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14701.
by api 12y ago
Nope. Some systemd distros do not support daemon init scripts done the old way.
14702.
by api 12y ago
Whether this is a good deal depends on many specifics, all of which revolve around how much risk the accelerator is taking. Do you (and/or the team if there is one) have a track record? Prototype? Product? Customers? Traction? Brand re
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Ask HN: What Kinds of Intellectual Property Can a Software Business Have?
3 points by api 12y ago|3 comments
14704.
by api 12y ago
It's simple: Roaring economy, NIMBYism, affordable housing -- pick two. SF has picked roaring economy and NIMBYism.
14705.
by api 12y ago
Ignoring "stop energy" is a skill you have to master.
14706.
by api 12y ago
People seem to call it aging... or rather it seems to happen to people as they "age." But yes, it involves a fair amount of assholery. Another observation: I have children, and I have not given up on my dreams. I find many people
14707.
by api 12y ago
I can't tell you how happy I am to see this as the top comment. Free is a con. If you want a cheap VPN that you control (and that's faster than Tor), set up an endpoint on something that takes Bitcoin payment and pay with Bitcoins
14708.
by api 12y ago
As I age, I've found that I have to expend constant effort to repel the "wisdom" of my cohort as they become cynical, loveless, self-limiting, and as they give up on their dreams. I do think it's a mindset -- a mindset c
14709.
by api 12y ago
> I use a dozen init systems, each for a different situation, and I'm interested in keeping it that way. You might like that, but it makes life hell for developers who write and package any kind of daemon/service.
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by api 12y ago
People need to understand this. If an app or service is free and some combination of: (a) At all expensive to run. (b) Funded by investors who demand a return. (c) Has no visible means of direct revenue. ... then you REALLY need to ask
14711.
by api 12y ago
I agree. So far I've seen it as a classic conservatives vs. liberals debate. The conservatives have no interest at all in changing the Unix paradigm under Linux. It works perfectly well, thank you. The liberals see it as archaic and un
14712.
by api 12y ago
I've got an iPad, and I love it, but it's not a "real computer." It's a dumb terminal. Case in point-- you cannot develop software for the iPad on the iPad (even with a keyboard). I've had the thesis for a long
14713.
by api 12y ago
I've seen this phenomenon myself, though I have no hard data either. Personally I think a big reason is that the promotion is dead. There's a palpable sense in every large organization I've worked for is that working hard sim
14714.
by api 12y ago
It's more of an enterprise consultancy like Accenture.
14715.
by api 12y ago
Good point. "Other" used to be intrinsically evil and in need of our enlightenment. Now it's intrinsically superior. Neither is true.
14716.
by api 12y ago
If I remember correctly (been a while since I studied this stuff), the line leading to homo sapiens diverged before the Chimpanzee/Bonobo divergence. I've read a few things to the effect that humans show both chimp-like and bono
14717.
by api 12y ago
This is important also for our initially skeptical reaction to it. The fact that humans assumed that apes would never war shows the prevalence of the "noble savage" myth even among scientists. The noble savage myth in turn is a mo
14718.
by api 12y ago
Sandboxing is a good idea, but also done poorly on every platform I'm familiar with. What I want as a user: I want to be able to see -- for each app -- exactly what permissions it requests and what permissions I have given it. I want t
14719.
by api 12y ago
I was just thinking "wow, someone should build this." Going to go check that out yesterday. Thanks.
14720.
by api 12y ago
Funny... I both like and hate the app store. I like it when the apps I want are there, mostly because they install with one click and update automatically and I don't have to worry about it. But I hate it as a developer. I've foun
14721.
by api 12y ago
I can only hope. App stores are a horrible thing for developers-- you are utterly beholden to the app store and a rule change could destroy your business. They're also a horrible thing in the long run for all of us, since they lead us
14722.
by api 12y ago
"As a producer of copyrighted works which are freely distributable, my paycheck is an example of that." So if I pull your OSS archive and take it closed and found a new company based on it, you're totally okay with that? I wo
14723.
by api 12y ago
"I don't really see the connection you're trying to make between pro-piracy groups and massive advertising corporations." It's simple cause and effect. If pay-for-content business models like traditional record sale
14724.
by api 12y ago
It's broken, but getting rid of it entirely doesn't fix the problem. It makes it worse. I think my general point is this: In a world where energy, food, and real estate are inflating and wages are flat or deflating, it behooves us
14725.
by api 12y ago
The real spirit of IP law is "art, music, and creative professions should be viable professions for which people can actually get paid." Whether it accomplishes that is debatable at times, and it's certainly misused, but that
14726.
by api 12y ago
It's sort of like making an armor piercing bullet and arguing that it's for hunting. Sure you could hunt with it, but it'd be kind of pointless unless there are deer wearing kevlar.
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by api 12y ago
As I've said elsewhere: this is generally the mentality in the computer industry and attendant communities. Piracy is only piracy and stealing is only stealing if someone is pirating or ripping off your stuff. You can pirate or rip o
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by api 12y ago
Bitcoin is interesting, but so far it is one half of one half of one half of a tiny rounding error at the edge of the global economy. Governments aren't scared of it, and won't be unless it starts passing at least single digit p
14729.
by api 12y ago
It's a lot bigger than these little communities. The Internet in general is supersaturated by cheap snark and other kinds of dumb, shallow, mean culture.
14730.
by api 12y ago
I've been around here for a while, and Less Wrong is pretty well known. It's also very much the zeitgeist of this site.

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