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by gloob 17y ago
I can't imagine enterprise level organisations allowing Google to Earn money via advertising. I'm not entirely certain what you mean by this. I would take you literally, but taking that sentence literally would be mad (Google does earn m
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by gloob 17y ago
You are annoyed at the fact that some people still like actual physical books, and decided to swear and snark about it. Neither of those responses are particularly appreciated here, although exceptions are often made if there is an actual
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by gloob 17y ago
Do you find it offensive when someone points out that you have hair as well? There isn't anything dismissive about the headline, by my reading, but I've never really understood why people find things like this insulting. [Edit: I mean, if
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by gloob 17y ago
If the alternative is a end of season not-sale, I would have to say yes. (Same here).
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by gloob 17y ago
My take on the issue: picking a lock is hacking, breaking down a door is not. Apply the metaphor as you will.
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by gloob 17y ago
People should not be given rights that require someone provide something for them. I read: "People should not be given rights to trial by jury or elections". The former requires that random citizens be selected to give up their time for
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by gloob 17y ago
I can't speak for cake , but I suspect it's as much an aesthetic thing as anything. Example from art: if you were insistent on viewing the Mona Lisa from a cubist aesthetic, it would be a crummy painting. It's not a moral assertion as su
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by gloob 17y ago
Perhaps I'm displaying a lack of sophistication, but by my reading, the title "implies you should miss deadlines...and you should never update" in the same way that "worse is better" implies that shipping a ten-line random number generator
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by gloob 17y ago
Have you considered the possibility that perhaps when the author says "the real world", he might mean "the real world"? I would not be surprised to learn that his point of view is that embedded systems make the world go round, and web prog
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by gloob 17y ago
It might just be me, but starting a war as a response to a "high state of emotion" after being attacked is more or less the definition of "revenge". That said, I'm not commenting on the legitimacy or lack thereof of the wars, nor am I comm
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by gloob 17y ago
Based on no evidence whatsoever, my gut tells me that trying to set up a tidy system of abstractions to clean up the problem would produce something closer to a programming language than a shell language. On the other hand, it's possible t
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by gloob 17y ago
The post you are responding to claimed that the practice is legal. You are claiming it is unreasonable. You're arguing past each other.
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by gloob 17y ago
In the physical world, I mix and match media as suits the task, and the Mac mimics that. I don't fill my desk up with a notepad, then hide it and take out a calculator, then hide it and set up my easel. Rather than taking out/hiding away
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by gloob 17y ago
Saved western civilization. From western civilization. Other than that, I pretty much agree with you.
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by gloob 17y ago
The point of the post you are responding to is that it uses syscalls. I'm not entirely certain what about that warrants a "!?"; could you enlighten me?
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by gloob 17y ago
Remember: it's not an objection to VOIP in general. It's an objection to the replacement of core iPhone functionality. Perhaps I'm just old-fashioned, but I would have thought that the piece of software in the iPhone that makes it usable
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by gloob 17y ago
Costing Sony money would reduce the amount of money Sony could spend on other ventures. At least a subset of those "other ventures" are things Microsoft is actively interested in. Disclaimer: I have no actual experience with either Microso
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by gloob 17y ago
For example: - Test driven development - Deploy, measure, iterate practices - High level languages Most of which are rare in the games industry but seem to be very successful in the web industry. HTTP is also successful in the web industr
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by gloob 17y ago
One could also argue that repeated exposure to this sort of thing increases one's likelihood of becoming a professional juggler. Without actual data, all we have to run on are intuitions, probably-broken metaphors, and guesswork. I don't g
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by gloob 17y ago
You can have closed proprietary programs and have completely open standard file formats. Sure, but can you have open free programs and closed, locked-down, proprietary formats? It's a separate issue, perhaps, but it's a very closely rela
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by gloob 17y ago
What does learning mean if we understand the biological processes that underlie it? The same thing it has always meant? It's not like understanding addition grants us some brilliant revelation that changes the "meaning" of multiplication
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by gloob 17y ago
There are still western liberals? Mind you, compared to the rest of the world, I guess.
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by gloob 17y ago
he does say people should not use commercial software Commercial != non-free. Stallman doesn't, to my knowledge, have an issue with the former. He rather dislikes the latter.
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by gloob 17y ago
Since less than 5% are using sms to update twitter surely they can abolish the outdated 140 character limit? Never having used it, I can't actually say, but I had the impression that the 140 character limit was the point of Twitter.
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by gloob 17y ago
Being downvoted a couple of times is different than people oppressing you. You are not some martyr for freedom of speech. For what it's worth, I suspect people would appreciate it if we would permit this pointless meta-meta-discussion to d
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by gloob 17y ago
Because, first and foremost, it's aesthetically displeasing. Secondly, cutting out characters provides no gain to anyone, tangible or otherwise, unless you are just that concerned about the tenth of a second it will save you typing. Third
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by gloob 17y ago
The fact that you are already bringing up all your expertise on redundancy shows that you can think about this better than others and probably give an answer that fits this requirement well. Unless we completely reinterpret the requiremen
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by gloob 17y ago
False dichotomy. There is a difference between "totalitarian dictatorship" and "society with relatively low levels of political freedom". The former requires the latter, but not every instance of the latter is an instance of the former.
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by gloob 17y ago
The above was intended to be deadpan; my apologies if it was unclear that such was the case. My further apologies if it was clear, but it was just that unfunny.
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by gloob 17y ago
Any rational analysis will demonstrate that the IOC outguns the United States military by at least an order of magnitude. I assume that's what the post was referring to.

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