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by gloob 16y ago
No-one is entitled to have a window manager on Linux either, but I'd probably still be using a Mac if there weren't any. The OP of this thread is not, to my understanding, making a moral claim about how Gruber should or shouldn't have comm
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by gloob 16y ago
Hypothetical answer: I'm not a blogger, nor do I want to be one. Gruber is free to do as he wants, of course - he is perfectly free to only respond to emails encoded with EBCDIC, if he really feels like it - but that doesn't somehow remove
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by gloob 16y ago
All of these distributed model guys keep disregarding and not addressing the fact that people simply don't want to deal with hosting their own web server, no matter how simplified it is. It should be noted that most people simply don't wa
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by gloob 16y ago
Perhaps that is true, but I feel that if the blogger really understood what he was talking about, he would have been able to phrase it in a way that wouldn't cause any confusion. ;)
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by gloob 16y ago
Yes if you send your traffic unsecured over the wire, it's trivial to modify it. Which is why cryp.sr, and any other good host-proof app, uses SSL, which is designed to counter exactly that type of threat. I'll admit up-front that I have
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by gloob 16y ago
Though, admittedly, the question does arise regarding just why AT&T would publicly publish a web page if they didn't want anyone to see it. "I thought it was private" might be a legitimate excuse for a middle-aged woman on Facebook. I
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by gloob 16y ago
Is it common practice to let a non-native speaker write your technical documentation? (Honest question.)
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by gloob 16y ago
I just use an external. Bigger, faster, no subscription fee.
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by gloob 16y ago
So did a rumour about .NET code running on the iPhone.
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by gloob 16y ago
I don't really have much of a dog in this fight one way or the other (nor, for that matter, did I up- or down-vote either of you) - but I'm sort of getting a bit of a tickle in my irony bone from personally insulting someone repeatedly for
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by gloob 16y ago
The intersection of programmers and people-who-feel-sorry-for-themselves consists of a bunch of people who will abstract away from reality until they've convinced themselves that they are somehow a victim.
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by gloob 16y ago
The computer my family got in 1996 had 8 MB of memory and (I believe) 512 MB of disk space. Some IBM beige box running windows 3.1, if I recall correctly. Edit: I also remember that upgrading it to 16 MB of memory cost us a couple hundred
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by gloob 16y ago
Is someone trying to imply that Cells isn't a sophisticated version of the Game of Life? Yes.
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by gloob 16y ago
For what it's worth, I'm sure that many lawyers would think that most of the legal analysis on this site is comparable to that of a 14-year-old as well.
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by gloob 16y ago
I find that this site makes more sense if you mentally do s/relevant/trendy or s/relevant/cool. It's annoying when people overload words with completely unrelated meanings, but there's not much you can do about it.
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by gloob 16y ago
Is it really that bad to work on opensource software solely because you want to? Of course not. But there's a difference between "I work on OSS because I want to" and "I work on OSS because someone said I should". I believe patio11 is s
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by gloob 16y ago
you have to consider that every tool starts out as a toy Band saw. Pesticide. Tractor. Hunting rifle. Jackhammer. By any meaningful definition of "toy" and "starts out", not every tool starts out as a toy. Alternatively, if you are using
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by gloob 16y ago
America is well known for its propensity toward low taxes and a small debt.
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by gloob 16y ago
It's pretty much the intellectual equivalent of Fox News appearing on the Reddit frontpage. You know why they're there, you know what's going to happen, it's not worth looking at.
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by gloob 16y ago
Perhaps I'm misreading you, but "humble" isn't the first word that springs to mind when I think about Apple.
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by gloob 16y ago
As a matter of curiosity, for what definition of "rogue state" are Russia and China rogue states? I figured the poster was thinking more about, e.g. North Korea.
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by gloob 16y ago
It's not Coca Cola's duty to keep you thin. It's not your bank's obligation to keep you solvent.
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by gloob 16y ago
If all such tales were this normal, mundane, and boring, the world would be an impressively dull place.
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by gloob 17y ago
More proof for the reasons why I refused to ever create an account, then.
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by gloob 17y ago
To be entirely honest, I can't see how it would be useful either in 1995 or now. A person either cares about URLs or they don't. In the first case, the URL should be displayed properly; in the second, they won't have a damn clue what all t
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by gloob 17y ago
That wouldn't be controlling the encryption; that would be giving whoever runs the webserver your data and a key and hoping that they actually use the latter. Controlling encryption means you do the encryption. Edit: Provided I'm understan
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by gloob 17y ago
And the rest of the time, nonsense is revealed.
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by gloob 17y ago
That is a useful replacement for tactile feedback in the same way that this http://www.theonion.com/video/apple-introduces-revolutionary... is a useful replacement for a keyboard.
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by gloob 17y ago
And when they overlap it's usually more by happy accident than by design.
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by gloob 17y ago
"Relevant to the people on HN" is very different from "relevant to HN". Many, many, many things fall into the first category. That makes it effectively useless as a filter. Something being important/interesting for Americans is different

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