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by brl 19y ago
Not here dude, take it to politics.reddit.com
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by brl 19y ago
The music industry sucks at business, whether piracy is stealing or not. The moral debate isn't even very relevant here because regardless of whether downloading mp3s is stealing or impolite or a sin or whatever, in 25 years nobody will e
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by brl 19y ago
In any other industry if you can't make money because nobody wants to pay for your product (no matter what the reason is) it's because your business model sucks, not because you're a 'victim'.
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by brl 19y ago
You're not doing anything wrong when you share music. Intuitively everybody knows this already which is why everybody does it without thinking twice. File sharing is just not a moral issue and never has been.
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by brl 19y ago
This essay is fantastic! I wish I could vote it up 50 times. It's absolutely the best thing about the music industry vs. the internet that I've read since Courtney Love's rant 7 years ago.
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by brl 19y ago
We could relicense components that they need under a less business friendly license so that they could not take advantage of future improvements to the platform. But yes, they could then pick up that development on their own by forking the
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by brl 19y ago
"New OS X backup software ironically destroys all your data" would be an even more hilarious PR disaster for Apple than all those 'bricked' telephones.
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by brl 19y ago
I'm going to answer this too because we are in the situation you are describing. We are writing a platform that we intend to release under a liberal no-strings-attached free software license (ie: not GPL). We're not worried at all about pe
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by brl 19y ago
My startup is building a desktop application which gives security administrators convenient access to a suite of integrated network security tools.
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by brl 19y ago
If WoW is better than real life for so many people maybe that's because there are some severe and imminent problems to solve in this world. The last thing we need right now is for everybody to be drugged out on video games.
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by brl 19y ago
I'm mostly thinking about the type of online role playing games which people throw their lives away on, but I would consider Starcraft to be a borderline case. I do believe in general that people are responsible for the consequences they cr
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by brl 19y ago
The categorical imperative is probably the single most famous idea in moral philosophy. It would have had some obstacles in reaching that status if it gave the wrong answer on things like genocide. I think the way you're supposed to interp
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by brl 19y ago
My personal ethics would prevent me from developing surveillance tools, anything which is mostly military in nature, or any kind of video game which requires a heavy investment of time.
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by brl 19y ago
I use trac which is integrated into my IDE (Eclipse) with a task management plugin called Mylyn. It's free and it does everything I need to stay organized with the other 6 developers on my team. What problem are you solving again?
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by brl 19y ago
I'm extremely introverted and solidly INTP.
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by brl 19y ago
I was going to argue against this too because using integers to index loops is such a huge convention in C and then I realized that he's absolutely right. On LP64, integers are 32 bits and size_t must be 64 bits (or you could overflow it wi
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by brl 19y ago
I think you're really making a lot of pretty backwards assumptions about the kind of people who would still move to the bay area if they weren't accepted into YC. My startup has 6 people who all quit their jobs more than a year ago and have
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by brl 19y ago
Hacker News is a pretty good place to organize, right? Since we're already all here. Maybe we need a mailing list too.
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by brl 19y ago
Good point.
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by brl 19y ago
Yeah, that name is awesome :-)
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by brl 19y ago
Where are you now? We are coming from Argentina so we have immigration challenges too. Does anybody know if it's legal for us to work on our startup in the US without having a work visa (if we aren't taking a salary) _after_ we incorporate
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by brl 19y ago
This is something I was thinking about after reading the rejection thread. How many other rejects are still going ahead with the plan to move their startup to SV this winter even though they aren't participating in YC? (or are already the
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by brl 19y ago
This article is definitely not intended to teach you how to optimize your programs. That is, unless your usual programs are small enough to embed inside object file headers with the opcodes overlapping header field values. It's a clever ha
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by brl 19y ago
This is an awesome old classic which is required reading for anybody who wants to understand how ELF object files are loaded and executed. This is pretty far beyond 'optimization'. The executable is 7 bytes smaller than the minimum legal
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by brl 19y ago
Yes, of course. That would be a nice start.
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by brl 19y ago
I've avoided driving a car for my whole entire life and so did everybody else for thousands of years before they were invented.
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by brl 19y ago
The answer is 'no'. Those laws are not violated by puzzles. The whole point of a job interview is discrimination.
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by brl 19y ago
This is terrible advice because if you don't have your story completely straight and they figure out that you have lied to them you could easily find yourself permanently inadmissible to the US. Unless you are an experienced professional at
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The Genius is in the Details (aaronsw.com)
43 points by brl 19y ago|15 comments
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by brl 19y ago
Ulrich Drepper, you rule! Really looking forward to the next 6 parts of this series.

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