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by thurn 15y ago
If there isn't a profit motive behind the actions, it's hard to see what you'd gain from the burden of being incorporated instead of being a non-profit. Getting laws passed where there is a profit motive is not really a problem.
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by thurn 15y ago
I think academic languages don't succeed because the incentives aren't aligned. A mass-market language has very different requirements from a research language: performance, similarity to existing languages, compatibility with existing code
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by thurn 15y ago
You should be paid to do a fixed amount of work (generate a certain amount of value for your employer), not work a fixed number of hours. If you can get that work done in 10 hours a week, everybody wins. If you need to work 70 hours a week
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by thurn 15y ago
I think people object less to general bandwidth caps than to traffic discrimination. For example, Shaw Cable was accused of throttling Skype traffic but not their competing VOIP product.
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by thurn 15y ago
"pandodaily.com" is starting to become a URL I associate with low-quality linkbait.
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by thurn 15y ago
Google and Facebook would never exist the way they do today without the free software movement. Both of them rely on a huge stack of open-source technology. Stallman's ideas are what makes it possible for a college kid to run a web startu
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by thurn 15y ago
Facebook uses Subversion for its trunk, actually, and just gets developers to use git-svn. This issue is primarily a problem because git-svn is a lot more serious about replicating the true git experience (keep everything local) than Goog
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by thurn 15y ago
I find them most valuable in a larger codebase. The project I work on at Google is millions of lines of Java. I'm an Emacs user by preference, but a lot of my job isn't writing code, it's discovering and using the existing abstractions. F
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by thurn 15y ago
Yes, that was a pretty dumb precedent for Bush to set.
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by thurn 15y ago
Obviously Google Inc. consumes US government services. The point is that Google Ireland Inc. probably doesn't. Google Inc. pays its fair share of U.S. corporate tax on domestic revenue, and Google Ireland pays tax in Ireland. Why should Goo
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by thurn 15y ago
There are other "separate legal entities" like partnerships and S-corps that don't get double taxed. Only corporations have this double taxation. That's why it's unfair. The philosophy here is that you shouldn't get taxed on dividends bec
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by thurn 15y ago
Unless you can't get a job at those companies, or don't want to work at them, or they also get involved in the collusion. Then you're actively being hurt.
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by thurn 15y ago
Possibly one of the Amazon payments solutions? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Payments
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by thurn 15y ago
Just one at the end of the year, based on the estimated value of the benefit.
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by thurn 15y ago
His first point is just wrong. You can link to the original post ( https://plus.google.com/102025628931490661645/posts/6D2CtDQx... ), but only if it's visible to you. You obviously can't link to a post you can't see.
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by thurn 15y ago
An interesting approach to this is the one used in Go, where the "defer" keyword schedules code to run on function exit. It's simple and doesn't require adding more nesting to your code.
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by thurn 15y ago
It still costs Google money to run ads, in the form of opportunity cost (they're not getting the money someone else would pay to be there).
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by thurn 15y ago
Well, if they've been adding 500k per day, they have a lower bound of about 15 million monthly actives.
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by thurn 15y ago
I'm not sure I understand this. I'm hesitant to move my domain because it's registered until 2019... am I worried for nothing?
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by thurn 15y ago
Immigration of high-skilled labor increases the average skill level of the workforce, and thus, its productivity. If I immigrate and keep you from getting a top-tier job, you'll get a middle-tier job instead, benefiting your new employer. W
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by thurn 15y ago
What's "presentation mode"?
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by thurn 15y ago
I'm surprised to not see Quicksilver on a list like this. It's definitely the tool that keeps me coming back to OSX. Most of the "replacements" for it on other platforms (and on OSX) implement very few of its power-user features.
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by thurn 15y ago
> If you're debugging at the interactive prompt consider debugging with a small script instead. I don't understand this suggestion. The ability to interact with my code via the REPL is a very important python feature for me, is the aut
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by thurn 15y ago
I actually don't think I've heard "startup" used outside of the tech sector. A new oil company is basically a startup (they take VC, have few employees, and are trying to grow dramatically), but they're never called that.
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by thurn 15y ago
It took me a while to figure out why mine wasn't working because I wrote [1..100], which is a one-element array with a range in it. Too much Haskell, I guess. To salvage my dignity, here's the Haskell solution: main = mapM_ putStrLn $
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by thurn 15y ago
Please change the title of this to "Important Open Source Projects of 2011" per http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . Linkbait titles suck.
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by thurn 15y ago
This stuff would probably be pretty useful for turning your iPhone into a remote control if Apple makes a TV
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by thurn 15y ago
Only for lambdas. There's still no ability to define nested functions as closures, which is arguably more important.
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by thurn 15y ago
What he's describing is best realized in the Enlive templating library for Clojure. You perform a suite of transformations on regular html files.
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by thurn 15y ago
I'm sorry, but I just don't think the iPad design is that innovative. The consumer electronics business is full of similar-looking designs like this. If Apple had designed the first modern flatscreen TV, they probably would have patented th

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