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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
No one is making an argument that Uber should be allowed to "operate in any way they decide". Currently the problem is that they are forbidden from operating at all. The reason are usually violations of stupid laws (e.g. Uber coll
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
This argument assumes two things: * Uber will wipe-out taxi business while being more expensive * Uber will always be more expensive than taxis Neither is true so conclusion cannot be true either. If Uber is more expensive than taxis and th
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
It's a clever sophistry but your "no" isn't really a "no" to the argument. It's clear that taxi industry is broken. The existing legislation you keep bringing up doesn't protect the costumers the way
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
"A random guy with no particular qualifications to write comments, writes a comment." See how this is not the most productive line of "argumentation"?
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Interesting how everyone is falling for this logical fallacy of a question. There are 2 modes in which Google buys a company. 1. For the product. This is the case that might entail 5x valuation and in this mode the intent is never to "kill"
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Did you read a different article than I did? They make an Android-based phone, like 10+ other companies (Samsung, HTC, Sony, Lenovo, LG etc.). What is shameless about that?
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
That is a plausible statement except it contradicts pretty much any economic study done on the subject i.e. when economist look at this issue using historic data, they find that industries thrive at times of weak patent protection. This is
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
You don't specify the "resources" Usually when people say that, they mean either hiring more people or hiring better people by paying more. Given the very low quality of granted patents, hiring more of same kind of people won't help. We'll
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
>Why are ideas worth nothing? Ideas are worth exactly as much as you can sell them for. > If I have a breakthrough while researching, I'm screwed unless I also manage to form a company with a production line? You would be exactly ri
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Unfortunately, the guy responds with his own misinformations. Google said: "For example, mobile has several requirements around bandwidth and battery that are simply not part of the standard" He says: "This glances over the the fact that th
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
The difference is: you pay for Google Drive (including bandwidth). To give you some perspective: I have a popular open source project hosted on Google Code. I host my binary downloads via S3 and since it's popular, it costs me $200+ a month
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Unfortunately how? Amazing person doing amazing things has an option to not take the money and have 100% of the upside of his amazingness. What people seem to forget is that it's about risk. VC investing is high risk. For every 10 investmen
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Yet another project that lands at HN because people don't bother to look at what it actually does. It's 44 lines of Python code. An "insert" is implemented by loading the whole "database", in json format, into memory, adding an element and
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Sure, so now instead of praying that the main host won't get hacked you now should pray that none of the N mirrors will get hacked. And if you understand the basics of probability, that's not a good scenario.
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Actually what is insane is to have your production code do anything else. "pip install foo" and similar schemes open your code up to the following problems: - incompatibilities that were introduced in the version 1.2.1 while you've only tes
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Not in this case because then technically YouTube is a publisher and Google pays the license. But if you were to post this video on your website and and if there was any income attached (e.g. you also have AdSense ads on your website), then
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Because "Microsoft and Apple pay for the licenses on behalf of developers and users so licensing cost only affects a very tiny minority" is not really true. See http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/licensing/mpeg... If you encode
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
He earned what "several times over"? What logic compels you to conclude that if you get viciously and frivolously sued by someone and publicly badmouthed by him (on his weblog) you should give him a lucrative and prestigious employment (i.e
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
The most likely reason gcc was used was that Ian Taylor, the guy who is part of Google's core team and wrote gccgo, was already familiar with gcc by virtue of being long-time gcc developer. There already is a project to build a go compiler
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Except that Megaupload was not selling duplicated CDs of albums of US musicians or some other obviously infringing activity. They provided a file hosting service, like Dropbox or Google Drive or Skydrive. Judge Mooner, I'm pretty sure, does
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Go doesn't "force" you to use one method of concurrency. It has more than one (you can do erlang-style share-nothing style or Java/C++ style of using mutexes to protect shared state from concurrent access). I know nothing about Closure so i
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by kkowalczyk 13y ago
Your "anecdotal" experience is rubbish. I'm getting unsolicited requests for interviews from software companies by the bucket. There are 180 open positions at Google in Mountain View alone ( https://www.google.com/about/jobs/search/#t=sq&#3
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by kkowalczyk 14y ago
He wasn't charged with anything. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_A... "Assange has not yet been formally charged with any offence.[62] The prosecutor said that, in accordance with the Swedish legal system, forma
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by kkowalczyk 14y ago
Because APIs are more functional than creative. Imagine an Array class. How many names can you come up with for: "number of elements in an array"? Count(), Size(), Len(), Length(). Those are 4 common names. Now imagine a system where you ca
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by kkowalczyk 14y ago
Reading the comments it's clear that majority people do not understand what it is, mostly because the title is misleading. It's a custom, toy browser with Ruby support, not "Ruby in the Browser" (where the implication is that the browser ==
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by kkowalczyk 14y ago
It did happen long time. It just died because of lack of adoption. <script> tag has a type attribute. IE used to (still does?) support Visual Basic as a script. See http://www.w3schools.com/vbscript/vbscript_howto.asp But even the
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by kkowalczyk 14y ago
It's a cool hack but it's pretty much DOA. It's a modified version of WebKit. WebKit devs won't allow this to be part of WebKit itself ( https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-April/024... ). Even if it's actively maintained (an
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by kkowalczyk 14y ago
There's a big difference between "my use case" and "all use cases". Sure, JavaScript is fast enough for a lot of things. But it's also too slow for many things that reasonable people would like to do on the web. See Mozilla's pdf.js: it mak
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by kkowalczyk 14y ago
Go allows you to share memory between goroutines (i.e. concurrent code). It doesn't force you to do so. In fact, the Go team explicitly tells you not to do that: "do not communicate by sharing memory; instead, share memory by communicat
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by kkowalczyk 14y ago
With that attitude we wouldn't have much improvement in anythin. No one really knows if a given product will be successful or not. The creator of this product wrote ( http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/march/myNewCompanyAndOurF... ): "Littl

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