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by iy56 14y ago
If everyone only submits the original article to HN, all discussion is consolidated into one thread. If ten people each submit a different republication of the same article, discussion is fragmented. It's not a value judgment, it just makes
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by iy56 14y ago
So we should shackle the other guy for a few years to compensate? Two wrongs don't make a right.
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by iy56 14y ago
Agreed. But that's all very general stuff. Nothing there so much as hints at special treatment for MS's trademarks specifically, which is what I was initially objecting to.
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by iy56 14y ago
Oh, what I meant was that software does also have a history of such roles. Today, developers are mostly men, but QA and documentation seem to be female-dominated.
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by iy56 14y ago
Window managers are still commonly called window managers today. Word processors are still called word processors. That's the point - Microsoft hasn't taken away these generic terms. No, you can't call your competing product the exact same
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by iy56 14y ago
>here he was engaging in geek-shaming. No, he was making a joke about Fight Club. But if you are determined to feel persecuted, I'm sure you can find a way. The anime club at my workplace meets weekly in a conference room to use one of
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by iy56 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aint_gonna_need_it
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by iy56 14y ago
When you ask your officemate to open the window, does legal tell you to stop saying that Word(TM) because you're not using it according to the way Microsoft defined it?
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by iy56 14y ago
That's completely justified. Although they're obviously both bad, harming the national war effort is far more dangerous than racism against a subgroup of citizens. The number of lynchings of black Americans doesn't even come close to the ca
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by iy56 14y ago
What would you suggest instead? That an employer can tar and feather workers for violating company policy?
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by iy56 14y ago
That's just factually wrong. Software does have those. Computer programmers used to be almost exclusively women.
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by iy56 14y ago
It's possible in the way that it's "possible" to compete with local ISPs - all you have to do is lay your own 50000 miles of cable! Well, Google, as a huge megacorp, actually has the resources to do this, but it hardly fosters a free and co
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by iy56 14y ago
Because forcing all their customers to move to one of their competitors would be a fantastic business decision?
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by iy56 14y ago
Why would a company want all its employees to have to buy their outlook calendar-based time logger doohickey? They just distribute it on new hires' computers and be done with it. And that's not even getting into the ones that actually hav
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by iy56 14y ago
That's a horrible strategic move for microsoft. Do you have any idea how many shitty homegrown apps their huge business customers use?
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by iy56 14y ago
The ability to fork only exists in theory. In reality, Google already uses its dominant market position to prevent mobiles from being sold with non-blessed versions of android. The only ones who can realistically do anything to challenge th
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by iy56 14y ago
They are already there. Firehoses and ladders are weapons against fire, just as guns are weapons against criminals.
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by iy56 14y ago
Why does it matter if creationism is science? Art and literature aren't science either, but they are taught in schools because people think it will make the students better off. Religion is no different. If part of your belief was that spre
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by iy56 14y ago
Well, that's the problem with living in a democracy. If most people only feel comfortable when the legislators and judges are fellow Christians and the schools teach creationism, then that's what you're going to get, and depending on your i
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by iy56 14y ago
Rest in peace, "Vile Rat", a virtual diplomat in the game EVE Online, and in real life, a State Department representative killed in Benghazi
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by iy56 14y ago
Why is fundamentalism bad, and why is it ok for you to be fundamentalist in your anti-fundamentalism?
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by iy56 14y ago
Yes. It would be like buying the Unreal Engine Source Code, translating everything into Chinese, and selling that for 50% off.
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by iy56 14y ago
I bet most of HN isn't good enough at Chinese, so they'd rather pay more for the original, because it's in English.
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by iy56 14y ago
99% of them would not have bought the original product because their English skills are not good enough. They would buy a localized Chinese version, which is what the Chinese site from the story was selling. The moral of the story is, Chine
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by iy56 14y ago
Piracy is the primary form of digital distribution, and is a major force in driving its advancement.
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by iy56 14y ago
Tower Records has gone out of business.
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by iy56 14y ago
If someone confusing a style of software UI with a retail store is unlikely, confusing it with a Pokemon is even more unlikely.
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by iy56 14y ago
They could add a breathalyzer check to the install verification prompt.
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by iy56 14y ago
"If Microsoft had invented sushi, they would have called it 'Cold Dead Fish'"
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by iy56 14y ago
You trust Google with your email more than Microsoft? Google is the one that scans your email for advertising keywords. But no, I was talking about search. Google doesn't do email well in general. Their one significant advance was populariz

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