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Ubuntu broke so now I use Windows(doctormo.org)
1 points by mindstab 15y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 15y ago
true, I may have been a bit harsh. More what I was going for I guess is that there are several larger problems than just some american amazon warehouse workers. Both larger problems in america of which this is just a symptom and larger pro
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by mindstab 15y ago
that's the problem of the american entitlement. There are still huge chunks of the rest of the world who would jump for those jobs at those wages. This is why most of these jobs that haven't been automated have been outsourced. This one r
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by mindstab 15y ago
This is the growing dichotomy and split of american class. You have the educated who run the business side and programming side of amazon and from what I hear like their jobs and get paid well. Then you have the labor force. They don't h
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by mindstab 15y ago
wow that quote has been around forever and still proving itself to be relevant :/
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by mindstab 15y ago
ha a flight search engine that only does flights inside the US? cute, but of limited use. I won't hold my breath just yet.
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by mindstab 15y ago
Isn't the implication to solve it for yourself you just need to go out and learn some other languages on your own time? that's how I took it and that's what I've always done. I've always been aware of the incompleteness of my academic educa
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by mindstab 15y ago
This is extremely not a zero sum game, the more the better!
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by mindstab 15y ago
and CNN too presumably and most of the regular media with other fields, politics springs to mind
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by mindstab 15y ago
It's not entirely about raw spending. How about spending wisely? Right now there's a system in place that allows drunks who don't do their job to keep their seat warm while keeping out young innovators who are new to the scene. Does this
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by mindstab 15y ago
no modifications to the code appear to have been made. Like they said, that would be hard/impossible because it's all signed off by Linus in git, so ever if they compromised the server it gets them nothing. They'd then have to compromise s
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by mindstab 15y ago
Ha they dropped 9.1% compared to the market's 8.4%? So the only dropped 0.7% below market average. That's really not so much. Sounds like they are trying to make it seem larger by phrasing it that way. The whole article seems a little se
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by mindstab 15y ago
People (including Ubuntu/Debian) seem to think that openJDK is just a bit slower and "less polished" but a fine drop in replacement. It has been my experience there is lot's of stuff it still just doesn't support. The saddest and most ob
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by mindstab 15y ago
Apple really seems to enjoy suing people. So much for their old "we're indie and fighting the evil empire" mantra :/
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Could the Way We Mate and Marry Boost Rates of Autism?(healthland.time.com)
8 points by mindstab 15y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 15y ago
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/08/why-im-n... Except for the massive issues surrounding name use and the triviality in which it can be used to grief other people and not just on Google+ but their entire google account.
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by mindstab 15y ago
mmm workflowy I use for lists of tasks, but for notes I use tomboy (a gnome desktop wikilike program). They both have different uses and are suited to storing slightly different information lists != notes
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Apple Seeks Ban on All Galaxy Smartphones, Tablets in EU(pcworld.com)
1 points by mindstab 15y ago|0 comments
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Dash takes shape for 11.10 Unity(markshuttleworth.com)
3 points by mindstab 15y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 15y ago
I guess "the year of the Linux desktop" may never come, but it also may be irrelevant :) Linux may still "win"
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Linux snickers at Microsoft's victory declaration(zdnet.com)
69 points by mindstab 15y ago|48 comments
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Penny Red: Panic on the streets of London(pennyred.blogspot.com)
1 points by mindstab 15y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 15y ago
They don't see publicly debating for a month about defaulting on a loan for the first time and coming close to being within a day of doing it as anything that could possibly shake investor confidence? Isn't the AAA rating for ultra rock sol
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by mindstab 15y ago
Isn't the bigger news here that IE has dropped below 50% market share (dramatically) for the first time in over a decade? It's dominance is kind of over.
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by mindstab 15y ago
I suppose a bit like firesheep has cause a lot of sites to start pushing SSL more aggressively and even looking into dealing with some of SSL's quirks that have kept it from gaining more popular usage
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by mindstab 15y ago
Depends on your definition of successful. But I consider it a failure for the people (in the case of China) when the government has a list of people they consider dissidents and when those middle eastern rebellions kicked off they just pre
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by mindstab 15y ago
What's to stop you? the government making it illegal to run hacking tools like "tor" (see the silk road/bitcoin post on HN from earlier) etc illegal and forcing your ISP to record any use of such and block you off the internet (see france's
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by mindstab 15y ago
It's seems like they are almost a caricature. Maybe they really are, or see my conspiracy theory http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2655040
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by mindstab 15y ago
public broadcaster one day government the next game servers the next trying to hit every demographic :/
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by mindstab 15y ago
Anyone want to go conspiracy theory with me and wonder if some government agency wants more power to go after groups like anonymous and wikileaks and so are doing this themselves to get both people and the rest of government on board to giv

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