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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
What you're missing here is that Apple bans everyone equally while Microsoft does not. What I mean by that is the App Store doesn't discriminate on an individual basis. Apple is generally consistent in their "unfairness". Looking at what Mi
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Do all programmers live in a bubble like the author? I hope I don't. - Don't mess with your own implanted medical device. Even doctors go to other doctors when they think there's a problem - Only someone living in a bubble thinks there are
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Come on man. You know what I mean. What we know about Stallman isn't all he was. If you judge him by his work with the FSF alone then you're not even close to being able to judge who he was as a person and that's what I'm getting at. Don't
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
You're missing the point and rushing to defend someone I'm not trying to insult. I never said or implied Jobs fans aren't the same. The point is that when someone dies or has something bad happen to them saying something like "I'm not glad
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
All of them. It's been my experience that Stallman fans refuse to deal with even fair criticism of him. That aside, I hope no one says that about him or anyone else ever. I have a lot of problems with Stallman and his ideology but when he d
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
That is true. It is good enough but good enough is no longer good enough. We've been spoiled with Firefox and now Chrome. There's nothing wrong with being spoiled either! Practically speaking, it's not a good idea to leave IE out no matter
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I feel like people are lying to the,selves about IE9. It's still not good enough! The key words you used were that hard implying you know it's still just a little tough. Ever try to get a gradient to work in IE9? First off, when it works
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Pinch isn't zoom. Unpinch in zoom. It would be intuitive for pinch to close an app, but not more intuitive , because in some apps your intent to zoom out could be confused with wanting to close the app (mobile Safari) and for other apps ac
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
It's easy to say IE9+ works but in the real world people aren't upgrading their version of IE like users of other browsers tend to do. While IE9 and above are much better than their predecessors by a long shot they still require you to jump
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Well done! I expect the contrarians to pour in screaming about not leaving anyone out and elitism and corporate users and blah blah blah... But seriously, fuck IE. if you don't have to support it then don't! More power to you! My biggest wi
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Haha I believe you. But you would really disobey some laws on principle? Which type? I can see people smoking pot and saying its on principle. But in a lot of cases it seems more like people don't break such laws on principle but simply bec
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Yeah, definitely JavaScript. Don't forget web fonts too. I can't tell you how many times I see an entire page load then have to wait several seconds for any text to show up. It's always good to write clean efficient CSS but I think articles
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
People don't really think of the consequences until shit gets real. His reaction is totally understandable. I know a lot of us would try to be tough and claim we wouldn't cooperate with the Feds and sellout but when the FBI busts in and you
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
They should be replaced? Why? See, that's my whole point. Why can't they simply correct what's wrong? What they should really do is fix some of their problems. It doesn't have to take a competitor for this to happen and Google has histo
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
One of us doesn't get it. Maybe I'm not understanding but I don't see how what you describe would be any different than how it is today. If search is all about the most relevant results then the engines would still operate much the same as
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
There are two big problems with this: 1. You can get a lot of that data and those tools for free already. Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics. 2. Many of the things you'd charge for are things people don't understand anyway. In our little
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Did anyone else read this as having a subtext that basically implies Google needs to be taken down? Why is it that when we talk about making search better many (seriously, like gobs of people) talk like the only way to improve it is to over
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Males sense to me. I'm going to add to the chorus in hopes that it reinforces your belief that you should listen to us: Step away from it. Stop working on it for as long as it takes for you to get your mind straight. After a few days I guar
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Be language agnostic. Solve the problem.(blog.perplexedlabs.com)
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I'm glad it's about reform rather than abolishment. I haven't gotten too deply into the book yet but the fact that the word 'reform' is right in the title gives me hope. I'm always (unsuccessfully) trying to impress upon people that copyrig
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by billpatrianakos 15y ago
I always get this kind of response whenever I say that. I know you can make a profit with open source code but that's just not my thing nor has anything I've worked on lent itself to that kind of model. I suppose I could have left that phra
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by billpatrianakos 15y ago
Way to be! I like this attitude because it's like if you're not going to maintain it or try to profit from it then why keep it to yourself? I'm much the same way. I'm sure we all have little projects that have the potential to make us a few
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by billpatrianakos 15y ago
This sounds like what people who don't understand depression or drug addiction say to the depressed or addicted. It's always "just pick yourself up by your bootstraps" and "grow some balls and quit using" but it's not that simple. Maybe peo
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by billpatrianakos 15y ago
Really? I mean, I know they're very close but correct me if I'm wrong here: First, let me be clear that I'm talking about Free in terms of how the GPL codifies it. So Free software a la the GPL always begets more free software. Open source
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by billpatrianakos 15y ago
To be clear, I really wanted to point out that it can easily be perceived the way I described. I wasn't really trying to say that it's actually so. Honestly, I'm not a big fan of the GPL myself so it probably came out that way but the big
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by billpatrianakos 15y ago
Nothing. That's why the GPL can be easily seem as being all about ego and anti-profits rather than freedom. Even if the company in your scenario violates the GPL it doesn't do anything to hurt software freedom. The GPL seems to be a tool to
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by billpatrianakos 15y ago
Exactly. I'm one of those who honestly doesn't mind if anyone comes along, forks, closes the source, and makes a million off my code. I think it's a lot about money. There's also this rejection of the FOSS ideals. The GPL puts a lot of peop
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by billpatrianakos 15y ago
You got that right. It's strange though that most programmers are never taught half that stuff in college. Hardcore computer science may be different but related degrees basically walk you through C++, teach you some OO design patterns and
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by billpatrianakos 15y ago
Ugh I knew that either the prison experiment or Nazis would come up. Hyperbole. It's a real fine line and equating some of the things people have retorted with to what's happened with MegaUpload isn't fair. They're not n the same level. Yea
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by billpatrianakos 15y ago
I think that's hyperbole. I understand the whole "damn the man" cynicism thing you got going on but there's two sides to the coin. When you work for law enforcement you get orders and you carry them out. These people are just like anyone el

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