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by tarkin2 17y ago
I hope that 500 Internal Server Error isn't due to EXT4 file corruption. :-)
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by tarkin2 17y ago
This is a little too sycophantic. Both Google and other firms want their products to succeed, which means an increase in market share, or an "Alexander the great" share of the market, if you will. Both Google and other firms believe they ar
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by tarkin2 17y ago
What she talks about at the end, filtering out information, is also called confirmation bias: you unintentionally, or intentionally, filter out information that contradicts your, oftentimes emotional, bias.
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by tarkin2 17y ago
Well, I'm in two minds. I've often disliked how Ubuntu, Mint, Gnome, Kde et al have attempted to ape Microsoft's and Apple's desktop experience with only a few new novel features in an attempt to gain mass acceptance, more often than not c
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by tarkin2 17y ago
Or the Guardian et al will happily let non-Murdoch-approved search engines search their archives, hoping to fill a Newscorp-shaped hole. I guess that scenario is why Murdoch is trying to attack fair-use.
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by tarkin2 17y ago
"[I]t only shows the user information relevant to what is currently going on." I agree this makes it better for newbies. It also makes me wonder about all those who actually like GUIs, like having multiple things going on at once. It's like
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by tarkin2 17y ago
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/Potter.html I haven't read it, but this comparison has convinced me of its worth.
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by tarkin2 17y ago
"Yes! Twitter has singlehandedly changed the game! Before twitter, people didn't communicate online. And you couldn't leak stuff and have it indexed by google." No-one's saying that. Twitter has increased the extent and intensity of that co
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by tarkin2 17y ago
Carter Ruck are a leading British law firm. Their lawyers probably read newspapers. Social media sites are very hot news in the UK, and Twitter is probably the second most famous after Facebook, which is ridiculously famous. Twitter isn't t
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by tarkin2 17y ago
Carter Ruck were trying to suppress anyone knowing about the report, to such an extent that they tried to stop the Guardian reporting on a parliamentary question that spoke about it. Twitter, fueled from the outrage in regard to gagging the
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by tarkin2 17y ago
"I just prefer reading about this sort of thing other places. Not on HN." To be fair, this does involve the use of twitter, and other social news sites, and technology in general, to challenge existing legal/PR practices i.e. trying to gag
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by tarkin2 17y ago
Still, it's good to see how modern technology has allowed ordinary people a) to access to such censored documents, and b) to gain access to those who are willing to do the research to obtain a, and advertise such. Without it I'd just be rea
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by tarkin2 17y ago
I experience something similar, but not to the same extent. Nevertheless, hopefully this will be helpful. I have a desire to succeed, to invent, to solve highly difficult problems, much like you, and it becomes an obsession. And, too, this
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by tarkin2 17y ago
He seems to argue the problem with BBMs is their success. Their success, that is, at working alone. So much so that they seldom want to work with others, for when you work alone you are not forced to yield to oft highly unpleasant real-life
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by tarkin2 17y ago
I'm going through that process now. It really is a culture difference when you've been using Windows, or other GUI apps in linux, for a long time. The links in the original link did help. This http://jmcpherson.org/editing.html is useful
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by tarkin2 17y ago
He assumes a MS patent claim won't hurt a mono-using company. He asserts they'll just remove the code and happy days again. But that's not the worry here: MS could sell a mono-related patent to someone who's willing to attempt to bankrupt a
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by tarkin2 17y ago
Simply put, absurdity exercises your brain when you seek meaning in such. Such exercise increases your ability to find meaning and patterns.
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by tarkin2 17y ago
He criticised Unix and the wrote how he and the GNOME team planned to fix the problems he delineated. If you agree with his analysis, that makes him a huge boon to the Unix community, not a traitor. Even if you disagree with his analysis, t
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by tarkin2 17y ago
There's been plenty of talk of "libel tourism" in the UK. The economist wrote something about this at the start of this year: http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cf... As one example, this tourism hurts human-rights
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by tarkin2 17y ago
Rail has lost its dominance, and has experienced a decline in profitability.
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by tarkin2 17y ago
The idea that usage will always fulfill capacity is a little too general for my liking. Sometimes, perhaps often, the case, yes; but always? No. Population decline in Europe despite a very high quality of life and an abundance of resources,
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Tell HN: A request for saner text-editors
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by tarkin2 17y ago
The weakest and central part of the article: "More readers are better than fewer, of course. But those referring links -- while essential to our current business model -- aren't doing much, ultimately, to stop our potential slide into layof
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by tarkin2 17y ago
Anyone care to guess at what he means by a strong and expressive type system?
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by tarkin2 17y ago
Their logic is two substandard search technologies and systems combined will beat google? If the core essence of both technologies were magically complementary, then perhaps. But trying to beat a company, google, known for its simplicity by
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by tarkin2 17y ago
Something else struck me when watching that video. I'm often struck how my intelligence diminishes when I'm frustrated, anxious or angry. I've read research that seems to confirm such--such feelings interfere with short-term memory. But Fey
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by tarkin2 17y ago
Yes. I believe the solution to my problem is to either find someone who can keep me on the straight and narrow, or to develop enough self-control and motivation to stop such flightiness when innappropriate.
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by tarkin2 17y ago
I haven't read the article as yet, but I experience the fear of being weighed down by responsibilities. I believe my creativity would propel me to success. But the process that creates my creativity also often leaves me intellectually fligh
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by tarkin2 17y ago
This pretty much sums up why I'm sometimes hesitant to use frameworks: should my problem evolve past the boundaries of the framework it can become more of a pain to use the framework than the raw constructs. When it's no big deal to stick t
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by tarkin2 17y ago
I found the part when he said he was not surprised that he was failing art class interesting--not surprised because he knows he's a failure, knows this because his voices tell him this. The rhythm, the constant beat, of his negative voices

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