TomOfTTB

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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
The problem with this article is he lacks any historical perspective. The offline companies he quotes have all been around for a long time (relatively speaking) and that contributes to their position. For example, Coca-Cola existed for 17
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Overall this is probably the strangest attack I've ever seen. Usually when someone is hacked a group will come out, take responsibility and then explain why they did it. In this case a group claiming to be Anonymous came out, took responsi
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I complain every time there's traffic on the road I use to get to work. It doesn't mean I consider it essential that I make it to work in 6 minutes instead of 11. People complain about all kinds of inessential inconveniences.
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Two things I've found to be true of the human condition... 1. They always think their status quo is more important than it is ("If I lose this job my life is over", "I can't live if we break up", etc...) 2. They always adapt far quicker t
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I don’t want to give a false impression. I don’t advocate this mindset. But from a historical perspective it isn’t that hard to understand. The history of mankind has always been a process of vacillating between societies motivated by se
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Well first his metaphor doesn't really hold weight. Selling a Used Book is a one-to-one transaction in which the receiver is getting a less than perfect copy. Putting an e-book on a p2p network is a one-to-many transaction that transmits
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I don't see how this strategy could work. The reality is most people don't care about SOPA or even understand the consequences of it. No politician is going to get thrown out because of it (especially not with Media Companies money behind
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I don't know how you could be more wrong. But to go down the points... Misguided vs Evil: An evil person tries to do the wrong thing while a misguided person does it on accident. How is that hard to understand? More importantly how is th
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
You discredit your point with your examples. It doesn't take a huge population to create most of the world's success. The U.S. population is dwarfed by that of China yet very few people would argue China is more innovative than the U.S. D
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I’ve been saying this for a while now and it’s only getting truer: the SOPA war is being lost because the people fighting against it have let hatred for their intellectual opponents compromise their case. Rather than treat the other side as
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I could see how that line would tempt people to check-out of the article (and I can't blame you). But I think there's a reality to it we should pay attention to. In a previous HN thread regarding this topic I asked why countries like Finl
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I think I phrased it badly but the point still stands. The authors point was that teachers pay is the deciding factor in results. My point was those countries pay the same Denmark and the UK yet are getting better results. So pay is not
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
You could very well be right. My point was the authors' conclusion didn't match their underlying data. So the validity of their underlying data didn't come into play.
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Well Yes but there's a backstory to that. If you talk to teachers who worked in the pre-union days they'll tell you it was a nightmare. Because it was run by low-level politicians (school board members) who were cowardly to the point of ca
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
This seems like they walked in looking for proof of their already established conclusion. If you look at Finland, Australia, Korea, Japan and New Zealand you see a cluster of countries who are paying their teachers well and who aren't gett
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
What they could, and are discussing doing, is defining Hacking as terrorism. I heard this from my own congressman's mouth and that's why this scares me. Because there were a log of Senators and Congressman subscribed to Stratfor and this
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
How about this... Bradley Manning posted two types of information. War Footage and Diplomatic Cables. The War Footage was unpleasant to watch but didn't document anything that wasn't already well known (at least to anyone who paid attenti
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
When I said plan for success I didn't mean PHP can't scale it was related to the lower argument that very few people under 25 uses PHP anymore. (In truth the benchmarks I've seen show PHP is faster than modern languages) The point is from a
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Despite what I’ve read in other comments here I think you’re right. Programmers will always want to stick with what they’re familiar with because it’s easy (I’ve been trying for a year to pull myself away from C# and work more in Python ye
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Biden was knocked out of contention for the Democratic Nomination in 1988 because he copied a speech delivered by British Politician a year earlier (and even went so far as to fudge his own familly history a bit to make the copied lines wor
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Visual Studio Express is a free version Microsoft makes available so it isn't like you have to buy Visual Studio. Here's a good tutorial on writing a quick Windows Phone 7 app using VS Express: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Maybe...except people in congress have private lines which they use to communicate to the people they need/want to talk to. The public lines are only used for constituent and other public calls. So really what you'd be doing is blocking th
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
This is not new. Here's someone complaining about the same message in 2009: http://www.nullamatix.com/godaddy-nightmare-express-written-... It does show bad customer service on GoDaddy's part but it isn't some conspiracy to prevent SOPA
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I almost think you're kidding here. It's called a popup. You use Dropbox's already existing functionality to make a copy file. You then compare the changes and if they don't conflict you merge the files (while backing up both just in case
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
How is it not realistic to solve it? Or more to the point how is sharing suppose to realistically work if you don't. If you say you're going to allow people to share files then you have to account for the very common scenario of simultan
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
binary comparisons are great if you aren't looking at shared files but once you get into a situation where two different people can be editing a file at the same time it really helps to know what data you're dealing with rather than just tr
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
There are already utilites that allow programs to read PSD files. I used ImageMagick ( http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php ) in one project and it worked fine for me. Actually, since ImageMagick is licensed under Apache2 my that
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Even if you're an Android fan you have to admit this is a pretty uneducated analysis. First, he's guessing on the revenue (while conveniently not mentioning how much Apple makes per phone in revenue) Second, saying "Apple is getting beaten
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Let me say first that I didn't down vote you (I in fact up voted you even though I think your comment was missing the point). That said your comment misses the point. The article's intention, as far as I can tell, is to point out just how
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Either everything I've ever learned about business is wrong or he is misusing the term business model. I was always taught a business model is essentially a corporate version of a scientific hypothesis. Meaning it has to be defined and tes

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