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by scribu 14y ago
From my experience, people will use any free service or product, even if you explicitly say "this product is abandoned".
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by scribu 14y ago
You're making it sound like she's saying _all_ men are trolls, when in fact it was aimed at the people harassing her, which are probably 100% male.
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by scribu 14y ago
Hey, why isn't this showing up on the front page anymore? It was right there a minute ago and it's not showing up on page 2 or 3 either.
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by scribu 14y ago
It's not clear to me how the fallacy you link to applies in this case.
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by scribu 14y ago
Very well put.
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by scribu 14y ago
Hey, at least he's not just ranting like everyone else; he's trying to bring forward a better alternative. I'm also a PHP dev and I think Python is the safest bet, since it has good support on all platforms already (including Windows).
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The Manic Pixie Dream Girl(youtube.com)
1 points by scribu 14y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 14y ago
Offtopic: What's the point of using tinyurl outside of twitter? I would understand if you had your own vanity shortener (it would be obnoxius, but at least it would make some kind of sense).
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by scribu 14y ago
Say you were already rich and someone offered you a boat-load of money to appear in a TV commercial and promote a product you don't believe in. Would you accept the offer? It wouldn't take much effort and you could donate the money to chari
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by scribu 14y ago
You can get familiar with a mainstream operating system pretty fast so I don't find the "they'll lag behind" argument too convincing. If you can learn how to run first, it should be pretty darn easy to learn how to walk afterwards.
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by scribu 14y ago
So you paid the gold price... http://i.imgur.com/wLu8T.jpg
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by scribu 14y ago
Ellington is built on top of Django, so the generic parts have already been open-sourced.
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by scribu 14y ago
Let's try that again: The article advocates for web apps that don't try to get their users addicted to them. ilaksh is saying that the author of the article is disconnected from reality. I would honestly like to know why he thinks that, as
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by scribu 14y ago
I don't really get what you're saying. We should continue to check email 50 times a day because there are children starving in Africa?
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by scribu 14y ago
Let's not forget the API which doesn't smell like Java from 10 miles away. It's pretty neat.
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by scribu 14y ago
There's also https://launchpad.net/~skype-wrapper/+archive/ppa but it's buggy and still requires you have the main Skype window running.
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by scribu 14y ago
At some point, Skype announced that it would open-source the UI part of the Linux client, allowing people to implement whatever interface they wanted. I guess that was before they were bought by Microsoft.
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by scribu 14y ago
The second point did arise in the article (sort of): "They [privacy problems] affect the power relationships between people and the institutions of the modern state. They not only frustrate the individual by creating a sense of helplessness
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by scribu 14y ago
What does Pinterest have to do with live chat?
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by scribu 14y ago
If you think about it, climate change is actually the most obvious cause for the disappearance of a civilization completely dependent on agriculture.
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Online Dating Is A Failed Market(youtube.com)
2 points by scribu 14y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 14y ago
To set up my optimal configuration, I have a bash script that I run right after installing Ubuntu. Based on the fact that I was able to remove lines and not add new ones to this script, I'd say this release is pretty good. Gripe: Ubuntu One
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by scribu 14y ago
That's not really fair. Why not wait for the final release before trying it out?
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by scribu 15y ago
In other words, "Screw privacy! If you're honest, you've got nothing to hide."
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by scribu 15y ago
This is so exciting! and I don't really know why. These are just microbes we're talking about.
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Github Tricks(scribu.net)
2 points by scribu 15y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 15y ago
That might make sense when you watch a user, but not when you watch a repo.
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by scribu 15y ago
A very apt analogy indeed. +1 for Neil Young.
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by scribu 15y ago
There already is a fork that changes this (Coco), already mentioned in another comment: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3380423
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by scribu 15y ago
Thanks, glad you like it.

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