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by mwfunk 10y ago
I think it's the general pattern that's off, and that pattern may or may not apply in this case. The general pattern is that a developer builds up a lot of skill with one specific instance of a broad category of software: a progra
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by mwfunk 10y ago
None of this matters. It doesn't matter what people did or didn't do in the past, and it doesn't matter what they'll do at some indefinite point in the future. This is something that's happening right now. I have no
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by mwfunk 10y ago
If someone expresses concern about something happening in America that is fundamentally immoral, unethical, un-American, and historically counterproductive, it ain't whining, it's called having principles and giving a shit about t
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by mwfunk 10y ago
No, because while those ancient computers probably do have amazing margins at this point, they don't sell in sufficient quantities to make a big impact on quarterly earnings. Those mind boggling margins and profits really do come from
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Presumably you are smart enough to see the difference between those two cases, given that one group was actively fleeing state-sanctioned oppression and eventual genocide. I would hope that no one has to explain that to you.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
He probably just meant "having the most resources" in some very general sense. But it's true, in terms of # of employees it's nowhere near the largest. In fact the vast majority of those 115000 people are retail employee
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Sure, but Windows had (and still has) a monopoly on desktop operating systems. Being a monopoly doesn't mean you have 100% market share, but rather that you're (a) the dominant player, and (b) your market share is considered suffi
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Whether or not that's true for someone, "looking at the keyboard" != "impossible to use".
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Climatology is science. You can call this or that environmental activist whatever you want, but science is science. I hate to break it to you though, I really do. I'm really sorry for breaking this to you because breaking things to you
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Like everything, it's a mix of good and bad. Maybe it does bring many of the noncontroversial benefits of the modern world to people who would not otherwise get them, and maybe sometimes it can inflict other forms of harm to the indige
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Unlimited SMS has been the norm for a little while now (5ish years maybe?), but it wasn't too long ago that the lower tier plans for every mobile carrier in the US (not sure about elsewhere) had a per text charge, possibly after hittin
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by mwfunk 10y ago
In this case it's the people with less money doing the complaining, if I read that correctly. The rural conservatives who are subsidized by taxes on urban areas complain that they are the ones who are getting screwed. That's red s
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Well sure, it would be much harder, and even more anti-free market to ban private individuals from setting up their own renewable energy sources on their own property. That would be telling people what they can or can't do on private p
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by mwfunk 10y ago
At this point, any hand-wringing over political correctness feels like mass hysteria a la UFOs in the '50s or fairies in the Victorian era. I see a lot of complaining about it, but I can't even tell you the last time I witnessed a
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by mwfunk 10y ago
This is correct. He wrote git after the BitKeeper relationship went sour. He was fine with it being proprietary software. BitKeeper only became a problem for Linus after the BitKeeper developer took away free licenses for Linux kernel devel
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Maybe that's a feature? If something as simple and straightforward as a mailing list is a "nightmare" for someone, I certainly wouldn't want kernel patches from that person. If they don't have the patience/tena
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Being comfortable meeting new people is unrelated to introversion or extroversion. It's a popular misconception that those terms have anything to do with being outgoing or socializing. Introversion might make someone statistically more
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I would guess that most of the people who downvoted it, did so because they were opposed to the idea of a Muslim registry (as am I). If you're opposed to it, and hope that he is also opposed to it, then the last thing you want to do is
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Just because doctors have to deal with moral hazards (and sometimes fail) doesn't mean that non-doctors are more reliable sources for information about pharmaceuticals. This should be some form of cognitive bias (maybe it is and I just
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by mwfunk 10y ago
That's not grounds for writing someone off, but it's not always a positive thing either. I would fail miserably at running a marathon, but I don't think that gives me any insight into running marathons. Going someplace where
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I don't know where you get this impression from unless you're only looking at what's currently (or recently) shipping. They've always used both and played them off against each other. Which vendor is used for a given mod
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Agreed, I know that noise-cancelling headphones are a solution to noisy offices for some people, but for me at least it's almost as distracting to have something (anything) strapped to my head for hours on end. And yeah, no one should
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by mwfunk 10y ago
And parents! They're the worst! Always telling me what I can and can't do, but what do they know?!?
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by mwfunk 10y ago
If you (the general "you", not you specifically, and hopefully not you at all :) are working someplace where this sort of anonymous nastygram to a manager is the most pragmatic way to make your voice heard, the fact that you work
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Downvoted for complaining about downvoting, as is tradition.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
It doesn't matter. None of it matters, even if this is all correct. Which it isn't, obviously. But it wouldn't matter even if it was. If you can't communicate your ideas to people without muddying the waters with random
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by mwfunk 10y ago
"Offending people" isn't "being honest" or vice versa. If they seem to go hand in hand, that's failure on the part of the communicator almost 100% of the time. There are tons of people who are totally honest al
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by mwfunk 10y ago
It's not FUD by definition because they are literally talking about their personal experiences. FUD is a form of astroturfing. FUD is knowingly and intentionally dishonest, by definition. If you're going to immediately sink to tha
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by mwfunk 10y ago
This is my fear about Elon Musk. In a darker timeline he turns out to be a genius gambler who was always upping the ante and getting involved in increasingly diverse ventures, each one bolder and riskier than the last. Each venture is lever
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by mwfunk 10y ago
McLuhan is fascinating to me. A lot of the criticisms people level against him are correct- much of his writing is composed of terse declarative statements that sound deep and insightful, but aren't really backed up by much. It's

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