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by nerflad 9y ago
It can't prove it any better than than anything else can bridge the is-ought gap. I agree that markets can't exist without money, but I think historical evidence suggests that they will create money in order to exist. Almost ever
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by nerflad 9y ago
Money is an emergent phenomenon of markets, and it has nothing to do with libertarians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coincidence_of_wants
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by nerflad 9y ago
Wow, I've been using Android since 2012 and I had no idea about that. Thanks!
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by nerflad 9y ago
That wouldn't have anything to do with the reindeer, would it?
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by nerflad 9y ago
Not if it really is responsible for keeping billions of dollars flowing.
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by nerflad 9y ago
I'm in the southeast. 24, self-taught, no degree (I was able to make it through Triplebyte, though I'm not persuaded that actually means anything). 2009-2015 IT/helpdesk/sysadmin, and 2015-2017 more dev/devops, all
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by nerflad 9y ago
I didn't have to show ID to create my Paypal or Venmo accounts.
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by nerflad 9y ago
I didn't think the BSD's allowed a blank root password.
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by nerflad 9y ago
My XPS 13 9360 was $900. Arch runs like a dream on it.
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by nerflad 9y ago
We're talking about searching in the Activities view of GNOME 3. I don't think it can be turned off (usually it's great if there isn't a name collision)
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by nerflad 9y ago
A GUI with a 1-1 mapping to command line arguments sounds like heaven. Of course this exists for something like GVim, but I had no idea commercial software of any kind was doing it. That makes scriptability possible!
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by nerflad 9y ago
That same thing (Calc/Calculator) happens to me every day. haha. I never thought about how that is probably affecting a ton of users.
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by nerflad 9y ago
I agree with you that it should be implemented better, though I've honestly come to expect this from Windows. It's just a bit extreme considering you submitted it to HN, where the people directly involved actually have a chance of
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by nerflad 9y ago
> The Product Manager in charge of this feature should be immediately fired. I hate this kind of writing. It undermines the otherwise good point the author has.
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by nerflad 9y ago
It becomes slightly more work if you depend on AUR packages (especially if you end up maintaining the packages you depend on!), but overall I think it's a great daily-driver system.
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by nerflad 9y ago
Yeah service to Williamsburg is still dicey. You can be a sardine on the L, or if you're close enough to the JMZ, you'd better not have to ride back after 8pm (one or more of the trains may not be running).
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by nerflad 9y ago
> Email provides ubiquitous, traceable, asynchronous, storable messaging. Until something can entirely supplant it I don't see it disappearing anytime soon. Long live email. Anything that replaces it will probably be a closed pr
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by nerflad 9y ago
Ubuntu on WSL lets you run sshd. You can get to your Windows file system at /mnt/c/.
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by nerflad 9y ago
As far as I know, WSL is "Ubuntu on Windows", so wouldn't this be a conflict of interest? Maybe they would simply work out a deal to pay a royalty to Canonical or something. Wouldn't that be poetic. I think it would be
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by nerflad 9y ago
> one could even argue they are somewhere between the embrace and extend phase. I see it more as grasping at straws to stay relevant. The Ballmer-era FUD campaign was mostly a failure (and bad PR). "If you can't beat '
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by nerflad 9y ago
I only see value for Windows as a desktop OS, and I think the intent of WSL is improving the dev experience on Windows. If you need a high quality Linux server, why not just run Linux?
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by nerflad 9y ago
And you just (mostly) summarized it with a single sentence. The fact that such a screed was written at all is a problem. These kinds of arguments require very precise language in order to minimize misunderstandings and deflections.
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by nerflad 9y ago
I think he's being fired more for the severe PR fallout that resulted in the way he tried to start the conversation, than for the content of the manifesto.
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by nerflad 9y ago
My point was, it's not a good set of examples, since they are so unlike each other. Unless you mean certain organizations actually consider them equivalent.
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by nerflad 9y ago
> "If they put 'make america great again' or 'death to white men' posters up on the bulletin boards at work in the break room, yeah, they'll fire them too." Are you saying that supporting a presidential
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Ask HN: What are your favorite IRC channels?
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by nerflad 9y ago
This was exactly my impression of LA when I visited for the first time last month. A city that peaked 50+ years ago (though, to be fair, that can be said about many American cities).
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by nerflad 9y ago
Wow, these are really beautiful. Great job.
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by nerflad 9y ago
Man, this brings back some middle school memories of back when my biggest USB drive was 128MB and I was playing with Linux live images for the first time. Sad to see why and how the project died.
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by nerflad 9y ago
My point was that I don't see the sense in the strategy laid out by grandparent, because I don't see a compelling reason to run Windows on servers (I say this as a former Windows sysadmin (as recently as this year, not 2005)).

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