dwyer

11 ms·

61.
by dwyer 15y ago
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." That's the last place I was expecting to find a quote from Alan Kay.
62.
by dwyer 15y ago
Protests and boycotts are not necessarily the same thing. History has shown that protests are usually ineffective. I believe however that boycotts can be effective, because essentially you're speaking with your wallet, and money talks, and
63.
by dwyer 15y ago
If you're talking about "Dr. Carter," that's probably my favorite hip-hop beat in modern history, but I've listened to the song it samples and you're right, he did almost nothing to it. It's still awesome though. Sometimes what you don't
64.
by dwyer 15y ago
I agree with pretty much everything you said, except for one thing: the sixties protesters certainly did change the world, just not the way they wanted to: * They ensured Ronald Reagan's landslide victory in the race for governor of Califor
65.
by dwyer 15y ago
> I don't know for sure that namecheap is the world's best registrar, but I decided not to overthink it I really wish people would. Who here ever heard of Namecheap before they blasted GoDaddy for ``breaking ICANN rules'' by restricting
66.
by dwyer 15y ago
You get 6.5 CPU hours free with the current model, you'll get 24 instance hours free with the new model.
67.
by dwyer 15y ago
Nothing I said was meant to be taken personally, so please stop with the ad hominems. I apologize if I offended you. I didn't mean to imply that your life and work are not important. I just don't feel like every single biography is worthy o
68.
by dwyer 15y ago
>This is a pretty naïve argument. Well there are certainly different degrees of ``inclusionism'' but I have read plenty argue that absolutely nothing is too trivial for Wikipedia. I don't care who's wrong or right, but given the standar
69.
by dwyer 15y ago
Maybe more. I'm certainly no Perl historian. But if I were, and I were writing a book about it, I doubt I would include a lot of biographies.
70.
by dwyer 15y ago
Bob Dylan -> 1960s in music -> Popular music -> Music genre -> Genre -> Literature -> Art -> Senses -> Physiology -> Science -> Knowledge -> Fact -> Truth -> Reality -> Philosophy
71.
by dwyer 15y ago
> I never really understood the effort to purge Wikipedia of vanity pages and the like. Well, think about it this way. I go to Wikipedia, create a page about myself and bits are cheap so nobody cares. There's nothing published about me,
72.
by dwyer 15y ago
More than likely. The conversation seems like a movie script. Too cut and dry; everything spelled out for the audience. > Topiary: (as you know I stole this nickname from a troll last December, didn't work out so well) Give me a break.