nirvana

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by nirvana 14y ago
It's a shame that you chose to ignore the point I was making, and instead post this snide, narrow minded response. Alas, this is typical of the anti-intellectualism that pervades hacker news these days. Of course the reason you did this is
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by nirvana 14y ago
I can't speak to the other companies, though I know google want's "all the worlds info at your fingertips" which is a reasonably high ideal... I can speak to what Apple is doing as someone whose followed the company closely for a couple dec
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by nirvana 14y ago
Sometimes, "Fuck out" is the most polite, concise, and well reasoned response someone can give, because it points out how you've been treating them. What you fail to realize, even to this day, is that you said "Fuck you" to him FIRST. Then
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by nirvana 14y ago
For me, Mint was a terrible experience. They want the passwords to your bank accounts, and even then they never could sync correctly or reliably...
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by nirvana 14y ago
Something that had a huge positive impact on me financially was getting Quicken. Simply tracking my expenses and the flow of money changed the way I spent. For one thing, I realized that I wasn't spending too much money eating out (as I'd
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by nirvana 14y ago
You seem to be operating under a popular misunderstanding of what Godwin said. Godwin said, merely, that if the discussion goes on long enough, eventually the nazi era will be mentioned. He never said it was always inappropriate to mention
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by nirvana 14y ago
So, if someone made a webstie that was pro-marijuana, would you assume that was a crime? They're encouraging/tolerating piracy. The pirate bay did not host nor distribute any pirated files. So where's the crime?
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by nirvana 14y ago
As countries become more corrupted, their "legal" system becomes less about the law and justice, and more an arm of the state to impose its will. I've seen countless examples of this, where the law was ignored, precedent and procedure was
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by nirvana 14y ago
There's a tendency in the "tech" press to focus on a very narrow idea of "share". When they say "market share" they are almost always talking about new unit sales. This is because it's a lot cheaper to just take reports from companies tha
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by nirvana 14y ago
You don't, there's also elixir - http://elixir-lang.org . Elixir runs on the erlang VM but has a "nicer" syntax. (Nicer for some people, I don't mind it, but I don't think the syntax of erlang is a problem.) Elixir is working its way to
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by nirvana 14y ago
That Apple makes the iPhone and iPad is not a secret. The article you link to is talking about stats that apps are reporting over the internet... the apps have to know what kind of device they are running on, and have to be able to handle
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by nirvana 14y ago
While I agree that Dunn & Bradstreet (the issuers of the DUNS number) is a "scam"[1], there are several errors in this article. The first is, that Apple was getting extreme heat for how long it was taking for them to verify companies.
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by nirvana 14y ago
This is the method I used in the past when I needed a DUNS number for other reasons. However, recently trying this did not work at all. They simply email back saying "You're not a contractor for the US government" and then close the reque
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by nirvana 14y ago
That's what I love about it. It is a very classic logo. It evokes for me the idea that it was designed for a high tech company in a sci-fi film. Like Cyberdyne Systems or TYRELL Corp.
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by nirvana 14y ago
Dynamo seems to be still pretty early in development. You might want to watch the video linked to the page from the 0redev conference. He doesn't talk about dynamo much, but he does give "2013" as the date for Dynamo. On the WebSockets is
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by nirvana 14y ago
Also, if you watch the video, at about the 30 minute mark he does a demo writing code on the spot... it's pretty cool. Also, props to yrashk (HN handle) - part of why the elixir community rocks.
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by nirvana 14y ago
I've just recently started working with Elixir for a major project. I actually like the Erlang syntax so don't need Elixir for the syntax, but for some other features that are useful for me. The community around Elixir is small, but VERY g
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by nirvana 14y ago
It's ok, they'll make it up in volume. I'm only half joking, the fact that PRIME is part of their retail sales program means that they do make more sales to PRIME members. If their deals for content are cheap enough, it could work without
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by nirvana 14y ago
You're correct on everything, except for the "marketing plans and promotion", which were not deceptive, nor illegal. Making it clear that the Liberty Dollar was NOT from the government was one of the key selling points they promoted. Unfort
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by nirvana 14y ago
Absolutely, you're right. And that's what I'm doing. I'm using a machine curation service that is in beta. Unfortunately it's little more than a "subscribe to several RSS feeds at once by expressing an interest in a general topic"... but
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by nirvana 14y ago
Oh, an insult! How original! And blame the victim for pointing out that you're blaming the victim. What a clever retort! My argument that the site was overrun with this kind of stuff is only supported by you continuing to produce it. So,
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by nirvana 14y ago
>"I characterize it as you being an asshole" Because you cannot argue to the point, and in doing so, you prove my point. But by admitting it, you lost the debate. You are the problem. There is no excuse for this. I know if I returned
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by nirvana 14y ago
Here's some specifics: Anything having to do with the 2008 fiscal crisis. Anything having to do with monetary policy in general. Hell, just try pointing out that the IR absorption of CO2 is less than that of water vapor (eg: clouds) in a di
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by nirvana 14y ago
I was open to that hypothesis until I posted "Apple licensed the technology in Mac OS from Xerox via an arrangment that gave Xerox pre-IPO shares of Apple", and that comment was downvoted to oblivion. (Of course, that's not the only one.)
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by nirvana 14y ago
Edit to add this Disclosure: His opposition to me is he's an Apple hater and I'm not. That's the background behind him deciding to call me names. Of course, since he regularly characterizes me, he chooses to accuse me of characterizing ot
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by nirvana 14y ago
This is very interesting, and I hope it is a success. Since the government can't shut down bitcoins by stealing them (how they ended the last attempt at a sound currency- the FBI perpetrated a heist where they stole $8M in Platinum, Gold an
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by nirvana 14y ago
Hacker News has become the source of the noise for me and I'm increasingly not coming here. I often block it in my hosts file, in fact, along with reddit and Facebook. There is still, occasionally, a relevant technical article (that's not
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by nirvana 14y ago
I disagree. I think writing code to solve whatever small problem you're having right now is better. No point in recreating the wheel ,which is boring, and will result in something you'll never actually use because, well, cat already exist
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by nirvana 14y ago
Oh, such a disaster. The UK legal system is shown to be the joke it is, sowing contempt among thinking people everywhere. The mindless apple haters whoop and cheer and continue their petulant childishness. Samsung, and android, still fail i
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by nirvana 14y ago
It's not libel because it's true. This just shows how much of a joke the UK legal system is. And you guys getting excited about where the notice appears on the page shows just what petty and petulant jokes you are.

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