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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Thank you for responding. I tend to assume that the anti-proprietary folks go all the way as rms does, and that's unfair of me. Thank you for the perspective.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
I wandered, I will admit. I didn't go into that comment with a plan. It grew organically and tapped into some deep-seated feelings. By the end of it, I was kind of scared. I think Act I, the first five paragraphs, are a direct response to t
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
A rapidly-evolving one where the legal status of jailbreaking an iPhone has changed over the last several years and jailbreaking an iPad remains illegal. AKA: The United States.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
What's in your BIOS? What's in your NIC's firmware? What's in the firmware of the router you're wire{d,lessly connected} to? What's in the microcode of your CPU? What's in your south and north bridges? What's in your USB controller? What's
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
If this film were instead about how proprietary software people, who are never, ever going to disappear, and free software people, who really want them to, could get along and work together for the betterment of computing over ideals, I
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Fair. The second sentence hurts that suggestion, though.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
> Carl Meredith is one local viewer upset about Ovation’s removal from his Time Warner lineup. Meredith and his wife, who live near Clayton, are big fans of Ovation’s reruns of the original British version of “Antiques Roadshow.” Mered
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
...after jailbreaking and modifying. His point was off the bat, legally, or both.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Sorry, but you sound like a real wet towel to be around. Shall we take away the coffee makers, too, since those are unnecessary? Let them have a bit of fun at the office.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
That was a recent change, and undoubtedly one driven by a Growth team that wants to keep a certain graph going upward so another graph will as well.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
A lot of people at Google are north of $500k, I've heard. We're talking engineering and product, not management. I mean, what would you pay someone like Ken Thompson? There are the outliers like him, of course, but I've also heard that ev
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Don't forget that Android is built upon Linux. Just because at the core you're speaking largely Unix doesn't mean that you have to show a Unix-like system to the user. Really, you can do whatever you want in userspace.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
The first thing I thought of when this bill cleared was the recent news regarding how much Apple pays Tim Cook[1], said to be the highest-paid executive in the country (in total, not just salary). His big RSU grant isn't going to begin vest
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
I thought the same thing. I think he anticipated our thoughts when he wrote (paraphrased) "it's so egregious, I benefit from it and I want it to end." Maybe, just maybe, I misjudged Arrington a bit.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Since probably more than 99% of Macs are single-user workstations in practice, I'd wager that they got it right, just not for your needs. I like that aspect of X too but I find myself getting by without it. I can also SSH in to my Mac as
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
You need world-class UI/UX and graphics designers to have a shot, and the FOSS community is criminally short on those. With all the programmers on Hacker News it could probably be written in hours but it would look like shit because code ca
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
That depends on for who. For Amazon, perhaps.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Commentary is all opinion. I shared mine on the comment, as well as voting it down and flagging it. The problem is that it's a cheap Microsoft shot and there are a lot of people that will upvote that, even though it has no place here. I've
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
This group sounds at least semi-professional. It sounds like they cased the store for a while to analyze the habits of the janitor, picked a really convenient evening for a heist (what's everybody doing on NYE? exactly), knew there'd be a s
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
That comment should have stayed where you found it. It might be appropriate in that community, but it's just content-free noise here.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Something Hacker News has taught me is that no matter what, someone's opinion will surprise me.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Whenever these discussions come up people tend to blur kernel and userspace. It's happening here, and it's not unforgivable since most operating systems package both together. That's actually half the reason Richard Stallman wants you to sa
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Are you talking about a new kernel or a new userspace? It's an important distinction.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Many of your ideas sound like they come from inexperience with writing operating systems. That's not your fault, and rather than attack all of them and sound like an extreme poopoohead I'll point out the one that made me wince the most: IPv
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
You'd be surprised how often your first assertion doesn't hold, actually.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
You're the first person I've ever met, including a former Digg employee , to have a positive impression of the redesign. I'm intrigued.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
/r/science is a stickler for the rules, and many of the "default" subreddits (the ones that are turned on for everybody off the bat) have serious moderation issues by nature of their traffic. The more esoteric subreddits are quite useful, i
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Thank you for the recommendations.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
I've heard the same as authoritative from a postgrad studying U.S. history; I'm with you, though, that's just as anecdotal as far as the HN standard of truth goes. I wish my own U.S. History course would have covered ground like this instea
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
With every passing moment I regret replying to this thread more and more. You completely missed how my analogy works, actually, since you think I'm limiting the problem domain to appearance (I'm not; I'm characterizing someone ELSE'S disple

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