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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
What do you think of the viability of providing source code with the software that you sell? It would be open source in the sense that you could alter the software and contribute patches, but you had to pay for the software first. It would
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
The problem with open source is, for some reason, the developers feel no sense of obligation to the end users or the people who donate to them. MacOS devs do and will go out of their way to make sure their software is not just usable, but a
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
Even if you have the right data, I fail to see how getting and interpreting data of any kind is somehow going to magically make people vote for you. The most it can do is give you a good picture of who will be willing to vote for you, but e
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
The political issues of the Bay Area extend far, far beyond the YIMBY/NIMBY split.
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
> once we lose that kind of memory, there's little to prevent us from going fullcicle and doing everything again... We have a few things they didn't have back in the 1800s: easy access to paper and other means of recording. We
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
Because human behavior boils down to Plato vs Aristotle. If you don't read both, then there is a segment of the population who's actions and opinions are going to be a complete mystery to you.
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
Zig and Jai were designed to not require the C runtime library. You can't replace C if you're building on top of it, can you?
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
> I can tell you that supporting 1s-compliment architectures was necessary Can you elaborate on that point? Why was it necessary then, but not still necessary now?
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
Slightly OT: I noticed from your post history you were considering moving to NH. How did you end up in Upstate NY? I'm NNY born and raised. I live in a small town of 500 just outside of a small city of 25k. I love it here, but the lack
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
Not if you believe Tom Forsyth http://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BWhy%20d...
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
Nope. Read it carefully. It could save your career.
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
The SJW Attack Survival Guide. http://www.the-niceguy.com/contributors/SurvivalGuide.html Ask Roberto Rosario why.
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
I went a slightly different direction. CTRL+N is next buffer (ie: tab), CTRL+P prev buffer, LEADER+W for close buffer. I don't make new buffers a lot, so I just type out :new when I need to. Opening an existing file is LEADER+F, whic
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
6 corporations own 90% of the media in the US. The media is big companies.
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
And magnesium, I hope.
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
> What in modern living is knocking the body off its center? Abundance and industrial processing. Europe doesn't have the same problem the rest of the 1st world has with obesity. They also have crazy strict food purity laws. No addi
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
Why is this only concerning now? Wikipedia has had this issue for at least a decade. I would be less concerned with Russia and more concerned with the agenda of the people who have been working with impunity on Wikipedia all this time. Info
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
I don't worship market forces and I have no idea if it works in transport or not. I asked for an example of a successful service that works without market forces and I haven't seen anybody provide one yet.
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
https://www.bkb.admin.ch/dam/bkb/de/dokumente/Oeffentliches_... > This Good Practice Guide provides information on improving urban public transport. It showcases how cities in Sweden, Finland, France
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
From wikipedia > The company is headquartered in Bern. Formerly a government institution, since 1999 it has been a special stock corporation with all shares held by the Swiss Confederation or the Swiss cantons. That certainly sounds like
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
Your comment proves my point, not disproves it. To remind you, here's the quote we're talking about: > not every service requires market forces to operate effectively private companies = market forces, even if they're gove
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
> not every service requires market forces to operate effectively Can you name a service and a city/country that operates effectively in the manner you state?
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
Do you happen to know where those clusters are in the US?
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
> Where was Carmack when everyone was forcing us to listen to "web apps are the future of mobile"? > He could have ended that HN debated instantly. This is going to be difficult to hear, but online debates are essentially fo
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
They pay a PR company good money to make that happen.
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
This may be a little off topic, but has anybody watched Casey Muratori's proposal on SoC ISAs[0]? The video is long, but it's worth watching all of it. It sounds to me like a SoC ISA could make docker obsolete. If it ever happens,
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
> Isn't this called confirmation bias? Pattern recognition is confirmation bias now? He clearly refers to cases he's witnessed where he's observed that particular pattern. > Anyway, as a classical liberal who probably s
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
> Peterson's book sales are skyrocketing, and not among convinced rightists. That's because Peterson is a leftist. He has contrarian viewpoints on exactly two topics: pronouns and communism. Other than that, he's as left w
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
I don't think it's a secret that the majority of readers on HN are left wing. It does make me curious what a 'based HN' would look like.
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by ropeadopepope 8y ago
The community decides by flagging stories they think don't belong.

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