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by fromhet 14y ago
That really depends - as you know Google's motto is "don't be evil". And it is apparent that the other american telcos don't share this motto. If Google manages to stay not evil it is the only way they will be relevant in the future. I thin
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by fromhet 14y ago
Excuse me, but I don't understand why anyone would use this instead of flattr? Sorry for sounding blatant, but havent they got this micro-donation thing going quite well?
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by fromhet 14y ago
Why not Flattr?
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by fromhet 14y ago
I am Swedish, and Sweden is pretty close to Norway. We share culture, history and traditions. Many of my friends are Norwegians, and I've been there too. If the killer was not white and "Norwegian" (as we think a true norwegian should be)
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by fromhet 14y ago
None, merely an uneasy feeling. If you ask me personnaly, I really enjoy articles about something technically extraordinary that OP made/wrote about, amongst other things.
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by fromhet 14y ago
There is no criticism really, I agree with you. But was just feeling uneasy and vented it. I welcome downvotes to my GP comment.
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by fromhet 14y ago
I meant that outside of the cultural context we live in right now - 2012 + Europe/North America - the situation is different.
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by fromhet 14y ago
Everything on HN is just "hey, learn to use this complicated complex thing - in just 30 minutes! You'll be so productive with all your creative startups!" "Learn VIM essentials in this blog post!" "Never bother reading 'man curl'!" "Learn
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by fromhet 14y ago
It was pretty quickly concluded that that guy was straight out bullshitting. The quotes are from OBL's videos that he made and leaked out to mainly Al Jazeera. They were made after all of this made happened, and OBL obviously knew to read t
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by fromhet 14y ago
Why not releasing it in the Ubuntu software store instead of making a new one? It would be the sensible thing to do if they cared about gamers on Linux. But I guess Steam is more about owning and controlling the channels of software sales a
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by fromhet 14y ago
The chromium project releases their updates for Ubuntu users thru a PPA, but Canonical also distributes stable packages. A mix that is working really well. God forbid #2, a system-wide system for downloading and updating applications is one
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by fromhet 14y ago
In a worst-case scenario, it would not be all to hard to write a script to extract the content of a debian package into a tarball.
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by fromhet 14y ago
>"There is something about IT that either appeals especially to males, or males are particularly skilled at." Oh please, have a look outside North America and Europe. And at history. Chineese hackers and 'IT professionals' are of all ge
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by fromhet 14y ago
Well, is it the dictionary that holds the true definition or is it the people who use the word who do? Give it a thought and you'll realize that the dictionary is made of (static) paper but language is an evolving, living thing. You claim w
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by fromhet 14y ago
Is there anyone on HN not using textmate and sublime no Mac OSX?
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by fromhet 14y ago
I also found that out the same way, and it was owerwhelmingly great! Only that it was soulcrushingly slow. Firefox is quite snappy theese days (especially with pentadactyl, mmhm sweet jezuz) but TB was always a hog.
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by fromhet 14y ago
But that is nothing more than a bookmark with extra features that you place in the Dock, not a desktop client.
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by fromhet 14y ago
Posting HN comments in the comments section instead of in a submission? Truly, it can't be that hard!
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by fromhet 14y ago
> Since when did a government stay up late at night worrying about its people inciting others to suicide and porn? Well, since about the dawn of time. I doubt this wont have severe consequences for Russian internet freedom, but at least
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by fromhet 14y ago
Hold them horses. There are many applications distributed ONLY after payment (called commercial) who are doing just fine. To sell an app and then let people have the source is just nice and kind.
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by fromhet 14y ago
I know less than little about most things, but wouldnt that m ake search engienes compete more, giving us, the users, better results? I think there's a fine line where on one side inventors cant net a profit without a time-based monopoly bu
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by fromhet 14y ago
This is true. Anecdote: I've used Ubuntu for a long time, but due to some nonfree applications dependence on mac/win I've gotten myself a apple laptop. It's mostly the same, I use a browser, terminal, vim and a thousand silly apps but they
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by fromhet 14y ago
That may work for people who think in terms of computer security, but not for the average user who are interested in just using the webapps.
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by fromhet 14y ago
The difference between the bitcoin banks/cloud wallets has been that the bitcoin counterparts seldom have any law or big organization to back them but only a few hackers with a bitcoind and a web servers. Some, like the old mybitcoin.com, h
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by fromhet 14y ago
So, this is essentially yet another cloud-based bitcoin wallet? Also, how will you comfort your customers when you get hacked and their funds are gone? That is not a hypothetical thing to ask, but very real and has happened before in the c
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by fromhet 14y ago
I believe that when people say that everything on the internet is in the public domain they imply that even private data is subject to hackers and such. And if someone got root of Zuckerbergs cellar server (or, wait, somethig) they would be
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by fromhet 14y ago
Well, few do then. To be honest, iTunes a kind of bloated, it is a memory hog and it could be easier to use. But they have the store and the connection with the i-devices and are shipped with the macintoshes, and I believe that is their gre
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by fromhet 14y ago
Well, anonymity over bittorrent is hard(er, at least), and that is probably the reason why the hackers didnt distribute the data in that way. But for us who didnt do the hack, distributing the files is not as bad to be caught doing. So whil
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by fromhet 14y ago
Ah, drama! :)
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by fromhet 14y ago
On the front page of a website named Hacker News, there is a link saying that people should learn to code? Excuse me, but shouldn't we expect hackers to already know that (or at least be knee deep in Thinking in Java or it's like)?

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