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by javanix 15y ago
No, he is being downvoted for calling people who disagree with the following logically incorrect: The sense of right and wrong is a general human trait, independent of race or culture. It can be altered by nurture, but it transcends it. T
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by javanix 15y ago
Well, by Linus' definition I would say this sort of attitude falls directly under "sanctimonious dick-head".
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by javanix 15y ago
Because ethics are to me something private. Whenever you use it as an argument for why somebody_else should do something, you're no longer being ethical, you're just being a sanctimonious dick-head. For someone who is not a native English
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The Tests Showing Ubuntu 11.04 On A Power Consumption Binge(phoronix.com)
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by javanix 15y ago
True, in order to provide consistent benefit to users you'd need some sort of mechanism to determine whether it'd be faster to "grab from the swarm" or "grab from the repo". Perhaps even setting up each already-existing mirror as its own se
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by javanix 15y ago
Though unfortunately upddate files are still distributed through centralized repositories. I wonder whether there'd be major security concerns if a torrent layer was stuck over the main centralized backbone? It could probably reduce bandwid
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by javanix 15y ago
Yep. I usually find that most reasonably popular Linux distros will max out my down connection over torrents. Pretty nice way of telling whether my ISP is throttling or lying to me about my bandwidth.
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by javanix 15y ago
Oh, yes, you can. But I think its probably beyond the technical abilities of many authors. If there was a cheap, e-book-only publisher around that could help with all of the traditional publisher duties (editing, typesetting, advertising, e
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by javanix 15y ago
I'd be more excited about a really good self-publishing platform for non-interactive e-books. A lot of the cost of e-books comes from publishers needing to support various paper-related overhead like binding, printing, etc. If it was possib
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by javanix 15y ago
The end result of all this behind-the-scenes software? Fast, accurate search results that help you find what you want. Has Bezos ever actually used Amazon's search functionality? I know it isn't the easiest problem in the world to solve,
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by javanix 15y ago
Well, in the US at least its kind of impossible to pass math/engineering exams without having some sort of deeper understanding of the problem. It sounds like the exams in Brazil at the time didn't expand upon anything past memorized defini
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by javanix 15y ago
Just in case anyone didn't bother reading the article - SETI is not calling off all of their searches, just shutting down one of its main radio arrays in Mountain View. Their other time-shared operations sound like they'll continue. Not rea
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by javanix 16y ago
Despite being cursed with an endless string of horrible (for me - I'm sure some students did well) math classes from high school through college, the one thing I came away from with them was an appreciation of how much more intuitively you
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by javanix 16y ago
This is pretty cool. I'm most impressed that the iPad 2 has the horsepower to do all of the face-tracking and geometry rendering. As others have mentioned here, Johnny Lee had something similar running with the Wii hardware but as far as I
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by javanix 16y ago
I really think that incorporating the +1 button into their actual rankings would cause Google more grief than it is worth. It would be like a built-in spamming vector for any less-than-legitimate site out there.
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by javanix 16y ago
Well I certainly have never been one to complain about current film standards. I suppose I am just wary of change simply for the sake of change. I would like to be able to see the same 24fps and 60fps scene side by side and evaluate the adv
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by javanix 16y ago
People are used to 24fps for movies now, however. In my opinion, higher framerates just end up making everything look like a sitcom.
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by javanix 16y ago
I changed my opinion on Color after realizing that saying as much in a blog post would get me a ton of page views.
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by javanix 16y ago
What exactly was the rationale for changing the title of this article from the one on Groklaw?
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by javanix 16y ago
Shouldn’t we be rooting for it to succeed? Ultimately, wouldn’t that be better for everyone across the board? The startups, the investors, and the users? Of course. I suppose this is good for the community as long as every one of these
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by javanix 16y ago
It almost died because of Steve as well. In 1994 (shortly before the release of Toy Story) he very nearly sold the company because it was losing so much money. John Lasseter and Ed Catmull did more to save the company than Jobs ever did .
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by javanix 16y ago
Thanks for posting this. Easily the most interesting sysadmin-gone-right I've ever read, and a type of article I'd love to see more of on HN.
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by javanix 16y ago
Not sure what you mean by this, but in my opinion differing UI and RSS feeds are pretty much the opposite of "fundamental differences".
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by javanix 16y ago
Right, there's really nothing fundamentally different about HN and reddit other than the audience. At their core they are both vote-based commenting communities - and the generally high quality of comments makes me wish more sites (like Gaw
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by javanix 16y ago
So apparently Ken Jennings is about 9000x more hilarious than I expected him to be. Good to know.
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by javanix 16y ago
I'm not sure the simple SEO steps described here will really add "millions" to your valuation just like that, but this article really was more interesting than the somewhat link-baity title might suggest.
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by javanix 16y ago
If you are running ZFS this release marks a major improvement. ZFS v15 really helps with the overzealous memory allocation that earlier versions were plagued with on FreeBSD. Upgrading to 8.2 gave me a 20% - 30% R/W performance increase o
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by javanix 16y ago
From the limitations section of the wiki page linked in the article: Not all add-in cards have a method to expose their Linux interface name(s) to external port mapping. biosdevname may provide incorrect names for such. Discussions are ong
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by javanix 16y ago
Whoops. If I could still edit my post I would. I'll settle for an upvote here and hope people get the point :)
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by javanix 16y ago
What would the draw of a highly volatile pension investment be? I would think that pension managers would be encouraged to keep something that would generally have a stable (but not necessarily particularly high) yield. I don't doubt that t

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