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by sielskr 16y ago
Well, Microsoft did kill Netscape Navigator. Only conflict within Microsoft between those who wanted to protect the revenue streams from Windows and Office against web apps and those who wanted keep on improving Internet Explorer even if t
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by sielskr 16y ago
Thanks for writing! Saved me a download.
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by sielskr 16y ago
> allows you to jot down ideas, notes, etc, and then find them again with a super-quick search-as-you-type that describes the OSX open-source app Notational Velocity too.
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by sielskr 16y ago
"As a public company they could sell stock" (Like it says in the OP) Zappos is not a public company, and if the Zappos board had been confident that Zappos could become a public company, they would not have objected to the direction desir
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by sielskr 16y ago
I am intrigued by what you say, but I wonder how easy the Topre is to keep clean. Of all the things in an ordinary office or home (including toilet seats and such) phone handsets and computer keyboards tend to have the most germs. One anti
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by sielskr 16y ago
It was a mistake not to oppose the Frenchman's arrival in our lands. After the Frenchman finishes the castle, he will start breeding orcs.
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by sielskr 16y ago
I do not wish to state an opinion on whether the old WASP establishment was prejudiced and insular. I just want to point out that we are just as ignorant about the question after reading a snippet of dialog from a movie as we were before r
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by sielskr 16y ago
> unlike in the US where companies have to hang on to contracts while in a downturn What is your basis for believing that US companies cannot downsize as easily as Danish ones or that their costs in hiring and firing are higher? Were y
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by sielskr 16y ago
The U.S. space program is a source of tremendous prestige to the U.S. government. People whose plans depend on the U.S. government's voluntarily letting private companies take over leadership of parts of the space enterprise should be awar
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by sielskr 16y ago
I got output like the screenshots. In http://swtch.com/plan9port/screenshots/macosx1.png , the lack of smoothing is most noticeable in the forward slashes. I tried all the things you suggest except that I mailed 9fans, not plan9port-dev.
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by sielskr 16y ago
I've installed and played around with p9p (Plan 9 Port, aka, Plan 9 from User Space) and 9vx, but never managed to get the text to render acceptably. (If any of you have seen the text in Emacs over X11 before the integration with GTK+ or
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by sielskr 17y ago
If parent means to assert or imply that taxpayers in the U.S. paid for more than a tiny fraction of the costs of laying down the copper and fiber over which residential internet service is delivered in the U.S., I would like references supp
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by sielskr 17y ago
Great point. In other words, there are things about internet service that are more important than the bandwidth between your home and Hulu or the latency between your home and your Quake opponents.
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by sielskr 17y ago
A crisper statement of your "outlier" objection is "selection effects." Well, yeah, the reason many Wall-Street types are rich is selection effects (though lately much of the wealth of the politically-connected ones seem to derive from feed
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by sielskr 17y ago
Few things to outline my perspective. . . . . I don't like paying for hardware more than its worth. I don't like paying for software. These are important aspects of the demographic that uses Linux on the desktop and laptop. It and the id
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by sielskr 17y ago
That's good to know. I haven't tried Ubuntu yet.
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by sielskr 17y ago
Having used desktop Linux since 1997, this year I switched to a Mac because I expect to spend less time adminning a Mac than a Linux box. ADDED. One reason I expect to spend less time adminning a Mac is because some things cannot practical
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by sielskr 17y ago
_APT just doens't cut it. In a recent review of using a Macbook, former GNOME Quality Control lead, Luis Villa, wrote [1]: "...installing new software [on a Mac] is insanely nice._ _Upgrading_ software under APT (or Arch Linux's pacman) is
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by sielskr 17y ago
I have found this to be true during my experience living in the Bay Area as an adult for the last 23 years. In particular, although living in the Bay Area has allowed me to meet extremely wonderful people who enrich my life, I have also me
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by sielskr 17y ago
Your company is growing 100% year over year. It's profitable and throwing off cash. Why not wait another year and let revenues double again, which will make the company six times more valuable (assuming 3x revenue valuation, a reasonable b
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by sielskr 17y ago
That dispassionate and nonpartisan authority on our financial system, Rolling Stone Magazine.
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by sielskr 17y ago
At home, I run Arch Linux. Using it right now, in fact.
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by sielskr 17y ago
The writing in the parent is significantly better than the writing in the original post (the web page not on Hacker News). So, thanks, danielrhodes, for summarizing!
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by sielskr 17y ago
"If he succeeds in disrupting another business, the establishment may have to acknowledge him." "He forced the incumbent cellular providers to innovate." The article relies too heavily on tropes like these, IMHO.
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by sielskr 17y ago
by "NIA" the parent of this comment means the National Institute of Aging.
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by sielskr 17y ago
Paul Graham: I'd like to encourage you to write up any insight you may have had not about startups. Your essay about high school (the one that compares the assiduousness of high school students to Navy Seals) was one the most helpful and i
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by sielskr 17y ago
Gnome Terminal because of its text smoothing (and because it adheres to a set of human interface guidelines).
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by sielskr 17y ago
It costs you nothing to use phrases like "shoddy development". It costs Adobe many millions to port Photoshop to Cocoa.
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by sielskr 17y ago
Well, the New York Times uses the journalistic sense of the word "edit" whereas you use the sense popular among programmers.
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by sielskr 17y ago
Just so they don't make it too round. That would be bad :)

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