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by rauljara 17y ago
Legally, I don't know how I feel about the EU ruling. Something feels off to me about forcing a company to offer alternatives to something it is offering its users for free. In terms make the internet a better place, the EU ruling is full
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by rauljara 17y ago
"It’s like this: If you send data to someone over the Net, you can’t control what they do with it. At least cost-effectively. Or, if you want a good outcome. This applies to Internet Standards. Any standard that tries to constrain the way i
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by rauljara 17y ago
I wouldn't have a problem with the FBI keeping tabs on anyone who has publicly stated that they want to violently overthrow the government. However... Communism is hardly a monolithic strain of thought. There are many people who ascribe t
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by rauljara 17y ago
Sarcasm? Or do you seriously believe that the government should have the right to violate people's privacy based on their political leanings?
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by rauljara 17y ago
To be fair, the whole post is about how she is not a web designer. She implicitly acknowledges her shortcomings in that regard.
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by rauljara 17y ago
All true... except that the same flash app running on a non-windows machine will use more resources than one running on a non-windows machine. Full screen flash video takes up a ridiculous amount of resources on a mac, and an obscene amoun
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by rauljara 17y ago
Internet explorer's version of progress is not even close to caught up to what's already out there. It is slower and less compliant than browsers that have been out for almost a year. And 32% on the acid3 test? Seriously? You can tell e
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by rauljara 17y ago
Actually, thinking on it for a second, I realized that Apple products seem to bring that out in people more than anything else. Probably has something to do with their incredibly combative "I'm a PC" ads.
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by rauljara 17y ago
I thought it was pretty disorienting, myself, to have the yearly total for Android compared to the quarterly one for iPhone. Don't know if it was intentionally misleading or not, but I have noticed this tendency for people to want their pr
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by rauljara 17y ago
I love the example of moving the printers. For me, every time I get up from my desk for a couple of minutes, I get a little refreshed, and I come back more productive than before. Having to walk a little ways to get a print out is a great
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by rauljara 17y ago
Not to contradict your statement, but this is an often misinterpreted letter. If you read the letter in its entirety, it is very clear that Landsea is talking about the very specific issue of hurricanes and global warming. He mentions glo
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by rauljara 17y ago
Are you from America? If so, it would make sense that you would find people from the culture with which you are more familiar would also be the most boring. I imagine an Indian would be similarly bored to discover that many Indians search
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by rauljara 17y ago
Brainfuck is the programming equivalent of BDSM. It's all about having fun in the most masochistic way possible. In this case, a little sadism is also involved. The author shares the source code, but not the comments.
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by rauljara 17y ago
You are absolutely right that you should speak up if something bad is happening to you. For example, if someone is smacking you in the face, you should speak up about it. But that person shouldn't be smacking you in the face in the first
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by rauljara 17y ago
They are paying for national defense and the social spending that allows the state to exist in a stable fashion. The wealth of a society can only exist with the aid of rule of law and relatively social stability. Someone has to pay for th
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by rauljara 17y ago
"some men do eke out contentment, and they get there by gradually ratcheting down their expectations. Their appetites fade. They compromise, and rationalize, and eventually settle. That’s the loser’s consolation prize." The problem with thi
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by rauljara 17y ago
This year's defense budget is the largest (as a share of GDP) since WWII. Right now, getting our economy and debt under control seem like they would do far more to ensure our future national security than incredibly expensive missile defen
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by rauljara 17y ago
I think that Google (basically) knew what they were doing. They probably foresaw a certain amount of backlash, but felt that giving their new network a big head start was worth the risk.
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by rauljara 17y ago
I think one of the reasons Buzz has garnered so much back lash is because it really feels like this sudden intrusion. The other social sites bring at least as much noise, but you have to go and sign up for them. Once you are signed up for
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by rauljara 17y ago
Near the beginning of the 20th century, a lot of theorists predicted that our increase in per worker productivity would leave a population with huge amounts of leisure time. The average person would only have to work a couple of hours a da
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by rauljara 17y ago
Who in the government decides for what things citizens can be deprived of their personal freedom (i.e. arrested)? Who in the government decides when it is legally permissible to confiscate citizens' property (i.e. taxation, eminent domain)
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by rauljara 17y ago
I find myself having a really hard time taking a side on this issue. If a government, for example, mandated the teaching in school that it's people were genetically superior to all others (say in North Korea), I would say parents were well
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by rauljara 17y ago
This article details not only the wrongful conviction, but wrongful execution of a Texan man accused of arson. It's a little long, but worth the read, as it really puts a human face on what a wrongful conviction can mean for someone. http
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by rauljara 17y ago
That is the problem with these vague terms that are used to describe poorly defined virtues, isn't it? Everyone can take whatever meaning they choose out of a term like "beautiful code." For you, I suspect "beauty" is nearly synonymous wi
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by rauljara 17y ago
So, about 10 years until they make their way into pcs. Hopefully hard drives will be fast enough to keep up with these new processors by then. It'd be really frustrating to have a computer with a processor that's 50x as fast, but the comp
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by rauljara 17y ago
For real this time.
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by rauljara 17y ago
I agree with the author's point, but I really wish there were some examples. It's one thing to say that you're against stupid, boring interface design. I think we could all agree on that. But I bet we'd have a slightly harder time agreei
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by rauljara 17y ago
Sort of helps to explain why political discourse seems doomed to stick on such a low level. Simple ideas will always have an edge over complicated ones, and so politicians who communicate with simple ideas and hold simple ideologies will a
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by rauljara 17y ago
This is an excellent list, and I would love to work with someone who ascribes to it. I also find it a very depressing list, because almost all of those items involve an awful lot of effort. It's really hard to imagine many people even hal
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by rauljara 17y ago
I don't believe it's condescending because I include myself among the great number of people who have trouble figuring out my own best interest. Case in point: gambling. I love to do it. It is astonishingly easy to convince yourself your

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