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by hexis 17y ago
I think he's trying to say that at these lower prices, how would they be able to afford his services? He says it himself, more or less: "If my publishers aren't making [enough] money [to pay me], I'm not making money."
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by hexis 17y ago
Eben Moglen, I believe, made some great points about the huge increase in distributed computing power (ie, the power of the laptops in the audience) in this talk: http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/08/my-tonguelashing-from-eben-... Data center
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by hexis 17y ago
"Ok, well seeing as you're trying to be a smartass..." I think you misspelled "Socratic".
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by hexis 17y ago
How much did you pay to read the blog post?
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by hexis 17y ago
This is exactly right. Nothing clears up any blues I might get working these days like remembering any other job I've ever had .
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by hexis 17y ago
They are also more comfortable with, and probably overly confident in, formal systems.
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Choosing between Webkit and Mozilla(chrislord.net)
23 points by hexis 17y ago|1 comments
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by hexis 18y ago
I wouldn't hold your breath.
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by hexis 18y ago
I understand what you mean, but I think we need much more than a thoughtful discussion. Congress is in a legislatin' mood and I don't think they're interested in arguments for self-regulation.
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by hexis 18y ago
"However, a lot had history, poli sci, or econ degrees." It may turn out that history, political science, and economics degrees felt like investments but actually were consumption.
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by hexis 18y ago
Not so long ago, free software barely had browsers that were acceptable to the mainstream. Now it does. It'll get to Access, it just takes time. Free Software still has a lot of ground to make up, but it is gaining ground on proprietary sof
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by hexis 18y ago
"Lots of young people are turned out of home when they reach adult age." I'm 30 and I've never met or heard of one in the last fifteen years or so. I'm sure such young people exist, but I doubt there are "lots" of them anymore.
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by hexis 18y ago
What's the piracy rate for iPhone apps?
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by hexis 18y ago
"this [...] crisis is not only a once-in-a-lifetime event" This is the sort of phrase that makes Zeus start sharpening his thunderbolts.
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by hexis 18y ago
I'd recommend double-checking mbta.com and seeing if the commuter rail or something would get you to work. Public transportation thins out outside the more urban parts of metro Boston, but in some cases it reaches much further than 10 miles
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by hexis 18y ago
Perhaps it will turn out that people don't want their friendships to be "monetized".