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by syntaxfree 18y ago
(I just looked at google analytics. _One_ person clicked through onto the text I was merely providing commentary to. Manuel de Landa is an actual philosopher, I'm just a crummy young-ish blogger ;))
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by syntaxfree 18y ago
> Do you realize that hackers will never stop hacking on software Will they? Or will they move onto theoretical computer science hacking (like Sigfpe and stuff) or even formal logic (like I did)? Is meant-for-widespread-use hacking gon
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by syntaxfree 18y ago
People sometimes make software usage a religion. It's only human. I was a Haskell religious nut for a while. (Then I stopped programming and changed hobbies to skateboarding. But I'm studying modal logic from Konyndyk, so I'm still in the H
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by syntaxfree 18y ago
For the six years I spent reading Slashdot, I read most of the points being made in this comments page. I'm answering them because I'm waiting for some other stuff to happen. But, oh well, these remarks keep on being made by the inside peop
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by syntaxfree 18y ago
We don't need more power than we already have. I have done the whole hacker grand tour (well, I don't know C but I know Haskell and some Common Lisp), learned Emacs, became profficient in Vim, etc. etc. The cost-benefit equation just doesn'
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by syntaxfree 18y ago
You do realize there are smart people outside the computer field, right? Anyone can become a Linux sysadmin in six months of training. Most classical musicians start in their early teens to get to orchestra level.
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by syntaxfree 18y ago
I have better things to do than invest time in trying Linux again. Gnome may have features that Leopard doesn't have, but my subjective probability that Ubuntu just-works like my Mac does is very low, and I'm a geeky user. This isn't about
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by syntaxfree 18y ago
I added an "elevator summary" to the beginning of the text, prompted by the friendly remarks in these comments noting that it's hard to find the point I'm trying to get across.
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by syntaxfree 18y ago
Oh. On growing older, I'm 25, soon to be 26, and actually trying to present me as younger. I wish I was younger, I wasted my teenage years and I'm trying to live it now while growing to be "serious" professionally in parallel. It's an inte
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by syntaxfree 18y ago
Well, the blog is full of crummy half-baked ideas, not to mention weird rants written in panic while on drugs. My professional work is not described as something by a young-ish person. The thing is, it's too late to change the average (inte
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by syntaxfree 18y ago
I've been trying. Check out the more recent text on social networks for something that's not so nested.
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by syntaxfree 18y ago
I meant Blender. My bad ;)
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by syntaxfree 18y ago
Note "GNU Project" and how the text emphasizes that "open source software attends to the hacker community's needs, not the end user needs". I did some solo writing with LaTeX and darcs, but there's no way that would fly in an office environ
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by syntaxfree 18y ago
BTW, did I break any actual grammar rules? (Not a passive-agressive rhetorical question, a question asked in earnest) The main thing is that in portuguese sentences within sentences have more connectives, are more common and thus more reada
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by syntaxfree 18y ago
Integration is a part of QA. I explicitly held that QA was one of the two main drivers of Linux's failure. And don't kid yourself, it's definitive -- Linux evokes images of crummy half-baked software in most people's heads.
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by syntaxfree 18y ago
It isn't such a hard space to compete in. There's a huge movement towards cheaper PCs. But anyway, for a while there was a huge gaping window when Linux was "cool" (the way OS X is now) and many many people tried it. The QA sucked by then.
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by syntaxfree 18y ago
It's successful on the server space because Linux and friends are a cheapie imitation of Unix environments and Microsoft server offerings plain suck. Open source failed to produce new concepts -- to "explore the subspace of possible program
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by syntaxfree 18y ago
Then again, Bryce was developed in a proprietary environment and then released as open source in an attempt to build goodwill. Was it even improved in terms of speed or stability? I can't imagine open source developers actually adding featu
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Why open source failed(dayvancowboy.org)
6 points by syntaxfree 18y ago|73 comments
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Social news does work, you just have to take it for what it is(dayvancowboy.org)
1 points by syntaxfree 18y ago|0 comments
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How to make reputation markets work(dayvancowboy.org)
2 points by syntaxfree 19y ago|2 comments