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by mwfunk 11y ago
There was a period of time in the '80s when it was widely assumed by the software cognescenti that microkernels were the future. A lot of companies were experimenting with them. A lot of these experimental OSes were based on Mach. GNU
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by mwfunk 11y ago
If the 35k figure is correct for SF, that means it's over 4% of the population.
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by mwfunk 11y ago
I had similar experiences. Going off the antidepressants didn't have an effect initially, if anything I felt more alert and energetic for the first few weeks. After about 6 months I felt like my terrible old self and had to start takin
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by mwfunk 11y ago
Of course you have to be able to get along with people, but friendship is way more than just getting along with people. It's being involved in each other's personal lives for non-business reasons. When someone is explicitly lookin
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by mwfunk 11y ago
All of those things sound like isolated incidents rather than actual trends. Just using the term "SJW" communicates that you're in a constant state of readiness to be outraged about that stuff. Just treat it like the occasion
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by mwfunk 11y ago
The headline is "Hardly Anyone Is Using Apple Pay", but the first sentence of the actual article is "Only 20% of people who can use Apple Pay have done so." That sounds...pretty freaking good? I think of Apple Pay as bei
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by mwfunk 11y ago
What you said makes sense if a company's stock price (and market cap) was correlated with the size or stability or profitability of the company. That's usually not the case though. People buy and sell stocks based on their predict
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by mwfunk 11y ago
If that's the most likely explanation, then you're right, it's not fine journalism- it's excellent journalism. It would be crappy journalism if they decided that Occam's Razor isn't entertaining enough and they
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by mwfunk 11y ago
You act like that's not intentional. If it's a feature that's there for legacy reasons only and it's used as little as possible by the system, and not one iota more, why the heck should Finder, et al expose it to users?
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by mwfunk 11y ago
This would have been a lot more compelling if it basically wasn't just somebody stating the existence of resource forks and acting like that's a surprise. If someone knows just one thing about HFS+, it's that it's kludge
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by mwfunk 11y ago
It sounds like you are trying to give honest, pragmatic advice, in which case your downvotes are unfair. However, usually when people give that particular advice what they're really saying is that the bad behavior from other people is
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by mwfunk 11y ago
It's gotta be a gold mine for stalkers, that's for sure. I don't necessarily want Joe Public to be able to do a SQL query and get back my day-to-day comings and goings with intersections and timestamps and everything. I'
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by mwfunk 11y ago
Very true- image mosaicking of aerial and satellite imagery has been around for decades. There were plenty of GIS and IMINT software systems way before TerraServer. What MS did was put all the pieces together with a web front end that nonte
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by mwfunk 11y ago
If one piece of hardware going down keeps you from working until you get it back, that's on you or your company.
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by mwfunk 11y ago
I wouldn't put much stock in the Jargon File- once ESR appropriated it, it slowly mutated into a platform for ESR's personal views if not a straight up wish-fulfillment fantasy for him. The most egregious examples were how the pol
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by mwfunk 11y ago
In typography, a glyph is a visual representation of any character- the Wired article makes it sound like the term specifically refers to punctuation, but I've never heard the word used like that. I actively avoid being pedantic about
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by mwfunk 11y ago
A tablet that's 2 lbs and > 0.5" thick is gargantuan by today's standards. Less so at the time of the original Surface Pro release, but still huge- it was 50% heavier than, and 1/3 thicker than its main tablet competi
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by mwfunk 11y ago
If an app, any app, crashes your X session, you should be far more upset at X or your graphics drivers than Blender.
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by mwfunk 11y ago
People have been revisiting scripting in browsers for 15+ years. The hard part isn't getting everyone to revisit scripting in browsers. That's the easy part. If Google couldn't make it happen despite their efforts with Dart,
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by mwfunk 11y ago
The poster was stating that writing Twitter was easy, anyone can do it, the only thing Twitter really has going for it are the network effects of having a huge user base and lots of visibility. I do think that Twitter's biggest asset a
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by mwfunk 11y ago
Regardless of the coefficient, it comes down to whether or not everyone else in the company realizes that the tools expertise is the secret sauce driving the money train. I think that's what the person you were replying to was getting
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by mwfunk 11y ago
Sorting humanity out into "nerds" and "biz guys" might make sense from 20,000' if you squint hard enough but like any form of tribalism it does way more harm than good when used to make in-the-moment decisions about
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It's a lot more than "habit", it's downright delicious!
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Very true. Our biases sometimes even get in the way of creating things that people want.
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It's not a solution- it's saying that what the OP characterized as a problem is a feature, not a bug. I don't know if I agree (maybe, maybe not, maybe "it depends"), but that's the answer to your question.
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This is the most concise expression I've heard of something I've felt was a fundamental truth for a long time, thank you!
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by mwfunk 11y ago
Or they have their own minds, which occasionally decide to do things you don't approve of. You're just as much a product of the media you consume and the ideals impressed upon you by friends and family as anyone else. It is much m
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by mwfunk 11y ago
In general, I've found that almost all success at anything worth doing comes from repeatedly failing until you don't. If you fail the first time and give up, you probably didn't care enough to do it anyway. If you succeed the
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It felt like Usenet died as a meaningful place for discussion in the mid-to-late '90s, for all the same reasons that most (or all?) electronic communities eventually die. Bad posters drive away good posters and encourage even worse pos
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by mwfunk 11y ago
I don't have a definitive answer, but I think it'd be from association with Gnome 3, which draws out all sorts of pointless and tiresome flame wars amongst people who thrive on creating (and then wading into) emotionally charged d

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