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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Where are you now, and how did you decide to get there?
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"or even worse: buy devices from every bookstore." And there's the problem. You shouldn't need but one device to read any ebook, from any source.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"Don't rewrite" seems like pretty good advice. Can you make a case for "write a new product that will (eventually) replace the old one?" After all, you know a lot more now from having written the first one. Write one to throw away, and all
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Newton: can't describe physics effectively, invents calculus. Berners-Lee: can't collaborate effectively with physicists, invents the web.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Yeah, I think embarrassment is about the right level for DRM.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"if some publisher is gutsy enough to put out a format with little to no DRM – maybe a print restricted PDF or something similar." Pakt http://www.packtpub.com/ and O'Reilly http://oreilly.com/ do exactly that. Pakt's pdfs have your nam
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"Why is it so bad to get old?" Loss of facility, and younger people increasingly ignore you. That latter is karma for many of us. Plus ça something something I forget.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Or to the next page.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Well, good. If this catches on, it might increase the likelihood that I'll be able to buy ebooks from other than Amazon. I'd like to have that option into the future.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"The nature of Lisp really lends itself to continuation-based programming." This comes up occasionally on HN. I've never seen anyone say anything positive about it. It seems like a software detail that's unnecessary exposed to users. It d
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"By far the most frustrating thing about road trips (pre-iPhone) used to be dragging out the map then trying to put it away again." That's what the back seat is for. Younger people probably don't know that.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
I won't make an account here for the same reason I don't log in to sites using facebook, I only want a relationship with the site, not a giant 3rd party. The site itself looks great, and would be a site I'd like to join, except for the goog
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
pair.com, shared hosting, throws away your highest stat day per month.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"Take a 100-megaton bomb from the Russian arsenal, called the "Tsar," and it will ignite fires across a 48-mile stretch, an extraordinary reach, which makes me wonder, why? No military target is that large. I suspect the designers of these
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
To drive home their message.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"You know, it's this kind of citizen journalism/reporting and outcries that makes me think the US has a high chance to get back on the right track in a couple of years." Maybe. But we're talking about seizing domains, and domains is where a
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"My servers are in Germany." The author's granttree is at .co.uk, but woobius is at .com. My understanding is that the US claims domain over anything serving .com and .org, and that first world countries (do we say that anymore?) will roll
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"On the one hand, if you exploit your users too much or too invasively, you'll see a huge uproar and pushback. On the other, if you can't produce results for customers (retailers, etc.), then the perceived value of your product goes down si
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
I think that Like Us sticker on your mop has nothing to do with you, and everything to do with the mop company employee who implemented it and their relationship to their boss. "We're on Facebook!"
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
You know those cardboard compacter/bailer units in the back of Home Depots and such? The shelving crew puts their cardboard into them, it gets crushed and comes out in neat, baled bundles. I saw a truck version of one of them. It drives to
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"(although in Australia, lack of health insurance isn't the issue it is in the US)" OT: When are we here in the US going to start listening to these comments, and fix it? Job mobility is a great feature of an economy. When, because of hea
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Can builds be done on a SETI at Home sort of arrangement?
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
I have to believe by now that the IP industry has offices in FBI and Secret Service buildings, as "liaison."
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Kids get pregnant even when the parents are very involved. The reproductive imperative will be served, like water seeking its own level.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"What can you even do when their core profile of you is completely off-base?" Shop logged out, don't log in until you've decided.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
For pregnancy and other medical discoveries, I wonder if a case could be made for HIPPA violations.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Not lawsuits right and left. Just people getting hurt once in awhile landing, twisting ankles and stuff. Not often. But there's always a lurk of lawyers waiting to help you "get what you deserve." It's a physical sport.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
I used to jump at a very small skydiving operation. When the owner dropped his insurance, the lawsuits disappeared. No one wants a 1957 Cessna.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"1. My self-indulgent dream: an IDE built around text editor integration. Think Eclipse, but constructed as an exoskeleton that Emacs and Vim could slip into and become real IDEs." For the idea of Vim within an exoskeleton, you might be int
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"Why do Americans elect lawyers?" Because they're good at making a case. Any case. Including the case for electing them. I seriously doubt if many people think "He's a lawyer. He'll be a good steward of the country." Instead it's more like

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