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by vonskippy 13y ago
Before I yell "Get off my lawn", I'd like to remind what seems to be the main demographic here on HN (you know, the 20 something "me me me" short pants crowd) that people, businesses, start-ups, families, friends, e
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Shoot 22 horses - the last three left alive will be the fastest.
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Obviously you've never driven a Porsche. Except perhaps for the very bottom of Porsche's product lines, the Tesla isn't even close. Tesla is for geeks and treehuggers - but anyone into cars takes a quick look and then laughs
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by vonskippy 13y ago
"How to Write the Shit Out of Something". Maybe write it so that people can understand what the fuck you're trying to say? Does it help swearing in your writing - apparently so? I have no clue what "Shit" and "
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by vonskippy 13y ago
"Maybe this kind of expensive, high volume devices shows the limits of crowdfunding?" Maybe having a billionaire with his hand out holding a tin cup shows that people aren't such big suckers as Shuttleworth anticipated?
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Shuttleworth has a 2012 net worth of $500 Million USD plus - yet he wants the common Ubuntu fanboy to fund his latest project? Um....no.
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by vonskippy 13y ago
And the flip side, why coders can't do the simplest of sysadmin tasks. I've meet coders who couldn't spell "DHCP" let alone tell you what it does or how it works. They're two completely different job descriptio
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Normally I'd be upset that another patent troll was winning in court - but come on, this is about a slimy patent troll that will be suing even more slimy advertising scum. I have to say I'm on the fence on this one.
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by vonskippy 13y ago
What happened to innovation? At least in the States, it's been sued out of existence.
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by vonskippy 13y ago
This is just another sad reminder of how broke the legal system is in the States. A simple fix, for this and many other types of legal bullying, make the protesting party pay ALL legal fees and a stiff penalty if they lose in court. Prote
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by vonskippy 13y ago
What I came away with from reading that drivel is - Kids today are stupid, and they're that way because they use a iPad. Did I miss anything?
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Once you have an account with Linode, spinning up another node is quick and painless, and with way more options. Plus they're up front with their billing - I need to send in a question and wait for a email response on how much it will
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by vonskippy 13y ago
This has as much chance of working as demanding the Whitehouse makes shit smell like roses.
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by vonskippy 13y ago
"Take" - I'm more worried some BioTech will patent my own genome.
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by vonskippy 13y ago
"Too many people think drinking and boating go together," he said. "We don't have a problem if people drink. Just have a designated operator." Seems pretty much common sense to me - why is that so hard to comply wit
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Maybe a little more science for science's sake, and less science that starts with "how many patients and how much money will it make us" and we'd have a much better chance at beating cancer. We're allowing gene sequ
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Paying bills is stupid. Cleaning house is boring. Going to work EVERY day is stupid. Following rules is stupid. Doing what you're told is stupid. etc etc etc. Bwahahaha - your kid is screwed. The world is full of arbitrary and down rig
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by vonskippy 13y ago
"Because right now, it's still behind the pack." Um.. Active Directory run's pretty much every Enterprise and Corporation worldwide. From that, I'd say Microsoft "has got it right".
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by vonskippy 13y ago
"Except for one little problem: the economics of cord-cutting simply don’t make sense, for neither networks nor viewers." I think he doth protest to much. Cord cutting makes PERFECT SENSE for the viewer. We haven't had Cable/Sat in our hous
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Clunky at best, especially via Smartphone. No clue why I would use this over Evernote - which has Android, iPhone, Web Browser, and Windows Apps - all pointing to the same dataset in the cloud. This app keeps forcing me to allow Dropbox. Mi
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Seriously, they need to work on a decent elevator pitch. The video is annoying and too long, and their webpage goes on and on and on without clearly stating why they are better then all the rest. Should I try them - who knows? Will it ma
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by vonskippy 13y ago
"Way better than a VM" Why?
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Like most government "partner" projects, this one will most likely end with the big corp sucking as much free money from the feds (i.e. us the taxpayers) as they can, then after the initial domestic project is built out, they'll dismantle e
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Obviously the guy doesn't have access to any 7 year olds. Besides being way (way way way way way) too long, it's way too complex. Lottery, transaction, millions, security camera, online, indestructible, odds, all words that would need their
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by vonskippy 13y ago
When a small fraction of one percent controls well over 2/3 of the world's assets - explain how the "current power brokers/structure" is ending. This article is nothing but pie in the sky fantasy.
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by vonskippy 14y ago
Upvotes/Downvotes are the bane of all discussion threads. What is this, Junior High? I can read and decide for myself if the comment is brilliant, valid, or just another jackass on the web. Just post the comments in the order they were m
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by vonskippy 14y ago
12 years since the article was written and what's changed? Seems like business as usual for the music industry. All those "We're going to change the world" artists have just stood in line those 12 years waiting for their turn to get screwed
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by vonskippy 14y ago
So you got pawned by some warped social experiment - yeah, that sounds about right for the "best" that working at an apple store has to offer.
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by vonskippy 14y ago
I feel your pain. Once when I took a short break someone ran into my shop and painted all the beads of my abacus florescent pink. What were they thinking?
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by vonskippy 15y ago
Hard to understand the down voting. Are people actually that stupid that they believe the story is true?

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