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by madair 17y ago
Wow, wow, and wow. So you're saying better to trust a private interest than a public one, due to scandal & corruption? Okay, I'm trying to do justice to this with a response, but it's just going to fall into a trap, probably a libertari
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by madair 17y ago
This is phony. He won't say what his money is going for, because that would be a big embarrassment. People who are not libertarians should look closely at what he supports and rue the day that he gave $1 Billion toward making the poor poore
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by madair 17y ago
The danger of all monopolies. I'm not trying to troll or promote irrational fear, but I feel that the competition has been too weak. The hegemony of a single organization which has a clearly stated philosophical viewpoint with a desire to i
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by madair 17y ago
I agree with what you're saying, it's tough, and more tough than is necessary. It's hard to see how it can be "fixed" but I do think that the more social it gets and the more we begin to recognize each other even in the more relatively anon
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by madair 17y ago
It will be interesting to see whether history proves him right or wrong in his admonition to not bother responding. The invisible separation between the famous and the not so famous is getting thinner. The cost of not engaging with the comm
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by madair 17y ago
There will be inevitable negatives comparisons to Google, and perhaps some of them are right. I'm just pleased it's working well enough for me and that there is finally now a viable competitor to Google.
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by madair 17y ago
Perhaps a better term is to socialize. In a sense that's simplistic, but I think it has roots in the oldest social behaviors, but I'm no expert.
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by madair 17y ago
I write because I like to participate. I think lots of people do. Not everyone cares about being "discovered". Not everyone is hungry. Some of us just want to participate.
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by madair 17y ago
The opening presumption, that people are only interested in the answer, is IMHO wrong. But that's just a gut feeling, I can't prove it. But here's my thinking anyway: (1) It's a presumption that people are only interested in the destination
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by madair 17y ago
There were lots of DOS competitors at the time. 4DOS was a biggie.
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by madair 17y ago
At the time that this article was written, what you're saying was not true. I struggle to see how your response makes any sense in the context of my comment or the article. Word was not dominant, WordPerfect was, Windows was not dominant, w
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by madair 17y ago
Then maybe avoid commenting if you, as you admit, don't know what you're talking about.
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by madair 17y ago
There are plenty of Indian Jews. You guys need to, like, you know, get out, and stuff.
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by madair 17y ago
I just remembered, I was also running GEM with Ventura Publisher, and I'd use Desqview to flip back and forth between GEM and Windows. Was major pain relief because I had to use Ventura like that for awhile.
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by madair 17y ago
I woz there and the article is right. Desqview was GREAT, but wasn't much of a shell, it was a shell for the shells. OS/2 was on everyone's lips, and many people thought it was the next big thing. Windows 3.1 was just okay. Windows 3.11 tur
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by madair 17y ago
Thank you. Since 5 months will come up soon for me, I'll try not to go through it too :-D
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by madair 17y ago
Companies are still naming themselves in faux-latin? This is not a troll. It's a criticism.
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by madair 17y ago
The regulars who wring their hands over HN or whatever other site going down hill really should just go find somewhere else to read.
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by madair 17y ago
How about BOTH Huxley and Orwell being right? We've got the great firewall of Australia & China, and the camera on every street-corner in England, and coming soon to Chicago, New York, and more. And we've also got American Idol. We've a
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by madair 17y ago
I suggest a new meme: Showing banned content on iPhones and blogging photos of the iPhone showing it loud and clear. Or something like that. I mean, come on, is that what they are afraid of?!?? Note the difference between Apple and Craigsli
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by madair 17y ago
Another article goes to #1, and a couple people flag it. Something is wrong with this system.
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by madair 17y ago
No, it's nothing about forcing production of new devices. It's simply about rejecting constraints on the legal software that may run on those devices.
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by madair 17y ago
This is a suggestion that people should not be barred from producing or installing applications on their devices.
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by madair 17y ago
The familiar "only the market can resolve this" viewpoint. Regulation is also a powerful tool for resolving issues like this. The usual tripe about profits suffering and everything made worse can now be cued up and played...now!
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by madair 17y ago
There's a sucker born every minute.
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by madair 17y ago
The number one take away from this, for those who didn't know, is that Apple disallowed an application that displays lyrics, just because some lyrics contain profanity. Yeah. This is a significant abuse of corporate gatekeeping power. Why a
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by madair 17y ago
Hehe, touche in hindsight. I don't know what I was thinking, but I do tend to expect worse for remarks like that, given the heavy VC presence.
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by madair 17y ago
This is _Hacker_ News, we want to know _how_, not _what_ ;-)
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by madair 17y ago
As much as I like Rob Pike, that's a pretty horrible patent to try to rationalize. Pretty weak rationalizations too: They let me do the research I want, they get to patent it; And: Heaven is boring. I suppose there's a contingent here that
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by madair 17y ago
A 100% answer is like a zero-sum game. Good luck with that.

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