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by naner 15y ago
This would also result in the firing of a very large amount of postal workers. Now you and I don't really care, logically you would only keep a job around as long as it is needed, but politically this would be a massive problem.
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by naner 15y ago
It likely was not completely translated by machine. Google Translate lets anyone reading the translation edit it to fix errors. Highlight some text and notice the link that appears allowing you to "Contribute a better translation" for that
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by naner 15y ago
Scapegoat. Sony is trying to dodge responsibility. Also I can see this being used as pretext for more legal controls over the Internet.
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by naner 15y ago
He says ethics are completely relative and personal. No. He did say ethics were personal but ethical relativism was not even hinted at. Those two ideas are not interchangeable.
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by naner 16y ago
This is not particularly interesting. He uses typical software and hardware. Nothing esoteric, interesting, or insightful here. Just a guy using a Mac getting some work done.
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by naner 16y ago
I honestly have better things to do than write essays on a forum of which provide me no real value other than an ego stroking. Could have fooled me. (zing!) Couple of ideas: - Proxy performance isn't enough to determine intentional perfor
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by naner 16y ago
I've used Enlightenment off and on a number of times over the years. The underlying libraries always looked pretty cool compared to the standard Linux fare (GTK and Qt) but the end products (E16/E17) always have a goofy design and an unplea
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by naner 16y ago
Several months ago I lost bookmarks with Chrome sync. I think I did something weird, though, like go from developer-channel Chromium to stable Chrome.
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by naner 16y ago
From the layman free-software nerd point of view, this appears to be exactly what is happening in a number of situations. This is a way to assign a cost to your competitors who are giving away solutions for free. 1) Microsoft approaches com
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by naner 16y ago
I do not know whether or to what extent piracy is responsible for my declining income. I suspect that the internet and the transition from print books to ebooks has more to do with it than piracy does. But I also suspect that piracy has a
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by naner 16y ago
I was mostly joking but if you were really going to do this you'd have to develop strategies to reduce the chances of this happening and mitigate it when it does. Maybe if you have a slightly bad reputation on Amazon that will keep people f
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by naner 16y ago
You could turn this into a book business. List books for sale that you don't own and this other publisher does own. Reduce the price over time until it is super cheap. Buy while it is low and resell it without the competition.
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by naner 16y ago
Ever used smalltalk?
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by naner 16y ago
Are you distributing .jar files to clients? Also you could email the project and politely ask them to consider releasing it under LGPL or EPL.
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by naner 16y ago
> The author has a long and excellent record fighting against software patents. Based on what? All we have is your (and his) assertion. I had trouble finding any history at all of this guy with "25 years software industry experience". A
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by naner 16y ago
So here we go again. Last time there was a highly voted fosspatents article here it was completely bogus. And everyone chimed in about how this guy had ulterior motives: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2355056
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by naner 16y ago
Still actually kind of sucks. There's not enough filters. Also they seem to have conflated "Sportscar" with "Convertible" moving all high performance hardtops under "Sedan/Coupe". This provides the odd situation where an Anston Martin V8 Va
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by naner 16y ago
It would be nice if there was some kind of hardware or OS-level indicator to let you know when certain components are active (mic, camera, GPS).
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by naner 16y ago
When commenters on MetaFilter started ragging on a recent Wall Street Journal story by Scott Adams, the Dilbert creator and sexist jackass When you open with an ad-hominem, any credibility you had goes right out the window.
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by naner 16y ago
Possibly not so serious: http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2011-Apr... There's a couple other replies in the thread but it is unclear exactly what happened. Apparently some bad blood over him redirecting ffmpeg.mplayerhq
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by naner 16y ago
KDE 4.0 also has the system configuration options all together like OSX.
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by naner 16y ago
I have no idea. The pedals aren't actually used for parens, they are used for Emacs keybinding prefixes.
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by naner 16y ago
It appears he has something to say about that, too: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/c2go/
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by naner 16y ago
Ryan Paul's review on Ars might be more useful: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2011/04/ars-revie...
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by naner 16y ago
It's equally important what you choose to leave out from your product, as what you include. It seems Gnome has included the kitchen sink. What does this mean? Gnome 3.0 is rather incomplete. You can't even change themes or fonts yet.
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by naner 16y ago
This is not entirely a joke for some very serious emacs users.
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by naner 16y ago
More recent: http://blog.markwshead.com/911/harvard-online-masters-degree... Thought this was posted here before but I couldn't find it.
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by naner 16y ago
I've had a similar thing happen. Basically, if I stay off the caffeine enough to sleep all through the night without waking up, I'll wake up naturally after around 7 hours of sleep. At this point I'm still a little foggy and I can easily fa
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by naner 16y ago
Built in content protection for streaming video? I don't know, that's why I asked. I have no experience with the MLB app and limited experience with both iOS and Android.
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by naner 16y ago
Is this MLB.com's fault, limitations of Android, or both?

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