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setori88
16y ago
In the general scheme of things this is an example of a failure. Software patents are a failure - full stop.
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setori88
16y ago
"We have given up control of our food to people from far away" no most of the grain grown goes to feeding the animals to be slaughtered - not to third world countries.
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16y ago
yeah I have, having a blast out here. People are great, food, life and the net is good. In comparison to South Africa it is heaven broadband wise. But you tend to miss the sticks and bush, constantly being surrounded by concrete. From that
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The underground
(xs4all.nl)
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17y ago
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setori88
17y ago
slow very slow
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setori88
17y ago
http://www.erlang.org for your click convenience.
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Erlang.org traffic no longer exponential
(ulf.wiger.net)
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17y ago
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Small team, small budget, clever idea, - trumps indie game market
(hemispheregames.com)
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17y ago
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setori88
17y ago
mate, one can turn genes on and off simply by changing ones diet
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setori88
17y ago
Of course it does! All our experiences have an effect on our DNA, how else does evolution happen!?
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setori88
17y ago
I wish you strength and that the community support you! It looks like a decent direction to move in. Your efforts at messaging pattern commodification on the Internet looks especially interesting, given your experience with restms. I hope t
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17y ago
Pieter, I recall you mentioning that there are three forms an industry can have as standard; 1) The best is a healthy number of implementations based on an open source specification; 2) The undesirable way is having a implemantations based
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17y ago
Pieter is the creator - I am pretty sure about this.
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17y ago
Available as Free Software or with conventional commercial licence Runs as a full OS or an application Full development toolkit included Advanced networking capabilities Safe, concurrent programming environment Architecture independent virt
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Inferno - a distributed operating system by Rob Pike et al
(vitanuova.com)
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17y ago
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setori88
17y ago
ah geez got some tight arses round here huh? a little bit of fun with a name, meh.
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17y ago
(ah too bad I have to explain it - now it loses the snap) One man taking on corps like Google, Microsoft. Delivering a service which in many cases are better. He is like a boxer, nimble and quick. He can duck a Bing punch, Duck a Google pun
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17y ago
Africa is meant to be a mess, Western powers ensure it through foreign aid, propping up dictatorship all to ensure cheap access to raw materials.
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17y ago
woah, now that is something to be feared!
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17y ago
duck bing punch duck google punch and go!
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setori88
17y ago
Your point is moot, you still havn't seen the beauty of DDG. Firstly for your two queries DDG's results where acceptable, Google's was slightly better - but using this example isn't enough to shadow ddg killer feature. Lets try something el
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setori88
17y ago
Remember, I simply posted the duck duck go site and said this is my default search engine, why persuade you? Research yourself, can't be bothered well, so be it. Try it for a week don't like it ... so be it. Good luck mate The internet has
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17y ago
That is exactly what Google does: display too many results for a human to sort through effectively, and that is why ddg flattens google. Wikipedia is humans disambiguating words; ddg is an abstraction of Wikipedia. This ddg setup is the pow
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17y ago
Privacy is one matter some people are deeply concerned about, especially when search terms can get you locked in prisons by governments - decent search results is another: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1209482
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17y ago
The word "asterisk" does indeed have different meanings that is why ddg uses this particular technique to disambiguate the query. Narrowing down the meaning is performed by the user's intelligence not machine intelligence. There on the fir
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17y ago
Yeah I thought it was off topic and deserved a delete. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
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17y ago
well I did notice the privacy policy - duck duck go does not store ip addresses - you can also search via https if you wish.
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17y ago
My only relationship to duck duck go is as a user. nothing else. second question -> I know full well my words could have absolutely no effect in persuading you, as search is such a personal and habitual experience. So instead I resort t
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Breaking the time barrier - temporal software engineering
(amazon.com)
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setori88
17y ago
just use it for a week and you will see the benefit ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1209384 )
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