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by forensic 15y ago
"temporary" e.g. Offer people generous welfare if they elect to undergo this temporary birth control procedure.
512.
by forensic 15y ago
I don't see how existence equates to winning . A winner implies a loser. I doubt RMS considers the status quo a success. The free software movement that I know had a much loftier concept of "win" than mere existence.
513.
by forensic 15y ago
The EFF disagrees with you about the cloud. They believe the cloud is a serious loss of freedom, partially because cloud-code is hidden (even modified GPL code) and partially because people are giving away their privacy. The cloud has been
514.
by forensic 15y ago
When tech companies raise billions, it's a bubble. When hedge fund CEOs are paid $600 million in salary... it's a recession. Congrats to AirBnb and YC on joining the top .001% :]
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by forensic 15y ago
Everything he said involves hiring.
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by forensic 15y ago
> It simply means, openness and freedom won the software/internet game. Except... it didn't. The far majority of programmers still write closed source non-free code. The far majority of software is still closed source and non-free. The
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by forensic 15y ago
>They are separate editors embracing separate philosophies. What are the two different philosophies?
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by forensic 15y ago
I'm amazed at the HN readers who are doubting this. Loftus and her colleagues demonstrated a long time ago that memory is a constructive process and it is incredibly easy to implant false memories in others. Some of the factors that help im
519.
by forensic 15y ago
It's all about what makes The Incredibles look the best on the showroom floor. People don't buy the steak they buy the sizzle.
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by forensic 15y ago
It's commodity hardware. All the profit is in the add-ons, so to make money selling matte screens you'd probably be charging twice as much as Best Buy et al. At twice the price, even the matte-lovers are going to choose glossy. People who l
521.
by forensic 15y ago
The legal burden will fall on both apple and the mom & pops. They aren't going to withdraw their suits just because apple threatens them.
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by forensic 15y ago
It's not reasonable. But this is the way the market evolved. The public uses "The Browser" and they expect their apps to be there. They don't want Windows apps and won't pay for them. Basically what happened is Windows sucked and the public
523.
by forensic 15y ago
The purpose of language is to communicate. Picking your own name is a luxury. If you pick something unpronounceable or unwieldy it's perfectly acceptable for someone else to brand you for the sake of communication. MAFIAA is pronounceable,
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by forensic 15y ago
So you're saying make it very hard to install, very hard to maintain, and run on very expensive hardware. Yep, that sounds like the business model we all know and love. Apache proved it works.
525.
by forensic 15y ago
You are still ignorant of the latest research.
526.
by forensic 15y ago
Not really. It was doctors like Atkins and journalists like Gary Taubes. Huge public support of Atkins forced nutritionists to start studying Atkins. Nutritionists have been demonizing low carb diets since the 70s. It is the general public,
527.
by forensic 15y ago
You haven't looked into the scientific bungling behind this particular issue. It was not a political failure, it was a flat out scientific failure.
528.
by forensic 15y ago
The "fat is evil" thing that happened in the latter half of the 20th century is going to go down as the biggest scientific fuck up ever. The very people who were given all the authority and trust, and who were supposed to protect human life
529.
by forensic 15y ago
I don't see any modes!
530.
by forensic 15y ago
everybody just wants power, nerds and jocks alike
531.
by forensic 15y ago
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=time+dilation+traveling... 2828 years + 2200 = 5028 A.D. says wolfram alpha
532.
by forensic 15y ago
I think you missed my point. What you're saying actually supports my opinion on this issue.
533.
by forensic 15y ago
It's not clear that nailguns are more complex than hammers. What is the measure of complexity? Nailguns are easier to use for a complete newbie, so a nailgun could be seen as a simpler tool. Becoming an expert hammer user takes literally ye
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by forensic 15y ago
This reminds me of carpenters who use old hammers. Sometimes the old thing is really the best solution, and attempts to improve it are misguided and fail. Carpenters will give the newfangled tools an honest shot and then decide that the old
535.
by forensic 15y ago
Trying to make it as efficient as possible is different from the purpose of the language being efficiency.
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by forensic 15y ago
I think an airplane, and face-to-face life in general, is actually a much more exclusive and filtered place than you realize. On the internet you are interacting with people who you would never run into face-to-face. They don't have a posit
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by forensic 15y ago
This pretty much spoils the whole idea that you'll use your clientside JS on the server though, huh? The callback issue means that client and server are really not running the same language. They sorta look the same I guess.
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by forensic 15y ago
Don't you find using callbacks for everything to be a straightjacket?
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by forensic 15y ago
"First dips" is pretty funny too :p
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by forensic 15y ago
newfoundland doesn't work

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