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by devcpp 14y ago
I do. It's hard enough to bring people out of closed OSes while Ubuntu is free. I still think Canonical should do like many successful startups these days: make a large userbase and only then start to deploy the business model. We're not go
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by devcpp 14y ago
It makes a lot of sense to use the subreddits to provide targeted ads. Being seen as friendly with goodwill notice for visitors might also be part of this. Still, that remains one of the least agressive revenue models I've seen.
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by devcpp 14y ago
I think most of us realize it. But we also realize that the reward is so large that it counters the small probability to make a pretty high expectancy, above a regular programmer salary. Let's say one startup out of the, say, ten thousand o
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by devcpp 14y ago
Wow, they're at 20 already? At that rate, they'll reach Firefox 100 in a decade. Frankly, it sounds quite ridiculous.
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by devcpp 14y ago
God forbid. At least Microsoft didn't control our hardware. If Apple gets the same kind of monopole as Microsoft over computers, tablets and smartphones, they would basically control the entire field of technology. As for the prices, people
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by devcpp 14y ago
Worth the cost of asking for more information for the replacement of expensive items? It just takes a few more seconds to each rep and is surely shorter than all the new orders being placed for scammers.
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by devcpp 14y ago
Yep, make that an opt-in feature, add some light ads, and you have a full business model. I believe they may have just wanted to spare themselves the headache of a money system and of people who would reupload other people's pictures or cop
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by devcpp 14y ago
I think it's more about how they sold the company while the application was still not making any money. People expected to have to pay one day, of course, but by selling the users without the business model, Instagram showed it didn't care
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by devcpp 14y ago
Indeed. Arrogant people get their requests fulfilled more often than humble people because they push for it, and many people who have the power to give that stuff are either arrogant and depise humble people or humble and intimidated. It's
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by devcpp 14y ago
If it's just the 50Hz frequency, it's easy to make a cheap application with a GUI that computes the FFT of a wav file, replaces the value at 50Hz using some straightforward parameters (e.g home/suburban street/city center) and IFFT back to
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by devcpp 14y ago
It's niche enough to not justify the hundreds of millions of dollars such a project would require and the high risks. OSX "just works" because it has a full suite of software that comes loaded on it and "just works" very well and makes a lo
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by devcpp 14y ago
I doubt that these people know anything about technology. The governments generally hire some companies to do the obscure technology "magic" thing. As for people, most of them have probably never learned a thing about the technologies they
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by devcpp 14y ago
Actually, it's all about slowing innovation, so it can very well be used as "enforcing bogus patents": Apple is famous for recently suing competition over abstract ideas. They don't even try to hide that fact.
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by devcpp 14y ago
For Google, I don't truly have a choice because there is no serious competitor for both the quality and the privacy, so I just ticked a.). For Ubuntu, a.) and b.). Shuttleworth's childish attitude is shocking.
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by devcpp 14y ago
Can't you compile the source, run a checksum on all the files respective files and check if they're identical for both versions?
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by devcpp 14y ago
Can we keep a sort of page where we put all the commands to remove the bullshit from Ubuntu? I think it's starting to grow and stink more and more.
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by devcpp 14y ago
You imply that "the community" changed opinions... but "the community" is not a person. It's not necessarily minds that change rather than the people. The readers of HN are the teenagers of yesterday, who have never stopped disliking Apple.
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by devcpp 14y ago
That's not "political pressure", is it?
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by devcpp 14y ago
It was implied 'link to legally copyrighted material'...
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by devcpp 14y ago
>Anyone could copy-paste a news article verbatim. Yes, andrewljohnson agrees about that. However, his point is: >Linking to copyrighted material should not be illegal And I have to concur. This should not be a copyright violation.
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by devcpp 14y ago
Agreed. We're not used to see modern works reused freely because it has never happened. But with an open mind, I can easily see it. 28 years after your death, the world well deserves to finally use your work.
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by devcpp 14y ago
I stupidly tried to do that some time ago (got confused juggling with my spammed mail addresses that are all forwarding to my main email address), and Google told me it was a bad idea.
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by devcpp 14y ago
Any idea if this exists for Firefox? I've been looking for it for a while. It's the major feature I miss from Chrome. I've had enough of Ctrl-C, Ctrl-T, Ctrl-V.
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by devcpp 14y ago
Great, we have our first theoretician. Now we do need some sort of organizational structure for advocacy.
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by devcpp 14y ago
It's awesome, I'm writing this comment from it right now in my bed. I particularly like the new input method in 4.2 where you don't need to actually press the keys, you just need to let your fingers slide over the keys and it guesses the wo
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by devcpp 14y ago
I think the AJAX thing is just because 7 to 10 years ago, AJAX was not called AJAX (the term was coined in 2005). As for Javascript, it is by far the easiest to implement online, so it's good for a prototype. I don't think it's supposed to
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by devcpp 14y ago
Popularity means good software? Windows must be the best OS by very far then! Regarding mobile OS, we all know this now depends on the number of "apps" available. Many may have made a superior OS, but adoption has been too low because of th
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by devcpp 14y ago
/4
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by devcpp 14y ago
I didn't see it until I checked in the comments on HN...
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by devcpp 14y ago
Not really the same. You can take a dozen jerrycan of gas that will last you for a long time, and that does for the same price as the gas you'll buy at the station, which is precisely what people did before you could find gas stations every

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