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by felipeerias 13y ago
Yours is a very sad comment. The author gives a good example here, if you choose to read it: http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/note.ht... Basically, Claude Shannon was able to create his information
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Sorry, but that is not the point. This is not just about simplifying scientific notation so it is easier to digest for an untrained audience: it is about using tools to remove as much cognitive "shit work" as possible, so that our
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by felipeerias 13y ago
Freedom usually means being able to achieve your personal goals: of speech, of movement, of opinion, etc. We humans are often aided by tools. So, we can also talk about the freedom to study and modify said tools. What many FOSS advocates se
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by felipeerias 13y ago
When it comes to operating systems, sure. But that's not Google's real target. However, many everyday tasks that we carry out in our PC are done on the Web browser. Google has a very strong position in search, email and other serv
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by felipeerias 13y ago
The author seems to be forgetting two related things. The first one is that the number of users of computers has increased by orders of magnitude in the past couple of decades. He looks back longingly at people doing complex stuff on Access
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"Slightly easier protection against spousal snooping doesn't qualify" It is about far more than that: it is about a new payment system, both more secure and more convenient. If that doesn't seem ambitious enough for you,
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Small, affordable, easy to repair. Pick two. If you disagree about the "affordable" part, I invite you to estimate the cost of an iPhone that had replaceable parts, while maintaining the performance, battery life and size of the c
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Some people are better at systematizing, some are better at empathising, and some are reasonably good at both. Male technologists, which make up the majority of the SW development community, tend to be particularly good at the first and bad