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by mr_eel 14y ago
What? The advertising?
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by mr_eel 15y ago
Yep, justified. He could have simply told them about it. In my experience, Github is proactive about security and general usability of the service. There is no reason to think they would have dismissed him out of hand. The right thing to do
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by mr_eel 15y ago
My interpretation is that they have chosen Ruby explicitly in order to validate the general approach and to make understanding it tractable to the average practitioner i.e. a programmer doesn't have to learn a new language to learn a new p
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by mr_eel 15y ago
"I am not interested in subscribing to Stratfor, but I don't hate on them for meeting consumer demand." This can be used to justify anything. Just because the public demand it, doesn't mean it's ethical for a company to provide it.
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by mr_eel 15y ago
Stop writing flame-bait posts. HN is not your personal whine-o-matic machine.
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by mr_eel 15y ago
Well, effecting change is their stated goal. Assange has spoken at length about the idea of exposing information in order to break down conspiracies which an informed public may consider corrupt. I think that Wikileaks is a long way from be
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by mr_eel 15y ago
Anyone commenting about the supposed irony of Wikileaks putting an embargo on releasing this information before an agreed date is being naive. At one point in time Wikileak's stated mission was just to leak information, and this was done wi
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by mr_eel 15y ago
It depends on what Valve want to do. If they decide not to have the app or any of it's games use certificates, then users will have to turn off gatekeeper.
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by mr_eel 15y ago
Or conversely, they’re operating at a loss because they don’t charge customers enough.
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by mr_eel 15y ago
Ha ha, what's that, they gotta beg them from another source? Good job jerks. Regardless, at least they're publishing them.
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by mr_eel 16y ago
I would think that the first sale doctrine doesn't apply here. Purchasing digital goods is more akin to licensing rather than the purchase of a physical good — which implies complete ownership and the right of resale. Your question could be
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by mr_eel 16y ago
I use one every day, mainly doing RoR development. I also have SQL Developer connected to oracle for most of the day; seems more responsive than my MBP tbh, I think it might be due to the SSD. I also use it for image editing/gfx work. The o
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by mr_eel 16y ago
Sorry Wall Street, pretty sure Steve Jobs doesn't care.
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by mr_eel 16y ago
"So, does YouTube have someone sit there and manually check every video to see if quality would be a little better if the bitrate was tweaked" Of course they don't and no one expects them too. Have you seen the videos on youtube? The qualit
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by mr_eel 16y ago
Sounds like the author just has a chip on their shoulder because of some bad experiences. Certainly not all UX/Designers behave like this. It's a bit much to say they all suck. I've dealt with a lot of dick-head programmers as well, but I d
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by mr_eel 16y ago
Funny, until you think… yep, it's a dick move.
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by mr_eel 16y ago
Pure speculation. The anonymous source may be real, but we have no means of validating it. So, this article may as well be disregarded. Considering they have a set of cables to release and a protocol to manage it, somehow I doubt it’s 'chao
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by mr_eel 16y ago
I would hardly describe the implementation of the zoom button as a "core philosophy". "But the repurposing of the "zoom" button as a full screen button may come as a bit of a shock to sosuperiourme mac purists." You are overstating things.
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by mr_eel 16y ago
Melanomas are the result of industrialisation right? I can certainly accept cancer might be more common now due to various factors, but 'purely man made' is hyperbolic.
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by mr_eel 16y ago
I'm a relatively happy eMusic subscriber -- with a few minor complaints, but nothing serious. I almost see this as a sign of their current business model being unsustainable. eMusic started it's life as a cheap retailer —- subscription or n
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by mr_eel 16y ago
The irony, it burns! Aaaaaargh!
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by mr_eel 16y ago
Agree wholeheartedly. Many of the design choices in Scala strike me as simultaneously elegant and pragmatic. It's the pragmatism which has driven me to study it more closely than Haskell. This article has taken a complex example of typing o
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by mr_eel 16y ago
It's pretty simple. They don't want someone else's labelling on their products. For them it has no tangible benefits, so they won't bother. It says nothing about how 'green' the iPhone is or is not.
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by mr_eel 16y ago
"a man whose selfishness surpasses any recorded selfishness" Seriously, what a knob. Not only is this the truth of this statement questionable -- any one of histories tyrannical monarchs would have been measurably more selfish -- and hyper
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by mr_eel 16y ago
This is very interesting to me. The statement from Geoff Morrell seems weirdly passive-aggressive. "Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell made clear this was not a request" Which implies legal ramifications. "We are making a demand of them," Mor
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by mr_eel 16y ago
1) "When the Afghan intelligence services kill Assange," Who exactly are you talking about? The Taliban or the current Afghan government? Neither have intelligence services capable of doing this. The idea is ludicrous. 2) "Do you think that
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by mr_eel 16y ago
And he is correct, but that still doesn't mean that wikileaks is an anarchist organisation. Remember we know nothing about the people that comprise wikileaks.
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by mr_eel 16y ago
1) It's difficult to gauge the general sentiment, but as you say a lot of people have got het up. I see that as a good thing personally. 2) That's a good point. Wikileaks has the potential to leak material which is more damaging than it is
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by mr_eel 16y ago
"Its reason for existence is to obtain classified national security information and disseminate it as widely as possible -- including to the United States' enemies." That is _not_ their stated goal. They aim to expose and distribute materia
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by mr_eel 16y ago
What a load of horse pucky. The only notable thing is the decline of sales of DS software, which could be attributed to the DS nearing it's end of life. In a market where physically distributed games continue to make money hand over fist, t

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