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by krig 15y ago
Aren't you simply reinforcing his point, though? There's a deep and fundamentally unsolvable conflict between the need to nurture the existing good versus throwing it away for what may turn out to be a failure. That companies fail attemptin
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by krig 15y ago
The whole reason I end up commenting on HN, just like I am doing right now, is because I'm drifting from my intended research path and start thinking that maybe someone has posted some interesting story related to what I'm supposed to be lo
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by krig 15y ago
You mean unlike most other companies, who can be certain that their candidates are motivated by money and not love? Seems like a strange argument to me.
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by krig 15y ago
Just as important as trying not to be one of those people who can't see the forest for the trees, so to speak, is trying not to care too much about them. Because there's always going to be someone around to remark on spelling mistakes or ta
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by krig 15y ago
See, I just don't agree with you that the difficulty of learning is indicative of the relative value of the two languages. Yes, C++ is very difficult to learn and I'm sure Go is less so (I have a hard time imagining a language more complex
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by krig 15y ago
Hasn't Microsoft been switching technology completely all the time? They do seem incredibly fickle. Does anyone remember Avalon/WPF?
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by krig 15y ago
Heroku is a meta-adoption, not actual use. How much is it actually being used by the users of Heroku? The other two examples are companies I've never heard of. Of course my statement is hyperbole; I'm sure there are people who use Go, and I
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by krig 15y ago
I agree with you to a point, but I think this is also an issue that is more complicated than it may seem at first glance. A lot of the time, the older, more complex version had some initial design that solved a particular problem but didn't
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by krig 15y ago
I don't like this statement at all, sorry. It's a very anti-intellectual statement. Are any concepts that are difficult to grasp inherently worth less? That would make all of logic and math bad. Logic is not inherently easy for humans. We a
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by krig 15y ago
I am not in the USA, but yes, I think you are correct about the DMCA. Unfortunately, after looking into things it seems that the law in Sweden also prohibits breaking DRM. There is a provision that if I am unable to otherwise use the conten
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by krig 15y ago
I can confirm that yes, it has been cracked. Happily it is (as far as I know) not yet illegal for me to remove DRM protection from books I've purchased, although I'm sure that will change soon.
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Humble Bundle Mojam - Live coding for charity(blog.humblebundle.com)
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by krig 15y ago
I had to go in and delete the old version of VLC (1.12) that I had installed, and also delete the old preferences before the new version would work properly for me. The new graphical look in OSX (perhaps other systems as well, I don't know
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by krig 15y ago
I don't think I mentioned Apple? You say it's an example, but an example of what? If I misunderstood what he meant, then perhaps you can enlighten me. I did the read the last paragraph of the OP, and I tried to summarize my interpretation o
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by krig 15y ago
I actually think that the distros should be more aggressive about this, and do what OSX seems to be doing: Don't allow unsigned packages to be installed without a flipped switch. Why? Because anyone who can't figure out how to flip that swi
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by krig 15y ago
Well, it's down to who decides that an app is trustworthy. In the open source world, this is done through vetting by the community, whereas in Apple's case they can afford to hire people to do it. I agree that the community approach is like
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by krig 15y ago
I hope you realize that Debian and Ubuntu and most of the large distros already have this: Known, vetted packages, signed and trusted, distributed through a central database. Frankly, I think it's a great idea. People in general shouldn't b
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by krig 15y ago
"That's the same year that multi-touch interfaces exploded, low power consumption became key, and the tired, old trappings of faux-desktops were finally set aside for something completely new. " Funnily, this statement sounds a lot more lik
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by krig 15y ago
It sounds to me like they wouldn't be against accepting patches that makes Wayland work on other platforms, just that they aren't going to do that work themselves. At least that's what I get from this quote, > It's certainly possible to
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by krig 15y ago
From what I understand it's a replacement for X, or rather for the X display protocol. It's rewritten from scratch to take advantage of modern hardware with GPU acceleration. Official website: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
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by krig 15y ago
It did backfire for the guy who is hiding. The others got their sentences reduced in the first appeal but since he wasn't present for the appeal, his original sentence stands. So he'll basically either have to stay away from any country wit
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by krig 15y ago
Brilliant, I agree with just about everything said in this post. There is no credible evidence that piracy actually damages artists, and plenty of empirical case studies where it greatly benefited them. It is horrendously disappointing to s
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by krig 15y ago
I don't disagree with your viewpoint, but I think there are more ways of looking at it. Taking a systemic view instead of focusing on the specific transaction in question - that is, look at the pirate, not the piracy - might shed some light
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by krig 15y ago
I just listened to this in the car, and I must say it was really interesting. A lot of what Taleb said struck me as very insightful. Especially intriguing was his idea for fixing the economic crisis: Since any bank that is deemed too big to
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by krig 15y ago
Okay, so the problem that I'm seeing is that in your mind, you are equating a pirated copy with a lost sale. But that's an outdated and incorrect assumption, and hopefully one that time will deal with (when we've all grown up with infinite
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by krig 15y ago
No, I've never worked for myself as in paying the bills based on my own copyright, although not from a lack of trying. I, like many people, started out with dreams of fame and glory through music, but gave it up quite early as the risks inv
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On cake and piracy(tusk.se)
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by krig 15y ago
Now you are making a different argument, but I can argue just as effectively against this one. :) In my role as copyright superhero have I not only worked as an employee at companies producing copyrighted works, I have also, personally, pro
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by krig 15y ago
This is the kind of thing that boggles my mind. World of Goo was a huge success! How the piracy rate fits into the relative success or failure of World of Goo is not at all clear. I don't see how anyone can believe that there's a possible r
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by krig 15y ago
You have no idea what you are talking about, I'm guessing this is because you are too old to have grown up with tape trading, VHS copies of films and pirate cable. I have a contract with my employer, he is bound by that agreement to pay me.

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