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by opendais 12y ago
> Backporting upstream patches by request, enhancing upstream, help debugging difficult, multi-level issues and so on. I also took it for granted but seeing what I see today, I understand. I guess to me if you don't have the experti
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by opendais 12y ago
> All software has bugs, and professional end users often hit edge case bugs that affect few others. I'm kind of amused by the implication that I'm not a professional end user. > Do you push fixes for these back into your di
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by opendais 12y ago
Interesting choice. :) Well try to post it on HN when you are done, I'm curious.
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by opendais 12y ago
Heh. I signed up on a website and put in a requests to turn my utilities on.
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by opendais 12y ago
Aren't those like $75,000? I'm curious what you are basing the operational economics statement on.
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by opendais 12y ago
If it is already up, link? :)
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by opendais 12y ago
> One thing I don't understand is why companies don't pay Canonical for support? Is it such a bad thing to pay for Linux support? I've never needed paid professional linux support. Or windows support. Or mac support. Or an
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by opendais 12y ago
> My main problem with these sentiments though is that Ubuntu still has marketing for some reason. Yes, it tried to make Linux more "mainstream" and mostly succeeded. That is what happens when you have a ton of money you can th
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by opendais 12y ago
Yes, cracking down on companies pulling these sorts of stunts is a good idea. However, I think a better idea is raise capital gains taxes on foreign companies since this "trick" only really benefits the investors. I suspect if the
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by opendais 12y ago
> For desktop systems it might be different, but then again in our lab (~50 users) most of our Ubuntu's users shifted away to Mint over the course of 3 years. Only one is still using Ubuntu. That is due to the awful UI decisions Ubu
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by opendais 12y ago
I downvoted because you make grandiose claims without any real, non-FUD sources beyond you work at Facebook. You just say there are "BETTER THINGS!!!" without listing at least one and why. 1) From a productivity standpoint PHP is
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by opendais 12y ago
May I suggest including linux compatibility for hardware? [e.g. graphics cards tends to not always support it]
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Safebrowsing Google.com(google.com)
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by opendais 12y ago
Anytime :) I misread stuff too :D
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by opendais 12y ago
Digital as in finger(s), not as in online or something. So transcripts are probably impossible if the coercion was purely verbal.
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by opendais 12y ago
That is what it looks like to me too. Although it looks like it can operate against a Mongo cluster so its distributed.
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America Fails the 'Rule of Law' Test(theatlantic.com)
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Census: 74% of STEM grads don't get STEM jobs(usatoday.com)
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by opendais 12y ago
Which, oddly enough, is what we have now.
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by opendais 12y ago
Jev, that is a bold move but it isn't going to pay off for you. We read that article and came to two completely different conclusions. That may be due to having different contexts about approaching this conversation. This is a tech sit
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by opendais 12y ago
Yep, we need more transparency and more backups of data apparently...preferably in multiple jurisdictions. Silencing people never works in the long run, it sucks for the people that get trampled in the process tho.
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DEA Gets Unchecked Access To Call Records; Taught To Lie About Source(techdirt.com)
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by opendais 12y ago
Yes. I'm aware the parent comment wants to try to ignore reality and pretend you can nuke the publicly posted information on the internet in the event of a fascist government. That isn't how the internet or public communication wo
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by opendais 12y ago
That isn't how a hiring process works. You don't get to arbitrarily redistribute labor across industries & fields with a magic wand.
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by opendais 12y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/upshot/the-pay-gap-is-beca... Eh. The pay gap is 12%. Please provide evidence this isn't real that is verifiable and not vague "look at the statistics". W
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by opendais 12y ago
> Because such leaks will be used selectively, against anyone the data collecting agencies see as a worthwhile target. So because they don't remove all corrupt officials, just some, its a bad thing. Okay. I guess I don't real
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by opendais 12y ago
Okay. I guess I just assumed you meant there was some statistical evidence showing it was fundamentally wrong rather than the fact I didn't prove it was exactly 26%. For purposes of my disagreeing with the OP, being 100% accurate on wh
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by opendais 12y ago
2014-1997 = 17 [to 21 @ 1993]. To me it looks like a Y2K bug.
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by opendais 12y ago
> Your implicit assumption is that supply is inelastic. But why should that be the case? I don't think a large percentage of women completely 100% refuse to enter tech because it isn't using more gender neutral wording and comp
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by opendais 12y ago
Obviously. However, speed isn't relevant since you can't erase your fingerprints of your entire life on the internet. > You can use this argument when you can wipe out all copies of a nude woman whose ex posted her to imgur or

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