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by slowmovintarget 12y ago
While she may speak with the authority of having written "The Dispossessed" (which is wonderfully good), her words seem to mostly be about Amazon. In that regard I think her comments miss the mark ("corporate fatwa" bein
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by slowmovintarget 12y ago
I tend to subscribe to the hybrid approach here: http://codebetter.com/howarddierking/2013/09/12/versioning-r...
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by slowmovintarget 12y ago
Except Amazon is arguing for a lower price because it will increase sales and make both Amazon and the publisher more money. They aren't asking for more books or less editing. They're trying to make everyone more money. Worse, the
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by slowmovintarget 12y ago
As an Eve On-Line player: same here. Spreadsheet with a REPL... might help crunch market orders.
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by slowmovintarget 12y ago
Yet it is either astonishingly arrogant or astonishingly naïve to think that "if only we got a crack at it we'd do it right." Any mechanism of government can and will be abused. Some such mechanisms like those of centrally pl
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by slowmovintarget 12y ago
It is indeed cool, but the single best lesson to come of it might be to start the work in a script in the first place. Still, cool beans. :)
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by slowmovintarget 12y ago
In general, under the law, you lose control of a physical good (product) the moment you sell it, as the article explains. Your trademark (brand) does indeed have some legal protection, but Pirate Joe's isn't treading in that pool.
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by slowmovintarget 12y ago
That was not a mean-spirited comment, especially if you imagine someone with a bit more experience seeing the same thing recur needlessly. Grouchy with a touch of get-off-my-lawn, yes. Mean-spirited, no. Over-exuberance sometimes requires a