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by acabal 14y ago
Very nice. My only wish now would be to include a full keyboard (with pgup, pgdown, home, del in their own row). That's what's stopping me from buying it, and the X1 Carbon too. I've said it before and I'll say it again, for a laptop aim
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by acabal 14y ago
I was having a discussion about this topic with an economist friend of mine. His theory was that if one took automization to its complete and logical conclusion, the only people left employed would be "soft" creators like artists and clerg
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by acabal 14y ago
> So vague paranoia about the web "evolving" into something bad is why this shouldn't be allowed? We should be paranoid. Media companies do not have our interests or the interests of an open web at heart. Give an inch and they'll ta
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by acabal 14y ago
> Everyone seems to express this idealized utopian world where content is freely distributed, everyone contributes, and we all live in electro-social bliss. The web should be designed as if we were targeting a utopia. The web as a tech
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by acabal 14y ago
I totally agree. But w3c should be standing up for the open web, not the profit motives of its sponsors. If they're going to start transparently considering whatever restrictive practices their sponsors demand, then they become nothing mo
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by acabal 14y ago
I find it very surprising that the organization supposedly promoting the open "web for all" is even considering baking in DRM handcuffs. It seems so short-sighted. Copyright is just a bunch of laws this society agrees on today. The web is
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by acabal 14y ago
While I agree with the general sentiment, we should remember that while things might seem bad now, the general state of things for the average middle-class Westerner is unquestionably better than at any time in history. Just half a century
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by acabal 14y ago
My beef is that Lego have become so highly branded. I would rather my kid play with generic space and castle and pirate blocks, than with Star Wars and Harry Potter and Pirates of the Carribbean blocks. As a product of the 80's I can say
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by acabal 14y ago
I hate these kinds of articles because they can put tremendous pressure on people. There isn't a "right" way to spend your twenties (or thirties, or any decade) and comparing yourself to Einstein and Newton and Kepler like this article doe
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by acabal 14y ago
I disagree with the first point, the spirit of the web is to be open. The other points do make sense though. On a side note, I'd really like to use LESS or an equivalent, but the way I design/develop (and I'm an admittedly bad designer) is
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by acabal 14y ago
Hi HN! OP here. My friend is an artist and I'm into ebooks, so we thought we'd join forces to produce this first effort. This first ebook is something I wanted to see in my own personal ebook library, and I've crafted it with that level
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Show HN: Pay-what-you-want for DRM-free, beautifully-illustrated ebook classics(standardebooks.com)
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by acabal 14y ago
There are other ways to finance schools than insane copyright madness. Just because it's a suggestion doesn't mean it's the only option or that we should settle for it as a lesser of evils.
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by acabal 14y ago
I look at it this way: both controlled massive, evil companies--MS and its monopoly, Apple and its patent and lawsuit madness. Both were of the same generation, both in the same industry, both were about the same age when Jobs died, both w
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by acabal 14y ago
I think about this sometimes, and I think it ultimately comes down to how society acts as a whole, which is mostly out of our direct control. Society can use any tool for good or evil; just as a knife can cut bread or hurt a person, so too
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by acabal 14y ago
What's worse is developer-level services that require Twitter to sign up, or sometimes even Github. Not all developers (see: me) have a Twitter or Github account.
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by acabal 14y ago
> Activate caching for static assets A quick and dirty test in Firebug on one of my SSL sites seems to indicate that Firefox is serving SSL content from the cache already. Is this a Firefox thing or am I overlooking an Apache configura
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by acabal 14y ago
What? How is he supposed to know what the person is doing before calling them? Can't they just ignore the call if they want? Should we just never call anyone ever just in case they're really busy?
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by acabal 14y ago
There's homeless in almost all of the suburban libraries I've been to in my area too, but at least in that area they're usually reading or chatting quietly instead of sleeping or bathing. Personally I don't mind as long as they're not obvio
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by acabal 14y ago
If anything, libraries will stick around as public places where people can sit freely and do something in silence. In the US, especially in suburbia, it's almost impossible to find a space where you can sit and do whatever you please witho
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by acabal 14y ago
To clarify I think moving towards the Windows approach is precisely what Linux needs. It rightly shifts responsibility away from the distro to the app maintainer. This is not incompatible with the central-sourced model like "apt-get insta
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by acabal 14y ago
This is nothing new: In the 20's Ulysses , considered by some to be the greatest novel in the English language, was banned for obscenity in both the US and the UK for decades. As long as people keep getting offended, people will keep bann
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by acabal 14y ago
Milestone release vs. rolling release is a red herring. The real problem is the issue of shared libraries and shared dependencies. This is one thing Windows got right--updating one program (usually) doesn't affect other programs on the sy
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by acabal 14y ago
Honestly fully-sentient machines in 16 years seems totally ridiculous on its face to me regardless of what kind of graphs and charts about technological progress can be shown off. While I'm not really up to speed on AI research, in the con
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by acabal 14y ago
Well said. The distinction Americans (myself as one of them) seem to have lost is the one between "rehabilitation" and "revenge." We call prisons "correctional facilities" because at one point in time their purpose was to correct the behav
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by acabal 14y ago
The world is full of jerks. There will never be a semi-popular hangout online or in real life without a few jerks. If you're waiting for a utopia where everybody is nice all the time and human emotion and fallibility don't exist, then you
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by acabal 14y ago
That's why I utterly loath the stupid new trend of having fixed headers. They mess up my reading experience and honestly I thought we all ditched iframes a decade ago because even then we realized that putting frames everywhere isn't usabl
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by acabal 14y ago
My mistake then :) I admit I haven't read the source, I'm just going off of the quirkiness of cross-platform PHP and the way the functions seem to behave.
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by acabal 14y ago
Some of the weirder OS-specific function behaviors can be a rationalized a little better if you view PHP functions not as sane, complete library functions, but rather as thin wrappers to the underlying OS. For mail() it basically just wrap
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by acabal 14y ago
I think a person's best interest is often (not always!) the same as the general interest. Education comes in to play when a person is educated enough to be able to rationally reason that case. For example, "I have a perfectly good well on

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