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by edw 15y ago
(In addition to the other comments...) Because the acquirer wants the company's talent i.e. founders and employees. Because the acquirer wants to deny a competitor the opportunity to buy the company. Because the acquirer is trying to put th
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by edw 15y ago
Why is this story here? It should be posted to Digg and Reddit, home to all the people awaiting the Ron Paul Revolution and are posting stories about peak oil and the need to return to the gold standard. Unless, of course, the content of th
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by edw 15y ago
I brought up NFS because it's an example of a service that implements an abstraction but does so in a way that undermines the assumptions of the implemented abstraction. I do not disagree that local disks are an unrealistic strategy for cre
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by edw 15y ago
This awesome entry perfectly captures why I have always hated NFS. I can deal with the possibility that if a machine's hard drive dies, my system is going to have a very hard time continuing to operate in a normal manner, but then NFS comes
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by edw 15y ago
I have no idea what industry you're talking about and therefore have no insight into the revenue potential of this domain name, but it seems conceivable that buying this domain name could save you $10,000 of effort that you' otherwise have
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by edw 15y ago
Who cares how many points a given comment have gotten? Who cares what other people think? I see voting as a way to bury the clearly trolling or off-topic comments, not as a way to take the temperature of some community. Maybe you get twenty
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by edw 15y ago
Worrying about the letter of the guidelines misses a more important issue: if a user submits something, they're vouching for its quality. Submitting dreck represents a disservice to the community.
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by edw 15y ago
I'm torn myself. Part of me wants to own a copy of let's say Rushmore , but the rational part of me thinks it's ridiculous, especially because I have no desire to watch it right now. Maybe we live in the Age of Reference, where it's not th
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by edw 15y ago
So why didn't you take issue with the submitter of this story, who is its author, for submitting content that is itself uncivil? Have you read this guy's piece on the "iPad 2 Dumb Cover"? He is a one-man troll army.
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by edw 15y ago
What's the deal? That's not the original URL. This is: http://cloudhead.io/2011/04/18/why-osx-doesnt-cut-it/ Did that site get the author's permission to post it elsewhere?
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by edw 15y ago
Is this the result of nefarious evil-doers or simple technical incompetence? Hard to say for sure. Recent versions of the OKCupid app for the iPhone—yes, sigh , I am a single iPhone user—ask to enable location services, and if you accept,
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by edw 15y ago
Insightful comment on the page: "There are tons of companies that Apple has crushed...IBM is not one of them." Apple and IBM compete in the same sort of way that all humans compete for oxygen: in a not-very-meaningful way. IBM's move into P
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by edw 15y ago
You're falling prey to the Ad Hominem Fallacy Fallacy: http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html That this is a link-baiting article is not part of my argument. It's a simple observation. The very title of his article is an insult to Apple
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by edw 15y ago
This is a link-baiting article from a link-baiting site, submitted by the karma-baiting author. And like the author of the recent article on why OS X sucks for development, he fails to appreciate that users of Apple's products may have diff
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by edw 15y ago
This article is a huge, speculative waste of time. It's based on the assumption that UberMedia could convince Tweetdeck's "power tweeters" to switch from Twitter to some other platform if Twitter doesn't relent and accept advertising terms
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by edw 15y ago
As more and more of what we need and want becomes virtual and the virtual things more and more become things that are streamed, it seems that we're approaching a "subscription economy." From time to time I think about what I'd take out of m
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by edw 15y ago
Is this another one of Sokal's submissions to Social Text ? Is that you, Alan?
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by edw 15y ago
When I saw this article, I briefly thought that the editorial board of the Chronicle of Higher Education had taken over Nature. Depressing articles of this sort are published in there on a regular basis.
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by edw 15y ago
I think the author is confusing the members that currently make up the set of high-end jobs with the set itself. In 1995 I was writing HTML templating engines and session management code. An HR person might have called me a "templating and
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by edw 15y ago
I don't know if I agree with you that Clojure's too popular right now, but I completely agree with you that the phenomenon exists in general. Rails back in the early days experienced a huge influx of PHP refugees, who significantly lowered
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by edw 15y ago
I am not an accredited Clojure style expert, but I wouldn't (defensibly) use the shortcut syntax in an any more complicated way than calling a function, providing missing arguments and rearranging those that have been passed. So, something
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by edw 15y ago
No, I am not. I wrote, "Life is complicated." Turn the issue around: how would you feel if Apple bent over backwards to help your partner fuck other people behind your back and leave no trace? I don't know why I'm bothering to write this, b
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by edw 15y ago
According to his post to the list, Mr. Yegge is responsible for the attitude transplant that the Python community has experienced. It's amazing what he can accomplish from his desk, dashing off memos to language communities. Jack Welch wish
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by edw 15y ago
What is so unreadable about '#(+ %1 (* 2 %2))'? Can Scala use arguments in an order other than the order in which they're given ? If not, then Scala's simplicity is at the cost of less flexibility. If you find that too hairy, just write
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by edw 15y ago
No. Are you suggesting that Apple's highest moral obligation is preventing the collection of data that might conceivably expose their users' wrong-doing—e.g. their betrayal of their spouse? To be clear, the collection of the data is only
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by edw 15y ago
This is called -> in Clojure.
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by edw 15y ago
I was going to do so, if only to prove that I don't give a shit, but after glancing at the instructions, I'm not going to do it unless someone provides me with a shell script. It's too much of a pain in the ass. But if any of you are pathet
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by edw 15y ago
It's not apropos. Can you be raped by your vibrator or your blow up doll? This is about a device passively logging data, not a moral agent doing something to you. Show me the person that Apple has hurt. The only people I've been reading
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by edw 15y ago
Yes, evidence is a problem for people who do things that have legal or economic consequences. Of course, actions often have moral and ethical consequences even if they leave no evidence behind.
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by edw 15y ago
But why make the comparison if not to inflame? That's the point, isn't it? Comparing data collection to sex in the context of consent—as if the concept of consent applies in the same way, which is on its face a bold assertion—isn't about a

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