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601.
by axod 16y ago
1 fantastic developer would often be worth '15 really good developers'.
602.
by axod 16y ago
Yes. I think it makes for a horrible society. Two wrongs don't make a right. If you hit back, it makes you just as bad, if not worse as the original perpetrator.
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by axod 16y ago
In the big cities, possibly.
604.
by axod 16y ago
I'm in the UK so it's probably quite different. I don't think as a nation we're anywhere near as confrontational, not to mention guns millitary etc For me, it worked fine. (As well as obviously telling teachers and getting them involved if
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by axod 16y ago
Whatever happened to 'just ignore them'. Personally, I think that's always the best policy (Unless you're in imminent danger). Also can work well in business. If someone is being a pain, just ignore them and don't give them the publicity th
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by axod 16y ago
Programming concepts matter, but languages don't. You can do closures in any language under the sun. They might not be called closures, and you might have to type more characters in some languages than others, but they're still closures. My
607.
by axod 16y ago
I'd say there's likely more VB jobs around. Secondly, learning a crap language first is often a really good idea. It shows you what not to do. It's like having a failed startup and then having a success - you learn from that failure. And th
608.
by axod 16y ago
Funnily enough I checked my photos on facebook the other day and half of them have disappeared. Been deleted. Don't rely on facebook keeping your photos, let alone allowing you to export them.
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by axod 16y ago
That's what I read on first glance, but then thought "haha nah that's illegal, immoral, and only a complete idiot would go down that route". I'll believe it when I see it (And then I'll block access for Opera mini users to my website).
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by axod 16y ago
Yeah people always say "They could sell data". I don't really see who would buy behavioral data on peoples browsing habits. That's fairly worthless unless you have a clear route to monetize it and connect back to those users. GMail has a cl
611.
by axod 16y ago
Yes, I read that. Care to summarize?
612.
by axod 16y ago
In summary, Opera does proxying and caching for its mobile browser. The article does very little to tell us why that's 'valuable' or indeed a secret.
613.
by axod 16y ago
title = "<something boring> in Node.JS"
614.
by axod 16y ago
The usenet example is an interesting one, but I'd be firmly on the other side. If someone is going to the trouble of creating a new method of access (via the web), they should be rewarded for it. > "That is basically profit-making on th
615.
by axod 16y ago
I'm from the UK where we often use imperial.
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by axod 16y ago
The original article isn't about open source. It's about data portability and openness vs walled gardens. Producing open source stuff is cool 'n all, but it doesn't really matter as much as being open vs closed in terms of what you can do w
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by axod 16y ago
The numbers you just put above mean nothing to me. Feet per Gallon is something humans can visualize. I'm sure I'll get downmodded to hell for expressing this opinion here, but I really do prefer imperial measurements.
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by axod 16y ago
"I was sickened at the negative focus of broadcast news. Each and every morning hundreds of millions of Americans are watching and listening to these messages...." Each time I see things like this, I can't believe people don't seem to see t
619.
by axod 16y ago
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/lif_can_use-lifestyle-cann... Suggests it's 12.3% in the US which I find more believable. The study you cited seems to ask "...EVER used". Which could just mean took one puff once when very drunk.
620.
by axod 16y ago
Where do you draw the line? People are going to commit suicide anyway, so why not legalize it and tax it? I would have voted no if I was in CA, and am glad it's failed.
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by axod 16y ago
> "I choose not to interpret this as a setback for legalization, but as proof that prohibition is in its dying throes." I'm pretty sure some people believed that in the 70s as well.
622.
by axod 16y ago
> "Don't you find lego is very kit-based (you buy a box and get to build a specific "thing")" People always say this about Lego recently. They still have a ton of generic building block kits which are great. My kids love doing both thou
623.
by axod 16y ago
FWIW, Newspapers such as "The sun" I'd expect to have a far younger readership than "The Times". eg Tabloids are read by the young, grown up broadsheets by the old.
624.
by axod 16y ago
Thanks jrockway. Updated :)
625.
by axod 16y ago
I don't think "The Times" has ever been a 'young' newspaper. I'd expect its reader demographics to be heavily skewed toward 30+ year olds. So I don't think this is much of a change from that.
626.
by axod 16y ago
Wait so after you subscribe, paying hard cash for access, they still show you advertisements? Who are these suckers paying for access?
627.
by axod 16y ago
buy Lego. Lots of it.
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by axod 16y ago
That's a silly argument. You're saying that if a majority of people wanted change then they could vote for it, and it would happen. But the change we've been discussing is the fact that 'majority want X' isn't a fair system in some peoples
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by axod 16y ago
The difference isn't that great really though. If you look at the dynasties that win elections in the US - Bush, Kennedy, etc They may as well be a monarchy. Democracy typically only gives you 2 choices, and if they are both from dynastial
630.
by axod 16y ago
I guess you could move to another country, or you could try and overthrow the government and change popular opinion, but that's a pretty big ask. The vast majority of people believe that one person per vote is 'fair'. Probably because it's

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