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by mycroftiv 16y ago
I can't tell if this is actual insubordination, or an AOL-approved PR move designed to emphasize that Techcrunch will still be pugnacious.
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by mycroftiv 16y ago
You seem to have missed the point I was trying to make. I am well aware that Lessig has been "one of the good guys" - in fact, before reading this review, he was more or less a hero to me. I am actually shocked that Lessig seems to care as
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by mycroftiv 16y ago
I'm guessing you only read the first sentence of my comment. I directly quote the opening sentence of Lessig's summation paragraph from the second page.
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by mycroftiv 16y ago
That is not a "review" so much as it is Lessig expressing hero-worship of Mark Zuckerberg and attempting to minimize the numerous substantive charges of unethical behavior that have been directed at Zuckerberg. The summation paragraph begin
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by mycroftiv 16y ago
The key lesson seems to be that ease-of-use is of absolutely paramount importance. Maybe this can even be expressed in mathematical terms: you can't just look at the "raw value" provided by a service, you have to look at the ratio of valu
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by mycroftiv 16y ago
Actually, I believe we are in agreement, for the most part. In particular, I think that DVCS are immensely helpful for encouraging "piggyback" development. It may be that the obstacles to code re-use and cooperation are mostly technical iss
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by mycroftiv 16y ago
A very nice reply, thank you. I believe though that there is a real problem of code reuse vs. reinventing the wheel in the FOSS community. One of the main rationales of open source is collaboration, but very often, developers choose to begi
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by mycroftiv 16y ago
I'm confused by this. I thought the license used by a compiler had no effect on the licenses that could be used for programs compiled by it. If the author of Nuitka is claiming that software compiled by Nuitka is in fact a derivative work o
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by mycroftiv 16y ago
What features needed by this site are unsupported by Firefox? It looks like it works with Webkit browsers only? Also, what is the offline storage needed for? As a Firefox user, it seems incongruous that the website tells me it won't work wi
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by mycroftiv 16y ago
Arrington's post says all the right things, but it does not contain the word "money". It's not a dirty or shameful word, and a discussion of a sale of a company that makes no reference to it is obviously incomplete.
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by mycroftiv 16y ago
I sympathize with frustration at poor software packaging, but the proposed solution seems completely disproportionate to the offense. I also don't see any real evidence presented for the assertion that Debian's policies are based on a corru
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by mycroftiv 16y ago
I use Plan 9 extensively and intensively, and I believe there are multiple reasons why it is comparatively little-known and little-used. I think the most important reason is the historical conflict over software patents between Rob Pike and
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by mycroftiv 16y ago
After years of lurking on Hacker News, I finally created an account simply to be able to post the strongest agreement possible with the original post. I do not use Facebook, and I do not wish to use Facebook, and I do not believe that I s