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by tx 18y ago
Why do you assume that every country is a little copy of US? Ukraine uses old soviet-era state-sponsored medical system free for all citizens, i.e. you don't need an insurance. Even if he's got some kind of supplementary private insurance f
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PressFlip, former Persai.com (remember uncov.com?), finally launches(pressflip.com)
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by tx 18y ago
Saved to a text file. Thank you for taking the time!
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by tx 18y ago
Like this? http://www.gtk-server.org/
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by tx 18y ago
Wow, nice explanation - thank you. Since you seem to know this stuff, where can you send me for a nice introduction to Linux drawing/windowing stack? I've done some searches and tried to read up on this, but it looks like a bunch of loosely
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by tx 18y ago
Why would you even want to develop on someone's corporate platform to begin with? Apple or Adobe or Microsoft or Google or whoever... In the end, you always get fucked, either by your "patron" or by market forces, when your "platform" los
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by tx 18y ago
That's called "speaking one's own mind" as opposed to corporate doublespeak devoid of any meaningul sense, so common in corporate meeting rooms. The beauty of not being paid for what you do is the luxury of being able not to bother with bul
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by tx 18y ago
What's up with the sound? You just took a shit and can't reach your ass?
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by tx 18y ago
Yep, that's a popular response I get from OSX people: if Apple can't do something, that's because "you don't need it".
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by tx 18y ago
Yeah. I also like how people stopped writing software, the kind that actually takes skills and time to make (and customers to bill for), and switched to free "apps" that seem to take as much time to build as time required to blog about it.
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by tx 18y ago
Not a single item in that list belongs to "Development" category. But since he's writing about non-development spending categories, why not include a cost of chairs, tables and pencils? Also, when I flag shitty content, where does this "fla
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by tx 18y ago
What? It's MUCH simplier than than: I can't send a Windows/OSX user an email with an SFTP version of this line: ftp://server.com/report.pdf It's that simple.
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by tx 18y ago
How old is the blogger? You've got to be 11 holding "Python in 21 days" to claim that multi-dimensional map is an "alternative" to RDBMS. Besides, how reliable is that infrastructure? There is only one customer in the world who's running it
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by tx 18y ago
Well, I'd gladly switch to sftp, but dumb-ass OSX and Windows don't understand it out of the box and most users are unaware of more powerful (and easier to use) alternative OS, which leaves us stuck with this commercialized mediocrity. Why
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by tx 18y ago
It doesn't work. It's enormously difficult to construct a solid study with one properly isolated variable that's the subject in question. Even much, much, much easier tasks as exploring effects of smoking have been done over and over again,
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by tx 18y ago
Then you have an opportunity to make the following argument: 1. Men and women are equal, when society treats women fairly. 2. Men and women make different incomes. 3. Therefore, society is not treating women fairly. But the thing is
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by tx 18y ago
Why is it even worth discussing? Or even worth discovering? Why do we always break ourselves down (by age, gender, education, whatever) into groups and bump them into each other?
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by tx 18y ago
I like the bias of the article that becomes apparent from the beginning: "Leaders of seven of the world’s richest democracies, plus oil-and gas-fired Russia" First, these "richest seven" aren't really the richest if judged by their GDPs,
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by tx 18y ago
China has enormous manufacturing "support system": they have (or have had) plenty of cheap electricity, cheap oil and other resources - they're right next to Russia with its vast supplies of everything. Add to that cheap transportation (rai
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by tx 18y ago
Perhaps I haven't framed my confusion into a proper verbal frame, but there were quite a few books in my life screaming "try this!", and I was unable to find time/application for them in this crazy-fast pace of startup life. Startups I work
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by tx 18y ago
With all due respect, I am growing a bit tired of deliberate avoiding startup pitfalls, when we talk about them here on HN. Yes, I much prefer working in a small company for all these glorified (and popular here) reasons but it doesn't mean
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by tx 18y ago
Exactly! When I moved to US in 98 I was shocked at how popular voice mail was and it was annoying even then. Yep, voicemail and faxes - two things from common everyday US technologies I could never grasp.
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by tx 18y ago
"execute", you silly!
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by tx 18y ago
Probably Debian, most serious hackers are all on Debian - what else can it possibly be? I seriously doubt he's running Windows on a Mac...
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by tx 18y ago
Programmers don't produce HTML, that job is left to high school dropouts who aren't tough enough to work at Kwik Lube. Real programmers write binary code using aluminum keyboards with just three buttons: 0, 1 and "Enter".
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by tx 18y ago
They probably have Ubuntu running on them anyway... :)
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by tx 18y ago
I honestly don't understand your "religion" line towards Stallman's position. Yes, he's been consistent and kept saying the same thing for years, that's the only grounds you can base your analogy on. Free software is a wonderful thing and k
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by tx 18y ago
Every time I see a stupid and provocative title, I am hoping that it's something interesting and title was chosen only to attract attention. Yet again, it was just that - stupid: if you're afraid to deal with usernames/passwords in a secure
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by tx 18y ago
I'm with you, but... I just discovered that the average number of hours spent in front of a TV (per person, nation-wide) has increased again, and not just among adults, but among teens and even pre-teens. Apparently people like that junk. P
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by tx 18y ago
He seems to dislike Gates more than you dislike him, yet he managed to avoid personal insults against Bill's intelligence, despite his own limited (according to you) mental capacity.

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