mbyrne

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by mbyrne 16y ago
ergo, First search! http://www.crunchbase.com/search/advanced/companies/1
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by mbyrne 16y ago
They are failing because they can't even ask people to pay for their service. They skipped that and went directly to we are shutting down our servers in 90 days. DHH needs to give them some scream therapy about business models. The one he
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by mbyrne 16y ago
Comment value multiplier for LEGAL issues on HN: Hacker with an opinion about what the law should be: 0 Law student: 0 Harvard Law student: 0 Experienced practicing lawyer, but not in that specialty or venue: 0 Experienced practicing lawyer
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by mbyrne 16y ago
Request for fact check: If you agree that the definition of collusion is that "collusion takes place within an industry when rival companies cooperate for their mutual benefit." Wikipedia. And you read McClure's post that admits to discussi
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by mbyrne 16y ago
Do you mean the post or my comment is part of the problem? I don't think you read the post. Why do you bring in Peter Norvig and his level of achievement, if he got where he is by leaving the office at 5pm everyday, I would love to hear the
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by mbyrne 16y ago
Thanks for clarifying. It might be of interest that The Australian Court just ruled against copyright claims in headlines.I don't know that copyright is out of control, but what is out of control is the way that companies use claims of copy
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by mbyrne 16y ago
Please clarify, a great example of what?
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by mbyrne 16y ago
This sounds like a semantic quibble. It sounds like you purchased a "license." It's not a software rental, it is a license. Rental implies temporary use.(look it up) Versus, when you purchase a software license you can generally use the sof
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by mbyrne 16y ago
Actually it is a perfectly adequate analogy. 1. You probably didn't read the linked article. It was essentially a complaint that people don't own licensed software and that since licensed software interacts with hardware, when people violat
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by mbyrne 16y ago
You have a point, but it is more accurate to say that government is established by people to enforce their concept of ownership amongst themselves. Government isn't source of the concept of ownership, it is the enforcer of that society's co
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by mbyrne 16y ago
Question, when you go on vacation, do you rent a hotel room or do you buy a condo for that trip? If you rent a hotel room, do you take the towels, bed, and anything else that is not nailed down because you paid a night's rent so that means
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by mbyrne 16y ago
Clearly Grampa Simpson said it best for you: "Oh, son, don’t overreach! Go for the dented car, the dead-end job, the less attractive girl!"
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by mbyrne 16y ago
Yes, but split infinitives are a more powerful and better form of expression. To not split an infinitive is to create a weaker and less coherent thought stream.
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by mbyrne 16y ago
Post summary: Space colonization is implicitly incompatible with libertarian ideology because I say so. Facts, logical thought, proof, etc not needed, it's true because I say so.
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Noted Dunning-Kruger Study hailed by Dunning and Kruger(michaelbyrne.com)
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by mbyrne 16y ago
Picture here: http://techfreqnews.com/?p=298 Reminds me of my Palm Pilot.
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by mbyrne 16y ago
I just gave your comment one point.
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by mbyrne 16y ago
I just submitted a job request through that site to him, to fix some privacy bugs in a "large social networking" application thinking that would be funny. Damn, if he didn't reply back within 30 seconds and tell me to just "Relax, retire, e
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by mbyrne 16y ago
To those who don't yet associate the mbyrne handle with Bringing The Funny (as we say in my home country), my above comment was meant as an obvious joke. Probably not obvious enough. Probably not funny enough, either.
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by mbyrne 16y ago
In case your post wasn't a joke (like mine), the '06 is his class year, not necessarily his graduation date.
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by mbyrne 16y ago
Totally lied about graduating from Harvard.
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by mbyrne 16y ago
Did you invent the term "spinning" or are you copying it from someone else? Your explanation of it is very similar to some other text I have read, with just some different paraphrasing... Big Picture: You don't have a copyright claim. (I am
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by mbyrne 16y ago
So close to the action!
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by mbyrne 16y ago
Here, let me help you out since a "gallon milk jug" is apparently a little too big of a concept for your mind to hold. Picture this: a Quart container of milk, and now just imagine 736 million of them. Doesn't that make it easier to relate
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by mbyrne 16y ago
why wouldn't you scan your tax returns?