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by rickmb 14y ago
I find the notion that the SOPA protest woke up us previously apathetic Europeans somewhat insultingly US-centric. Prior to SOPA, resistance against increasingly insane copyright legislation was considerably more widespread than it was in t
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by rickmb 14y ago
Cultural? With the same excuse you could call keeping black people as slaves or treating women as second rate citizens "cultural". Excluding gay people from marriage is about discrimination, hatred and bigotry. It's not about changing other
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by rickmb 14y ago
Although I agree with that in principle, I think an exception can be made for anti-discrimination efforts, especially if said discrimination directly affects many company employees and shareholders.
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by rickmb 14y ago
Straight, simple and to the point. Nice. Missing test and QA tools though. Probably an oversight, since the author does suggest following Derick Rethans and Sebastian Bergmann. And another one: read up on the SPL library before you start re
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by rickmb 14y ago
Probably because the number of people with "software architect" on their business cards greatly outnumber the number of "enterprise software systems that span multiple divisions and locations of an enterprise with 30,000+ people in 100 coun
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by rickmb 14y ago
"more influence" isn't good enough in a democracy. These are supposed to be the people's representatives. Calling the treaty a "constitution" without it guaranteeing civil rights and true democracy was an insult to the people, and quite rig
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by rickmb 14y ago
As expected. Even most pro-ACTA parties voted against to save their countries leaders from having to find another way out of this mess now that public opinion turned against it. Blaming the EU parliament is a relatively cheap and easy way t
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by rickmb 14y ago
"you end up stuffing too much code into your controllers, because you don't know where else to put it" And that wouldn't happen to have anything to do with the fact that "you" either don't know any other patterns or solutions besides MVC, o
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by rickmb 14y ago
Don't take it personally, but I've seen a lot of confirmation bias from ex-PHP developers. Often from developers who may, thanks to language Y, write more elegant code on the line / function level, but still create the same architectural me
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by rickmb 14y ago
Those pictures do not properly reflect the dramatic difference in design. And I suspect you picked those deliberately. But more importantly, the next generation of Nano's looked a lot more like the original mini, including the metal and the
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by rickmb 14y ago
If we ever build computers smart enough for that, they'll probably also be smart enough to tell us to go f * ourselves. Even more probable if by that time we are still preoccupied with social networking trivialities.
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by rickmb 14y ago
On some days, most of HN seems like satire to me.
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by rickmb 14y ago
Wow, that is a ridiculously suggestive hit piece you're linking to, but even that doesn't justify your claim, since even in that piece neither Assange (who isn't even quoted in it) nor his lawyer says anything of the kind. It's merely his l
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by rickmb 14y ago
Seems to me Assange isn't so much afraid of being extradited to US (there is a truckload of ways to fight that if it ever comes to that) but of actually being convicted in Sweden. The Piratebay trials have shown how corrupted the Swedish ju
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by rickmb 14y ago
And neither of them are theft. Calling it "stealing" is political propaganda as part of an agenda aimed at poisoning any constructive debate about the future of copyright in the information age. Language matters, especially in this context,
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by rickmb 14y ago
The Netherlands, but I think the same goes for most of Western Europe, especially the Northern half. Which unfortunately for HBO is also the primary potential market outside North America, both in terms of disposable income and the kind of
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by rickmb 14y ago
It's ironic that the amount in the form is in US dollars. In much the rest of the world, it's already pretty much game over. A whole generation has learned to "pirate" these shows because it's the only available option. This is the reality
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by rickmb 14y ago
You're conflating three separate concepts. There's nothing inherently wrong with quoting the part you're reacting to, and it can be done without resorting to flaming or Fisking.
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by rickmb 14y ago
Does his comment contribute something? I think it does. Does yours? I don't think so. So which one you think lowers the standards of HN?
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by rickmb 14y ago
questioned <> charged
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by rickmb 14y ago
> I find it unlikely that there is a big conspiracy involving America though. Because there is absolutely no recent history of the US conspiring with friendly governments to circumvent the rule of law and illegally transporting, impriso
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by rickmb 14y ago
> an extra impediment for future reforms of copyright law This is the really important part (ACTA was almost dead anyway). The continued push for ever more draconian copyright enforcement measures is slowly creating a backlash that puts
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by rickmb 14y ago
That "strong oversight" has been hampered by a refusal to publish details (we have absolutely no clue why there are so many wiretaps, and it's been hard enough to get the authorities to publish the raw numbers), and the oversight fails when
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by rickmb 14y ago
People that want to get stuff done don't waste their time hating on other people's tools. Almost everyone on this site, including devoted PHP devs, recognizes the fact that PHP isn't exactly an elegant and well-designed language. The pointl
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by rickmb 14y ago
Paid news is unsustainable. News has always been free. The newspaper was a package deal, largely paid for by advertising, and consumers only forked over a little bit of money for the convenience. And now that raw news has been disintermedia
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by rickmb 14y ago
Opting out of a privacy violation that should not take place to begin with is insane. Also, way too little way too late. Ten years ago this might have been seen as constructive contribution towards industry self-regulation. Now it's just a
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by rickmb 14y ago
Nobody with any relevant industry experience would overstate the important of language design. I've used many languages in my 25+ years in software development, and I've seen very little relation between language and either overall quality
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by rickmb 14y ago
Seriously. You're suggesting the EU just abandon its citizens right to privacy and making it an "opt-out" thing? What's next? donotrob.us to opt-out of burglaries? Tracking without permission is an illegal violation of privacy. You do not "
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by rickmb 14y ago
Once again, this is non-news, only made into news because of the ongoing anti-EU FUD. The basis of the EU directive is sound. Actually turning it into (enforceable) legislation is the hard part. Most regulatory bodies in the EU consider it
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by rickmb 14y ago
Besides that, most of the delay in this story was not caused by process but by human error and sloppy work by the OP. There are some hints of organizational dysfunctions along the way, but those were not what caused the major delays. Withou

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