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by jhancock 15y ago
ok, I upvoted this simply because it had Smalltalk in the title. However, I have to chastise the author for not really saying much except he wants people to throw their vote into some support with zero detail on why IntelliJ makes any sens
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by jhancock 15y ago
Good write up. I had a distantly similar problem last year. Needed a poor man's transactional email and newsletter blaster. I wanted to leverage my ruby app code and make calls to a mail delivery engine. Problem is, things fail, and you
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by jhancock 15y ago
I'm using an old Thinkpad x41 running Lubuntu 11.10. It has a new third party battery, 6 cell...the batt is now more than 1 year old now. I get well over 3 hours on a full charge. I'm pleased with this. Would be happy to put a future ub
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by jhancock 15y ago
I have felt similar in the past...these feelings pass. Your perspective is at least partially dishonest. You don't have to kill people to start making a difference in a society where you can vote and possibly more importantly educate othe
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by jhancock 15y ago
Thats a great list of Internet pioneers. A few days ago, someone on HN suggested these companies put their concerns front and center on the web sites they control. If you want the masses to hear about this, no better way than to replace Y
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by jhancock 15y ago
There are parts of the constitution open to interpretation, such as the 2nd amendment, which is just poor sentence structure. The 1st is very clear and does not require some uber-con-law expert to tell us what it means. This is a good thi
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by jhancock 15y ago
The article is certainly biased. That's fine, it reads as an editorial and readers here can digest it accordingly. Your feelings on SCofUS seem a bit ideal to me. My opinion is that possibly every case the supreme court hears is an act of
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by jhancock 15y ago
I just went through a distro choice process. I installed various flavors of Mint, Debian, Arch, Redhat, Ubuntu, Archbang, Crunchbang, even went retro and tried FreeBSD again. I probably went through 20+ distros. I really wanted to go with
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by jhancock 15y ago
As someone that has been the lead for many large banking systems, I can say your intuition on this one is off. Banks enforce these rules because some internal security group set the rule a while back and thats what they use. Many smaller
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by jhancock 15y ago
I'm mostly with you...but can you explain how the China Zyngas and Groupons are worse? One thing nice about Chinese e-commerce is protection from vendor abuse. For example, Taobao provides an easy escrow service for buyers. Most others fo
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by jhancock 15y ago
I'm interested in which TLDs and server hosting locales would be best bets for protecting against gov sponsored asset seizures. I would like an EU country to step up to the plate as saying "If the U.S. wants a server taken down or a domain
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by jhancock 15y ago
The China gov is working with banks and its social services orgs to integrate all accounts on a "smart card" that is an NFC connected to your phone SIM. This works as both a stored value card for things like subway entrance as well as purc
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by jhancock 15y ago
My take is that SOPA is about a great deal more than digital goods. The global economy has enormous minor/innocent IP infringement as well as blatant copying. Companies want to circumvent tradition legal approaches to protecting their IP
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by jhancock 15y ago
Really? Can you point to a death penalty being applied for such a case? I'm not saying your wrong, but its the first I've heard of such thing. I have seen cases where the PRC has protected the rights of workers to form unions. Of course
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by jhancock 15y ago
"If your ultimate goal is to reduce inequality, then you should be furious at the doctors, bankers and C.E.O.’s. If your goal is to expand opportunity, then you have a much bigger and different agenda." hmm..What if I want to reduce inequal
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by jhancock 15y ago
Nailed it! Here's a few opinions on startups in China from more than 10 years here: * Its too difficult to raise capital on something that has no IPO potential, so don't try it in Beijing or Shanghai unless your swinging for the fences. If
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by jhancock 15y ago
It certainly feels the world's more stable cultures are becoming unstable.
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by jhancock 15y ago
Are you certain this sort of behavior doesn't already occur directly or inderectly through "legitimate" groups such the CIA, News Corp, the RNC, DNC, etc? Perhaps these newer groups are a response to a feeling that we are already at war an
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by jhancock 15y ago
How would you renegotiate the social contract? Do you have a draft of a plan? If we keep our monetary/debit systems similar to what we have, do you feel there is a need to redistribute equity/money/capital? If so, how would we go about th
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by jhancock 15y ago
No...I simply asked to what extent they dug in their heels. The first question I posed in this regard was did they exhaust their legal, non-violent appeals process. The second question was referring to a metaphoric gun; questioning if the
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by jhancock 15y ago
What do you mean "had no choice"? They ran out of appeals? The gov sent in storm troopers and held a gun to someone's head?
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by jhancock 15y ago
As a long time small business owner, I can say that "profit" is not the key element, but rather "cash flow". It may seem a minor nit, but I think helps to distinguish between short term profit and long term. Its nice to have a billion in
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by jhancock 15y ago
I certainly understand the server-first perspective. From a perspective of a guy who values having the same underlying OS as his desktop and server, its a problem. I tried using "OS X [desktop] and FreeBSD [server]" as a mix for a few yea
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by jhancock 15y ago
Well said. The author also seems to not understand that in developing markets such as China and India, no contract && very low monthly bills are the norm. No way to subsidize in that space.
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by jhancock 15y ago
Would you mind posting some links to your marketing and product companies?
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by jhancock 15y ago
Its tough finding a good name. I've done it twice with my own entities. Even if you don't need to worry so much about consumer branding, its hard to find something you like that is not taken...choices get rejected for being too similar wi
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by jhancock 15y ago
I have been thinking alot on this approach the last few months. I would like a "smartphone" that had a custom interface for my low vision problems. I think it would be very useful to have an iPhone sized device (all touch screen, no keybo
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by jhancock 15y ago
Do you find low vision users to prefer text-to-speech instead of very-large-high-contrast-text? I would be uncomfortable walking around with my phone reading aloud to me and everyone else in earshot.
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by jhancock 15y ago
It doesn't exonerate WL. It simply shows the Gaurdian to be foolish and/or complicit in WL's agenda to distribute the data.
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by jhancock 15y ago
Even if those at the Guardian believed the password only applied to their copy, publishing the password amounts to the Guardian making their copy a target to be copied/stolen. Why should the Guardian think they have better protection again

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