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by diN0bot 18y ago
it's also relevant. mac's come with sqlite3, python, a terminal, a decent developing environment (extra cd). it's probably not a big deal for windows folks to download languages and developing environments, too, to say nothing of ubuntu. th
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by diN0bot 18y ago
what about cisco? they seem to be pretty decent. they buy small companies and merge them in nicely and profit by it. what about nike, which had a bad child-labor image back in the 90s and has really turned things around (though perhaps does
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by diN0bot 18y ago
i don't understand the problem with one-line summaries. if you stop question them and pleading with people to remove them there wouldn't be this whole thread anyway. also: > "By the way, I've flagged the article based on this. The main
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by diN0bot 18y ago
reaction: this is awesome. sure, if you get connected to someone unpleasant that sux (the "14-yr-old" problem). otherwise, you get a neat little mystery and random but pleasant connection to a stranger. sounds fun.
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by diN0bot 18y ago
the right way is "making money for a long time". plenty of dishonest businesses make a lot of short-term money. the really good players are in it for the long haul, which frequently means honesty, decency and sustainability.
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by diN0bot 18y ago
wait, are you implying that what he did was wrong? karma-ically i thought he was doing good. spreading knowledge. equal opportunity. the thief in the submission who threatened violence: now that's a bit much.
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by diN0bot 18y ago
> "Unbeknownst to me, and surely with some sort of anarchic motive, these lawless, long-haired, multi-pierced, tattooed, incredibly charming and smart hacker hooligans built a piece of software on Tripod that had nothing to do with offe
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by diN0bot 18y ago
a friend of mine goes to conferences for free using all sorts of trickery. he finds out the name of guests at hotels by lying to the front desk, he get conference badges and alters them with his name and picture. he sleeps in bathroom stall
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by diN0bot 18y ago
ask a designer (-:
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by diN0bot 18y ago
whoa. took me a bit to figure out the controls. neat!!!
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by diN0bot 18y ago
great article. slashdot is awesome. reddit and hn became popular because of the communities, despite the loss of technical goodness each time. at the very least, i wish the quantifiable part of karma was kept strictly private.
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by diN0bot 18y ago
as long as people are self-serving and short-sighted, they will always try to get ahead of other people unless regulated. people can't help trying to do better than their peers, regardless of where the bar is set. i'm optimistic that over t
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by diN0bot 18y ago
i meant inclusive within the bounds of hn's goals. there are still sub communities; eg: dev hackers, startup idea folks. no one is necessarily wrong in their interpretation of hn's community and submission policy. sometimes it is not that
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by diN0bot 18y ago
actually, i read the code first. i have a computer science bachelors and masters from mit, which means i have wonderful memories from writing in scheme and list. reading the code is a joy for me. after working on numerous projects with a wi
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by diN0bot 18y ago
sigh. really sorry. i really need to write a greasemonkey script that integrates searchyc into submission posting. i fill out the info and then five minute later check back for if it found anything. otherwise i lose patience while searching
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by diN0bot 18y ago
just try it. i share your sense of doubt and confusion. until you actually build [a bike/massive user community/iphone app] it will seem like the most magical and mysterious thing in the world. you can't grok it until you've built it many t
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by diN0bot 18y ago
reminds me how i prefer rating schemes over point accumulation ones. especially if the rating average is based on latest actions more than older ones. point accumulation with exponential experience levels (think rpg) is better than linear p
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by diN0bot 18y ago
the influx of new people and the change (loss?) of culture are at such odds with me desire for inclusiveness and internal (personal) regulation, or free will.
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by diN0bot 18y ago
good reminder. nonetheless, see noodle's comment for why this fails to console.
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by diN0bot 18y ago
send me an email. i live in a 9-person coop with a guest room. i'm back in town on feb 23rd and would be happy to host you. diN0bot bilumi org.
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by diN0bot 18y ago
if you down mod and then reply does the karma get removed?
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by diN0bot 18y ago
open source is awesome . open source is not, however, a replacement for explanations, which are often briefer and more broadly understandable.
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by diN0bot 18y ago
a status symbol now makes "good karma" more shiny. people will try to attain it. this makes sense, otherwise why would pg add this feature, if not to promote good commenting. the poster's point is that people are trying to attain shiny; wil
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by diN0bot 18y ago
what if the people with similar ideas were told about each other so that they might collaborate. the startup i founded with my husband is very community based, and we try to make use of everyone who is interested in contributing. on the tec
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by diN0bot 18y ago
>"I think downmodding comments that people disagree with needs to be discouraged." i completely agree. it might explain this in the guidelines, but it needs to be written right where people evaluate. maybe the first time someone votes t
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by diN0bot 18y ago
knowing you're having a back and forth with the same person is one cause of long flame wars. not knowing who you're talking to keeps things less emotional and more polite. i think. the advantage of seeing points is the same as seeing orange
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by diN0bot 18y ago
exactly. good comments filter up, bad comments filter down. recent comments need to be evaluated (and responded to, which are then evaluated themselves) to get placed. the orange is an unnecessary distraction. the previous commenter makes a
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by diN0bot 18y ago
the default 1 point you get from commenting no longer adds to your karma. that is, the comment is 'worth' 1 point, but your karma doesn't change. i think it used to...though now im not so sure...
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by diN0bot 18y ago
word. i'm one of the standard slashdot->proggit->hn users. slashdot's comment system rocks (ui and concept). it's a very strange worse-is-better effect that reddit and hn have both meant losing features in exchange for the advanta

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