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by devcpp 13y ago
I tried the same curve and got open source and free software. This is rather depressing but it's predictable.
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by devcpp 13y ago
...which would be detrimental to Microsoft. Limiting our options to theirs is precisely their goal by giving us a great IDE that only works on Windows. They're never gonna go it. They stand to win nothing from that.
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by devcpp 13y ago
I don't care how beautiful they look. As a user, I just don't like them. For example, Mega or Blogspot's animations are very nice, but I just get annoyed when I see them. And I don't think I'm alone.
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by devcpp 13y ago
Oh come on, you know what he meant. The members of HN are passionate about startups, technology, money, somewhat politics. Gay marriage and other social issues spark little interest. It's understandable.
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by devcpp 13y ago
If Windows was FOSS and we could "swap ROMs" and extract their stuff easily as many of us do on Android, it would be much more acceptable. Forcing your users to use your other products when you have a monopoly is absolutely outr
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by devcpp 13y ago
Yeah, it's completely wrong. Statistically, it is very unprobable that I have seen so many articles about books without searching for them and no one complaining about literature in the past few months on the Internet. This claim is ri
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by devcpp 13y ago
You could say the same about a lot of crimes. Prostitutes, hitmen, scammers, drug dealers, a lot of professions are inherently hurtful for the society. Heck, you could say the same about banking, insurances, real estate, utilities: a lot of
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by devcpp 13y ago
No.
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by devcpp 13y ago
The even greater success of GPL as a license is that it not only makes sense to contribue back, but you have to . This is much more efficient for good contributions flowing from everywhere. The fact that good non-GPL alternatives like BSD
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by devcpp 13y ago
1. I don't see how it would be hypocritical. 2. It should steal credit form the recipient. The money is what makes charities work, more than the work in itself. 3. What's so great about selfless giving? If donations can increase b
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by devcpp 13y ago
So you don't care about backdoors, malware, who knows whatever else they may put in that code?
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by devcpp 13y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right. He can criticize the US all he wants. We all can. And we all can criticize whichever leaders we want for being assholes. It may be unfair but Snowden had no choice given the reaction of the US. Don't
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by devcpp 13y ago
I don't think looking bad matters to these people at this point.
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by devcpp 13y ago
And that's only the more optimistic scenario.
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by devcpp 13y ago
Seriously? So you're okay with the NSA spying -legally or not- on everyone, when the highest ranking people have denied this for years? Do you really think spying on Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft users as a whole constitute probable ca
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by devcpp 13y ago
That's not a fair comparison when Maastricht lets you go freely anywhere in Europe.
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by devcpp 13y ago
I see non-Swartz posts. There were 2 non-NSA posts the day it blew up. I actually told myself "Ah, HN is obsessing with something today, looks like it's privacy this time".
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by devcpp 13y ago
You give them one more user, which is worth a lot when a software company negociates its value before a buyout.
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by devcpp 13y ago
I don't know about the others, but the reason I didn't comment was precisely because I didn't want to log in using Facebook. Your giant trees were blocking my view of the forest. Giving the choice between a third-party and a
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by devcpp 13y ago
That's short-term thinking. If students don't use your products, they won't when they turn into tomorrow's professionals. Lots of successful companies have been doing this for many years. $60+ per month is way too expe
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by devcpp 13y ago
Open Source? Who cares about open source? What we're talking about is free software. The bulk of the code they write is all-rights-reserved.
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by devcpp 13y ago
This is not comparable at all . Nuclear arsenals cannot be dismantled because of the benefits of MAD and the other guy might be considered in a position of force. In our case, PRISM can be dismantled without the other guy (i.e the populati
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by devcpp 13y ago
Is it not considered evidence acquired illegally and unusable in court? Considering most people think that most of this information does not qualify as probable cause per the Fourth Amendment...
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by devcpp 13y ago
We could increase the productivity of humanity in fabulous ways if we all knew how to use computers efficiently. Instead, we go the other way and only use them as entertainment platforms. Too bad education doesn't make big money.
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by devcpp 13y ago
Sorry, I supposed that gadders quoted you accurately due to the quotes around "Israel has apartheid". I apologize. I'll edit my reply to maintain the legitimacy of the question.
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by devcpp 13y ago
He's the president of the main right-wing party. People like that often remain head of their state for very long once they're elected (first they're sworn in and then get more mandates to "finish their job"). Exampl
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by devcpp 13y ago
Agreed. And it goes like that with politics. No party even debates about economy, privacy and so on. That doesn't bring in votes. Security does. The entire concept of right/left wing in Israel is based on how nationalist a party i
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by devcpp 13y ago
Right. Israel has "kept expanding". Ignore the strategic positions that allowed them to survive (the Golan), ignore the repeated aggressions from the Sinai which made Israel have to take it and give it back several times. Besides,
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by devcpp 13y ago
I'll answer for him. Neither, I read about the apartheid from reliable sources and I know the situation but also read about statistics to make sure I'm not being unfair to either side. But what about the people who say "Israe
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by devcpp 13y ago
Come on, all of this is fairly obvious. Let's say you take a Nokia brick and want to put one touch screen instead of a display and an input panel. What do you do? Something that looks exactly like that. The screen gets larger, the buttons g

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