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by drats 16y ago
The confusion of all these journalists lies in the fact that Google and Facebook are direct competitors because they both are advertising companies based on data. But they both have fairly different usage scenarios so you'd say that they ar
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by drats 16y ago
Don't forget the "grass is always greener" in people's minds rather than reality. And supply and demand tells us something too, these people are some of the best in the world and the economy needs/wants them elsewhere and is sending a price
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by drats 16y ago
Nimbupani's link contains 9 countries in the EU where it's not available, so it seems it's not so uncommon.
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by drats 16y ago
"Due to local restrictions web browsing is not available for all countries" is what I get when I try the web on my Kindle 3G bought a few weeks ago here in the EU. Outside of getting books off whispernet Wikipedia works and that's it. Not r
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by drats 16y ago
"This is one of the best written and slickest proposals I have ever read. Do NOT fund this work under any circumstances."- NSF grant reviewer That's eminently quotable. edit: "rant reviewer" => "grant reviewer" edit2: proposal => pr
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by drats 16y ago
I said "freedom" and you changed that to "greater good" to try to win the argument. Stallman was pursuing his lifestyle, people started to mess with it, so he created a legal document to secure his own freedoms and those of others. This ena
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by drats 16y ago
RMS sold GPLed software in the early days. RMS is also someone who made deep personal sacrifices to see a certain vision of freedom prevail, or rather be preserved. That seems to me to be very American.
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by drats 16y ago
I got modded into a smouldering crater for pointing out that another article was a massive troll.[1] I think I was modded down for the fact that I enjoyed it: despite the fact I was highlighting it was a troll and that people shouldn't take
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by drats 16y ago
Esther Dyson's bet "By 2012, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times will have referred to Russia as "the world leader in software development" or words to that effect." http://www.longbets.org/5 The Computer History Museum gets $1
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by drats 16y ago
Speaking of "make things as simple as possible, but not simpler" what do you think of Flask?[1] [1] http://flask.pocoo.org/
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by drats 16y ago
I looked into groovy recently, and even as a python fanboy I can see how awesome it is for someone who already knows java. It looks extremely close to both python and ruby, and you can drop down to java anytime, use java libraries anytime.
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by drats 16y ago
Very nice. Are you using a variation of the Arc90 readability algorithm or something else? Aha I just saw you talk about them in your "about" page. I was going to do something similar with the python readability port[1] and Flask but hadn't
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by drats 16y ago
This is the third time I've clicked on a link on the HN frontpage today and been sent to a NYT login page rather than something interesting. I know that "(nytimes.com)" is behind the link but I feel it behooves the submitter to point out th
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by drats 16y ago
I am not sure trolls have a pulse. Perhaps you are detecting the speed with which his editor patting him on the back with all the page views? That said, I agree with every delicious word of the article (I am rabidly anti-Apple) and enjoyed
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by drats 16y ago
You say that the dig about the wardrobe is "un-needed and unclassy" and then go on to say the writer is an "idiot". I think you need to look in the mirror and see that the pot is just as black as the kettle.
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by drats 16y ago
"conveniently controversial" aka link/flame bait
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by drats 16y ago
Sorry, that's completely insane even if it's open source.
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by drats 16y ago
Watch has a nice difference flag, so that whatever is different from the last iteration is highlighted. As in: watch -d sudo netstat -tnp
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by drats 16y ago
I am on a bit of an anti-Apple binge over the last week on HN, but I will point out that Safari Reader, like most Apple "innovations", occurred somewhere else first, in the Readability extension for Firefox and Chrome released almost a year
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by drats 16y ago
Apple lists the 11" as having 5 hours and the 13" as having 7 hours. I have 8 hours on mine usually (for the price I paid I got a 9 cell battery, included in the 1.6kg weight).
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by drats 16y ago
Can you put a date on your Thinkpads? Have you used one with Linux in the last 5 or even 10 years? I am comparing my last OS X experience 10.4/2007 macbook to a X200 Thinkpad with Ubuntu 10.10 (along with the Ubuntu desktop versions for the
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by drats 16y ago
I used to have problems in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but then I did what Apple does with OS X and paid a little attention to the hardware and all the problems went away. Most Linux problems are people fighting against hardware, if you
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by drats 16y ago
I will refer to my earlier comment on these machines, they are only worth it if you have to be, or want to be, in OS X land. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1812730 Outside of Apple PCs you can get a far better quality machine, and f
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by drats 16y ago
1027 / 80 = 12.8 human lifetimes or so. At my last workplace Windows XP took over 5 minutes to boot, just the correct amount of time that you couldn't really do any other task with it. Ubuntu took a maximum 40 seconds on the same machine. S
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by drats 16y ago
No, look at the figures they are talking about, 400k and 185k; plus the other side has already been threatening legal action. Not taking definitive action by now, given how long this has been festering, and going to a web forum for advice i
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by drats 16y ago
I am sorry, but this is so convoluted and there is so much money is at stake that if you haven't hired a lawyer by now you are certifiably insane. A couple of things are for sure, you and your business partners were a) not equipped to detec
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by drats 16y ago
Your family has some serious history. I consider the guns that killed Arch Duke Ferdinand to be some of the most important objects in the physical world (outside the much more important realm of ideas). I visited the war museum in Vienna wh
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by drats 16y ago
Indeed he is an ultimate badass. Flask is really great. But, especially given how beautiful the Flask docs are, I don't know what makes people think Scribd is a good idea when there are shared google docs, everyone has libre office or ms of
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by drats 16y ago
yes #$%SDPD{FPG#@$%}@#{$%}@!}$@{#++++$#^&%## Sorry, spider on my keyboard, I can provide the script if you wish.
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by drats 16y ago
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