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by pj 18y ago
"You can get locked into a cloud." That's a funny thing to be concerned about with respect to technology. It's like the old arguments, "Don't buy the computer because it'll be cheaper next year."
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by pj 18y ago
Man, that sucks almost nothing works in Canada. Hulu doesn't work in Canada. Netflix. But you have some good content on CBC.ca. Dragon's Den is fun to watch.
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by pj 18y ago
People don't like their labor going to someone else's profit.
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by pj 18y ago
This philosophy goes back to the days of punch cards. If the programmers relied on the punch card reader to inform them of a bug, they'd be delayed by at least a day and then perhaps more because someone else may be using the punch card re
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by pj 18y ago
Humans are going to come into this climate change crisis and muck it all up just like they did the financial crisis. Many of the scientists and promoters of the idea that humans caused and can undo global warming have million and billion do
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How the Internet Got Its Rules(nytimes.com)
27 points by pj 18y ago|2 comments
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by pj 18y ago
Oracle is awesome. There are lots of good database products out there. People laud map/reduce and all those fancy new toys because it makes sites easier to scale. For 99% of websites out there, traditional RDBMS's are plenty scalable enoug
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by pj 18y ago
Open Source projects are used in war technology. Linux powers a lot of robots.
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by pj 18y ago
How about we build a standard communication mechanism for websites that shorten urls and builders of sites that allow people to use them. Here's what I propose From the builder of the shortners' perspective, they need to provide an API that
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Paul Krugman Explains the Global Banking System(bigthink.com)
2 points by pj 18y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How to Inspire young people in computer science?
3 points by pj 18y ago|5 comments
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by pj 18y ago
What do you think is going to happen to all the people who got laid off?
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by pj 18y ago
Where does Journalist Programmer fit in that list?
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by pj 18y ago
How are you planning to pay for your hosting costs, advertising, marketing, branding, design, coding, food, rent, a car, and all the other luxuries in life? That money has to come from somewhere. How much money do you want and or need to su
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by pj 18y ago
How do you calculate the value of Facebook and ChuWe?
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by pj 18y ago
I have used Ning only briefly a couple of times. I haven't set up a site on it. What if they want to leave, the customers, can they just grab their data and go somewhere else? To another social network like Facebook or MySpace or somewhere
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by pj 18y ago
The labor is creating the network, managing the network, sending emails to your network so they can stay up to date. Not to mention all the technical issues of setting it up, styling it, making it useful, etc... Now, ning is taking all that
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by pj 18y ago
Web platforms aren't stagnating. What is stagnating is people's desire to give free labor for someone else's profit.
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by pj 18y ago
Worked for the banks...
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by pj 18y ago
The amount of money a "Web 2.0" site raises is inversely proportional to the value of the service it offers.
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by pj 18y ago
There is so much wrong with this post, I am amazed that it is allowed to survive in this community. You condemned me for complaining about a diverse world, which is not true AT ALL. And then you imply that I should not be using windows.
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by pj 18y ago
And if a business sold that trojan horse and gave nothing to the builder, what then?
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by pj 18y ago
I believe the situation we are creating is one where the most valuable jobs are those which pay people to do those things they do /not/ love. We programmers love what we do and as long as we give that love away for free, there will be less
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by pj 18y ago
I would encourage you to look beyond me and myself and ad hominem arguments. This isn't about me.
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by pj 18y ago
I have love/hate relationships with many of my favorite things in life. Open Source is at the edge. It is creative and beautiful and also very dangerous and manipulated by greedy people who promote it because it enables them to make more
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by pj 18y ago
It would be silly for me to be "pissed" about something that is not true. You are missing the point. Programmers, we love what we do. I know that. I know it makes us happy to write good software and to tinker and experiment. I do it myself
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by pj 18y ago
Many of those projects were started by college students. Linux was a fork of another flavor of unix started by Linus Torvalds when he was a masters student. Apache started as a proof of concept during the early days of the internet and mo
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by pj 18y ago
So why doesn't jeff atwood code up a website where people can donate funds to get bugs fixed? What he is arguing for is called commercial software. Buy software from good software companies that use the money to feed, clothe, and house the
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by pj 18y ago
Thanks everyone.
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by pj 18y ago
Cool, taken! Good luck.

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