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by batista 14y ago
No, it's an article that lacks some (not that) advanced stuff. A joke is more like "Knock, knock. Who's there?" etc.
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by batista 14y ago
According to Wikipedia, Stallman wrote "the right to read" in 1997, not 1985: "The Right to Read" is a short story by Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation, which was first published in 1997 in Communications of the
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by batista 14y ago
> Neither have any of those. You'd be surprised. They might have some videos and material for free (as does Apple, btw), but lots of other development stuff from them requires an MS/Google account.
724.
by batista 14y ago
Yes, this site and a MILLION others on the internets... Including this very site.
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by batista 14y ago
> It's fine, I'm barking up the wrong tree here TBH. Apple makes it clear that they want you to use their products to view this developer stuff. It's also probably more convenient to them: they have this huge system for content deliver
726.
by batista 14y ago
> Can someone explain what's the benefit of doing it that way? Keeping out the riff raff? Those videos are targeted at Mac developers, not people having issues with Safari and/or iTunes. > I'm on Windows (Ubuntu also, in a VM) runn
727.
by batista 14y ago
> Cars are switching from petrol to hybrid to electric motors, but roads still work... Yes, and this is what makes this a bad analogy.
728.
by batista 14y ago
> Whoopdeedoo, you've got a degree! Congratulations! I got a C in German when I was 16 but I don't brag about it. No, you only brag about how idiotic a) programmers that design custom UIs and b) designers in general are compared to yo
729.
by batista 14y ago
Far better and far more important STILL than 90% of startups that don't go anywhere anyway. And from a huge part of the 10% that do have any success, come to think of it. Far more important contributors to CS and technology have worked in I
730.
by batista 14y ago
> My computer is my computer. Not Apple's computer when I'm using iTunes (hah, as if I'd ever use that piece of crap, but stay with me here) Yes, very funny. Well, I'm a CS graduate, and I have no qualm with using iTunes. My colleague
731.
by batista 14y ago
> It's been one of my major pet peeves on both Android and iOS: the total and utter lack of consistency. Applications - whether first party or third party - all seem to live on islands, doing their own thing, making their own design cho
732.
by batista 14y ago
> I don't understand the "OMG MICROSOFT MADE A TABLET IT IS CLEARLY COPYING THE IPAD" reaction Microsoft's getting here. No, it's merely another try to bite into its market. Microsoft had tablets before the iPad too, but not like that.
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by batista 14y ago
> I'm not going to deny that there's a lot of crappy art out there. However, this article is such bullshit that I suspect the writer is just trolling. Can we not accept people having different views than us (and quite reasonable ones a
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by batista 14y ago
> A handful of people making money does make it not a novelty activity. It's still a niche, but it's not a novelty. How so? A handful of people make money out of ANY novelty. A handful of people making money of it, is actually, the ver
735.
by batista 14y ago
> Android 1.0 was released just shy of four years ago, in September of 2008. Well, two+ years then, although it seemed much longer in my mind. I remember having an Android phone back in the day, I've had 3 versions of iOS and 2 iOS devi
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Neo-Victorian computing (2007)(markbernstein.org)
2 points by batista 14y ago|1 comments
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by batista 14y ago
> "We're stuck with it for another 18 months" Better than being stuck for 4 years, are most Android users are, with the majority of devices out there, even new ones, not having the latest version (or not even the one BEFORE that).
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by batista 14y ago
Are they "so popular"?
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History of the treemap filesystem viewers(cs.umd.edu)
24 points by batista 14y ago|10 comments
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by batista 14y ago
> Clearly you have not worked in enough fields to see where this may be used. I've worked at high frequency traders where we used some of this technology. And clearly if I had to have worked to some niche fields to know about that use,
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by batista 14y ago
> Isn't it same as banning sale of alcohols/drugs since they can be harmful? No. Alcohol and drugs are with us from the beginning of history, are very much ingrained in human society and culture, and support trillion dollar worldwide i
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by batista 14y ago
> I wonder if this is just because they would like as much control over their population as possible and they want their own Internet, as they would like their own "Twitter", and own "Facebook" and so on, out of a strong sense of nation
743.
by batista 14y ago
> Proposals to fragment the Internet generally do not go down well, for obvious reasons. Maybe with tech guys. They certainly go very down very well with politicians and corporations.
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by batista 14y ago
> Chinese RFC proposes separate, independent, national internets and DNS roots See how it's ALWAYS about politics and never about technology? I say that for hackers that believe that political action doesn't matter, and that technology
745.
by batista 14y ago
That's one of the quintessential characteristics of invention and technological progress: using things for new functions they have not been designed for. You know, like using computers not to do math but to leave comments on a social news s
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by batista 14y ago
All 10 of them? Less fun edition: I'm sure it is. As it is with Linux based 3D render farms. Do both of those represent a large portion of Nvidia's income or an insignificant one? I presume it's the latter: there are billions of desktops/la
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by batista 14y ago
Yes. Pink to my eyes is a kind of watered down red. Do you consider it any more different? Ie the kind of difference you get from purple vs yellow, or red vs green?
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by batista 14y ago
> To respond a little - I was trying to use "innately get depressed when not exposed to sunlight" as an example of something well researched showing that light affects people physically in ways that are not just 'seeing shape and contra
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by batista 14y ago
For one, they don't even seem bothered enough to correct the "cache expired" continuation crap on the site, much less to build a new moderation system. Second, if "poor members" get invited in large numbers, then the system you propose wil
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by batista 14y ago
This is correct in abstract, but not in real terms. I don't think Linus sayings have any significant effect on NVidia's bottom line (if they have any effect at all). It's not like more than 0.01% potential buyers will read this Linus quote

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