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by jsnx 19y ago
Technically speaking, the TOS allows Google to kick any user who gets their stuff from Facebook This would be bad for Facebook, but it would be bad for Google and Yahoo, too: they would anger their users by frustrating a reasonable use of
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by jsnx 19y ago
These games are not about high quality rendering, and really can't be -- the computing environment they ship to is not homogeneous enough. Pirates of The Caribbean looks like Ocarina of Time . While snazzy rendering won't really go anywher
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by jsnx 19y ago
Is it good or bad for India when brighter people leave to go to the U.S.? I suppose they send money home, as most of their extended family remains in India.
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by jsnx 19y ago
Some of us just keep our logs. If you keep the same computer for awhile, and leave the default logging on...
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by jsnx 19y ago
Innovation is often understood to mean one of two different things -- pushing boundaries and changing the world, and filling a niche that no one else is filling. They are different things. I'm sad to say it, but I think the first kind is of
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by jsnx 19y ago
Well, what if, by law, you had to ship the source when you ship the software? That's as much as any Open Source license demands. Software As A Service remains completely protected -- would it be so bad if people who wanted to cash in had to
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by jsnx 19y ago
Most software is not innovative, though -- and innovative software has rarely been incentivized correctly. (How much is Xerox making for inventing the Macintosh?) The author is one of many criticizing Open Source for failing to kick UNIX ou
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by jsnx 19y ago
Now we just need some way to watch the watchers...
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by jsnx 19y ago
The author doesn't really seem to get what Linux does: My guess is that a poorly encapsulated, communal gloop of organisms lost out to closely guarded species for the same reason that the Linux community didn't come up with the iPhone: Enc
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by jsnx 19y ago
While there are papers about the problem of page rank, there is no paper describing the Page Rank.
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by jsnx 19y ago
Being hostile to the college system is not the same thing as opposition to book learnin' in general. I always liked books -- I just don't like paying thousands of dollars to people who give me crappy books and make me listen to them talk
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by jsnx 19y ago
So if I just buy the mortarboard, I don't need all that fancy book learnin'...
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by jsnx 19y ago
It would nice to know what exactly you disagree with, and why you disagree.
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What formatting directives are supported on News.YC?
1 points by jsnx 19y ago|1 comments
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by jsnx 19y ago
...anyone who thinks Japan's is a culture of Bushido does not know Japanese history. The Bushido code was written by samurai who never saw combat... It was formalized in Tokugawa times, but goes back to the 9th century in Japan ( http:/
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by jsnx 19y ago
Both the code of Bushido and the less culturally specific "Texas Justice" mentioned in this article arose in similar circumstances -- cultures that are war-like, family-centric and deeply conservative. Bushido, however, likes to put on the
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by jsnx 19y ago
"In low tech warfare, the fiercest and most cohesive side wins..." That is true of modern warfare, as well. "If you have guns and your opponents have spears..." Sure, in an extremely asymmetric war, the folks with the missiles can relax the
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by jsnx 19y ago
ph34r!
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by jsnx 19y ago
Replace 'OO' with 'FP', and he could be my manager...
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by jsnx 19y ago
I just found a room in a house in SF -- $900 covers utilities, internet, furnishings and rent. It's in the Mission, a well liked neighborhood. An overlooked part of SF life is people who are sick of living in a city. They want to go to bed
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by jsnx 19y ago
Rent usually includes wireless internet around here.
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by jsnx 19y ago
I am definitely in sympathy with your three guys. Were they really convinced that "...any business idea that ran on .NET was a bad one." or just that it was Hell to work with .NET? > It doesn't make much sense to me from a business stan
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by jsnx 19y ago
Yeah, I really have to second this one. It's not just the UNIX/C universe, though -- it's the UNIX scripting universe. As a particular example, how do you tie your graphing software to your analysis software to your screen scraping software
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by jsnx 19y ago
Well, just don't vote me up for it...
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by jsnx 19y ago
Bourne shell, sed, awk, sort, uniq -- the UNIX utilities are worth your time to get to know well. Filesystems -- how to write them, and what's out there already.
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by jsnx 19y ago
Voting because you agree or disagree is a Bad Thing for a quality filter. Unfortunately, though, all these sites start off with a quality filter and end up with a demoralizing popularity contest. Voting should cost you something.
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by jsnx 19y ago
Funny, this is happening in the states, too. I could copy-paste this paper and call it "Why I Am Not In School".
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by jsnx 19y ago
This will make little apps -- restaurants, dance studios, newsletters -- insanely easy to build and deploy. I doubt it will do much for bigger ones, though. Scalability, performance and QOS are matters of system administration -- precisely
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by jsnx 19y ago
For mnemonicsloth to make a strawman argument, he'd first have said something like "some people say <poor argument for $x>" and then go on "however, <picks apart argument>, so we know $x is false". Therein lies the fallacy -
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by jsnx 19y ago
Otherwise there wouldn't be tens of thousands...

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