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by mkr-hn 16y ago
Someone somewhere is going to read it if it's posted. I think it's worth the maybe slim chance that someone will get something useful out of it. When I make a blog post, it gets about 80 hits during that week, then drops to about 10 hits a
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by mkr-hn 16y ago
Tribalistic thinking is something I've been trying to break myself of over the last few years. When I avoid it, I end up being better off. I used to be firmly in the "all conservative republicans are gibbering idiots" camp, but was able to
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by mkr-hn 16y ago
Yeah, that's what I was getting at. I've spent too much time in places (rest of the internet) where there's no real incentive to make sure your point is clear, so I had trouble making it so. :( Working on it though. :)
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by mkr-hn 16y ago
That's R&D. Manufacturing would be the production of discs or the cost of the pipes used to transfer it.
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by mkr-hn 16y ago
You don't necessarily give up freedom to use proprietary software. If free (as in speech) software offers no suitable solution for what you need to do, and you lack the skills or time to improve the existing alternatives, I don't think you
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by mkr-hn 16y ago
Canonical is a private company, and I don't recall any public mentions of finances. Where did you find information on their profitability?
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by mkr-hn 16y ago
Their stock seems to be doing well. It's above pre-recession levels. http://preview.tinyurl.com/27yrkwp (Google Finance)
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by mkr-hn 16y ago
They're both the subject of vast public ignorance in regard to the hazards. :D
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by mkr-hn 16y ago
I eat a bowl of oatmeal with a little butter and brown sugar for breakfast if I found myself having a lot of cravings the previous day. That usually covers me for a few days.
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by mkr-hn 16y ago
I think it's telling that this technology that has been used to wage wars, create and drive industry, and save lives has matured to a point where we can afford the CPU cycles for such calculations. Perhaps one day it will be able to test "y
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by mkr-hn 16y ago
Any time I've tried to tinker with a program written in C, I get mired in variables and functions with nondescript names referencing other variables and functions with nondescript names. I don't know if it's a difference in conventions or l
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by mkr-hn 16y ago
Everyone has some failing, no matter how high they rise. The nice thing about being humble enough to admit it is that you can seek out people who are strong where you're weak and ask for help and advice in that area.