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by dwc 16y ago
Read the top two answers (Bill Bliss, Robert Scoble), and it seems they're missing what I see as the most obvious and comprehensive answer. Bliss touches on it in passing, but not as a main theme... The real reason MS doesn't get tablets is
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by dwc 16y ago
Yes. This should work: http://www.wepay.com/blog/2010/03/11/5-things-i-%E2%80%9Ckne...
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by dwc 16y ago
"Feels good, man." It does. I keep an eye out for when make will work well for me. When it works out it saved a lot of time and trouble.
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by dwc 16y ago
I go to Reddit one or more times per day when I'm not busy. When I'm busy I go a bit less than once per day. If it weren't for /r/math and a couple of other subreddits I probably wouldn't bother, but those few are hard to replace.
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by dwc 16y ago
Watching the video made me feel a little uncomfortable. I come away with the impression that they almost , but not quite, really understood the important lessons. Still, it was well worth watching and I'm glad Huffman decided to go there.
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by dwc 16y ago
There's a point of diminishing returns to increased income, and it's personal. I have a family, yet I took a job paying less than the previous job because it was enough money and I really wanted to work there. Later, when my wife was
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by dwc 16y ago
Interesting, indeed. > But it's odd that someone that feels the need to write about how people should do this hasn't done it in his own project yet. I'm afraid it's not that odd at all. When I hear people talk about code reuse these d
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by dwc 16y ago
MIT OCW is very cool, and they were front runners. What's next? Putting more course materials on the net isn't really it. What should be next is much more challenging, but has immense payoffs... something like Khan Academy is doing with p
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by dwc 16y ago
Have you had a look at Unlearning Meditation? http://www.unlearningmeditation.com/
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by dwc 16y ago
I read that a while back also. I'm afraid you got the wrong impression. Forth is another tool, to be used when appropriate. It seems best used when you can adopt the whole Forth worldview, which goes far beyond the typical mental shifts req
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by dwc 16y ago
The 1st Amendment doesn't say anything about what people, companies or anyone else aside from Congress can or cannot do. Here's the complete First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibitin
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by dwc 16y ago
Tablets are not for us, but they are for someone. I bought my wife an iPad and she loves it, not for the gee-whiz factor but because it's well suited to how she use a computer at home.
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by dwc 16y ago
Then I'm sure you'll be back in FF soon enough. When they talked about ceasing to display the protocol, I thought surely it would just be a default and I could put it back. No such luck. I'd expect this to go the same way. It's their way or
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by dwc 16y ago
> But the modifications might not do, which is what GPL proponents care about. To me, the GPL is like saying "I'll share with you, if you share (your changes) with me". Yes, that's correct. It's not about better or worse at all. It's ab
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by dwc 16y ago
If you're getting a lot of code out of it then you're doing a fine job.
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by dwc 16y ago
Did you ever attend an OpenBSD hackathon? I'm just curious.
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by dwc 16y ago
If I give away my code I do not demand that others let me poke at what they make with it, and I don't demand that they let their users poke at it. I still have my own code. This is fine with me. Nothing, absolutely nothing that Apple does
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by dwc 16y ago
I'm afraid the argument does work. The GPL adds many more restrictions to the recipient of code than does BSD. It's really that simple. The only restriction BSD places on the recipient is to retain the copyright and license notice. But I do
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by dwc 16y ago
I really don't want this to be a flame war. I want a culture or sharing and learning, too. I think that culture and community are by far the most important. Since we've at a point where we largely agree, I'll take it as a good point to stop
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by dwc 16y ago
You are correct: the original code (and ongoing work based on it) is still open, and Apple, et al, versions are not. This is fine. First and most importantly, because the desire to share code with BSD comes with no strings attached. It's ju
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by dwc 16y ago
Ah, there's "freedom" again, considered only from one perspective. What about the freedom of someone to make their own work available as closed source? What about when it's a derived work that adds novel new functionality? The FSF is agains
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by dwc 16y ago
> Who is to say your idea of how an abstract concept like "freedom" should apply to software is more correct than Stallman's? I like the dictionary definition of freedom. Stallman has a set of concerns and ideas about how they can be an
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by dwc 16y ago
That's much better. May be a developer. May engage the services of a developer. May benefit from unknown developers somewhere halfway across the world.
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by dwc 16y ago
Yes, but not this time. If that sentence were dropped, the remaining text would be more clear and accurate. That sentence is not true. Why should a user be a developer in an ideal world? Why should one be required to be a developer to utili
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by dwc 16y ago
Many of the songs on Land of Rape and Honey , for instance, either have no vocals, or the vocals are repetitive bits that seem (to me) more part of the music than typical lyrical vocals. * The Missing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gzXpz
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by dwc 16y ago
> And I prefer my software to remain open no matter who works on it or distributes it. So, I use GPL. BSD license accomplishes that just fine. BSD licensed code has been taken, extended, modified and used in proprietary products for dec
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by dwc 16y ago
> You've taken that quote out of context, as the next sentence dispels your fear of having to help your mother debug her cell phone. If the next sentence dispels that fear, then the quoted sentence is wrong, and should have been left ou
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by dwc 16y ago
I've had the best luck with electronica/techno. Long time favorites include heavier non-vocal Ministry, which has a nice cadence for typing. Lately I'm on to Aphex Twin's Drukqs double album. Classical tends to draw my attention too much, a
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by dwc 16y ago
A not too smart "go getter" will always be able to do well at something. There's always a place for such people, and it's easy for management to understand how someone like that can bring value. OTOH, a personal story: In school, I got exce
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by dwc 16y ago
1) Praise kids for results. 2) When there's no success yet, recognize effort and praise progress toward the result. 3) Recognize smarts and talent in general for how they help get results. We should be encouraging, about intelligence, effor

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