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by barnaby 17y ago
Reading this article raised the bullshit alarm BIG TIME. Yes Apple will make these things sell, using empty buzzwords that makes geeks cringe. But the author didn't have to be a dick about it. The Howard Zinn story was more important than t
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by barnaby 17y ago
I vehemently disagreed with Zinn when I tried reading "A People's History" a few years ago, but I was much more naive then. I have realized that corruption is the norm, and that when people fight back, through organized labor or through rev
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by barnaby 17y ago
Ideas are expensive, the fewer you have and the smaller (more laser-focused) they are, the better chance you have of implementing it and thus succeeding. The more ideas you pursue at once, the greater the chance that none of them will ever
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by barnaby 17y ago
That whole thing was bogus, they mixed expenses from the County of San Francisco with the City of San Francisco (because the boundaries are the same). Factor for that, and it's actually well run for a city with a major port, an airport, a g
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by barnaby 17y ago
Impossible. It says the solution is to simply find VC's that are different... great they all say they're different. Ok, let's assume we find 4 VC's that _are_ different, you go through the exact same process as always: first make a list
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by barnaby 17y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. All the women executives that I know are assertive, self-promoting, and self-confident. All the female secretaries I've met were really pleasant, constantly smiling girls. Coincidence? I think not.
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by barnaby 17y ago
I believe I speak for everybody here when I yell "the RIAA are a bunch of wankers"!
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by barnaby 17y ago
Study source code from open source projects like mediawiki (which is what wikipedia runs on) or wordpress (the blogging engine) or Drupal (the CMS) etc. etc. Remember, one of the 4 Freedoms of Free software is the Freedom to study it and le
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by barnaby 17y ago
I ride MUNI to downtown San Francisco. Maybe I should open the laptop instead of reading a book during my daily commute? I'm by far not alone as an Ubuntu user around here, I wonder if I'd overhear any comments at all?
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by barnaby 17y ago
Right, because there's nothing unusual in governments hacking the accounts of their political dissidents.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Isn't "single founder" just a result of not being able to get others to join your effort?
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by barnaby 17y ago
I wish I had written that. It's really good.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Też jestem Polakiem, ale zyję w San Francisco USA. If you post your error codes online in Polish, then others can find it in Polish... meaning you lower the barrier to entry for other Polish users (one less thing to learn). The answer is no
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by barnaby 17y ago
I know the blog is to help people learn English, but isn't that antithetical to helping non-English speakers learn how to use computers? Shouldn't we instead be contributing to non-English documentation so that even those who are too poor t
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by barnaby 17y ago
If you disagree with this 1x1 matrix that means you value form above function... which means you're destined to be a starving artist who writes software that is great for your imaginary friends, but will never become a great programmer that
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by barnaby 17y ago
Yeah, that's when I first read the piece, after reading yours which linked to it. It's a fantastic point, that we have an idealized view of how the critical elements of our infrastructure are created, so we make movie geeks with super power
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by barnaby 17y ago
I read it several months ago and had the same reaction to this article. Thank you for confirming. I don't recall that chapter being about ethnocentrism or even about how to fly planes, but rather about power dynamics, and reverence versus t
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by barnaby 17y ago
21,000 line changeset... does that sound right? I mean, we live in the era of distributed version control, in times when merging is cheap, shouldn't there have been regular 2-way synchronizations?
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by barnaby 17y ago
Yeah, why is anybody posting about this garbage on HackerNews? There are no startup opportunities for "trustworthy" computing, because there simply aren't any customers for "you do it the way we tell you, or else" products.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Yeah, Canonical's own release notes for my netbook actually recommended _not_ upgrading because of regressions. I did however upgrade my desktop just fine and I _love_ it!
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by barnaby 17y ago
Homepage???? Wait people shut down their browsers? like, ever? I haven't seen the homepage in months, I think it's still that default "welcome to Ubuntu" page but I really have no clue.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Amen Brother! The best part about a newsfeed controlled by _you_ is that _you_ can fix it by adding the content you like.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Yeah, but it's coming out today, and it's going to get like a gazillion upvotes... so somebody wanted to earn the points by being the first to post. I've been using the beta for a while now, it is B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L. It's competing with OSX
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by barnaby 17y ago
Ok, ha hah, everybody posts "Bing is Not Good", let's get some originality here: Bing is Not Gratifying. Bing is Nothing Great. Bing is Notoriously Godawful. Bing is Nefarious Google. Or to be really rebellious one can find positive ac
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by barnaby 17y ago
Wisdom! Research and requirements are worthless without sales orders.
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by barnaby 17y ago
That ideas are expensive, it's implementations that are valuable. The smaller and narrower the idea, the easier it is to implement. Just keep whittling away more and more out of the idea and just boil it down to its core essence, so that yo
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by barnaby 17y ago
My current startup has 2 developers and 2 marketing people... and honestly, I made a mistake. It should be 3 developers and 1 sales/marketing person. Marketing people will purport to find out what kind of product the market wants, but will
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by barnaby 17y ago
Great, now Hacker News is devolving into religious flame wars too. :'-( STOP PROSELYTIZING ATHEISM ON HACKER NEWS!!!!! It's annoying!
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by barnaby 17y ago
1) Go to networking events. Even small cities have a bunch of groups who meet to talk about "social media" or "local business growth" or other B.S. 2) Cold call CEO's and business owners in your area. They're great connectors. Pitch them a
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by barnaby 17y ago
When you do a cost-benefit analysis, do you find that it's worth your time to tinker with all that and switch between systems? That's why companies standardize on a toolchain. By the way, we standardized on Ubuntu at my company. And whil

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