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by epo 14y ago
And what do you think is racist about "ghetto"? Who is it racist against? Knee-jerk political correctness is the lowest form of intellectual activity, barely one step above brain death.
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by epo 14y ago
A thought experiment: What if he was facilitating access to child pornography rather than Hollywood films would people be as outraged? More so? Less so? If the suggestion of an income of up to £50,000 per month is even in the correct ballpa
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by epo 14y ago
Anyone who trots out the tired old cliche about walled gardens is just spouting rhetoric. Anyone who also advocates open source is can be ignored out of hand. The issues here are open standards, open protocols and the small matter of who pa
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by epo 14y ago
If the gmvault on-disc format is well defined why not produce a tool to convert that to maildir or whatever? Gmvault does one thing well (allegedly, I've not used it), "export to some other format" just seems like feature creep especially w
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by epo 14y ago
Don't kid yourself. Systems may be larger and seemingly more complex, the individual parts are as simple or complex as they ever were. Anyway, if things are more complex the necessity of thinking it through are even greater.
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by epo 14y ago
SQL is fundamentally about sets, thinking of it in any other way provokes unhappiness. Your differences are set-subverting add-ons which could be accomplished by any higher level front end to SQL. SQL is comparable to assembly language. Mos
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by epo 14y ago
OK, serious question. But what do Facebook use for storing their enterprise data, you know the stuff they actually care about? Is that MySQL?
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by epo 14y ago
Betamax/VHS (look it up). MySQL had earlier presence, perhaps because it was easier to install? Hence people expected to find it as it was what they knew.
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by epo 14y ago
What's really funny are the contortions people go through to avoid admitting that Samsung have no design sense or creativity and hence resort to copying everything. They have no manufacturing quality either and so this PoS is what happens w
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by epo 14y ago
"Nobody believes Apple", citation of 1) Apple deliberately lying, 2) everybody, "even the fans", knowing Apple is lying. Even for a fandroid this is cretinous.
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by epo 14y ago
Downvoted you because you are just another anti-Apple troll. Apple succeeded where others had failed, usually by innovating and by relentless attention to detail. Consequently everyone else copies "what Apple did" in "the way that Apple did
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by epo 14y ago
Spoken by someone who seems to have no experience of the real world, whether in the UK or elsewhere. Still live at home do you? Do you even have a job? The UK and US may not be socialist paradises but it is far worse in most other parts of
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by epo 14y ago
First time I've read of RMS being cited as an exemplar of non-oddness, I'd suspect he'd be secretly offended.
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by epo 14y ago
This is how geeks get such a bad reputation. The bar charts do appear directly below stacked bar charts, though I agree the weighted charts without axis markings are content-free. The rest is a pedantic quibble by someone who happens to und
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by epo 14y ago
No it doesn't, not for the overwhelming majority of people. It helps in the illusion of creativity, most commonly the effect is dulled critical faculties and the acceptance of sub-par work which has to be redone when more clear headed. Alco
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by epo 14y ago
In my youth I had a reasonable capacity in the evenings but not at lunchtime: half a pint would be noticeably incapacitating, a pint would send me to sleep.
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by epo 14y ago
First time I've heard of alcohol having benefits in near-homeopathic doses. I am strongly sceptical.
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by epo 14y ago
Perhaps fundamentalists are proving the validity of evolutionary theory. Maybe they are a side branch of homo sapiens in which intelligence is curiously underdeveloped, that brain capacity being occupied by blind dogma and superstition. Due
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by epo 14y ago
SWOT analysis exists to cover all areas, even Samsung must have heard of it and copied that as a methodology. Perhaps no Apple weaknesses were highlighted because there were none that Samsung could find.
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by epo 14y ago
Funny how the Samsung apologists have gone from saying "of course it's not a copy, they had these designs before Apple" to "what else could they do?". This defence of plagiarism as being somehow in the better interest of consumers is laugha
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by epo 14y ago
I don't believe that things happened as they are being presented. This is (ex-)Gizmodo we're talking about, people who have a long standing grudge with Apple. In the middle of a 'major crisis' this guy finds time to type up a story, on a co
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by epo 14y ago
I believe the phrase is "advertorial", this is nothing more than a product plug padded out to satisfy a word count quota. This is not, in any sense, "Hacker News", there is no product comparison and nothing other than gushing praise. Workfl
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by epo 14y ago
A lame, meandering shaggy dog story written by someone who gives the impression he has never seen a programming language before in his life 'Breaking this statement down, I determined that “jnz” was a standard program assembly language stat
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by epo 14y ago
Facebook have to admit they have fake accounts because it would defy credulity to suggest otherwise. They also have to vastly understate the number otherwise their advertisers would sue or flee in droves. So the only question is to what deg
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by epo 14y ago
No, the web. The Internet is something different. one would hope you knew at least that much before attempting to post on this site.
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by epo 14y ago
"It should be obvious", followed by a semi-paranoid rant just makes you sound like a wild-eyed conspiracy nut. "Monocultures are subject to waves of viruses." Whoo! Actual waves! That is scary. And buying from the App Store lets Apple know
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by epo 14y ago
My God, what is it about this topic? Is there something about geeks that makes them think a mastery of nested folders is a validation of their manhood? There are other, and probably better, organising principles than hierarchical directorie
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by epo 14y ago
It is one way to avoid storing duplicates, which is important for a versioned backup system. If you're smart enough to avoid loops then it is a reasonable thing to do.
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by epo 14y ago
The article linked to is a witless rant. The article he is reacting to is actually pretty good. As is commonly the case with people who don't understand what they are talking about, the author is confusing policy (I want to organise my stuf
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by epo 14y ago
"Funny - I've stopped reading every article from the marco.org site. I can't stand his style and I really can't stand his blind Apple - cult thinking. But to everyone his own's." So why even bother commenting? And if this is typical of your

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