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by homosaur 15y ago
You might be right about all of this. RMS clearly does not have the same sort of thinking as a "normal" person and his bio Free as in Freedom even suggests he probably has some sort of mild spectrum disorder. Maybe he is less egomaniacal an
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by homosaur 15y ago
#1. You're confusing free as in beer and free as in freedom. Stallman cares about free as in freedom. You really want to go back and review this because you are clearly unfamiliar with the philosophy behind the free software movement. http
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by homosaur 15y ago
Oh, it's a 10.1 inch, that actually makes it quite a bit more usable. Thanks for the link.
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by homosaur 15y ago
There's no official announcement yet, but the unofficial plan is to support Linux once the Mac version is out the door. They definitely want to do it.
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by homosaur 15y ago
The one thing I get kind of annoyed with Stallman at is that he keeps mentioning this Leemote machine he has, which runs free software even in the BIOS. He might as well say that he runs Linux on a magical unicorn. I have tried and never be
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by homosaur 15y ago
Several Lisp dialects like Scheme and Clojure are still going strong. It's a very useful language to learn even in 2012.
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by homosaur 15y ago
I don't think it's just passing value judgement on these companies to point out that they don't create any value or content of note. I see more and more of these startups every day that are basically dedicated to emphemera. There's a billio
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by homosaur 15y ago
They do have that, it's called Tumblr.
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by homosaur 15y ago
That text is not small enough for my taste.
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by homosaur 15y ago
I think the most obvious case where this might be wrong in Microsoft's case is the Xbox. The original one was a salvo against Sony into a collapsing market. The new one is maybe the best general use consumer set top box on the market. Roads
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by homosaur 15y ago
There are upsides and downsides, certainly. I don't think that say... the Guardian pages on Flipboard are ugly, though. They are simple and quite beautiful while still retaining the house style. They are still focused on reading, after all.
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by homosaur 15y ago
The bigger problem with Instapaper AND Readability for me is that you are still kicking designers and their intentions to the curb. This is why I still think these services will not be widely supported by content providers and they will flo
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by homosaur 15y ago
Wow, "casually dressed" is the nicest thing I've heard anyone say about a McD's customer in a long time!
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by homosaur 15y ago
Every rating system is like this. Censorship is arbitrary. Check out the MPAA giving an R to Bully, a documentary about high school bullying targeted at high schoolers. Well, not anymore.
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by homosaur 15y ago
I am fairly certain that nobody lurks on Ping. They don't even visit for sightseeing.
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by homosaur 15y ago
Not clicking on links is very, very tough. I can understand how you're having trouble.
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by homosaur 15y ago
Great step forward for whom? Is it meaningful at all that the US State Dept is letting people use Chrome now? Is this going to push adoption of modern browsers in other circumstances? Remember, the State Dept has a massive group of people t
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by homosaur 15y ago
"It's a values debate. I think opinion was the right value for the right time several years ago. We're going through a time of change where opinion is a liability not an asset." I think this may be becoming more true everyday, but I still d
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by homosaur 15y ago
Yeah, I actually think that's the way to go if you don't like Rails, I was kind of joking. I am curious to see if there's enough passion for Rails itself that people would say, "no I want RAILS, even if it means making it something else" ra
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by homosaur 15y ago
Does this mean it's time to fork?
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by homosaur 15y ago
Maybe it is, maybe it's not, but I don't think moving from technically incorrect to technically correct is change for change's sake. There's benefits to doing things by spec even if they are not immediately obvious. I think what you're sayi
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by homosaur 15y ago
Hard to argue with that. I like their moves but where is the messaging? Other than launches, I don't see MS ads anywhere.
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by homosaur 15y ago
Given that Microsoft still has a boatload of money, market share, and deep-profit products, you have to really give them props for realizing that doesn't really mean that much to the future. Their product lineup has always been confusing, t
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by homosaur 15y ago
I know this is against Apple's M.O., but why does everything have to be dumbed down to fit the needs of the most basic of consumers? Most people are not stupid and you could certainly make the permissions system far more clear and simple wi
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by homosaur 15y ago
Steam support is garbage. I assume from their responses in the past that Steam Support consists of one guy who does not speak English who they keep in a darkened room, mostly drunk, and occasionally every fourth message gets through. They m
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by homosaur 15y ago
Yes, they do. The university I attended for undergraduate studies, Tulane in New Orleans, had a minor blowup when I went there because they were very much trying to make the school less lilly white and explicitly declared they had a pro-div
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by homosaur 15y ago
I'm not sure you know what "irony" means.
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by homosaur 15y ago
MainStream Media?
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by homosaur 15y ago
The guy did complete the registration. If he wants to complain about the design of the site and the fact that it's unclear why they want certain information, that's legitimate because it actually could be an impediment to people signing up,
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by homosaur 15y ago
Everything helps. Before Amit's illness blew up, I wasn't even aware that there was such a thing as a marrow registry or that it was actually pretty simple to donate compared to other organ donation programs, many of which require you to fa

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