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by apotheon 15y ago
Excellent points. I've run across quite a few people who actually buy a DRM-infested copy of something to "pay the creator" (even though the creator often gets screwed by the people actually collecting revenues), then "pirate" a DRM-free co
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by apotheon 15y ago
In addition to blasdel's excellent point, there's the simple fact that if the copyright extension act were not passed it would have entered the public domain (where it belongs so long after the fact), and there'd be no legal infrastructure
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by apotheon 15y ago
Pirating Disney's works doesn't help anything much. It doesn't overcome the problem of not being able to use Disney works as the basis of new, derived works to expand and enrich our culture, which is the real loss where Disney films stil
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by apotheon 15y ago
Pirating still serves as free advertising for the labels, and gets people angry at you.
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by apotheon 15y ago
This is the truly principled stand -- not because of any particular squeamishness about "piracy", but because piracy actually helps the RIAA labels to a significant degree by serving as free advertising.
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by apotheon 15y ago
Check the publishing record label for the song, album, or band in question, then check that against the list of RIAA labels (I seem to recall finding such lists in simple, textual form). There's also RIAA Radar: http://www.riaaradar.com/
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by apotheon 15y ago
> Our goal is to create greater service value than pirates, and this has been successful enough for us that piracy is basically a non-issue for our company. I think there's an impedance mismatch between this guy's definition of success
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by apotheon 15y ago
I think the suits in question are actually patent suits -- unless there are some copyright suits of which I'm unaware. Apple is definitely trying to crush competition with patent suits.
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by apotheon 15y ago
This absurd cult of personality is way the fuck out of hand.
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by apotheon 15y ago
I guess I should have read the FAAAQ. I had no idea "mandatory" was being applied to the matching algorithm in such a naive manner. That sucks. Of course, it doesn't really matter for me, anyway. I don't use OkCupid as a dating site. I
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How to RTFM(blog.appamatto.com)
15 points by apotheon 15y ago|0 comments
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by apotheon 15y ago
That's the extension they must have been discussing, because it's the extension Mozilla was pressured to remove from its listings.
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by apotheon 15y ago
True, but only where "possible" accounts for the need to write some code to ensure you actually have software, and can thus accomplish the task you wish to accomplish. The best way to write no code is to find some code that someone else
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by apotheon 15y ago
It's grammatically correct, which means it's not a run-on sentence.
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by apotheon 15y ago
I like the sentiment, but I believe that (unfortunately) it's not an effective strategy -- because there's no guarantee the US will get its act together if we go down that road. I think a better strategy is to fight this every step of the
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by apotheon 15y ago
The scam works just as well if it does pass, too -- and the monopolistic content industries have deeper pockets than the people paying the opposition lobbyists. Honestly, though, I think that the most likely case is that a lame duck versi
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by apotheon 15y ago
Wouldn't that be more like "insourcing"?
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by apotheon 15y ago
That could be a portmanteau. Consider that "cartel" has "el" near the end, and "delicious" has it near the beginning. Voila, portmanteau: cart el icious.
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by apotheon 15y ago
> a mass effort to take . . . smart unemployed adults, and administer some simple tests to see if they have large amounts of hidden programming talent, screw the college degree. This is the huge fucking source of programming talent that
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by apotheon 15y ago
Honestly, I think that in 50 years either we'll still be doing textual programming, just at a higher and more dynamic level, or we won't be doing any programming at all because the machines will have left our ability to contribute well behi
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by apotheon 15y ago
Well . . . what they said 25 years ago was probably about Berkeley vi, not Vim, so I guess in 50 years we'll be using something two generational advances forward from Vim.
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by apotheon 15y ago
> There is plenty of innovation in the programming language space. There is too much. No such thing. Innovation is a good thing, period. Perhaps what you find objectionable is the proliferation of stuff that people call "innovation",
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Code Reuse and Technological Advancement(blogstrapping.com)
1 points by apotheon 15y ago|0 comments
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by apotheon 15y ago
I think the patent system should be sped up a lot -- but only for the process of denying patents. We certainly don't need to ease and accelerate the process of granting them. These idiots who think that speeding up patent grants will
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Reviews: The Book of Weird Ruby, and Eloquent Ruby(blogstrapping.com)
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An Open Letter To Barnes & Noble About Text Files(blogstrapping.com)
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by apotheon 15y ago
This is a great example of a common pattern with Jefferson: He articulates a strong position of principle, offering arguments that none have successfully countered and that, frankly, I'm not sure anyone can reasonably counter. Next, he say
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by apotheon 15y ago
> None of these are ethical problems if you accept the premise that the author of a work is entitled to be remunerated for the production of said work How do you figure? The problems still exist; you've just decided to de-prioritize th
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by apotheon 16y ago
That's easily the best thing about the iPad.
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by apotheon 16y ago
Don't focus on the size of the company. Smaller companies will be more ready to discuss and consider nontraditional job experience. Smaller companies will be easier to analyze for exactly what kinds of projects you'll be working on. Small

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