gabrielroth

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So Apple is 'flailing,' eh? (re: TechCrunch story)(daringfireball.net)
44 points by gabrielroth 18y ago|45 comments
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by gabrielroth 18y ago
I'm familiar with the advantages of free software. But if you refuse to use proprietary software, you are, by definition, imposing a restriction on yourself. I'd also suggest that, when someone makes valuable business documents available to
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by gabrielroth 18y ago
"While Google Docs is free (as in beer), it is not free as in freedom. Some people will not use software because of that." The correct inference to make from that is "and those people will miss out on certain opportunities as a result," not
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The Google black hole: What happens to startups when they're bought by Google?(slate.com)
103 points by gabrielroth 18y ago|55 comments
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Defense industry brain drain: the Pentagon can't hire or retain engineers (nytimes.com)
1 points by gabrielroth 18y ago|3 comments
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by gabrielroth 19y ago
If you didn't mean for the story about the programmers to carry any weight, I'm happy to ignore it. I assumed it was in the essay to bolster your argument. This supposed refutation can itself be disproven by reductio ad absurdum, because i
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Disagreeing with Paul Graham(rothbrothers.net)
96 points by gabrielroth 19y ago|73 comments
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by gabrielroth 19y ago
Ah, those adorable happy poor people in less developed countries. So much time to relax and enjoy life! Overfishing, consolidation in the fishing industry, inadequate health care, rising grain prices (which in the past couple years have cau
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by gabrielroth 19y ago
Tweaked version, for more corporation names instead of "why you should buy life insurance": http://tinyurl.com/2fmpde
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by gabrielroth 19y ago
Use Blub. It has everything you need. All those "more powerful" languages just add a bunch of meaningless parentheses.
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by gabrielroth 19y ago
<yawn>
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by gabrielroth 19y ago
I'm surprised that your essay doesn't deal directly with the branch of philosophy known as ethics, as practiced by such canonical philosophers as Kant, Hume, Bentham and Mill, and by contemporary philosophers like Peter Singer, Michael Walz
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by gabrielroth 19y ago
"Leader espouses a "means justifies the ends" creed? Super-check" In general this is kind of funny, but I'm honestly not sure what you're referring to in the point above. Plus you have an itso in point 12.
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Missing (from) Links: great idea for the expansion of HTML syntax(furia.com)
2 points by gabrielroth 19y ago|1 comments
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by gabrielroth 20y ago
Wanted to point out a typo. You have: "Thanks to OSX, Apple has come back from the dead in a way that is extremely rare technology." I think that should be "extremely rare IN technology."