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by mseebach 9y ago
What's nonsensical about it? Slashdot was very avant-garde, so fits well for a term coined in 1999. I agree that AJAX represented somewhat of a technological watershed, but wikis and blogs (which came of age pre-AJAX) represented a so
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by mseebach 9y ago
2.0 is not about a switchover date, it's functionality, or even philosophy. Mid-90s forums would be understood as visionary betas of Web 2.0 under this terminology. I concede that Orange Forum is definitely very early 2.0, possibly eve
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by mseebach 9y ago
Tell that to Microsoft, Oracle, SUN, IBM, Novell and SCO.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Wikipedia disagrees. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
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by mseebach 9y ago
Your beef is with Intel and the ME (specifically, the inability to disable it), not with Dr. Tanenbaum, MINIX or the BSD license. There is no causal chain from these to the Intel ME. It may feel good to have a target to direct anger at, but
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by mseebach 9y ago
Ok, sorry, bitter old man coming through: this is Web 2.0, not 1.0. For all the buzzwords, Web 2.0 was defined by the dynamic interactive solicitation of user input as opposed to Web 1.0 being just static HTML. I don't think we've
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by mseebach 9y ago
You're conflating different things. Intel is free to use MINIX which is exactly the freedom the creator of MINIX intended when selecting the license. You are not a party to that transaction. That Intel uses this software for a purpose
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yes it's whataboutism. Human rights violations aren't binary and the Saudi variety is in a different class entirely from the US.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Ok, great. This isn't a commercial risk (MIT license) nor a money sink (free). So time sink remains, and whether it is a such should be reasonably quick to work out (give it a spin, see what happens). No, I don't think we have the
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by mseebach 9y ago
It depends on what you mean by viable. Plenty of projects have fixes and features that live in forks and solve real issues for real people. Plenty more have bits and pieces copy-pasted into other repos, forming the basis of a new project. R
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by mseebach 9y ago
So you want to be the angry guy in the corner holding a grudge, that's cool. The Microsoft of yore was really yucky, and I'm happy I'll probably never have to consider whether SQLServer is the right DB for a job and that &quo
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by mseebach 9y ago
The beauty of actually free open source licences is that you don't need Microsoft to give a fuck. All that stands between you and fixing something is one click on "Fork". Sure, it would be better if they were interested in bu
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by mseebach 9y ago
They are primarily there for safety, and had they not historically been required for safety (early cabin crew members were nurses), but they absolutely have service duties.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Need? I don't need to see them at all. But business/first class products are sold as luxury, and have more staff per passenger than non-premium cabins -- it's not entirely unreasonable to expect them to pass through on a re
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by mseebach 9y ago
"Airlines" don't collectively do anything. Most airlines' medium tier status and up generally entitles members to some extra baggage allowance, but eg. British Airways basic economy has no baggage allowance, including fo
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by mseebach 9y ago
I think the challenge of a lot of non-aesthetic art is that the context disappears, but the piece remains, yet without the context the piece is a bit of a certain emperor without his clothing. A seminal piece of modern art is Duchamps urina
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by mseebach 9y ago
I think it's similar to how software engineers can talk about some language being Turing complete, referencing Kent Beck on TDD, shout out to GoF or even describing a type as boolean, without having read the works in question[1]. The i
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by mseebach 9y ago
As I recall it, OWS explicitly did not have goals as a group, this was something the common meeting (I don't recall the name) in each "camp" was supposed to work out consensually. The few (if any?) manifests that did end bein
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by mseebach 9y ago
Very literally so.
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by mseebach 9y ago
I largely agree, but HN has some blind spots in this regard - most discussions about the workplace, open plans, working from home and especially interviewing almost invariably descends into angry rants and borderline conspiracy theory. My g
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's not about people wanting to live near the coast. Living on the coast with a view commands a significant premium, but as a luxury, not because it's productive. Land simply isn't the constraining factor for economic growth
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by mseebach 9y ago
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong"
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by mseebach 9y ago
I don't think China has the nuclear warhead stockpile to kill 1 billion+ people. Wikipedia says "Current stockpile (usable and not): ~260" which means each would have to kill 3.8 million, which basically means delivering each
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by mseebach 9y ago
That doesn't kill people, just cause them to not be born - and won't happen in the next few decades anyway.
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by mseebach 9y ago
We're pretty good at disease control, see eg. the recent ebola outbreak. An outbreak of anything dangerous would be quickly contained. There are no organizations with the capacity to surreptitiously produce, distribute and release an i
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by mseebach 9y ago
Which is why we're suggesting different cards that are available in different countries.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Bingo. Which is why it's a quality not to have dependencies on any specific software when designing a format for longevity. XML has an absolute minimum of such dependencies, Open Document has only zip added to the mix, which is a forma
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by mseebach 9y ago
You don't need a catastrophic loss of human knowledge for this to be a problem. Running a piece of software written in the 80s, even with the source code available, can be quite a challenge. Support for some features of the current SQL
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by mseebach 9y ago
Just withdraw cash on a credit card from a regular ATM. Most "normal" credit cards charge on the order of 3% over spot on the FX, some cards further charge a flat fee, but this is still better than those markups. It's even po
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by mseebach 9y ago
I would assume that they will be able to get significant revenue from building higher-value-added services on top of their infrastructure. The "Borderless account" is a potential step in that direction: https://transfer

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