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by wes-exp 15y ago
This. At least with Ubuntu, there is a large enough user base that there is software available for it that is tested and actually works (conveniently available as a binary .deb). Also, bugs tend to be identified and fixed, again due to the
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by wes-exp 15y ago
I guess my point is that when a story sounds too good to be true, you have to consider the source.
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by wes-exp 15y ago
As soon as I read his tale of accomplishing seemingly impossible feats, I figured he must be selling something. Scrolled to the bottom of the page, and sure enough, it is so.
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Critically injured protestor is sys-admin for SF-based software company OPSWAT(sfgate.com)
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by wes-exp 15y ago
To be fair, lawyers, accountants, and doctors all face strict professional requirements to be degree holders. As such, debating the necessity of a degree serves no practical purpose in those fields. The decreased need for education in softw
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by wes-exp 15y ago
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
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by wes-exp 15y ago
For those living in RVs, boats, and so on, can you comment on the amount of time you spend maintaining your living space? As a startup founder, as much as I am concerned about cutting costs, I am also concerned about the opportunity cost of
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by wes-exp 15y ago
On 32-bit Linux GCC, C hello world comes out to only 7 KB. Without optimization.
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by wes-exp 15y ago
YES! I hate the arrow key "feature" on Google's search results. I expect arrow keys to scroll the page, because that's how it works on every other website!
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Now it all makes sense how IBM is one of the most patent-producing companies and yet the patents don't seem to generate returns commensurate with their number (vaguely recall a study about this, could be wrong).
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by wes-exp 15y ago
To be fair, aren't those companies just victims of IV's patent shakedowns rather than IV co-conspirators?
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Where does that leave the iPhone, which is basically a digital swiss army knife?
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by wes-exp 15y ago
I agree with what you're saying. I was just trying to point out that strict education requirements (e.g. state regulation of the profession) do influence wages within the profession. Parent made a point about PhD waiters being paid the sa
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Maybe a small percent of software is written for life-critical systems. That's because software is a huge market. But a growing percent of life-critical systems rely on software. How many adverse outcomes (even death) are you willing to acc
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Yes, but the market does care about long schooling when it is a requirement to practice the profession. That's why it drives up wages in Medicine and Law.
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by wes-exp 15y ago
This. Take for example the American Medical Association: From Wikipedia: Economist Milton Friedman, [has] asserted that the organization acts as a guild and has attempted to increase physicians' wages and fees by influencing limitations on
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by wes-exp 15y ago
I would like to see some good science fiction that actually attempts to imagine what our real future might be like. For some reason it seems like writers (or maybe it's the fault of people funding TV/movies) can only imagine a future having
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by wes-exp 15y ago
It does include pencil and paper: The Court noted that the calculations, while “primarily useful for computerized [applications],” could still “be made [using a] pencil and paper.”
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by wes-exp 15y ago
I lol'd. Thank you.
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by wes-exp 15y ago
... and your point is?
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Maybe they also want redundancy for on-site "iCloud" data centers.
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Notice I said for the OS . From Wikipedia: "An EC2 instance may be launched with a choice of two types of storage for its boot disk or "root device". The first option is a local "instance-store" disk as a root device (originally the only c
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Only fools would want a persistent filesystem for their OS! </sarcasm>
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Actually some of the issues extended to the entire East region . In particular, for quite some time I couldn't create a new instance in any East zone. At all.
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Indeed. I don't think anybody is benefiting. Quite the opposite. Software patents are seen as just a bunch of land mines that make it harder to get the job done. There is no thought of making use of them whatsoever.
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Limiting software patents only to "non-obvious" ones sounds good in theory, but I suspect it breaks down in practice. Most software patents are written up in "mumbo jumbo" language, to use the term from the recent piece on This American Lif
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by wes-exp 15y ago
That statement does not make sense even by pg's own logic. He says that patents play a small role in software compared to other industries. Yet opposing software patents means you must oppose all patents? I think there is a decent case that
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Rasmus Lerfdorf (designer of PHP) did an interview where he explained PHP's origins http://www.twit.tv/floss12 . It's been a long time since I listened to the interview, but I think he created PHP to create simple websites. Wikipedia even
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by wes-exp 15y ago
On the contrary. Since software source code is (at a fundamental level) math, it is purely informational in nature. One of the goals of the patent system in the first place was so that information would be shared rather than kept secret. Th
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Not only do I not care if a project was completed in a weekend... I don't care if a project came to someone in a dream and they wrote the code onto their bathroom mirror with their left hand, while shaving with their right hand. I share som

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