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by drats 17y ago
It's incredible sailormoon is getting upvoted for basically proposing the arguments used by the fascists (strong central man, remove checks and balances to help him clean up) and making the incredibly stupid move of assuming that people (fr
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by drats 17y ago
You mean my bias towards wanting actual evidence of the benefits of this benevolent kingship? I hope you don't think the European monarchies of the past are good examples of anything (although constitutional monarchies fall on my side of th
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by drats 17y ago
Which history are you reading? Democracy is not a "fairly young experiment". The ancient Athenians had an impressive democratic government from 508BC until it was destroyed, from the outside, in 322BC. You cite "multi-hundred years of stabl
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by drats 17y ago
Exactly, are people like Krugman going to accept more than half their audience disappearing?
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by drats 17y ago
Blogspot mac fanboys linking to other blogspot mac fanboys. I noticed macbooks everywhere at university a while back, now I just see zillions of netbooks. His comment on "frustrating Windows netbooks" doesn't gel with their popularity, ever
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by drats 17y ago
Excellent work Jashkenas! I think what would really let you achieve liftoff (and a book deal with a tech publisher) would be a Sinatra-like framework based on this. The Sinatra core is very small and has wowed a lot of people, replicating i
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by drats 17y ago
I presume that integration will be what they are aiming at with their operating system.
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by drats 17y ago
Exactly right, and now a company like Google which makes almost all of its money off advertising can have a driving mantra like "to organize all the world's information" and utilize that network. Furthermore, Google can pump money into open
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by drats 17y ago
Indeed, I thought it was always much faster: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... One of the guys behind R is also looking at moving to a LISP base after considering python: http://www.springerlink.com/content/
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by drats 17y ago
Indeed, think of what could have been, so much talent just wasted.
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by drats 17y ago
But you can say this to anything open, "why not .doc support?" for example, there are benefits other than bitrates to open standards. Think video editing and re-mixing/quoting for academic and news purposes (fair use/fair dealing). Think of
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by drats 17y ago
Sorry for the formatting snafu. edit: mostly fixed.
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Ask HN: What Are Your FOSS Philanthropy Hypotheticals?
14 points by drats 17y ago|2 comments
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by drats 17y ago
http://pyroom.org/ or, vim fullscreen?
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by drats 17y ago
Orlowski's articles are often blatant trolls, this one is way out there claiming that the mobile operators who've had us over barrels for so long should be felt sorry for because they can't break the net. Nobody is stopping them making a vi
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by drats 17y ago
It's not clear to me either as trucks that carry you and other things are entirely different to a computing device which you yourself have to carry. I would suggest that netbooks are not something you can just dump something on, they are no
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by drats 17y ago
I wouldn't ban it. However it's worth pointing out some of their other headlines: "Learn How To Print Pages In Order with Ink Jet Printers" "MS says you don't have to check some files for viruses. Bad idea." Perhaps not HN material. Edit: a
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by drats 17y ago
Indeed, the first result for "netbook growth" on Google is from 1st September 2009 and is titled "Report: Netbook Growth Continues Unabated". A better title might have been "Netbook form-factor here to stay" and talked more about form facto
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by drats 17y ago
It may be technically poor in your particular domain of operation, which you fail to elaborate on, but I think in the domain of operation it targets, i.e. servers with performance, it evidently considered good by a great deal of smart peopl
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by drats 17y ago
I can't stop seeing a small black bear tip-toeing along. The resolution is too chunky to say yay or nay to a photoshop on the basis of the body of the beast but I would agree with the other comment that the eyes do seem to be quite luminous
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by drats 17y ago
"I frequently encounter writings that belittle the history of Holocaust", you bring this up but it's a red herring as I don't see any mention of the Holocaust anywhere in the article. In other words you seem to be trying to conflate some of
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by drats 17y ago
Zed, please read the comment guidelines again and take your school-yard stuff off HN if you really feel you must continue it.
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by drats 17y ago
If a known troll attacks a good guy in a nasty tone without knowing all the facts and it's clear he wants the attention to be turned to him because he's jealous, I think it's fair to call him an idiot.
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by drats 17y ago
I am sorry it's not just this guy who thinks this, whoever he is and whatever his opinions are on other topics, you really are an embarrassment. Nobody cares if you are a "real hacker" or you are smart or if your online bombastic personalit
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by drats 17y ago
"The thing that’s hard for the sociopaths to get their head around is that this isn’t because one of their rivals has outsmarted them — it’s just the march of technology. " I don't get this quote. It's quite clear Brin and Page did outsma
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by drats 17y ago
And Facebook has http://lite.facebook.com which is the sleek Firefox-like (when Firefox was sleek at least) answer to the Netscape-like bloated full version. Add to that "google-chrome --disable-images" and it's a nice text-only twitteris
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by drats 17y ago
I can't speak highly enough of "Programming Collective Intelligence" by Toby Segaran. It's not everything, you'd need other books, but it covers "fantastic applications" of techniques. It has really clear explanations from real-world scenar
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by drats 17y ago
"Of course the US is a country of immigrants just as every other country except Africa is a country of immigrants." Africa is not a country.
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by drats 17y ago
I am using ctrl+l on chrome, so 2 keystrokes to get to a search 73,000 key presses (asides from search terms + enter) if I am doing 10 searches a day for 10 years. If you are using the mouse to get to the location bar that's an insane time
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by drats 17y ago
I like the way this article treats Nelson as not that important. The constant hero worshiping is very annoying sometimes. We know [1] that there were people before and during Nelson's time that were just as creative on the "ideas" side. Ber

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