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by sabat 16y ago
Actually I agree. As much as I think Zuck is a tool, this appears to me to be an old-media smearjob on social networks and the Internet in general. Not so much an indictment of Zuck. Who the hell outside of SV cares about Zuck? But to use h
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by sabat 16y ago
Worst of all is the idea that somehow time has a direction of flow, i.e., an arrow. The idea that we are moving in time in one direction or another is a conceptual disaster. That's a funny comment (I realize it's not yours, hugh3), becaus
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by sabat 16y ago
If anyone needs another bong hit, the HN bong is hidden under the third comment below.
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by sabat 16y ago
"Pro-business" has apparently come to mean that any desire of a company, especially a large company, should be granted. That watch has a company logo? Pay up.
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by sabat 16y ago
Since the copyright clause clearly states that copyright is allowed so that living authors are encouraged to create more work, it makes perfect sense that Twain's work from the 1900s will remain in copyright until 2031. This Twain guy is go
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by sabat 16y ago
Pre-ordering mine now.
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by sabat 16y ago
The thing he's railing against is technology-as-panacea, and he's right, except that he overreacts and wants to throw the whole thing out. The Internet will not solve all our problems. It's helping, though.
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by sabat 16y ago
My thoughts exactly.
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by sabat 16y ago
The way I understand it, the Rails team recommends not trying to use 1.9.1 with Rails 3 -- too many problems. Recommended versions are 1.8.7 and 1.9.2 pre-releases.
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by sabat 16y ago
BTW, how is a guy named Mike Capone not a native speaker of English? Sei italiano, e la tua nome é Michele?
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by sabat 16y ago
Native speaker of English and Language Geek here: it's weird. Maybe he means it literally. Rich people forget that the rest of us can't just stop working and start jet-setting at will. :-)
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by sabat 16y ago
I truly worry about the overzealous killing of yc news stories. I can't be the only one who's noticed a recent uptick in the number of stories killed for no apparent reason.
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by sabat 16y ago
he should sue her for damages. I'm just speculating, but given the author's description, I doubt there was much money to be sued for.
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by sabat 16y ago
In my experience in and around startups: you minimize bureaucracy, and you eliminate politics where you find it. Fire. Fire. Political gaming in a tiny company will kill it.
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by sabat 16y ago
Apple have created a phone "Apple have?" Isn't it ironic that the very people who are supposed to be the keepers of English can't even use proper grammar? Apple HAS created a phone. Apple is a company. Singular. Not plural. There is no ea
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by sabat 16y ago
Not at all. Whether they hire from around the world, Jason is still from a technological podunk town. He ain't from the big city, and he's presumptuous enough to believe he knows it all anyway.
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by sabat 16y ago
it reads like it was written by an MBA-type who is upset that successful people are ignoring the gospel truth Did we read the same article? That's not what he was saying at all. Jason and company are big fish in a little (technology) pond
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by sabat 16y ago
No, he cut to the heart of the matter, and this apparently makes you uncomfortable. By the way: I've lived in Chicago all my life Enough said.
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by sabat 16y ago
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." --Benito Mussolini
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by sabat 16y ago
You can downgrade? Because I'd sure like to, until I get around to ordering the iPhone 4. There are guides or official ways of downgrading?
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by sabat 16y ago
The ultimate goal for any capitalist worth his pinstripes is not to compete in a free market, it’s to get control over a market. Merge. Acquire. Consolidate. Squeeze. Fewer competitors means less competition. I'd argue that this is not ca
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by sabat 16y ago
Care to elucidate?
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by sabat 16y ago
That's ironic.
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by sabat 16y ago
Language mutates, often in unfortunate ways. "Login" is not actually a verb if you follow the "rules" of English. You log in. "Log" is the verb. As much as it bugs me, though, I've learned to accept misuses becoming the norm; this is hardly
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by sabat 16y ago
You're absolutely right. It's just that, at least in the case of isotope, most people wouldn't realize that "iso" and "tope" have meanings. They might notice that "iso" also occurs in "isolate" but probably wouldn't look much beyond that. T
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by sabat 16y ago
Excellent comparison, and jibes with my own experience switching from Slicehost to Linode -- noticeably improved performance in CPU and IO. I've started recommending Linode, and now that they've upped the RAM, I will recommend them even mor
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by sabat 16y ago
I saw a clip from 60 Minutes in college that showed Tim Gelway teaching tennis to a group of middle-aged people. None had ever played tennis before. He picked the person who showed the least potential and within 20 minutes had her serving b
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by sabat 16y ago
I am a happy RVM user. It's had a few quirks, but the maintainer is quick to fix things -- mainly before you even have a chance to file a bug. Definitely worth using even if you're just curious about alternate Ruby implementations like Rubi
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by sabat 16y ago
Ironically, your PC is probably safer without McAfee on your computer. McAfee has a reputation for being slow to get signatures out for new viruses, and for not playing well with Windows OS. With good, free alternatives available, I wouldn'
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by sabat 16y ago
Two (fairly bad) versions aren't enough? They need to trash it again?

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