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by api 15y ago
... or does having no respect for authority and social constraints make you wealthy? It's got a dark side, but there's also a side that's quite defensible. A lot of the social constraints that are placed upon us by society are idiotic: du
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by api 15y ago
Honestly, this whole thing looks like a big clusterfark. Lots of mistakes. Fundamental to them all is the idea that being "funded" equals "arrival." It doesn't. Revenue and customers equals arrival. Ideally it would be best not to be "funde
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by api 15y ago
I don't completely agree, though I do completely agree when it comes to kernel, embedded, or performance-critical stuff. One thing I love about Torvalds and that makes him great is that he has zero respect for fads. CS is unfortunately ve
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by api 15y ago
I really hope they don't try to converge the interfaces too much. The design elements in Lion that were very iOS-like were IMHO the worst. The thing is: pads and phones are fundamentally different kinds of devices. Their UI paradigm is desi
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by api 15y ago
"You also get a different class of players in the game." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
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by api 15y ago
Startup formula: 1) Identify a place where a middleman is taking a cut. 2) Find a way to disrupt or go around the middleman. 3) Profit.
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by api 15y ago
The right likes to scream about this phenomenon in civil service. The left likes to scream about it in the private sector. Incredibly good point... it's the same phenomenon. We need -- collectively -- in all spheres -- to take a good look a
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by api 15y ago
I find it frustrating and depressing: this stuff just never seems to get operationalized in a way that's accessible to folks outside university labs. Where are the startups? Where are the hobbyist groups?
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by api 15y ago
The "make it like iOS" thing scared the hell out of me. Desktops and laptops are not the same type of device as iOS devices. Attempts to unify them will result in ugliness and functional regression.
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by api 15y ago
1. Running a mail server is an unbelievable pain in the rear from an IT perspective. Note that by "mail server" I mean a good setup with spam filtration, webmail, SMTPS, IMAPS, etc. 2. Really good rich webmail. I personally use Mac Mail.app
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by api 15y ago
I found nearly all Lion's UI changes annoying, and instantly looked for ways to revert them after installing. It made me worried that Apple is getting Redmond Disease. Windows used to have a nice unified UI -- learn once, use anywhere -- be
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by api 15y ago
Those are business problems, not tech shortcomings. Poor performance is due to horrendous overselling, while poor maintenance is due to being cheap. You don't have to oversell like that. It doesn't change the fundamental, unavoidable fact
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by api 15y ago
Part of why this can be so cheap is density. The Parallels Virtuozzo / OpenVZ container-based approach to virtualization is just so infinitely more efficient than hypervisor-based virtualization. It's really, really staggering. We use it wh
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by api 15y ago
"we need to control the release of the genie" Has never, and will never be done. Oh, and I will believe all the people who whine about the virtue of the natural, un-augmented human, and about how unfair augmentation is, when they start advo
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by api 15y ago
Four words: water recycling in spacecraft.
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by api 15y ago
There are "wheels of reincarnation" in computing: http://www.retrologic.com/jargon/W/wheel-of-reincarnation.ht... One of these is the PC/mainframe decentralization/centralization cycle. Right now we're completing as swing back from decent
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by api 15y ago
I agree, and I'd kind of like to boycott Apple at this point. But the problem is that I need to get my work done, and Apple has a monopoly. On what? On decent UI design and hardware/software that "just works." Linux UIs are getting slightl
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by api 15y ago
That is true, and you can replace the battery. Doing so voids your warranty, but by the time your Li-Polymer battery no longer holds a charge your laptop will be out of warranty anyway, even with AppleCare. All you need is a screwdriver.
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by api 15y ago
It is the case. The U.S. congress basically runs on payola. You can buy any bill you want.
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by api 15y ago
Global economic meritocracy: the way social conservatism dies. Socially conservative or otherwise authoritarian societies always find themselves on the losing side of the brain drain equation.
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by api 15y ago
Of course it does. It's a Murdoch paper, and Murdoch is a fascist. All Murdoch's outlets operate as a kind of Pravda for American neo-fascism. (I am not using the term fascism hyperbolically. Murdoch is, I think, properly classifiable as an
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by api 15y ago
Every capital-A Agile deployment I've ever seen uses Scrum to try to run programmers like line cooks.
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by api 15y ago
Agile is just another in a long line of fads that try to use management "methodologies" to make programming a commodity that can be done by line-workers. It's not, and it can't be made so. Programming is a highly skilled craft. Good code is
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by api 15y ago
What parasitic elites do to their host civilizations is something a little bit like the tragedy of the commons, except that the latter usually refers to exploitation of inanimate resources.
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by api 15y ago
Evil? Maybe not. Hard working? Quite possibly. But almost definitely overpaid. How much value does the banking industry really create? A whole lot of what this industry does could be replaced by algorithms and put on autopilot. Maybe I'm
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by api 15y ago
Not in a physical sense -- we're not to guillotine territory yet -- but seriously... how much value do these people actually create vs., say, engineers, doctors, good executives in productive industries, skilled craftsmen, etc. People get a
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by api 15y ago
... and the problem I have with Occupy's "tax the rich" and similar sloganeering is this: Given the immense political connections of the financial class, it is a virtual certainty that any attempt to "level the playing field" would end up f
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by api 15y ago
An oldie but goodie... The only exceptions I can think of are: 1) The state of the art has fundamentally changed. In this case you are not actually re-writing the same thing . Rather, you are writing something new that obsoletes the old th
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by api 15y ago
It's just like any other form of exercise: do what you can do, and be careful. Some types of Yoga can be quite heavy, almost like heavy weight lifting, and similar caveats apply.
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by api 15y ago
In some ways yes... America, by defining itself in opposition to the USSR during the cold war, became a lot more like the USSR. That's what happens when you define yourself in opposition to anything.

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