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by kprobst 15y ago
> Steve was known for acting cruelly to people; apparently acted like a sociopath Stallman is also a sociopath by your definition then; remember his comments in some mailing list when someone announced they had had a child. There are pl
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by kprobst 15y ago
Tools -> Folder options -> View tab -> Launch folder windows in a separate process
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by kprobst 15y ago
Intellectual property and patents are not the problem, the problem is the broken system around them that allows these types of abuses.
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by kprobst 15y ago
For someone who tends to be dismissive of Microsoft, Gruber sure seems to be writing about them a lot lately.
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by kprobst 15y ago
I seem to remember Alec Guinness hit the jackpot on the SW franchise by demanding a % of the profit (gross?), so I assume this guy had a different contract. I suppose Guinness had a lot more pull and negotiating leverage than a dude whose p
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by kprobst 15y ago
I love the idea of having a touchscreen instead of a touchpad. The possibilities! Just that one aspect of this box seems like highly innovative and hopefully a harbinger of things to come in the PC world.
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by kprobst 15y ago
"bediger also mentioned the possible presence of "reverse shills" being used to pollute the Linux camp." Interestingly I've never seen this proven in any way, although I suppose it's possible. But extremists in FOSS are widespread enough th
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by kprobst 15y ago
While I would agree (and some would make the point) that Microsoft does this to benefit mostly Microsoft, it's still GPL'ed code that is now part of the greater Linux kernel codebase, so good on them and everyone else.
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by kprobst 15y ago
Well, that's only a $545 million loss, considering Murdoch bought it for $580 million or so.
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by kprobst 15y ago
Thank you everyone for the responses and information! We'll be looking at Kickstarter for sure and I'll try to report back here with our experience, if any. Thanks again.
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by kprobst 15y ago
Looks like this guy is looking for a job at Yahoo and decided to augment his resume with this in hopes of impressing someone over there. Doesn't look like he's even remotely qualified to be CEO of a startup, let alone a $20B publicly traded
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Ask HN: Your opinion on Kickstarter as a source of initial funding?
30 points by kprobst 15y ago|25 comments
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by kprobst 15y ago
ToList() usually solves most marshalling problems (not that that is your problem, but it's quite common). Nothing wrong with Linq2SQL, it's just another technology that has a learning curve. There's more than enough information out there to
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by kprobst 15y ago
Ah yes, Flashblock. I didn't see the little icon on the page, so it didn't cross my mind. Thanks for pointing that out.
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by kprobst 15y ago
Firefox 4.0.1 on Win7. No sound. Chrome works fine.
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by kprobst 15y ago
It works on Chrome but not on Firefox. Interesting.
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by kprobst 15y ago
Funny thing that, I'm holding a SecureID token in my hand right now, having just remoted into the corp network via VPN. Thanks RSA.
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by kprobst 15y ago
> Adobe Acrobat, Skype updates and the like. More often than not the installers and updaters decide unilaterally that a reboot is required and force the user to perform one when it's not needed.
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by kprobst 15y ago
It might be the perception thing. OWA looks more 'professional' than GMail for example, although the latter probably has more capabilities and obviously isn't tied to Exchange. I'm guessing this version of Office will be extremely flashy, a
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by kprobst 15y ago
There's nothing wrong with low margin, look at Wal-Mart. The problem is getting the customers through the door (or in this case through the website).
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by kprobst 15y ago
Everyone remembers the Pets.com IPO for example, but no one remembers that it was Merrill Lynch that underwrote it and made most of the profit on the deal. The problem is the market and VC environment that allows things like these to go dow
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by kprobst 15y ago
Oh please.
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by kprobst 15y ago
The Palestinians must have objected to calling it "GNU/Linux".
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by kprobst 15y ago
Except that they provided a replacement and a migration path.
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by kprobst 15y ago
Unfortunately it's just how the system works.
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by kprobst 15y ago
AFAIK Microsoft has never said what in Linux those patents read over, except to its licensees. And those are very probably bound by NDAs anyway.
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by kprobst 15y ago
When Oracle filed their claims they put themselves at the mercy of the same legal system that allows them to file said claims. The judge in this case is simply exercising his authority. You can't have your cake and eat it. And more importan
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by kprobst 15y ago
The issue is not whether the monopoly is good or bad, but rather that its existence creates what is essentially a monoculture. I'd rank that as more of a concern, especially when we're talking about consumer devices.
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by kprobst 15y ago
I've always thought Stella was the beer hipsters drink now that everyone knows about Pabst.
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by kprobst 15y ago
I think you're confusing "complicated" with "complex". The former is to be avoided, while the latter is sometimes unavoidable, and in some cases (as here) desired. This also is a basic tenet of software design as well. I don't mind complexi

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