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by koeselitz 14y ago
I wouldn't call it 'projection' necessarily. Linus Torvalds can seem like a pompous jackass sometimes, it's true. But it's useful to keep in mind the context of this comment of his. Linus is a guy who spent many, many years fighting an unus
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by koeselitz 14y ago
This seems like it was put together with a lot of care and thought, so I don't want to be a downer, but - I have some serious philosophical issues with the way this service is currently being presented. Arbitration is not judgement; and an
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by koeselitz 14y ago
It's really too bad that Kaczynski was trying to publish his work back in the 1970s and 1980s. These days, he could have just published it on the internet, and that way plenty of people would have been able to read it.
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by koeselitz 14y ago
The argument seemed to be that this trickiness is minor. You disagree?
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by koeselitz 14y ago
This is a gross distortion of the argument that Take The Flour Back is making. TTFB cites legitimate and real scientific concerns; they don't caricature scientists as evil by nature. Their claim, in fact, is that the people doing these expe
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by koeselitz 14y ago
Probably not, since this article is about smartphones. Edit: but I see your point (I think) - iPod Touch users are also buyers from the iOS app store. The latest data I can find is on ad requests, which is only tangentially related to adopt
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by koeselitz 14y ago
If the people who govern and the people who give the government money are two different sets of people, something ought to change.
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by koeselitz 14y ago
Neat app - I love the functionality and the smooth design, and the fact that it seems really intuitive.
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by koeselitz 14y ago
The iPhone and iPad were absolutely not a "project" (the word he uses in the article) of the past five years. They're part of a project that started more than ten years ago. I certainly don't think they're old technology - they're still ahe
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by koeselitz 14y ago
On the contrary, almost all of the horror stories about PayPal I've heard are regarding shipping physical products - largely on Ebay. Or is that not what you meant?
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by koeselitz 14y ago
Some people are talking about how the point of this essay was to convince those who don't understand "the desirability of passive income." But is there really anybody in the whole world who doesn't understand the desirability of setting thi
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by koeselitz 14y ago
Given the (sizeable) advertising contracts Pinterest has already landed, people are posting and clicking on pictures of awesome clothes they like and might want to own, and other luxury stuff like cooking utensils; movies and books also see
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by koeselitz 14y ago
No. It is possible to ensure that people don't cheat even with FOSS; signing and encryption make it possible to set up a nice relatively-difficult barrier to cheating. There are dozens of parallel projects that demonstrate this; perhaps the
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by koeselitz 14y ago
It's not strictly true that he only has other people do it for him: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/134979 As far as the internet, though, as I told a friend long ago - Richard Stallman doesn't need the internet. The intern
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by koeselitz 14y ago
A counterpoint: Lately there's been a lot of discussion about some difficulties Facebook has had in the advertising sector. Jason Bigler of Google was snarking about this earlier today. [1] I realize this is largely because all the snarks c
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by koeselitz 14y ago
Facebook got a $15B valuation from investors including Microsoft way back in 2007 [1] when they had only 50 million users (MySpace had 100 million users) and absolutely no advertising infrastructure in place whatsoever; they got this valuat
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by koeselitz 14y ago
"Well, what do people do when there is extra food around? They eat it! This, of course, is a tremendously controversial idea. However, the model shows that increase in food more than explains the increase in weight." This doesn't actually
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by koeselitz 14y ago
"DuckDuckGo gets its results from over 50 sources, including DuckDuckBot (our own crawler), crowd-sourced sites (in our own index), Yahoo! BOSS, embed.ly, WolframAlpha, EntireWeb, Bing & Blekko. For any given search, there is usually a
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by koeselitz 14y ago
They've worked hard for what they have - and I think it's good to give them that credit. But - well, sometimes I think you have to accept where you are and see the strength it holds. When I was a kid, my dad used to tell me a story about a
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by koeselitz 14y ago
What's overly optimistic about saying that interpreted languages will virtually eliminate the need to hand-debug machine code? Isn't that what happened?
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by koeselitz 14y ago
Thankfully, they were right - it did. I've known a lot of C programmers, C++ programmers, Python programmers, and Java programmers; only a tiny handful of those programmers actually knew how to "code" (that is, write machine code.) FORTRAN,
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by koeselitz 14y ago
So let me boil this down. You don't believe women in general have to deal with "shit" - you think it's attractive women that deal with that shit. And moreover the fact that they're women has nothing to do with it; the only bias here is agai
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by koeselitz 14y ago
The article didn't say that, no; the fact that the whole article is a criticism of Mozilla would seem to be an implication that that criticism would extend to Mozilla's argument, but that's an indirect implication, to be sure. But the troub
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by koeselitz 14y ago
This is a bit silly. So the point of this article is that Mozilla "should be criticizing Apple?" Why waste a whole article saying someone else should criticize Apple? It seems more worthwhile to do it oneself. The trouble with trying to dis
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by koeselitz 14y ago
>> "That said, the FBI probably just imaged the drives. They're not as clueful/devious as many think they are." I would agree, but it also doesn't seem like some kind of act of charity that they plugged the thing in and tried to rec
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by koeselitz 14y ago
I'm of two minds on this; I think maybe Jason could have understood how chargebacks work a little better - but at the same time, I think Square could probably streamline this process. Most of all, this bit of one of the emails from Square k
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by koeselitz 14y ago
I agree that a lot of this stuff is informal, especially in the startup world. However, as far as actual legal implications go, this counts as a contract. It would even count as a contract if it were spoken; verbal contracts hold as much le
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by koeselitz 14y ago
The expectation was set by Microsoft. This is the first time they've made this move to eliminate dual booting entirely. They are making other unprecedented (for them) moves on the ARM platform in relation to JIT compilation and the other re
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by koeselitz 14y ago
Sorry if I wasn't clear. Microsoft has actually tried to require that any ARM devices on which Win8 runs cannot ever run Linux. The difference between this and the XBox is that Microsoft doesn't actually manufacture any ARM devices; and mor
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by koeselitz 14y ago
There was relay control on Exchange 2000 at the virtual server level. However, Exchange 5.5 added controls to the mail service interface, where they probably belonged. cite: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd277329.aspx

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