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by rickmb 15y ago
I'm guessing they're going through the same emotions as every ordinary voter has gone through for the past few decades...
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by rickmb 15y ago
"shift towards"? The Republican party has been fundamentalist by all but American standards, and I'm not even talking about the more extreme tea party folks. Those are just plain insane.
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by rickmb 15y ago
I don't believe that for a second. I'm 45 years old. My parents were born during ww2. I grew up with black and white tv (okay, partly because we couldn't afford color yet...). But my dad, an unskilled immigrant, ran IT companies for most
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by rickmb 15y ago
> saying we're pro-piracy. That doesn't go over well outside this community. Just a side-note: that's not necessarily true, and a perception that is partially based on scare mongering. Vast numbers of people engage in "piracy", and it i
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by rickmb 15y ago
It's a classic move. Yes, people will start claiming PIPA and SOPA are unnecessary, and they may be taken of the table. Hurray! Of course, this now means that much of the evil stuff in PIPA and SOPA is already reality , but instead of bein
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by rickmb 15y ago
So taking a few sites down for a short while is counterproductive, but completely destroying a business without due process is the normal civilized legal procedure? It's time we realized that we are no longer in the warm embrace of freedom
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by rickmb 15y ago
Let's analyze the propaganda speak here: > Megaupload never complied with DMCA requests Based on not only the experience of others, but the claims of the DoJ itself, this is clearly false. > The site charged for access to, and provi
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by rickmb 15y ago
Oh please, I actually find it rather convenient. I know I don't have to take anybody who equates copyright violation with theft seriously. Anyone who uses deceitful propaganda and newspeak to hide the truth is obviously not interested in a
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by rickmb 15y ago
Is there any evidence Google is actually taking any action like so some Google-apologists are quick to claim? Are there any official statements? Basically all a see after these incidents is Google only responding when being pressed by indiv
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by rickmb 15y ago
He juxtaposes his "minimalism" with being an "overconsumer". His words, not mine. That makes him a bit of a douchebag who deserves to be called out on his bullshit minimalism claim, not just someone who's just "experimenting and learning".
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by rickmb 15y ago
In reality the blaming part is rarely true (unless the boss is a real asshole), and the rest is perfectly reasonable. Unless you're the kind of employee that needs constant hand-holding and micromanagement, you're still responsible for your
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by rickmb 15y ago
Since "don't be evil" was abandoned a while a go in favor of greed (whatever your opinion may be on particular issues, doing a complete 180 on net neutrality to get in bed with telco was pretty definitively ended the credibility of that slo
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by rickmb 15y ago
I usually try to be respectful of anybody making the effort of publishing open source code, but I'm getting pretty tired of you spamming your CMS everywhere I look. Especially since it is made up of exactly the same kind of procedural spagh
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by rickmb 15y ago
Google only took anything down "promptly" after being contacted by the BBC. The article also describes how Googles complaint procedure for mere mortals gets you nothing but an auto-reply bot.
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by rickmb 15y ago
One maybe slightly odd piece of advice: travel. Go out there and see experience how other people live. Because the whole 75 mile radius thing suggests to me that you a limited view of the world. That distance has very different meaning in m
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by rickmb 15y ago
No, this isn't "right". It may be right for a specific job with specific skill requirements. I've been programming for over 25 years, and I've never had to solve any problem even remotely like it. I've also worked with dozens of programme
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by rickmb 15y ago
Politically incorrect humor does not equal racism.
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by rickmb 15y ago
Basically Reddit is like hanging out in a bar. There may be some good, serious conversations, but most of the time it's just having fun and talking bullshit. And I'm fine with that.
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by rickmb 15y ago
I don't really recognize that picture. Besides the sexism, which is an issue (but by far not exclusive to Reddit), all the rest of that shit gets downvoted into oblivion by the community at large.
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by rickmb 15y ago
"most software is written to solve a particular problem and doesn't need to be reused" Sure. But most software needs to be maintained, and usually over a way longer period than the original authors imagined (we're sometimes even talking de
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by rickmb 15y ago
I feel the concept of "leaky abstractions" is being abused way too much as an argument against all abstraction. Except in the well known cases, like trying to abstract away SQL to give it an OO interface, the leakiness of abstractions is ra
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by rickmb 15y ago
Why do people keep writing articles bitching about the shortcomings of MVP filled with examples that clearly miss the "viable" part? It's like reading about people complaining BLT sandwiches have no meat if you leave out the bacon... Am I m
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by rickmb 15y ago
My thoughts exactly. Cerf uses a strictly technical, near autistic definition of the Internet. The social meaning of the Internet as a human right can be defined as the right to globally interconnect any means of communication that doesn't
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by rickmb 15y ago
Amen. The only reason why I ask people to bring code is to discuss it. It doesn't even really matter if it's their own code, or if it's good code. Being able to reason about code and discuss it with others is a much better indicator of a
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by rickmb 15y ago
Yeah, well, I can sympathize with the sentiment, but here's the problem: > I want less code, not more If been coding web apps since the mid-90's, and I've pretty much had it with either re-inventing the wheel or scouring the internet fo
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by rickmb 15y ago
So the guy misleads his users by offering a free service and then spamming his users, and then proceeds to blame the freemium model for the consequences of his own inappropriate (and in many countries illegal) actions? Am I supposed to take
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by rickmb 15y ago
By sending out unsolicited bulk mail, the owner caused most of his own headaches. Since when is offering a free services an excuse to steal from your clients afterwards?
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by rickmb 15y ago
Completely misses the fundamental difference between "not allowing", "not displaying" and bluntly " removing " the photo. Online companies seem to be completely insensitive to what is pretty intuitive in the physical realm: you may tell me
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by rickmb 15y ago
Apple's bullshit is strictly business. Google's and Facebook's bullshits affects peoples privacy, and, if they live in a country that values privacy, actually violates their fundamental rights. Facebook and Google are engaged in open warfar
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by rickmb 15y ago
Or alternatively, you could just say what you mean instead and avoid the whole discussion in the first place. But that would mean admitting that you were wrong...

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