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by barnaby 17y ago
Isn't Mac POSIX-compatible too? Mac and Linux adoption combined are growing at 20+% per year.(today: 11.7%, last year: 9.7%, The year before that: 8%). Those are not new customers being acquired by the OS market, NO, that's customers being
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by barnaby 17y ago
Is this for real or did I just read an article from the Onion?
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by barnaby 17y ago
YAY!! can't wait!
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by barnaby 17y ago
yeah, I'd prefer a group dinner party as well. Mostly because I don't know how I'd pitch my girlfriend on "hey, this guy from the internet is going to come to our house to cook". Will send you both an email.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Wars and corporate entitlements cost more than creating opportunities for the poor.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Why is this religious crap polluting HN? I don't want to see it, stop posting it please. kthnxbai
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by barnaby 17y ago
Cool, thanks for the followup. I guess I could have phrased it better myself. My experience was, after investment, we brought in (as cofounders) a really experienced team of marketing professionals (one from a big name, like Oglivy, and ano
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by barnaby 17y ago
I learned a lot of similar lessons. I like his point about how they're too busy because investing isn't their primary focus. I actually found this infuriating at first because they promised to be really helpful, but because they were so har
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by barnaby 17y ago
Exactly, because in a highly competitive market (like software) prices always drop to marginal cost of production. Since copy/paste of software is free, the price inevitably drops to zero. The only way to charge a penny for the kernel would
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by barnaby 17y ago
Yes, "the entitled generation"... What about the "had no balls to raise their kids right" generation? Why are we hiring them into management positions if they're pushovers?
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by barnaby 17y ago
I think he's arguing that you shouldn't wait until you have 10,000 hours before you go out to be successful, rather go out and pursue the thing you want to be successful at and that will give you the 10,000 hours. In other words, don't set
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by barnaby 17y ago
Now that I'm reading "People's history of the United States" by Howard Zinn, I'm not surprised by anything anymore. I guess all governments do this kind of stuff (and worse) on a routine basis.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Wow, that's a pretty awesome list.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Considering that ideas are expensive, I'd say they're getting shafted. Publicity however is valuable, and $1400 is a small price to pay for the traffic they're getting.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Totally awesome. I just built geoDjango functionality into my site. I look forward to seeing your upcoming example of an app using this. Cheers
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by barnaby 17y ago
Two kinds of learning, right? Learning by example (e.g. reading books, reading others' code) and learning by doing (e.g. experience building things, writing your own code). People often do one but forget the other.
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by barnaby 17y ago
I feel old when I read articles like this because I remember back when Linux was difficult. I meet new Linux users all the time who almost can't believe stories from the bad old days. Anyway, we use Ubuntu at my office, and we're super prod
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by barnaby 17y ago
"agricultural" is a bad moniker for sure. Still, a model that emphasizes growing ties to your location is a poor one. David Weinberger hit the nail on the head in his philosophical arguments in "Small pieces loosely joined" that our underst
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by barnaby 17y ago
Well, he is right. The education system I went through was designed around a myth of what the corporate landscape supposedly looks like and it's out of date in the information age. I don't know that I'd go so far as to call "anything that a
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by barnaby 17y ago
Nice improvements. I'm really excited by all of the recent activity happening in Django, it's REALLY taking off! Sounds like Django Advent will allow someone to write a Django-based CRM system. among other things.
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by barnaby 17y ago
To paraphrase their response: "The bug was filed right before release... sorry guys we have a lllloooonnnnggg release cycle"
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by barnaby 17y ago
No it's not. No it doesn't. Flash is a terrible concept just like Java Applets were a terrible concept, and its only potential is annoying advertisements, slow splash pages that keep away return visitors, and browser crashes.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Exciting! Object-level permissions, anonymous user support, a new test runner, and general improvements. Sounds helpful. I've been doing a lot of programming with Django lately, and there is so much happening. I feel like the pace is growin
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by barnaby 17y ago
I support Lessig I support him because what he is trying to do is MONUMENTAL. When laws are purchased by the highest bidder they allow people to subvert the free market. When laws are purchased then the democratic voice of the people has no
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by barnaby 17y ago
Don't be Naive! Laws and regulation have never _not_ been up for sale to the highest bidder. So your fictional doctor is only lobbying to reverse the result of previous lobbying. Your fictional "once upon a time" must have been the time whe
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by barnaby 17y ago
Not sure what he means about python not having an educational infrastructure yet? I hear about universities teaching python all the time, sounds like it has a solid infrastructure already.
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by barnaby 17y ago
Well, it's good to know Buffalo NY has _something_ going for it.
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by barnaby 17y ago
ABOUT TIME!!!!
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by barnaby 17y ago
I thought yesterdays obituary for Howard Zinn was a bigger news story than this... because, well, most people thought Salinger was already dead.
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by barnaby 17y ago
So judging by the comments, I was wrong to have assume he was communist... back in my younger more naive days. I should probably re-read "A People's History"... except it's already reserved solid for the next 6 months in the SF Public Libra

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