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by madair 16y ago
If by armchair commentary you mean 14 years of using and administering every major Linux distro, including a couple years of mostly Ubuntu, and having something to say about it, then you're right on the button.
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by madair 16y ago
Also today: the Hitler parodies getting taken down from YouTube.
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by madair 16y ago
Some many reasons have built up over the years for the educated user to not use Ubuntu: -- The pulse audio fiasco -- The network manager that couldn't manage anything but vanilla networks (I hear that's changed now, but I'm not about to s
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by madair 16y ago
Or we can just not care about Ubuntu and develop for all the other platforms... which all have system trays
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by madair 16y ago
You've got some big assumptions of agreement there with the whole consistent and friendly thing there.
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by madair 16y ago
It's a good example of how corporate policies create a pseudo-government and censorship environment, and our ethical ideas have not caught up to deal with it. Let's keep in mind WHY he was doing it: to send to other countries. But that's ok
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by madair 16y ago
This seems more like a complaint from ivy league college grads about lack of wealth in the technology sector compared to the finance sector. Color me unimpressed.
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by madair 16y ago
I am also American. Americans spend more than 50% of their taxes on the military, and I pay taxes here. I am not trivializing the danger of nuclear war or authoritarian states. My point is to clarify that humor does not imply triviality, in
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by madair 17y ago
Well I know that the thing that I'm making fun of is 40 years of schoolkids, including myself...IN AUSTRALIA, no less...reminded frequently in school to live in fear from terror falling from the skies of bullshit enemies designed exclusivel
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by madair 17y ago
That's not the same, $(...) is a method which creates a list. ',' is a string. So actually you're doing exactly the opposite of the python idiom.
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by madair 17y ago
Dude, I was sarcastically parroting, I even confessed to my own sins, lol (Edit: I just realized you're replying to some other comment that was deleted, oops)
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by madair 17y ago
It's not perfect, needs some testing on smaller screens, and isn't my favorite color, so I'll write another single-sentence paragraph to tear it down and ditto the travesty that is experimentation and originality, and, we shall see for hope
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by madair 17y ago
Counterpoints: 1. Redistribution of resources: Only so much of the wealth created by natural resources is reasonable to privatize 2. Redistribution of jobs: Some factory and service jobs are great and or pay well...but not many. Layoffs are
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by madair 17y ago
Well, I don't know if you're ever been through any financial trouble, but in my experience it is very traumatic and has long-lasting physical and psychological repercussions. Those people walking away from all that are essentially signing u
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by madair 17y ago
Yes, and even closer to Debt Bondage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_bondage Note it's a pretty thin line between the two, and this is a feudalistic system of peonage. The only difference from peonage really comes down to whether you a
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by madair 17y ago
TL;DR version: Welcome to April Fools (gah, tomorrow is going to get annoying)
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by madair 17y ago
His Lisp rant is great too: http://jng.imagine27.com/articles/2010-02-26-100553_do_you_r... It's my own fault, I sometimes try engaging certain superficial functional and Lisp crowds on the internet. Comments are quickly down-voted becau
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by madair 17y ago
When will the madness stop?
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Fixing Cognitive Biases to Shape the Next Generation of Humans(edgeoftomorrow.wordpress.com)
1 points by madair 17y ago|0 comments
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by madair 17y ago
It's easy to criticize these guys, but I'm thankful, for one, for a company that's trying to show us alternatives to the aristocrat-themed corporate management structures that dominate commerce.
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In Defense of Randomness(gamedesignadvance.com)
5 points by madair 17y ago|0 comments
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by madair 17y ago
Pundits' War
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by madair 17y ago
Legal != Moral
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by madair 17y ago
When I eat too much cake, I like to stop too ;-) I realize that's not scientific. I'm just saying the inconsistency is not a smoking gun, and was addressed within the paper.
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by madair 17y ago
Perhaps you missed the point of the whole exercise: To respond to a high-profile yet poor representation of RDBMS performance. The OP repeated this reasoning more than once. He showed that the facts cited by Digg do not make sense unless we
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by madair 17y ago
I think it's worth realizing that it's tribal behavior as much as anything else. Corporate fiefdoms develop. Staff protect their turf. In my opinion many people are unaware of the likeliness that this is the result of evolutionary biology.
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by madair 17y ago
Seems like many people do their best to get out of jury duty, and the ones that are willing can expect to be cut for being conscientious. The balance is tilted against the existence of an activist jury in any but the cases of the wealthy an
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by madair 17y ago
It's so sad that we, our society, haven't figured out how to put a stop to obvious injustice such as this. To think of all the people who must spend collective lifetimes locked away by abuses of power, and yet we seem powerless to put a sto
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by madair 17y ago
I understand affiliations, although I'll have to take your word for it about the young republicans, What I was trying to do is bring out the point that in the world of ideas there are libertarian ideas that are separate from the the Liberta
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by madair 17y ago
I was wondering if someone would call him on the libertarian thing. While the general alignment of the person may be conservative, aren't the ideas still considered libertarian? I've been considering a lot how to adjust use of words to make

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