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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
Does the fork still have the same de facto non-free license that plagued Plan9?
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
Facebooks primary revenue source also is advertizing. And they generally do not seem opposed to other sites (competing with them for users) linking to them (they've littered half the net with their like buttons), only vice versa.
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopp
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> until you've been in a bar and had a fat, bald guy Since when is being bald become a derogatory term? How do you expect to get sympathy for your position if you at the same time totally deadheartedly debase a group of people purely on
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> If her friends move, then she'll move. And every of her friends will move if the other friends move, etc. But in reality, it is enough if only one of her friends, the most influential one moves, and then all the worker bees will follo
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
So what is your point exactly? That the only reason people will stay on Facebook is that they already are on Facebook? By this logic they never would have gotten on Facebook in the first place, because Facebook started out empty, and everyb
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
Heise fought 6 years for the right to link to "illegal" Software while reporting about court decisions regarding that software. After countless lost proceedings in lower courts, they finally won at the end of 2010, where the Federal court (
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> Parent logs into his/her account, parent creates kid's account, parent states real age (10 years), parent expresses consent, How do you prove that it's the kids parent thats giving this permission and not a random adult the kid asked
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
And those parents seem to be beyond repair. They should be experienced enough about life to not teach their son useless ivory-tower ethis like "dont lie". He will find out about the power of lying sooner or later himself, and every year he
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> people will still remember Michael Jackson People do and will remember Jackson because of the music with lasting value he left behind, not because they remember listening to that music 20 years ago. Facebook will, wenn G+ eats its lun
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
You mean, like "Skype" does? Gmail has also been offering a cross-platform "Google Voice & Video Chat" for some time now. Hangout will probably be a rebranded version extended to include video conference support.
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
Gmail used to be infinitely better than everything else on the market. So closing it it off made it only more scarce and sought after than it already was. Now if plus is even finitely better than everything else, so that artificial scarcity
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
As I understood, the circles feature is especially suited to solve such "cant unfriend" problems, by letting you create an entirely similar circle but without the person you want to politely get rid of, and simply never tell him, so he'll n
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
I have been using Google's Voice&Video chat exclusively since the day Microsoft announced the Skype purchase. Compared to skype, the experience is horrible. The audio and video quality is sensibly worse, the number of random disconnecti
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> I have used linux on the desktop in some form or another > since 1998. It works, trust me. So have I, since 1998-1999. It never really "worked" as a desktop compared to windows. Never. Gnome 2 (the latest few versions) was the be
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> The correct way to do reverse engineering You should always emphasize that its the correct way _in the US_. As somebody already mentioned, HN readership is international, and said restrictions on reverse engineering do not apply every
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
That is the point of small languages, to be able to easily cut off the people speaking those languages from the rest of the world by deyning them information. Instead of investing money for access to these newspapers, the slovaks should inv
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
No free software. Theres no point in replacing one closed system by another, especially when the first one works much better. Googles system is only accessible through Gmail, is very awkward to use and has the "irrelevant addon" feel. Had G
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
I'm so tired of articles how bad/evil/insecure Skype is, while not suggesting any usable alternative. Skype, whether you like it or not, has no viable competition, almost 8 years after its initial release. By "usable" I have the following r
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by muuh-gnu 16y ago
Being straight out when planning a unpopular move would do them more damage then lying. Pretending to do the exact opposite of what you plan to do has been a standard tactic in sports, politics, warfare or any kind of games for ages. * htt
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by muuh-gnu 16y ago
> then you're still in effect talking about donations. No. Donations would imply that you do not have a business model at all. Just set up a business in a way that you do not care about people copying information bits. > but if the
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by muuh-gnu 16y ago
> many of us produce information of one sort or another > Sounds like the only way we should expect to get paid is > through generous benefactors and donations. Or stop producing information and start producing something which p
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by muuh-gnu 16y ago
And even if they paid more back thant the university invested, it still has not to do anything with education. It is then just a part-time money making scheme to keep the university alive. Since such investments into the sports business do
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by muuh-gnu 16y ago
So what is the point in using py3 then? They either should keep using the version with the largest library base, in order to profit from other's momentum, or invest their own ressources (money/time/skill) into making a py3-only library attr
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by muuh-gnu 16y ago
I see it, but I clicked away as soon as I saw that the guy writes under the name "Carnage 4 Life" and is proudly quoting some ridiculous gangsta rappers in his headline. Whatever kind of content he then may have below that, then simply does
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by muuh-gnu 16y ago
> This is killing Python's momentum in my view. It is not the job of application developers to keep up a languages "momentum", its the language creator's job. If he underestimated the momentum of the current version and didnt bother to
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by muuh-gnu 16y ago
> The GPL is sometimes a problem for commercial users of Octave or other free software. <obligatory-GPL-comprehension-nitpicking> GPL is never a problem for users. The GPL is a problem for rogue developers who might want to ex
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by muuh-gnu 16y ago
The relationship of Sage with existing open source projects was something I never quite understood. Instead of investing their knowledge and time into improving the capabilities of existing systems (SciPy, NumPy or Maxima, Octave) to bring
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by muuh-gnu 16y ago
Another nice Lisp/Clojure success story. http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/9203e07d197dbd29 Mentioning that, does anybody know what happened to Postabon, another Lisp startup, which went silent a while ago?
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by muuh-gnu 16y ago
Isn't it telling that you, if youre speaking on behalf of google i.e. working there on search, dont even know where your weaknesses are dont know where to even begin? If you have to rely on community input to even spot a direction for impro

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