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by edw 15y ago
The community needs to exercise some collective editorial discretion. If an institution hopes to serve some curatorial purpose, it needs to make choices about what merits inclusion and what doesn't. Asking "the community" to collectively ex
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by edw 15y ago
Point taken. But reading HN, I feel a bit the way I did about a year ago as one of Philadelphia's city councilmen was goading the police into cracking down on miscreant cyclists: There are profound asymmetries in the way these guidelines (w
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by edw 15y ago
Do we really need people combing through every page of C2 and submitting every page? Don't you think the recent C2 story encouraged people to check out C2 for themselves? This seems to happen to every site that gets a single story submissio
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by edw 15y ago
> In July of 2005, when I created my account, Second Life was the cool new thing. Moving between regions was kinda wonky, loading textures and objects was slow, and it was pretty ugly when compared to other games of the time; but it was
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by edw 15y ago
At least since Jobs has been back. There was some fairly ill-conceived if not exactly malevolently-designed stuff coming out of Cupertino during the interregnum. A recent linked piece nailed Apple's strengths and weaknesses: If Steve uses i
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by edw 15y ago
Isn't it possible that Gruber, you know, actually has a mind, and that he uses it? In my experience there are more knee-jerk haters of companies or even ideas that there are unthinking "fanboys." While Gruber can be very hard on people
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by edw 15y ago
I don't disagree that the pair is far free the be-all end-all of primitive data structures. On the contrary, when I'm programming in Clojure, most of my data structures are made out of hashes and vectors. And most definitely, the need to wa
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by edw 15y ago
I agree that sometimes pursuing prima facie "ridiculous" ideas to their logic conclusions can sometimes provide insights into problems that have far more real-world utility than you might ever expect when you start down the path.
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by edw 15y ago
It's difficult to gauge how serious this proposal slash thought experiment is. The nice thing about a pair is the way it naturally lends itself to iterative processing: There's the CAR and the CDR, the first and the rest. (Are the keys in t
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by edw 15y ago
You obviously have no sense of humor, or you would see the absurdity of what we're both doing.
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by edw 15y ago
"Uh, I'm crushed." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eifZlYwmDj4#t=83s
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by edw 15y ago
What is the point of down-voting the above comment? You partake in petty, gratuitously punitive, anti-social behavior—to what end? Aside from the hard-on you get from your meaningless exercise of illusory power, does it amount to anything?
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by edw 15y ago
People don't seem to be getting the point. If I knew where the submitters of links like this were, I'd pay them a visit with a 2×4. I stopped reading Reddit because of noise like this. I get lectured by pedantic HN guideline-quoters a lot;
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by edw 15y ago
Off-topic. Reddit fodder.
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by edw 15y ago
Yeah, you're wrong. Apple's acceptance of paragraph three of the GPL (assuming version two) doesn't require that "the release of this code should be an item on the product launch checklist." That's all I was saying: "Should" is a word handy
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by edw 15y ago
What I find interesting about this is what happens when the mythical iPhone 5 gets released and Verizon has a $50-100 iPhone 4 to sell. Until now (in the U.S.) there's only been a inexpensive iPhone for AT&T.
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by edw 15y ago
Noam Chomsky?! This is not Reddit.
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by edw 15y ago
All ice cream should be coffee flavored.
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by edw 15y ago
Are such stats (readily) available? As the inventory in the app store ages, I hope Apple applies adjustments to its rankings to identify "zombie" apps, those that perhaps had their day but have grown long in the tooth. I'm not suggesting th
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by edw 15y ago
At least three people down-voted skidooer's comment; why? What is going on with the vindictive voting around here lately? A lot of down-voters complain about comments not being sufficiently polite and deferential when disagreeing with fello
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by edw 15y ago
What is the value of the metric? And what metric? App submissions per unit time? I suppose that metric has some value. The projected date that the Google app store will have more apps than Apple's iOS app store is not a metric: it's a nai
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by edw 15y ago
Does anyone buy this analysis? No, not the idea that someday there may be more apps in Google's app store than Apple's, but the drawing straight line projections and marking a circle around the intersection and looking at the date axis and
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by edw 15y ago
This story is a waste of time. The entire premise of the "undermine Facebook's technology" strategy is false: the whole point of GPL (and MIT and...) licensed code is that vendors cannot screw customers in the way the author is suggesting.
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by edw 15y ago
Good points. I, however, am dispirited by watching comments devoid of value not getting subjected to the same sort of enthusiastic down-voting as comments that reflect exasperation at those very vacuous, time-wasting comments. A culture tha
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by edw 15y ago
Yes, speculating i.e. talking out of your ass is offensive. It wastes everyone's time. It's a dangerous trend. Baseless speculation forms the bedrock of the vast majority of content that appears on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. It is dangerous
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by edw 15y ago
Fairly immediately?! What the hell does that mean? We all need to spend less time talking out of our asses, playing armchair lawyers, and more time either heads-down coding or going to law school.
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If you take license violations very seriously, then I imagine that an audit of your computer would reveal no movies, songs, fonts, or applications that are not properly licensed, right? Is Apple out of compliance with the license? Perhaps.
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I have no idea what's going to happen—my crystal ball broke last week—but I think this article contains a few interesting points. If Microsoft doesn't try to copy Apple and tries to build something using its living room technology as a star
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I live in Old City, Philly, where we have Indy Hall. ( http://indyhall.com/ ) A lot of people like it, but I really don't want to work around people who, plus or minus, are just like me. (I believe the word for us is "nerds.") My favorite c
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Just as information wants to be free[1], I think information wants to be stored. Forever. I have disk images to old computers that themselves have tarballs from servers and disk images from yet older computers. And I've rarely been very goo

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