el_presidente

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by el_presidente 15y ago
Apple also does this. The latest iPod Touch alone has three different models. It's just that they do it in a sane way while Dell is doing whatever they can to scare their customers away.
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by el_presidente 15y ago
> it also will encourage users who contribute low-quality but easily-upvoted content Sounds like Hacker News. It seems to me that only the StackExchange people have avoided this.
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by el_presidente 15y ago
But someone willing to spend $260 on a stiletto probably cares about what hammer you use.
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by el_presidente 15y ago
IANAS (I am not a statistician) so this may be completely wrong. You might not need to start at zero, but you do have to start with something meaningful. Like minimum wage or the poverty line.
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by el_presidente 15y ago
Seems to work in opera and elinks. So they want to be different from the rest of the internet... but only for some browsers?
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by el_presidente 15y ago
Something that is available on hundreds of millions of phones is not experimental.
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by el_presidente 15y ago
The whole point behind destroying evidence is to avoid accountability
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by el_presidente 15y ago
Or use a different shell, like ksh or zsh.
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by el_presidente 15y ago
The wiki page mentions "review authority over unrelated products". It sounds like someone (the SFC? the busybox people?) will be able to see all their code to ensure that there aren't any more violations. Anyway, it's hard to believe that t
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by el_presidente 15y ago
If apple is paying Foxconn, then they are encouraging and supporting those labor conditions. If they set deadlines for delivering the product, they are also demanding those conditions.
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by el_presidente 15y ago
Probably because fedora has a six month release cycle and they feel the need to make some kind of revolutionary change on every release. Of course, /bin will never be removed since there are millions of scripts depending on /bin/sh in the w
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by el_presidente 15y ago
It's also the second result for "browser" in the news section. This isn't wrong, it's just one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112508/quotes?qt0403070
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by el_presidente 15y ago
Only Buddhism doesn't use the scientific method. Unacceptable in a culture where we _try_ to use math to describe the economy, RDF to describe social interactions, and intelligent design to prove the existence of God. For example, therapist
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by el_presidente 15y ago
"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy."
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by el_presidente 15y ago
What happens when someone finds a buffer overflow in that library? In Linux land only one file needs to be updated.
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by el_presidente 15y ago
People love to whine about changes to websites. OTOH, nobody complains when their TV remote changes layout or when their living room rearranges itself overnight. It's a double standard.
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by el_presidente 15y ago
At least in Toronto this doesn't apply only to chinese people. The city is highly segregated, but people ignore it by calling it multicultural.