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by efuquen 13y ago
And is every other publicly available Linux distro working on the same scale and trying to accomplish the same goals Ubuntu is trying to? Also, is it just me or do most HN users now do not know what spyware means? Openly conducting a searc
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by efuquen 13y ago
I think you're mistaking what is probably largely a political issue for a technical one. The sense I get here is that there is nothing technically wrong with the patch, it's not like Intel went back to Ubuntu and said you have to
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by efuquen 13y ago
In terms of what you said about risk, I think most of the time when people talk about a startup being a risk what they mean is that the business itself is risky, that it's most likely going to fail. While sometimes it might be the cas
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by efuquen 13y ago
"I almost feel like the using the internet is the same as traveling to the US, which is something I would never ever do." Seriously, you're so terrified of traveling to the US? Give me a break man, the UK government has do
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by efuquen 13y ago
Reality check, the NSA, Bush and increasingly Obama, the whole US Government and it's justice system, etc. don't represent the American ideal. But with a few exceptions I would wager that I would rather live here then almost any
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by efuquen 13y ago
Having dealt with fellow developers that don't have perfect english or thick accents I think it's quite unprofessional to dismiss someone's complaint without even trying to understand them. It's great for us native Engl
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by efuquen 13y ago
I don't think the point is to "profit" as much as it is to fund the project. Notice these aren't "customers" but sponsors. Maybe the mindset of "money is being left on the table" isn't quiet th
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by efuquen 13y ago
I'm kind of flabbergasted that there is no Java driver listed as either a primarily supported driver or a community one. I personally do most of my work in Scala now but it would make the most sense to have a well supported driver wri
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by efuquen 13y ago
Have you heard of flattr? It operates pretty much in the way you've described: http://flattr.com/
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by efuquen 14y ago
whoops, definitely my mistake on exact time frame there (early vs mid-late 1800's), but we'll just say 150 years ago then.
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by efuquen 14y ago
In the US slavery was outlawed over 200 years ago and we still suffer with the socioeconomic consequences of it to this day, and for many days to come. To say the caste system was done away with 20 years ago and think it doesn't have a str
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by efuquen 14y ago
Well, it does kind of make sense. If you never access anything from self then for all intent and purposes there is no reason the function shouldn't be static. That's just my initial perspective reading your comment, not knowing much abo
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by efuquen 14y ago
Reading the commentary on this I feel like I'm only schlep in the tech industry that didn't use Google Reader. But then I ask my non-tech friends and guess what 90% of them say "Oh, I had some feeds on there from awhile back but I never re
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by efuquen 14y ago
"so for a 1TB SSD you need 64GB RAM, which costs about as much as the SSD." In my experience this is not true. A 1 TB SSD, even commodity hardware, is pretty expensive. And that's not even talking about high performance SSD's like Fusion
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by efuquen 14y ago
"If the author was named Henry instead of Heather" I'm going to have to strongly disagree, I honestly didn't know the author was a girl until I saw the name, well after I had read comments and was intrigued overall with the topic. I think
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by efuquen 14y ago
How is 120k not considered good money in New York, LA, or Silicon Valley for a working professional? I live in New York and make in this ballpark and I consider it pretty decent money. Those cities are expensive, but I don't think so expe
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by efuquen 14y ago
How it exactly is it a "crippled vision"? There are tons and tons of code that I write every day that I'm able to separate out like this. Honestly there is way more code that you can reason about in this way then not reason about in this
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by efuquen 14y ago
It's funny, though the comparison isn't perfect, DHH is basically doing what Linus got infuriated about here. He's making a minor change for what seems like very little gain, meanwhile breaking third party projects that rely on Rails.
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by efuquen 14y ago
This is exactly what most people mean. I've instead Linux on my Macbook Pro, compared to the support OS X had Ubuntu's was a joke. Same with wifi, it did not just work out of the box for me. And I know it's lightyears ahead of where it us
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by efuquen 14y ago
"So what? Where's the value?" What's the value in art? Sure, from the above it sounds like you think it's silly to call this art, you certainly don't like it. But it's a small piece written by someone for a single purpose, to illicit an emo
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by efuquen 14y ago
I always thought that those number titles were based on a scale from 1 to 5? Usually when I see 3 I think the implication is that you're a "mid-level" engineer. I understand the point that these numbers can be arbitrary and not well defin
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by efuquen 14y ago
Looking at what reddit does, I seriously doubt this. They're not a "publication". They don't have to pay writers/journalists to create content, the content comes free. There are many ad-based sites that don't have that luxury. Event mod
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by efuquen 14y ago
You have a phone which you can charge every "other" night and still be running? In my experience the Driod Razr Maxx is the only modern smartphone you can really do that with.
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by efuquen 14y ago
I'm always dismayed to read comments in HN when an article like this comes up because their is always such a complete backlash against it. Don't get me wrong, I saw problems with the article too, but I don't necessarily disagree with overa
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by efuquen 14y ago
"On a side note, robber barons are largely a myth." What exactly is mythological about robber barons? The term is widely used and I've never heard anyone question their existence.
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by efuquen 14y ago
"A potentially simpler alternative is to let the application itself tell the scheduler that one of its processes is special. PostgreSQL could request that its dispatcher be allowed to run at the expense of one of its own workers, even if th
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by efuquen 14y ago
You think this: "Developers have very little positive to go off of, and few professions have customers as discerning and grumpy as compilers." Yet you mentioned this example: "A doctor sees someone walk back in for their checkup who couldn'
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by efuquen 14y ago
So, Apple's anti-competitive actions are justified as a counter measure to Google entering it's mobile device space? Since when did Apple own the mobile device "turf", isn't this a suppose to be a free market society? No market is sacred,
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by efuquen 14y ago
I have a Galaxy S3 and this has been the norm for me. It crashes quite often and if it's been running in the background for any length of time and I try and open the app it will crash immediately most of the time.

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