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   by thunk 16y ago

   Except the Native Americans.
2. 122.▲
   by thunk 16y ago

   When he's not "unveiling products" or berating his minions, I always imagined him sitting full-lotus on a tatami mat, alone in an empty room, staring intently at the wall.
3. 123.▲
   by thunk 16y ago

   Gaaahhh! Visions of prancing, sweaty Ballmer!
4. 124.▲
   by thunk 16y ago

   Woah there, "mos1b". No need for that.
5. 125.▲
   by thunk 16y ago

   They're close enough for me.
6. 126.▲
   by thunk 16y ago

   Woah, hostility. > Who financed the authors previously? I was referring to the wide world of midlist authors who make a living writing books, but don't get filthy rich, and who couldn't get by without advances from publishers. Adverti
7. 127.▲
   by thunk 16y ago

   So we're moving toward a loosely coupled network of small, focused companies (or "branded" individuals) providing services big publishers used to provide, like editing, copy-editing, typesetting, marketing, book design, etc., and other comp
8. 128.▲
   by thunk 16y ago

   You make a reasonable point in an, uh, illustrative way (they say "show, don't tell", right?). The vertical arrangement of comments by preorder traversal of comment trees gives some low quality comments "unfair" visibility. I don't see an
9. 129.▲
   by thunk 16y ago

   Question: Do we still have tubes?
10. 130.▲
    by thunk 16y ago

    Fuck yeah, joshu! Make something awesome -- you know you want to :)
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    Why Content Is a Public Good(antipope.org)

    2 points by thunk 16y ago|0 comments
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    by thunk 16y ago

    Charlie Stross recently republished a post by Milena Popova titled "Why Content Is a Public Good" [1] that I quite enjoyed, and think is relevant to this discussion. It goes into some detail on the true economic nature of content, and gave
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    by thunk 16y ago

    I'll just quote pg from "Hackers and Painters"[1], because he said it better than I can: > I've never liked the term 'computer science.' The main reason I don't like it is that there's no such thing. Computer science is a grab bag of t
14. 134.▲
    by thunk 16y ago

    Symlinking is your friend. There are a few gotchas listed here: http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/SyncOtherFolders
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    by thunk 16y ago

    Yeah, I should have assumed there'd be degrees available in Software Engineering. But "Software Engineering" is such a misnomer. [rant on how we don't know how to "engineer" software]. My "Software Engineering" courses were straight up awf
16. 136.▲
    by thunk 16y ago

    There's always this tension between the pragmatists and the theorists. I figure we just split it in two. CS focuses on research and theory. CP(rogramming) focuses on the pragmatic and artistic nitty gritty of building software. Now, I perso
17. 137.▲
    by thunk 16y ago

    Could be because you said the fucking "F" word. Some HNers are really uptight.
18. 138.▲
    by thunk 16y ago

    Sometimes they aren't, sometimes they are. Something about babies and bathwater. The ideal online debate platform would algorithmically marginalize bikeshedding.
19. 139.▲
    by thunk 16y ago

    C'mon. I know you're being mildly facetious, but "naysayers" and contributors aren't nearly so cleanly segregated. And debate often leads to important decisions that can't just be coded away.
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    by thunk 16y ago

    I'm curious to see how Wave fares under a python-dev-size debate, and what creative curating can accomplish. Sometimes I think the optimal solution to online discussion is a reconfigurable 3d visualization of the graph of comment-nodes. In
21. 141.▲
    by thunk 16y ago

    The editor I chose x years ago for no reason is way better than the editor you chose y years ago for no reason.
22. 142.▲
    by thunk 16y ago

    [foghorn]
23. 143.▲
    by thunk 16y ago

    I apologize, but I don't have the time to put together a considered response right now, though I wish I did. Maybe this evening. I do think it's interesting the amount of anger I encounter whenever I even remotely question one of the Singul
24. 144.▲
    by thunk 16y ago

    That's like saying, "This does nothing to diminish the risk of a Moon-based Turbo Death Ray if one is, in fact, created." We might be able to make one if we tried really hard. But it would be pointless and difficult, and there are so many
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    by thunk 16y ago

    Drexler thinks it's nonsense: http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/indepth/19648
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    by thunk 16y ago

    A better question might be "What other protocols are we missing?"
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    by thunk 16y ago

    And of course the first page I'd visit with it would be itself. And again. And again.
28. 148.▲
    by thunk 16y ago

    I code Bine in Automatic Chamber on an old Linebarger Oculon cryptangled with redundant deep-remote diamondwisp StraightRazers. Pretty standard, really.
29. 149.▲
    by thunk 16y ago

    So a digger, a redditor and an HNer walk into a bar. They get drunk and have a good time.
30. 150.▲
    by thunk 16y ago

    Yeah, they were straw men. My bad.