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by drcube 15y ago
A lot of people think "source code" is a desirable feature.
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by drcube 15y ago
Chrome is free. Google builds websites to attract advertisers. Which makes Google's lack of openness all the more perplexing. And what's this about not being able to get the Android source!? I'll buy an iphone right now if that's true. At l
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by drcube 15y ago
Luddite. :P Seriously, would you prefer a car that was built by a robot or a human? Personally, while I see where you are coming from and share your reservations about unproven technologies, I also foresee a time - within our lifetimes and
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by drcube 15y ago
Just a guess, but I would suppose that in an information rich world, it pays for people to be intellectually satisfied even if they don't work in an "intellectual" field. A waiter with a theater degree may be more content, and therefore mor
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by drcube 15y ago
You care if you are a college kid who helped develop a competitor to Google's AdWords and you want to pitch it to RIM and MS. At least I think that's what is going on here.
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by drcube 15y ago
Yeah, but having a website IS. If someone is suspected of a crime, they should be formally accused and put on trial (aka "due process") before stripping them of their rights and property. Wild concept, I know.
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by drcube 15y ago
Looks like an Android phone to me. Why wouldn't Android apps work on it?
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by drcube 15y ago
Lacking the privilege to obscure, hide or restrict access to information is not a violation of free speech. Similarly "I'm not allowed to shut people up!" doesn't mean you are persecuted.
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by drcube 15y ago
And Plato regretted the invention of writing because it atrophies our memory. Same thing, different millennium.
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by drcube 15y ago
Richard Feynman said you don't really understand something unless you can explain it to freshmen in a single lecture. Same concept, really. The interesting consideration, to me, is how much we can get done with hardly any understanding at a
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by drcube 15y ago
But how much will forcing those infrastructure and cultural and societal changes cost NOW, versus letting them happen naturally and gradually the same way we switched from wood to coal to petroleum and from muscle to steam to electricity? E
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by drcube 15y ago
Just because we know there is a problem doesn't really mean anything. That's just the beginning. Ask yourself these questions: How much does/will the problem cost us? IS there a solution? How much will the solution cost? Then you do cost b
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by drcube 15y ago
Price discrimination is usually perfectly legal, at least in the US. Haven't you ever heard of senior discounts? This doesn't mean there aren't cases where it IS illegal, for example there are no "white people discounts". As for how to find
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by drcube 15y ago
Does one semester of grad school count as "did postgraduate studies"?
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by drcube 15y ago
Is RMS really a doctor? Or are they referring to his honorary degrees? I've just never heard of "Dr. Stallman" before. It has a nice ring to it. Anyway, stuff like this doesn't surprise me anymore. It's gotten to the point that I root for t
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by drcube 15y ago
There is a whole field in engineering called "control theory". You can build controllers for both deterministic and stochastic systems. There is also such a thing as "adaptive control", which attempts to learn about and compensate for chang
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by drcube 15y ago
HorseLESS carriages! Ford brought cheap, useful cars to the masses rather than following his competitors in marketing automobiles as an expensive, trendy lifestyle choice for rich people.
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by drcube 15y ago
This is bad news for Apple. Just like Ford was bad news for all those expensive horseless carriage manufacturers.
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by drcube 15y ago
"Startup" refers to a certain type of business. You wouldn't call GE a "startup". However, "business" is a broad term (which refers to actions as often as entities), so you often hear things like "corporation" or "company" more frequently w
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by drcube 15y ago
Currency exchange. https://mtgox.com/
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by drcube 15y ago
The answer is "it IS real currency". How do you tell "real" currency from fake? If people accept it as a store of value, it's real. Actually, it is real to the extent that people accept it. So Bitcoins aren't AS real as dollars, but they're
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by drcube 15y ago
"How the world will use the internet" is not the same as "how much data will people consume". "What kind of data?" is the obvious million dollar question. 30 gigs a month worth of porn and torrents makes for a vastly different future than 3
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by drcube 15y ago
Is there some reason you can't just get rid of the "group small tasks into 30-minute blocks" rule? It seems to be the source of most of the problems with this approach. I agree with the "put off and group small tasks and email" idea, I just
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by drcube 15y ago
This article is from 2009. Gold is over $1500/oz now. That's one expensive suit compared to 1999's $279 bargain model.
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by drcube 15y ago
I'm sorry, but I've got a patent for "outrage on the internet", so I'm going to need to see some royalties.
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by drcube 15y ago
Also, you shouldn't ever write a program with dependencies. :P
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by drcube 15y ago
Why don't companies simply offer hardware "back doors"? My company has jumpers to temporarily disable password protection and/or reset to the default password on the main board in every device they make. This keeps you from being locked out