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by wanorris 19y ago
Then again, if you don't use any of their apps, it's kind of a strike against the whole "it just works" thing that's supposed to be central to why one would use a Mac, don't you think?
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by wanorris 19y ago
Personally, I keep Ubuntu up to date by waiting for the little icon to pop in my tray that says I have updates, and I don't need the command line to do any part of it. It still updates all the packages I have without having to worry about l
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by wanorris 19y ago
It's a bandwagon he was destined to jump on -- he's an activist for openness, for heaven's sake, so moving to an open platform is hardly shocking. One might wonder what took him so long.
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by wanorris 19y ago
Here's an interesting 1-year post-mortem from Mark Pilgrim on the benefits of Linux regarding package management. http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/06/02/one-year-with-li...
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by wanorris 19y ago
> With a package manager, it auto-updates every program for security updates and sometimes bug fixes. Yes. That and dependency management are the towering wins of package management. Installing an app when you first get it is generally
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by wanorris 19y ago
I have an OS X system that I use occasionally, but it's never been my primary desktop. Personally, I just prefer the way the Ubuntu desktop feels -- but everyone's different. If you feel really at home with all the aspects of the Mac deskto
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by wanorris 19y ago
> we can't sell it, we only guarantee the project is really cool It's great that you think it's cool, but if someone doesn't already know you, they have no reason to trust you on this point -- you're obviously biased on the subject. I m
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by wanorris 19y ago
> Is the only viable alternative for MS to give up all that in order to chase advertising dollars? No, of course not. Anyone who thinks that is on crack. But what we may see is that Windows and Office are mature businesses and if Micros
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by wanorris 19y ago
Large corporations will never switch to Open Office, because they have too much invested. The home edition of MS Office is $129, which isn't too bad for most home and small business users, and it means they have exact file compatibility wit
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by wanorris 19y ago
"They look sort of baffled when I explain that no, I want to write code, not manage coders." Good for you. Sorry about all the jerks. Since the studies apparently show that women are opting out because they prefer communication focused role
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by wanorris 19y ago
"Sounds pretty accurate to me..." Only if you're lucky. If you're not they make you go fix other people's computers and pull cables and stuff like that. Or they make you a manager or a sales engineer and you don't get to write code anymore.
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by wanorris 19y ago
There's no question that you can make a good living learning to program dinosaur machines in COBOL, but then you would have to spend your life programming in COBOL. Good coders want to use the best tools, because using good tools are part o
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by wanorris 19y ago
In enterprise software, the cost of the product is usually a tiny part of the TCO, the bulk of which is typically labor (whether in-house or consulting). In some cases, it is far more important to buy a product that is popular (and thus com
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by wanorris 19y ago
Especially compared to taking 20 seconds to grab something with Synaptic or apt-get. I'm about 5 times as likely to try something out if I can just grab the packages for it than if I have to install it through some other means. Of course, t
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by wanorris 19y ago
> In my experience free software tends to be better, that's why I also tend towards a "we don't use software that costs money" approach. Even if it's not better, you can fix it, if it's actual free software and not "freeware." Or fork
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by wanorris 19y ago
I let my subscription to Salon.com lapse around 2002 when it was no longer possible to ignore the fact that they were happy to be a blatant mouthpiece for the left. It just wasn't worth the work to sort out the good pieces from the leftist
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by wanorris 19y ago
> I don't see Yahoo destroying their market value with this 'test', they are just trying to stave off MS. 1. AOL is a giant, worthless pile of crap. Does anyone really think merging with them is going to do anything positive for Yahoo?
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by wanorris 19y ago
> er... can I get a translation? Basically, it's a market where investors that own shares in private companies can get cash for those shares from other private investors without taking their company public and being subject to all the b
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by wanorris 19y ago
It's only mostly irrelevant: if you're not already using Microsoft tools (and you're probably not, if you're on news.yc), this is surely irrelevant to you. This surely isn't going to make anyone switch to Microsoft tools. If you are a Mic
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by wanorris 19y ago
> Most of those value based companies sold to community companies. Exactly. Large acquirers typically already have a community, and are looking for additional products and services to offer that community. Meanwhile, community sites are
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by wanorris 19y ago
> The idea just doesn't seem appealing to me, and I would think that the vast majority of users also find it unappealing. It may indeed not be that appealing, but there are real world use cases where people want to do things like read t
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by wanorris 19y ago
Be sure to throw Opera users into the same basket. By this standard, you would expect that they are really a breed apart.
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by wanorris 19y ago
> Incidentally, the idea that Calculus is an AP course is indicative of the challenges facing education in the US. Most colleges offer H.S. Algebra II-level courses to incoming freshmen -- nevermind requiring high school students to tak
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by wanorris 19y ago
There are some merits in 20th century continental philosophy (Foucault, Derrida, Habermas, et alia), and some of the derivative works that circulate as critical theory have merit as well. But most of what circulates in the critical theory w
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by wanorris 19y ago
I keep a todo list in my text editor and work on high priority items on the list until they're done. That's about it.
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by wanorris 19y ago
I don't know if the curriculum has changed, but when I got my Philosophy degree form Princeton in '92, there was an enormous grounding in formal logic, and not nearly so much grounding in bullshitting as in some other liberal arts degrees.
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by wanorris 19y ago
The fact that I like those people and think they shouldn't be written off doesn't mean I think they're right about protecting dying sectors of the economy at the expense of strangling growth. And yes, I believe strongly in free trade and lo
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by wanorris 19y ago
Yes -- if you're serious about starting your own business, you will never need anyone's approval or permission (except your wife's, if applicable!). The community part of YC would indeed be cool, but personally, I'm going to start my compan
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by wanorris 19y ago
I didn't mean to imply anything bad about the second kind of people. My first cut swung too much the other way, so I revised it -- apparently a bit too far. I like those folks. Trying to be a really good parent and provide enough for your
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by wanorris 19y ago
I'll admit that I couldn't care less about tight Mac OS integration (the only time I use Safari is in a VirtualBox window from an XP installation under Ubuntu), but for me, the killer Firefox features are recently closed tabs, auto-restorin

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