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Made my own minimal read-it-later app (1 year ago)(designernews.co)
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On the Politics of Italics(lithub.com)
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by Torwald 7y ago
He also explains why you should do so.
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Mixins in Python and Ruby Compared(andrewbrookins.com)
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The Rule of Three (2017)(andrewbrookins.com)
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Seems illogical to me. Companies are paying the wages of only their own workers, but not of their customers.
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by Torwald 7y ago
> It's the consequence of having an export-oriented economy: labour must at all cost be as low as possible. In what type of economy would that not be the case then?
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by Torwald 7y ago
Many, e.g. http://www.sea-ccc.org/2019/03/14/march-13-2019-seattle-comm...
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by Torwald 7y ago
Didn't Libre stem from StarOffice, a commercial product?
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by Torwald 7y ago
> 1. The comparable commercial tools are very expensive, This was specially the case when blender was new and AFAIK command line driven. In those days a SGI machine alone was more expensive then the car of the average Blender user.
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I knew what the title meant the moment I saw it. Being good at giving talks is not completely unimportant for people who want to make money in a venue similar to that of Steve Jobs or so.
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> Either he is incredibly ill informed about the thing or he is blatantly lying to the public Or the one who disagrees with Elon's assessment is the ill informed one. This could be a possibility, too. Logically speaking.
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by Torwald 7y ago
What does he man by "record structure in the file system" in re to Multics?
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by Torwald 7y ago
For a negative value of wrong he probably is.
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Elon is right in his assessment. Why do you have to badmouth him?
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> To be frank, "/s" would have totally ruined it for everyone else. Yes and no. Here on HN I see it everyday: good on-topic jokes get downvoted. I suspect this happens because when people are in "HN mode" there c
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by Torwald 7y ago
> As any SMB owner who dabbles in advertising will tell you, you can, in fact, get a pretty good guess as to what the ROI on print advertising is. Of course! Scientific advertising was published in the 1920s! It's just that Madison
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by Torwald 7y ago
Those guys were called 'phreaks', not 'phrakers". BTW, Apple was founded by two phreaks.
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by Torwald 7y ago
> The number of tech companies that have lasted more than 68 years can be counted on one hand. IBM, Siemens, Texas Instruments, that's it of the top of my head. Anyone else?
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by Torwald 7y ago
The title is misleading. The "text editor for developers" should point to an article about Emacs.
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by Torwald 7y ago
How then did for example Bill Gates cause anyone to become poor by becoming a billionaire?
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> We don't think about continuous stream of power through our plugs as a privilege It's wealth, not a privilege. And it doesn't stop there. Cell-phone connectivity, broad-band access, "always on". These things ar
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by Torwald 7y ago
The chicken is called advertising. It is of course a discipline in it's own right, which deserves to be done well. Bad advertising profits you nothing, like badly done anything else profits you zilch. The egg is of course the (main) ac
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by Torwald 7y ago
Does anyone know why this is flagged?
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by Torwald 7y ago
> The big unexamined assumption here is that it is at all reasonable for billionaires to exist within a society that has poor people. I would say 'yes' that's a completely reasonable thing. The one being a billionaire does
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No it’s not your money: why taxation isn’t theft (2014)(taxjustice.net)
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Ergonomic IDE for the JVM(jetbrains.com)
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> nobody has ever called the press the fourth "Stand". Because unlike in the UK, the press as a Gewalt in a political system with Gewaltenteilung (division of power), appeared only after the society divided in estates (Ständege
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The Purpose of the Entrpreneur(copiernetworkingspecialists.com)
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> I think Zuck "gets it" much more than the reporter does… This assumes the reporter is honest in his writing. Then, of course, it is apparent that Zuckerberg gets something the reporter doesn't understand, in the way you

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