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by epo 15y ago
Thanks for that correction.
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by epo 15y ago
RMS is clearly on the autistic spectrum, probably far enough on it to be regarded as having a 'learning difficulty' in the rather twee PC UK-ism. There is IMHO, an interesting litmus test where people who share his monomaniacal obsession, o
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by epo 15y ago
In Luxembourg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Bank_status A consequence is "It is therefore not possible for UK customers to obtain legal redress from (PayPal) in the English, Scottish, or Northern Irish Courts" Another reason for not
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by epo 15y ago
'mores', 'norms' would read better.
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by epo 15y ago
A comma inserted in "of, a Linux" would help, as would changing both of those commas to '-'. Editing would help most of all. And this kiddies is why spelling, punctuation and editing matter. If you want to communicate in writing make it eas
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Matt Drance on Steve Jobs(appleoutsider.com)
1 points by epo 15y ago|0 comments
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by epo 15y ago
You can support the best of both. Insisting it has to be all free or all commercial is moronic.
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by epo 15y ago
The parade of whiny self-righteousness just never ends. If you don't want to read about Steve Jobs then don't do it.
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by epo 15y ago
In this world a few are giants, a few midgets and most just quietly get on with their lives as best as they can. Jobs was undeniably a giant. Cringely seems to be a midget who happened to find a megaphone. The first paragraph was unecessary
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by epo 15y ago
Without a Jobs, they wouldn't be given the opportunity nor would they be kept in focus to finish the job. As someone who avoided the management track it gives me no pleasure to say this but good leaders are necessary because they are the ca
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by epo 15y ago
Erm, at the risk of being (equally) trite, one data point doesn't corroborate anything except for the somewhat fluffy claim that some good researchers are also good educators.
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by epo 15y ago
I'm sorry, would you care to remind us what your medical qualifications are?
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by epo 15y ago
Ireland's banks are run by clowns, makes a change for them to be doing the laughing.
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by epo 15y ago
If they are trying to muscle you out of something which is not rightfully theirs then level the playing field. Get as much publicity as you can from the media, shame them into backing off or making a decent offer if it is something they rea
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by epo 15y ago
Customer love? You can't be serious! The only thing it really says is that people love freebies.
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by epo 15y ago
If the original programmer fixed some edge case and didn't bother to flag this in the code by means of comments then they worse than an idiot, they are incompetent. As would be the second programmer if they neglected any such comments which
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by epo 15y ago
Just for interest's sake can anyone point to this 'promise' of a free upgrade to version 2? I bought TM1 and it played no part on my buying decision because I was not not aware of any such guarantee. If this promise was made then IMHO his
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by epo 15y ago
Most monetary amounts are small when compared to the economy as a whole. Got any more insights for us? "The sky is only blue when you compare to grass" perhaps?
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by epo 15y ago
Misleading headline. The female interviewer seemed quite speechful to me. The "BBC" itself has no voice, it is a corporation. As for an American talking down the euro? Who'd have thought it?
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by epo 15y ago
Think "any port in a storm". Cynical stereotypes. Women are looking for a long term provider, regardless of the length of the entanglement. Men are looking for sex. Hence men wish to maximise the sex:commitment ratio, women to minimise it.
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by epo 15y ago
If you could foretell the future you'd just buy lottery tickets or place one-way bets on the stock market. It'd give you much more time to spend on the beach.
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by epo 15y ago
Recursion was 23, hardly a child, or are you saying Recursion was retarded?
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by epo 15y ago
My mistake, thank you.
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by epo 15y ago
The unwillingness to cut and paste "mark dowd sendmail" into google for something you would "love to see" is amusingly typical of lots of the comments on this thread. It's the first result BTW
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by epo 15y ago
And a comment written by a 13-year old proves what exactly?
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by epo 15y ago
Looks like for your money you get a typewriter (presumably refurbished), a display and the electronics. As you noted, he sells a DIY kit if you want to provide your own screen and typewriter (with an estimated assembly/install time of 6-7 h
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by epo 15y ago
Was done years ago in Denmark http://ashoka.org/fellow/thorkil-sonne
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by epo 15y ago
Assange received an advance for this book which he has declined to repay. He could hand the money back and then have a morally defensible position with regard to it's publication. As it is the publishers are entitled to recoup their investm
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by epo 15y ago
Agreed, the $9Bn refers to declared losses by the online services division. However you come across as claiming that Microsoft is being victimised by a conspiracy of unreasoning and unreasonable hatred by HNers and the mods. "Blatant bias"?
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by epo 15y ago
Phone interviews or in person? I think after 3 such I would have decided these people just couldn't make decisions or were such a political organization they would have been toxic to work for. Did your contact give any insight into this ine

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