mmmurf

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by mmmurf 18y ago
People get involved in free software for all kinds of reasons. I personally prefer the MIT license philosophy (pure freedom) over the GPL philsophy (restricted freedom)... the GPL has done better than the BSD license b/c it's more free, an
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by mmmurf 18y ago
Uh, so you're saying that the reason Ubuntu doesn't ship with Flash installed is to inconvenience users so that they will better appreciate free software -- because it <i>did</i> come installed unlike the evil proprietary Fl
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by mmmurf 18y ago
Correct. I have no idea why the Gimp designers didn't go with a GUI that is more like photoshop. Someone had a fork called GimpShop but I don't think it's had much maintenance.
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by mmmurf 18y ago
This is a pure publicity stunt by Arrington. He was probably suffering from a lull in traffic...
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by mmmurf 19y ago
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by mmmurf 19y ago
Consider the current regulation that exists over the housing market: - Mortgage interest deduction: In other words, you don't get a tax break for buying a house, you get it for being in debt b/c you bought a house. Hmm.. what incentive
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by mmmurf 19y ago
I have to say that these comments (the first 5 at least) are so refreshing. It's great that there are people out there who see through Krugman's propaganda.
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by mmmurf 19y ago
People who take the Tickle test are probably wasting time, so all this shows is that Smart people are more likely to be sitting around idle in Massachusetts.
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by mmmurf 19y ago
True, but adding DRM will make Flash the platform of choice for so much more. Why aren't there 50 competitors to Apple's movie rental product? Because DRM sucks and is expensive. Maybe if Adobe can make flash DRM 'just work' then it will
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by mmmurf 19y ago
Have you thought of trying Amazon's simpledb? I just to my beta login and it seems pretty awesome so far. what about couchdb? Still young but can be clustered and will probably way outperform any relational db for the stuff you're describi
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by mmmurf 19y ago
I saw a prototype on the road a few weeks ago... It was totally sick!
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by mmmurf 19y ago
this is awesome... congtrats EZ! Looking forward to using Rubinius in production.
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The real story behind Zed's rant... (news.ycombinator.com)
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by mmmurf 19y ago
looks cool but i solved level 1 and it's not getting any harder... or giving me a new level...
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by mmmurf 19y ago
not sure why that got modded down...
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by mmmurf 19y ago
great service -- been using fiveruns for a few weeks...
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by mmmurf 19y ago
This is any startup's best kept secret -- Good (and affordable) designers are worth their weight in gold.
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by mmmurf 19y ago
I like blackberries for extremely convenient email...