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by nathanb 13y ago
It is possible to launch a software startup to profitability without VC funding. I don't think this fact changes the "do what you love" message at all; it just means that you have a better chance at getting a decent slice of the pie if and
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Reddit prefers pictures of kittens over civil rights advocacy(tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com)
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by nathanb 13y ago
Tested on Arch Linux x64: [test@libros-dev tmp]$ uname -a Linux libros-dev 3.8.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Mar 29 19:18:14 CET 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux [test@libros-dev tmp]$ ./a.out Killed This is in dmesg: [2112052.363397] Oops: 0000 [#1] PR
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by nathanb 13y ago
I assume you have 32-bit (multilib) support installed in order to install Steam? Or is there some trick I'm not aware of to get native x64 Steam going under Arch?
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by nathanb 13y ago
What choice did they have? Comply, and trust the honor of black hat hackers? Or refuse, and have customers' data appearing on FTP and torrent sites within the day? As a Linode customer, I would rather them choose the latter. Not to try and
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by nathanb 13y ago
Yes...for instance, I use Arch Linux. 64-bit. With no 32-bit support. I want to support Steam on Linux because I think it's a good thing. But I don't want to install 32-bit support in order to do so. I realize that I'm complaining about som
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by nathanb 13y ago
OK, it bothers me when people say "Steam on Linux". It's really "Steam on Ubuntu". Some other distros are supported with 32-bit only packages, but if you're running a 64-bit OS you need .deb package support. I haven't installed 32-bit suppo
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by nathanb 13y ago
Very, very cool. Amazingly polished, and takes a lot of different dietary needs into account. Thanks for making and sharing!
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That said, it seems like there are enthusiastic players who enjoy the game and who continue to play the pirated version (see the forum posts he cites in his original article). I think this is an interesting measure, because presumably if yo
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by nathanb 13y ago
I thought the same. Should probably read "AOL Is Shutting Down AOL Music And Spinner; Staff Live-Tweet the Whole Thing"
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by nathanb 13y ago
Needs an RSS feed
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by nathanb 14y ago
Is this actually a text editor, or is it a social experiment? I realize those are not mutually exclusive options.
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by nathanb 14y ago
By your logic we should also build bridges and tell people to drive over them and see if they collapse. There is a time and a place for analysis and trying to understand, a priori, the failure modes of a system. As the potential for loss in
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by nathanb 14y ago
I dunno... A democratic government is a government that rules through the will of the people rather than by the might of an institution. A democratic currency, then, would be a currency which derives its value from the willingness of the po
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by nathanb 14y ago
I don't understand what "anti-democratic" means in this context, so I won't comment on that part. But I think the author is alleging that bitcoin is based on mistrust sort of in the same way that stuffing currency in your mattress is based
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by nathanb 14y ago
Apparently not, since they've been losing OPs contacts for years (assuming the article is correct) and haven't made the news about it yet.
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by nathanb 14y ago
Sure, if you want to convert my argument into straw-man form to more effectively belittle it, that is a very effective way to do so. A more accurate way to extend the analogy to transportation would be a company starting a free bus service
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by nathanb 14y ago
OMG big business is trying to ruin my life! The government are not incentivized to do a good job preparing your taxes. I'm not a tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorist. I don't think the US government wants to institute a program to systematically
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by nathanb 14y ago
But if they lose it, do they care? It's one drop in the bucket of their analytics. The incentives I have to preserve my data are greater than the incentives they have. On their side, they have some very bright minds and some very deep pocke
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by nathanb 14y ago
No, but I suspect I care more deeply about my own data than Google do.
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by nathanb 14y ago
Author?
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by nathanb 14y ago
Yes, the fact that a reasonably well-respected writer and English professor doesn't understand the inner workings of Google's infobox means that her blog post is terrible. This arrogant and dismissive response highlights the problem even be
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by nathanb 14y ago
I know, right? Why would I use a theme that gives me eyestrain when I need to debug my HTML?
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by nathanb 14y ago
I think the fact that this is still a debate is an indication of how Tolkien's works have endured. A minor bug in a program that few people use will go unnoticed possibly forever, but the same minor bug in a popular program will be discusse
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by nathanb 14y ago
Yes, this. There's a difference between criticizing someone and helping them. The former can lead to the latter, but they don't always (or even often!) go hand-in-hand.
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by nathanb 14y ago
Has anyone who created a Dropbox account AFTER July of 2012 noticed this spam increase? If not, it may be that the compromised list of addresses from summer of last year has finally reached evil hands.
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by nathanb 14y ago
As a second example to corroborate your point: my team has one remote worker who is unquestionably one of the lowest performers on the team. Not because he's less skilled, but because he hasn't dealt well with the difficulties presented by
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by nathanb 14y ago
Would he appreciate an intelligent guess? If I didn't know how much a square foot of air weighed, could I represent it with x and then give a formula? If he asked me who discovered the south pole and I asked him to clarify whether he meant
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by nathanb 14y ago
Takeaway: you will already be paying sales tax on your Amazon purchases in the future, and Amazon want to force other retailers to do the same in order to keep the playing field level.
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by nathanb 14y ago
He meant his stated rationale. I'm sure his actual rationale is to try and help the interviewer achieve enlightenment by turning his own pointless methods back on him.

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