carbon, methane, and other contributors to climate change is produced by fewer than 100 international corporations. (Animal agriculture is a big part of it, as is the fossil fuel industry, but s
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
That's cool, and while I was dismissive, I was making a valid point, I thought (the audience disagrees with me, judging by my downvotes). The point I was trying to make was that the tragedy you're referencing targeted people beca
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
"then downloading a Java applet with a very specific (obsolete) version of Java. The applet didn't support copy and paste, and frequently repeated keys" Ah, yes, Lantronix Spider. My current colo still uses that old bastard.
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
That seems far-fetched, to me. Oracle is very focused on being evil and making a lot of money. IBM is ambivalent about being evil.
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Yeah, we moved out of SoftLayer soon after that acquisition, as well. They just weren't as interested in the kind of (small) money we spend and it showed.
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
That sounds about right. And, I suspect it'll happen to Red Hat, too, despite the fact that Red Hat is a money printing machine. They've been literally unbelievably effective at turning open source into profit (as someone who&#x27
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
IBM is, as far a I can tell, the best example of a "mixed bag" in tech. I have heard both great and terrible things about IBM from customers, employees, developers on Open Source projects, etc. They are a huge organization, and on
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
The specific instance of someone saying "kill all white people" on Twitter, at least the one I know of that caused a firestorm, I guess because its poster wasn't immediately banned forever by Twitter or whatever, was a joke b
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Why is there always an "all lives matter" person?
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
No, because it's a lie spread by white supremacists to engender false equivalency. The Dallas police shooter was not involved in Black Lives Matter, and BLM is an explicitly non-violent organization and always has been.
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
That's not the conversation I'm having. Surely, you can see that a sustained effort to recruit for racist violence, and an ongoing celebration of racist violence, by people who have a history of racist violence, is not comparable
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Gab hosts many, many, white supremacists. It has become a dumping ground for every social network's rejects...the people who've been booted from Twitter, reddit, etc (platforms that have been criticized for being slow to remove ha
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
LGPL is not GPL. You're adding to the confusion by conflating them.
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I know Will, as we currently live in the same city, but I haven't followed development of any of the projects mentioned very closely.
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
I think the Perl 6 developers figured that out a few years ago, and ended up implementing MoarVM, instead of using or building a more generic VM. One can implement other languages in MoarVM, but it's been built for Perl 6, so it fits P
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
If you like Perl better than python/pypy/node/julia/R/ruby, perhaps would be a reason.
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
The two most usable examples (aside from MoarVM, which isn't really connected in any clear way, as it is the current mainline VM implementation for Perl 6), cperl and RPerl, are by two different developers, with different but occasiona
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
I found the Mojo docs to be better than most Perl frameworks, but Perl web frameworks, in general, suffer from a severe lack of good examples and docs. There's just not as many people using them as Node or Ruby or Python or PHP or what
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Who's "they"? I'm the founder of the company. It's small, we do what we want.

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