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by simula67 13y ago
x/0 is not equal to infinity in ordinary arithmetic (which is what author attempts here) :). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero
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by simula67 13y ago
Let me put forth another analogy from 'Surely You are Joking Mr Feynman': Lets say you believe killing someone is evil. Then would you think it is OK to ask some else to kill someone for you ? There is a reason people may not object to Stal
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by simula67 13y ago
Somebody posted this link here on HN some time before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44
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by simula67 14y ago
> Every single project, open source or not, needs to have a "Why Use It" page. Let me expand your comment (with your permission) to make it more general. "Every project, open source or not, needs to be run with all the branches of a pro
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by simula67 14y ago
I hope people will come to the right conclusion about the whole Hunter Moore incident : once a potentially harmful information leaves your control there is no good way to stop it from reaching people you don't want it to. Sexting is probabl
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by simula67 14y ago
Every time people ask 'What is the point of this?' I remember the Mathematician's apology : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematicians_Apology . Many ideas Hardy felt were useless then, now provides the underpinning for some very useful
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by simula67 14y ago
OK, let me elaborate. Unless you believe all software must be open source ( which is hopelessly unrealistic ) the question becomes how we can bring about most openness. Surely, closed software on an open platform is better than open sof
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by simula67 14y ago
What if Y is closed-source? What if source for Y is not available for some other reason? What if your patch breaks Y's behavior on other platforms?
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by simula67 14y ago
For the longest time, I was convinced it was an abomination that Linux did not succeed on the desktop. Now, I am not so sure.
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by simula67 14y ago
True. There are many great examples, but to take only one consider Larry Page and Sergey Brin who tried and failed to sell PageRank to Yahoo, Altavista etc. The world does not remember them as two engineers who failed to sell their novel id
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by simula67 14y ago
Why does it have to be one or the other? Why can't we standardize on one file system that has to be supported by all OSes out of the box and provides fairly good read/write speed with no artificial file size limits such as FAT32 and let inn
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by simula67 14y ago
You're talking organized crime with cat burglars breaking into US facilities. Another method is Social Engineering.
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by simula67 14y ago
So its closer to JVM than LLVM ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/454720/what-are-the-diffe... )?
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by simula67 14y ago
A friend of mine studying Foreign Relations, pointed me to The Heartlands Theory ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_Histo... ). Basically, it states that since 50% of world's resources are concentrated at Europe + As
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by simula67 14y ago
Imagine my surprise when I groggily google Kelly Norton.
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by simula67 14y ago
It seems silly to have any modern Linux distro be anything but a well implemented rolling release The key here is of course well implemented . I switched recently from Debian back to Ubuntu because I need a system that is properly QC'ed.
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by simula67 14y ago
Librelist ( http://librelist.com/ ) source code is open.
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Googlighting(un-productivity.com)
1 points by simula67 14y ago|2 comments
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by simula67 14y ago
My point was that dismissing centralized services by equating with dictatorship was useless. In a true dictatorship, the dictator rules over by means of force, and has no commitment to subjects other than to keep the fear going. Equating t
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by simula67 14y ago
Worst argument in the world [ http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst... ]
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by simula67 14y ago
Just to play devil's advocate, open protocols, standards etc are hard to arrive at when there are competing business interests [1][2]. Also centralized systems make for less complexity. For example, despite having a standard for almost all
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Microsoft's anti-android campaign backfires(forbes.com)
3 points by simula67 14y ago|0 comments
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by simula67 14y ago
Many more for your viewing pleasure : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-c...
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by simula67 14y ago
First of let me say that I am from India. I have been watching the number of (negative) political posts regarding India on HN for quite some time now[1] What are the benefits and costs of discussing these issues here on HN? Some benefits: 1
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by simula67 14y ago
I agree. I switched to Debian + XFCE a couple of years ago and really like the small incremental changes approach and focus on stability rather than 'Lets redefine the desktop' attitude taken by other desktop environments. It works for me.
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Hewlett-Packard Wins Suit Against Oracle Over Contract(nytimes.com)
1 points by simula67 14y ago|0 comments
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by simula67 14y ago
I am unsure if Facebook provides a service like AdSense to motivate this kind of behavior. It would be interesting if to see how they could fight this type of behavior though. 1. Make the split uneven. For example for every dollar advertise
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by simula67 14y ago
You are missing the point. Is this a solution? Does this not reinforce the gender stereotype? Are we not trained to compete or cooperate with our equals and take care of the weak an helpless?
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by simula67 14y ago
At the risk of sounding petty let me say that, I am male and I can only speak about my part of the problem. 1. Do I feel bad about women achieving stuff in life ? Yes. 2. Am I ashamed of the above fact? Yes. Lets face it, from what I have b
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by simula67 14y ago
Github allows direct downloads: https://github.com/<path_to_repo>/zipball/<branc... ;

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