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by rwl 16y ago
> Depriving the owner of their revenue is theft That doesn't make any sense. You can't deprive someone of revenue, because (at least given a few assumptions of non-totalitarianism) nothing guarantees that a thing will produce revenue.
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by rwl 16y ago
This illustrates perfectly why sharing software shouldn't be called "piracy" or "stealing." These terms are simply inappropriate for software, movies, music, and other works that can be copied for almost zero cost. When real pirates steal
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Fixing Anonymity on the Internet(salon.com)
1 points by rwl 16y ago|0 comments
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by rwl 16y ago
I heard him on "City Arts and Lectures" recently (a local program on KQED). He still didn't own a computer in 2010.
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by rwl 16y ago
Interesting how some of his criteria for new equipment, which rule out buying a computer, are very much consistent with the hacker spirit: 3. It should do work that is clearly and demonstrably better than the one it replaces. 4. It should u
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Wendell Berry: Why I am Not going to buy a computer(home.btconnect.com)
9 points by rwl 16y ago|11 comments
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by rwl 16y ago
> If anyone created a problem of having to do "twice the work" it was Firefox... Huh? As I understand it, H.264 was never an option for Firefox due to the patent encumbrance and licensing fees they would incur for distributing it. The
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by rwl 16y ago
Indeed, this really only seems to be an issue for the (admittedly large majority) of computer users who: - write documents in a WYSIWYG editor - don't publish those documents on the Web, or another setting where the reader's software (as
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by rwl 16y ago
Ah, ok. So it looks like my information is out of date, and Apple isn't shipping a TPM anymore. But they did , at some point, use a combination of hardware and software to try to prevent users from running OS X on non-Apple hardware (or
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by rwl 16y ago
> There is a major difference between being annoying about it's hardware "preferences", and a legally bound license and it's protection to prevent end-users from breaking those defined rules (VMs, Debuggers, and cryptographic DRM). The
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by rwl 16y ago
>That's the difference between free software and non-free software. So do you want to argue that Remind is not free? Or free with just some totally unneeded annoyance? What is really the point of Remind behaving that way except of being
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by rwl 16y ago
Yes, that does seem a bit over-the-top, compared to the usual configure/make routine for Free software packages. But is that the right contrast class? I wonder how you feel about software that: - refuses to run if it detects that it's run
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by rwl 16y ago
Ah, wow, the "Microsoft Policy" and "Apple Policy" are awesome. Glad to see a free software project that says, on its front page, that it would "prefer" you compile and run the software on "a platform that is not controlled by a free-softw
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by rwl 16y ago
For iPhone, there's MobileOrg: http://mobileorg.ncogni.to/ For Android, there's MobileOrg Android: https://github.com/matburt/mobileorg-android/wiki/ Both can be set up to sync Org files via DropBox.
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by rwl 16y ago
The article doesn't mention one of the best features of Org: the "capture" interface [1]. This makes it possible to quickly file a new entry in the appropriate Org file, using a custom template, without interrupting your workflow. [1] htt
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by rwl 16y ago
> These never catch on, and never will. Another possible counterexample is Logo, though perhaps you didn't mean "Lispy languages with fewer parentheses will never catch on," but "Front-ends for Common Lisp that use fewer parentheses wil
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by rwl 16y ago
In your first post, you made a clear distinction between the interface and the server-side stuff. Your points 3-5 are all related to server-side stuff. With respect to those things, you can get the benefits of GMail using Gnus or any othe
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by rwl 16y ago
> Give me an interface as nice as Gmail's, and I'll consider it. How about Gnus? A single interface for mail, news, RSS, even files on your local machine. Regular expression-based filtering and sorting, on arbitrary fields in the head
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IBM Supercomputer to Challenge 'Jeopardy' Stars(mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by rwl 16y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: anybody using Ubuntu One?
3 points by rwl 16y ago|3 comments
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by rwl 16y ago
Admittedly, I have not taken the time to try MacPorts specifically. (This is probably due to the fact that the lab machine I worked on was polluted by various things installed via MacPorts, which seemed to mess with the autotools/configure
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by rwl 16y ago
Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%... I'm not an "open source developer." But I do write code from time to time that I am happy to share with others. I run Debian on a desktop most of the time; essential
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by rwl 16y ago
I was wondering about this too. But what good is being able to code in a browser unless you can actually [compile and] run your code somewhere? I can see how a browser-based editor could be great for editing JavaScript. But unless the
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Catchafire - Skills-based volunteer matching(catchafire.org)
1 points by rwl 16y ago|0 comments
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by rwl 16y ago
Others are responding to your question, but I think the question itself is important, because it points out that there is zero argument in this post; the author is just spouting an opinion. Whether or not you think it is "OK" to want to
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by rwl 16y ago
This sounds like a great setup. Would you mind sharing the details?
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by rwl 16y ago
True, it can be done; I didn't mean to imply that it couldn't. This certainly isn't the "default" way to use the service, though. But the little bit of extra work one has to do in Gmail to get local access to your mail is simply one trade-
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by rwl 16y ago
There's lots of Gmail love going on, here and in the comments on the original post. But notice the first few sentences of the post: "I have in my computer every e-mail message I have sent or received since 1992. Minus the obvious spam, thi
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by rwl 16y ago
Original message is here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.racket.user/3209/foc...
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Survey: a book on Racket? [racket-users repost](surveymonkey.com)
1 points by rwl 16y ago|1 comments

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