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12451.
by api 10y ago
This is often called "physics envy" in the sciences.
12452.
by api 10y ago
I'm not aware of any ideology where "doctrinaire" belief does not require some level of self imposed blindness. Here's a few more, and I'll be equal opportunity: - There is little evidence that free markets can driv
12453.
by api 10y ago
Neither are particularly helpful. It's all just noise.
12454.
by api 10y ago
There is no economic model to support free/open systems and standards. It's in nobody's best interest.
12455.
by api 10y ago
Don't blame the replacement. We lost USENET to spam and IRC to lack of innovation and poor UX. I stopped using both USENET and IRC long before any of these alternatives appeared.
12456.
by api 10y ago
Given how much movies often cost it seems like you could indeed fund a really really really dysfunctional team to build a very bad idea as a startup, watch the fireworks, and make a movie from it.
12457.
by api 10y ago
Remind me again why I ignore traditional media, or at least consider it no better than "some guy's blog"?
12458.
by api 10y ago
It's a tragedy of the commons combined with the lack of any economic model other than tracking and ads.
12459.
by api 10y ago
Such disrupt. So convergent. Wow.
12460.
by api 10y ago
At age 38 I'm a little bit of an oldster for this industry, and I remember PCs in the 80s. I was a kid but that's when I learned to code and I distinctly remember what it was like. It was a lot like today: loads of fragmentation a
12461.
by api 10y ago
It's possible to make money off free software in B2B with services, support, SaaS, proprietary value adds, etc. That's how RedHat and many other enterprise vendors with OSS offerings make money. This only works for selling to corp
12462.
by api 10y ago
A clean OS with clean simple package management and a modernized init system that isn't a tower of babel would really have me sold.
12463.
by api 10y ago
"The systemd supporters are soon going to take away the ability to run pretty much all background processes (including using "&" in a shell) by killing those processes when your X session logs out." WUT? (goes and do
12464.
by api 10y ago
Free <> Freedom Since everything in OSS has to be free, there is no economic model. Eventually things with an economic model supersede or embrace/extend open ecosystems because they have the resources to do so. They also have t
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Ask HN: CMGR vs. straightforward percent growth
1 points by api 10y ago|1 comments
12466.
by api 10y ago
It's massively successful in the entry level web coding world due to a combination of good marketing and the belief that it gives you unlimited scale 'for free' and everything 'just works.' Not saying those are impo
12467.
by api 10y ago
They're rushing to copy all the things I dislike about Apple. They're also rushing to emulate the things I hate about Google and Facebook. Meanwhile they are doing little to fix what I don't like about Microsoft, nor are they
12468.
by api 10y ago
Gates was a real programmer. He wrote a number of early BASIC interpreters for early PCs in assembler, which was not easy and not a thing many could do. His story has a good bit of luck as a factor but so does anyone's.
12469.
by api 10y ago
Delightfully beautiful elegant disruption.
12470.
by api 10y ago
MACs are a unique hardware ID and there are various ways they can leak over L3, such as software that uses your MAC to compute its own ID that can be reversed.
12471.
by api 10y ago
Good point. The high salaries techies can land on short notice are almost as good as having FU money. You don't have to stick your head in that snarling contract's mouth. You also have entities out there like YCombinator and eve
12472.
by api 10y ago
AFAIK OVH, Vultr, and several other a la carte VPS/VM providers allow torrents.
12473.
by api 10y ago
That's standard issue in the book and movie contract experience, especially for new entrants. The tech industry is really remarkable for not being abusive to founders and developers. If you think VC terms can be bad, look at what music
12474.
by api 10y ago
Fixed. :)
12475.
by api 10y ago
On Writing is a great book and I recommend it even if you have no interest in writing. As far as King's writing goes some of my favorite work of his are his short stories The Body (basis of the film Stand By Me) and The Breathing Metho
12476.
by api 10y ago
Yeah, it's totally unfair to compare the IRS to the Apple developer program. That's low.
12477.
by api 10y ago
BGP? Tier-1 issues?
12478.
by api 10y ago
Total tangent but: I just had a hideously bad experience trying to get something done with my developer account. It's not the first time. The IRS is easier to deal with than the app store. If iOS is their vision of the future of person
12479.
by api 10y ago
Are they all on EC2? Maybe EC2 is throwing a fit.
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by api 10y ago
"You're holding it wrong." He did have a backup. Having it also be mysteriously borked certainly violates the principle of least surprise. That's a bug like Fukushima is an industrial accident.

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