mroman

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by mroman 18y ago
Allow me to add URGENCY for no good reason, it actually hit me once I saw it articulated on the 37 Signals blog . . . last big project I worked on, my goodness, I had the WORST neurotic and paranoid (I really do think she uses drugs) suit w
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by mroman 18y ago
I initially used godaddy in 2003, and have watched the quality of their services spiral downward at an alarming rate. I no longer use them, as their services are so incredibly bad that they add negative value to any project that involves th
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by mroman 18y ago
Ok, you don't think that's much code/of very high quality/of much usefulness . . . very well, I now respectfully ask you to tell us how much/of what quality/how useful code YOU have contributed.
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by mroman 18y ago
Good choice mate, and allow me to add Argentina, The Czech Republic, and Poland.
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by mroman 18y ago
Me too, and I would do it in a non-industrialized country (South America/Eastern Europe) which would save me money, and possible lawsuits/BS. ;)
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by mroman 18y ago
ESR has contributed plenty of code: http://www.catb.org/~esr/software.html Why do you refer to Stallman as a wacko? Why do you accuse him of being insane? I would love to read the opinion of someone trained in human mental health care ins
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by mroman 18y ago
Protecting Company Interests (profit) != Stifling Competition NDA != License to Engage in Abusive Conduct
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by mroman 18y ago
Yes I am being serious. Hate fest? Personally, I have simply expressed the decision I have made as a consumer in reaction to actions I find offensive by a company. I am also acting in my own best interests, as I have no interest in purchasi
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by mroman 18y ago
Because they are systematically violating the spirit of many freedoms they have benefited from, the Mach Kernel being a good example of freedom they continue to benefit from.
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by mroman 18y ago
Yes, serious, I am getting a Creative Zen Stone Plus right soon . . . Zunes suck :) I believe in talking with my wallet when it comes to companies. Buying responsibly is one of the things we can all do.
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by mroman 18y ago
I agree . . . and it is a shame. Never thought I would see the day when Firefox is the most troublesome, aggravating, and downright crappiest app on my machine, both on Ubuntu and (yes, I still have to occasionally use it, so I dual boot) X
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by mroman 18y ago
Well, this was the final straw for me . . . it wasn't just this, this is now a pattern on their part, and I am taking my business elsewhere because of it.
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by mroman 18y ago
I hear you. I have done the same for a couple of months at a time, and the interesting thing was that it happened spontaneously - it wasn't a conscious decision. I do think that isolation partly exists within a person's mind, as I have felt
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by mroman 18y ago
This is outrageous. That's it, I am going to refrain from purchasing any and all Apple products from here on, am going to encourage others to do the same, and will also refrain from recommending their products to anyone.
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by mroman 18y ago
With time, I have felt that loneliness, yet, after a couple of hours of being around people, I can't help but think about the work I could be doing, the wonders I could be exploring.
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by mroman 18y ago
Are you sure about this? Erlang for example . . . seriously, consider what Erlang is best at and then consider where hardware is headed in terms of processors . . .
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by mroman 18y ago
I agree. It would be great to see an analogous article written by someone knowledgeable in both business and technology. Interesting thing for me personally is that I have often wanted to read an updated - so to speak - version of that fine
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by mroman 18y ago
Update: it appears that the spam filter on ESR's WordPress installation is what deleted my comments on his blog.
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by mroman 18y ago
That's what I have most of the time, and take a one a day multivitamin pill everyday, plus lots of water (and caffeine of course)
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by mroman 18y ago
Correct. USED to be.
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by mroman 18y ago
The concept that any one individual could be representative of hackers is fallacious, and neither does ESR purport to be representative of hackers, even though many of his views and his style of reasoning are indeed common amongst hackers.
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by mroman 18y ago
Your conclusion assumes that startups are an intrinsic aspect of hacking, hackers, and the hacker condition. I disagree. Even if it were so, outside funding (credit and financing) is most definitely not an indispensable requisite to startin
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by mroman 18y ago
At the risk of being downmodded, I must ask: why is this article on a site for HACKERS? Seriously, this article is SUIT NEWS all the way . . .
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by mroman 18y ago
While typed communication IS a very big part of the work related to programming, it is not programming itself, which is what I believe to be important, and what I was referring to. IRC, email, are secondary in importance. Documentation and
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by mroman 18y ago
If you need to type that much, to where whether or not you can touch type matters . . . you are doing something wrong. Saying touch typing matters amounts to stating that programming is actually carried out ON THE SCREEN YOU ARE TYPING ON a
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by mroman 18y ago
Agree 100% Now, I do find that his values and politics and opinions are rather typical of hackers . . . While he has deleted my comments on his blog (and arbitrarily and unfairly so in my opinion) and is not the nicest person, he is quite g
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by mroman 18y ago
I believe that he is indeed a participant. His work speaks for itself. Now, his personality might be a bit abrasive to some (to say the least) yet - as I have stated on /. before - let the first geek/nerd/techie/hacker with the all around p
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by mroman 18y ago
What makes you say that?
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by mroman 18y ago
Well, that is good to hear, right on.
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by mroman 18y ago
/. Yes, you come across some ignorant and rude comments at times, yet I find that when taking into account the number of posters and posts, the number of quality comments - which is why I have been reading it almost daily for over three yea

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