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by sunir 15y ago
Axiom: If you don't pay them to keep the lights on, they will go out of business. Corollary: If it isn't worth it to you to pay for their added value, they don't have a real business.
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by sunir 15y ago
This response is easily within bounds. Tarsnap is opinionated software. So is 37signals' offerings. Let them have a debate. It is for the better education of us all. Tarsnap's position here is assailable, and we will all benefit from the di
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by sunir 15y ago
A theoretical parsing of the sentence does not matter. When tested in court, a reasonable reading of the law would not find YouTube in violation. The clear intention of the Act is to burn down sites whose primary purpose is theft of U.S. pr
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by sunir 15y ago
I decided to sign up to donate my stem cells because of Amit. I did not realize how little it cost me to save a life and after that I felt irresponsible if I didn't sign up. I encourage everyone to consider becoming a stem cell donor and I
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by sunir 15y ago
Ha, well, it's a losing argument if you have to unpack our basic economic, political, and legal system. The solution is not proportional to the problem. I think parking is a similar problem at a similar societal cost. People need to park. I
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by sunir 15y ago
The non-rival argument is popular, but not very robust. There is an economic harm by an unauthorized third party increasing the supply and diluting the value to the creator. Another rough equivalent to criminally using without depleting phy
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by sunir 15y ago
I don't understand your argument or what you are saying is wrong. Rights are a legal limitation on the actions of others, not a physical limitation. They exist to limit people from doing what they otherwise "can" do to you in the physical w
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by sunir 15y ago
Since 1890 in the United States, the tort law has had concepts of invasion of privacy and breach of trust. Further on a state by state level there may be laws, such as COPPA 2003 in California, which required a privacy policy to be publishe
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by sunir 15y ago
I'm not really worried that 37signals are maliciously going through customer data, because I honestly believe they aren't. However, I'm disgusted by the number of people in this thread that justify the violation of customer privacy because
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by sunir 15y ago
There's this small, harmless incident from 37signals and then there is this attitude. Some questions: * Should it happen everywhere? * As a data guy, do you have professional obligations to uphold the privacy policy and operate within the l
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by sunir 15y ago
Unless explicitly authorized by the customer, or for the purpose of providing the service, your staff should not be allowed to look at customer data, and what data they look at should be limited to what's necessary to perform their function
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by sunir 15y ago
I am sure those were reasonable demands but the proposition here is for a nuisance "work to rule" campaign. Understanding the political motivation, the big companies could call your bluff and wait for a court order, expensive to obtain. N
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by sunir 15y ago
Yes, because people use the arrows to indicate I agree or I disagree rather than this comment improved the silence or this comment was noise. Even without votes, groupthink would emerge from reply comments giving positive and negative feedb
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by sunir 15y ago
I believe that is an extreme and cartoonish conclusion to draw from so little information. How do you know that is the experience the children have? The sister comment from another teacher brings facts to the table that explain the intent o
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by sunir 15y ago
Things like Google Apps Marketplace, the App Store, Intuit Anywhere, the Windows Store are all technical. Negotiating with then requires knowledge to maximize the opportunities. They are a subclass of the wider deal. The Internet is the mai
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by sunir 15y ago
I think knowing how to code helps marketing more than just scripting. When drafting contracts I apply the DRY principle, modularize sections, and focus on clarity and meaningful names for section headings. When planning strategy I look at t
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by sunir 15y ago
They did nothing to demonstrate non-Facebook logins are actually pseudonymous. I use my real name without using Facebook. I believe many do as well. Even if not true it could be true and they haven't shown otherwise. They presumed the effec
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by sunir 15y ago
Why limit interview questions to problems you already know the answer to? You can have them help you with some problem in your actual codebase you're already working on.
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by sunir 15y ago
In my case, I may not hire you. Why haven't you worked with another developer in 10 years?
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by sunir 15y ago
Well there is the intense XP understanding of pair programming, and then there is just sitting next to someone while they code version of pair programming. I can't believe anyone hasn't done something in that spectrum. Even for juniors and
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by sunir 15y ago
The best interview is a pair programming session around some 1-2 hour problem. It takes longer, and it may come later in the interview process, but it's a high bandwidth way of assessing someone. If they don't have a strong open source back
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by sunir 15y ago
That came later after talk radio built the audience. The political messaging came first, over decades, to whip up a base of support. Fox is the number one news channel in the US because it resonnates with the receptive base audience.
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by sunir 15y ago
Richard Stallman (RMS) runs the Free Software Foundation (FSF), not the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). https://www.eff.org/about/board
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by sunir 15y ago
The average user has spoken. They voted with their feet. Chrome surpasses Firefox. http://m.zdnet.com/blog/btl/statcounter-chrome-overtakes-fir...
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RIM outlook grim as it reports earnings(cbc.ca)
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by sunir 15y ago
In PR right and wrong have different meanings that true and false. Mikkel was wrong here because he acknowledged, supported, and then fueled a competing idea in the market helping establish in some small way Freshdesk. When you are leading,
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by sunir 15y ago
Christian Marth (@cloudgroupsyd) has a lot of explaining for that ridiculous and risible "Indian cowboy" dig. Twenty times worse because he doubled down on it while backpeddling.
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by sunir 15y ago
I strongly believe the revolution must be profitable. The OP says the same: profit is necessary to achieve scale and attract investment and competition to scale even faster. If the poor are better off by generating you a profit that is wond
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by sunir 15y ago
And Zen. A common solution to a common problem. Therefore plausible it will work.
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by sunir 15y ago
Your more diplomatic attempt isn't setting expectations properly and therefore is more trouble. Don't make promises you can't keep. He simply won't read your email. He hardly said don't communicate with him again. Email him when he is back

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