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by epo 16y ago
Calling it marketing doesn't make it so. Depriving the owner of their revenue is theft just as much as deciding to occupy a seat on a train without paying is depriving the train operator of revenue and is theft, claiming that the seat is un
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by epo 16y ago
Camouflage to avoid being eaten isn't quite the same thing. It is the difference between gaining an advantage as distinct from avoiding a disadvantage.
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by epo 16y ago
Just like governments need to do some things in secret to protect themselves against enemies. That is not to defend all secrecy but secrecy has its purpose and to pretend, as some want to, that everything governments do can be transparent i
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by epo 16y ago
I think it is far more likely his own side leaked the papers in order to fabricate an illusion of foul play. He allegedly believes in transparency just like he is allegedly a rapist. Lets put his alleged belief to the test and have ALL cour
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by epo 16y ago
Irony? Much?
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by epo 16y ago
Well, it means the cables should be verified like any other source and not just taken at face value. But the likelihood that governments may be lying to themselves in secret may be the most disruptive and shocking truth of all. Though a mom
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by epo 16y ago
At this point I despair, surely "FarmVille for Dummies" is a tautology. Does no one care about the language any more?
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by epo 16y ago
And here is the US government's answer to wikileaks. Get Yahoo! to acquire them, they'd be marginalised and then shut down in months.
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by epo 16y ago
Wonderful. So let me guess this right. Someone who's business is revealing information that others don't want revealed describes revealing information about him - that he wants hidden - as a "smear". What was that saying about heat and kitc
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Xkcd on wikileaks/anonymous(xkcd.com)
6 points by epo 16y ago|0 comments
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by epo 16y ago
That's not a disservice. It's a reality check -- EDIT dispelling the even more half witted belief that "I can make money because he did", regardless of the quality of your idea or it's commercial viability.
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by epo 16y ago
Calling both the housing market and internet startups a bubble is not doing anyone a disservice. Both sectors experienced irrational valuation increases in which the bad rose with the good. These increases were not based on economic fundame
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by epo 16y ago
What is your scepticism? That people can do this now or that it ever stopped being that way?
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Oracle releases MySQL 5.5.8(mysql.com)
1 points by epo 16y ago|0 comments
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by epo 16y ago
So is this a further attempt to discredit Assange in the eyes of the rabid right in America?
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by epo 16y ago
Yes, and that just reinforces what I said. Free software done by pros is, mostly, done to professional standards, that done by amateurs is mostly done to amateurish standards.
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by epo 16y ago
Software quality, documentation, testing is tedious and non-sexy for the most part. Because contributors to free software projects don't have to behave like customer facing pros they, for the most part, don't and you end up with poor UIs, n
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by epo 16y ago
Start small, learn how to make small talk when you're out and about, shop assistants that sort of thing, get used to talking with strangers. Learn to listen, this is the secret to getting on with females. The other secret, when they tell
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by epo 16y ago
"speed" as in "quick on the uptake"
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by epo 16y ago
Gears is supported for Chrome and also OS X Snow Leopard, but not for Chrome on Snow Leopard. I'm guessing this is for sensible reasons but it looks kind of stupid.
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by epo 16y ago
My mistake (and laziness). Mea culpa.
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by epo 16y ago
Yes, this happens to good looking people who lose their looks due to accident or age, the ones with nothing else find it devastating, the others (the lucky ones) find it a very sobering and saddening experience. Physical beauty is a wasting
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by epo 16y ago
Bravo to Wired for correctly pluralizing court-martial. In hyphenated terms you add -s to the dominant or defining noun, e.g. gins-and-tonic, Egg McMuffins. Ahem, back to politics ...
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by epo 16y ago
Or post-hoc rationalization. "Oh yes, that is what I intended all along"
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by epo 16y ago
That was the key event for me. If one finds oneself in this situation is there any general advice for trying to get to talk to someone else if you contacted by a jerk from what might otherwise be a good prospect?
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by epo 16y ago
EDIT deleted stuff which was in the linked article. Leaving .. Of course the real product might be iPhone app marketing services.
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by epo 16y ago
Really? I seem to see it a lot, a regional idiom perhaps? However, the "table" example is much better.
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by epo 16y ago
Just like the American "could care less" is the same as the British "couldn't care less". Two nations divided by a common language as someone is supposed to have said.
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by epo 16y ago
A mindless defence of a mindless act deserves nothing but contempt. Harsh? not as harsh as the reaction to wikileaks will be. To quote Stan Lee "with great power comes great responsibility" ("Spiderman"). Wikileaks has power, they have not
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by epo 16y ago
Dear God! Hacker news has really gone to the dogs (or is that cubs?)

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