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by skore 15y ago
That's a well known rule of thumb: If you can fall asleep, but wake up groggy, decrease your total napping time by one or two minutes until you reach the spot where it works for you. 20-25 minutes is what you start off with, but the more yo
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by skore 15y ago
No. Going outside is an act that happens on common grounds. Using facebook happens on commercial grounds. You can choose not to use facebook and eliminate the problem right there. You cannot choose not to use roads. You are right to say tha
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by skore 15y ago
So you say it's not a straw man. Maybe you have some more words left to explain yourself on that point? He was asked for the problems. It's not his job to advertise social networking services. One of the big figures of Software Freedom is a
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by skore 15y ago
Wow, that's quite a straw man you have there. Washing machines are tools. Facebook is a platform. If Mr. Moglen was attacking the postal service or mobile phones, you'd have a point. But he is talking about a centralized service that gives
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by skore 15y ago
Yes, it was underfunded (not 'unfunded' - it's just that there weren't additional funds injected for it), but that still doesn't make the testing part a good idea. What you end up, even if the resources are there, are pupils who pass tests,
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by skore 15y ago
If anybody read that quote and then went on to do something like Grooveshark, I'd guess it's safe to say they need to adjust their reality compass. It may be OK to push the boundaries in certain areas, grow big and make amends later. But if
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by skore 15y ago
"A solution would be to know which is a computer and which is a real user, it's not impossible to do so." It seems like you have revolutionary knowledge that could change the course of human history. Or you're just trolling. Since you are n
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by skore 15y ago
I found it interesting that he mused about the 3.5" vs. 4.12" screen, particularly when you take into consideration how Apple has defended their designs recently. If it is really true that they hit on the "this is the size that humans perce
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by skore 15y ago
Very awesome piece there. I'm mostly baffled by the flash-less streetview, though. Or am I missing something and this is flash after all?
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by skore 15y ago
It certainly has the power to do both and the usual course of action is indeed to jump into closed systems only to open them up later. That's all fine and well if we're only talking technology, but a number of companies increasingly invest
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by skore 15y ago
No. That looks crushingly boring.
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by skore 15y ago
I can see that some would see this as inspirational, but I cannot help but see it as shallow and pointless. Sales as the end-all to your aspirations seems to be a good recipe to end up rich, influential, lonely and bored.
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by skore 15y ago
Yeah, I'm afraid you are right - being a FOSS guy talking to people who want their "product to just work!" is a very tiring thing. They want to pass judgment while I want to discuss the process of their judgment. I don't do it often, but th
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by skore 15y ago
Then let me rephrase it as "fear of the merely postponed, but now possibly more destructive failure". I think calling it "fear of success" is valuable because it helps shift your viewpoint on it - instead of fearing defeat, it opens up what
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by skore 15y ago
I have found that being afraid of failure or rejection can both be only a symptom of something else - fear of success. Striving for any type of accomplishment may carry the dread of not getting there or being laughed at for getting there.
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by skore 15y ago
True, it does, but it's entirely different still. "searching, inspecting" are just different with used goods. For one, "searching" involves finding out whether there is anybody who can provide any goods, not whether there is a supplier
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by skore 15y ago
" ...line numbers to the view source (as mentioned elsewhere, you CAN see the linenumber already, just not constantly on the side) and having the suggestion come up from the community is already a valuable asset. ". In 2004 it was the same
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by skore 15y ago
I cannot downvote you because I don't have that power yet. I guess my defensiveness stems from me being in a similar field as a FOSS developer. I have seen far too many times that people prefer to "bitch" about an issue instead of even noti
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by skore 15y ago
No, but I'm saying that if you care about your criticism actually accomplishing anything, those are certainly the best addresses to ring a bell.
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by skore 15y ago
Yes, I think I replied to that branch of the comments as well. And again: No, they are not immune to criticism, they have just set up a way in which criticism is handled in a particular manner, ie. channeled into discussions or in hands-on
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by skore 15y ago
Downvotes, really? Is it because I used one of the grown-up words? [edit]And downvotes yet again. Look - This is growing into yet another HN meta-problem. I think I really did my best in having a discussion - the result is it being abandone
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by skore 15y ago
First - maybe my reversed question wasn't entirely clear. I was asking why he so insists on his right to level as much criticism as he can at a FOSS project when there are clearly ways to get the job done. What I said was that there already
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by skore 15y ago
I don't think this discussion is helped by rephrasing some of the core statements until they mean something different. This entire topic was about people kicking some dirt at Firefox because it didn't have individual line number markers unt
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by skore 15y ago
True, but probably only until space flight becomes less prohibitively expensive, or the commerce that happens in space becomes more "interesting", to pirates.
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by skore 15y ago
Your comment severely lacks exactly two commas.
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by skore 15y ago
You seem to be bending over backwards to make that work, though. Playing the devils advocate is all fine and well, but you do need to know where your argument is headed. "Just pointing out flaws" is a good thing, too, but it would help to b
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by skore 15y ago
Not "immune to criticism", but set up in such a way that criticism always has a specific, useful outcome. Or turning your question on its head: If it is possible to fix and you would like to see it fixed, why do you insist on criticizing? A
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by skore 15y ago
I have no idea whether you have a point that you're getting at. Amazon wasn't profitable for a long time and only scalable because of massive investments. They don't buy used goods and resell them. Same for netflix. His main argument is tha
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by skore 15y ago
Correct - there are problems in this world that cannot be solved with force and guns, quite the opposite. The US is learning that in various ways these days.

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