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   by jcbrand 13y ago

   What exactly is "open source" about it?
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   by jcbrand 13y ago

   I wonder if services like yours won't just perpetuate and strengthen the so-called "superstar" effect. It's a feedback loop where a few people at the top reap all the rewards for being at the top already (and being &quot
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   Government of South Tyrol (Italy) converts to LibreOffice(joinup.ec.europa.eu)

   1 points by jcbrand 13y ago|0 comments
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   by jcbrand 13y ago

   I've used Vimperator before but I now use Vimium on chromium and very much prefer it. When you navigate via keyboard (by pressing "f"), Vimperator marks links with numbers, Vimium marks them with letters, from ("a to &qu
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   by jcbrand 13y ago

   Yup, this one is not the last. Telkom (parastatal in South Africa) still operates a telegram service. http://www.telkom.co.za/general/pricelist/international_tele...
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   by jcbrand 13y ago

   Your argument rests on a logical fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction Just because the U.S government has not yet used surveillance to stifle dissent, doesn't mean they will never do it. Al
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   by jcbrand 13y ago

   You can join me in the chatroom "converse.js" on conference.opkode.im, I'll hang out there and answer any Converse.js related questions you might have.
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   Show HN: Converse.js, a Javascript XMPP chat client written with Backbone.js(conversejs.org)

   3 points by jcbrand 13y ago|2 comments
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   by jcbrand 14y ago

   Yeah, I'll definitely do that sometime! Currently I just want to get the client as polished as possible. Once that's done and the XMPP server is up, I'll make a post to ShowHN.
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    by jcbrand 14y ago

    I'm working on a Javascript XMPP webchat client built with Strophe.js and backbone.js Please check it out http://conversejs.org You can connect directly to any public XMPP server and you can of course set up one yourself if you want to ma
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    by jcbrand 14y ago

    People don't seem to be aware of https://startpage.com/ They anonymize your search data and then send it off to Google search. I tried DDG a few times, and as much as I want to like it, their search results weren't as good as Google's.
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    by jcbrand 14y ago

    Sounds awesome. This is probably one of the best things about being a programmer. You can work from home (or a coworking space) and live anywhere in the world. The article and others like it usually allude to soul-sucking management-heavy c
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    by jcbrand 14y ago

    Thanks! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts once you've tried it out.
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    by jcbrand 14y ago

    I originally thought this was a Jabber/XMPP web client but apparently it's not. That said, I'll now commence with a shameless plug : I'm working on a Javascript XMPP chat client built on backbone.js and strophe.js: http://conversejs.org
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    by jcbrand 14y ago

    Pigs and cows are mammals with central nervous systems much more similar to ours than any insect.
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    by jcbrand 14y ago

    Nassim Taleb explains this very well in one of his books (not sure which, Fooled by Randomness or Black Swan). Assume you have 8 traders and their chance of making a win/loss in a given year is 50% (i.e completely random). On average, after
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    by jcbrand 14y ago

    > Some awesome devs make Cool GPL Software™. Hundreds of large proprietary software companies like the look of the software, but it's GPL, so they can't use it. Yeah, good think Linux is BSD, otherwise it wouldn't have any companies wri
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    by jcbrand 14y ago

    > By the time you are 18 you are either a happy person or not. Sorry. I agreed with everything until your last sentence, which I can tell from personal experience is not true :)
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    by jcbrand 14y ago

    The ginii coefficient measures the inequality inside countries. Compared to most of the world, the US has indeed more inequality. But there are some places (i.e Brazil and South Africa) with much higher inequality, where the wealth of some
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    by jcbrand 14y ago

    You mean the same professional news orgs that publish 14 stories on Pussy Riot's plight but only a brief bit of wire copy from AP concerning Bradley Manning's first week of testimony? http://t.co/dCsfOEsf
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    by jcbrand 14y ago

    What do you do with the rocks?
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    by jcbrand 14y ago

    While you might be right, this sounds like classic cognitive dissonance. Instead of accepting that China is a fast rising military/economic power, let's rather just believe that they're bluffing.
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    by jcbrand 14y ago

    There's a big difference between a government-less world and one without nation-states. Also, for the majority of human existence nation states didnt exist.
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    by jcbrand 14y ago

    Pushing buttons does nothing, it's the order in which those buttons are pushed that requires intelligence, skill and experience.
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    by jcbrand 14y ago

    There's also a discussion about this on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/z2lp2/patents_con...
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    Patents considered evil(ipocracy.org)

    95 points by jcbrand 14y ago|28 comments
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    by jcbrand 14y ago

    How does comparing very favourably against OSX imply that it merely "sucks shit" less?
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    by jcbrand 14y ago

    "Pranab Mukherjee and other Indian ministers tried to terminate Britain’s aid to their booming country last year - but relented after the British begged them to keep taking the money..." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india
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    by jcbrand 14y ago

    And what would have happened if round shapes or syncing data over a network were patented and everyone who tried to reuse them in novel ways were aggressively sued?
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    by jcbrand 14y ago

    So if the community (through an influx of new users) decides that the purpose of HN is to spread cat pictures and memes, you'll be cool with that?