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by wnight 15y ago
p2p is unrelated to (these) caching strategies. They'd do the same if it was all centralized. Why not just download a huge bunch of songs using bit torrent and pretend to be using Spotify? No partially cached songs, no proprietary anything,
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by wnight 15y ago
In other words, you're ignoring all problems about value transfer systems like gold and cash while assigning basic problems like that nobody trades food for gold when starving to BTC alone. Gold for instance, seems to be a fool's buy, becau
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by wnight 15y ago
But what about when you do need anonymity, for example to leak video of a corrupt official, or evidence your employer is knowingly causing harm, etc? How do you propose to do this when all services are tied to identity?
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by wnight 15y ago
Not Usenet. I'd never seen gmane before. Neat.
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by wnight 15y ago
You might not have had to, I did. Also, the gmane link was clearer - both in that this was just a Usenet post, and which group it was.
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by wnight 15y ago
> Graham could say today "no Apple vs. * debates", and about 100 people on HN would immediately start actively shutting down pointless Apple debates. But he doesn't want to do that. I'm sure there's a reason for it. Yeah, because having
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by wnight 15y ago
Patents and spam. Still, it's a step up from their video "product".
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by wnight 15y ago
4 I still disable js by default. Even still it usually doesn't add much to my browsing experience. It could, but I've rarely met a web designer who actually cared about the user's goals - almost every one of them was intent on using their f
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by wnight 15y ago
Unless your app is trivial it won't appeal to only one type of person so you're going to have to model multiple types anyways. For instance, the inbox cleaning utility mentioned - it could be used by busy CEOs whose time is money, and by co
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by wnight 15y ago
Once you've got sandboxing it seems only logical, until then it's madness.
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by wnight 15y ago
Is this available without logging into a proprietary service to read it?
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by wnight 15y ago
By letting inventors use their inventions without trolls getting in the way. The patent system doesn't recognize independent invention though reality does. Imagine having your valuable R&D rendered worthless by an injunction prohibiting
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by wnight 15y ago
> The capitalist answer [...] Would be to ditch patents completely. Rent-seeking and government protectionism are specifically anti-capitalist. > Perhaps all ideas, not just startup business ideas, will become worthless. If by worth
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by wnight 15y ago
I feel for people getting into programming today. While GPLed software and better dev environments than I ever had are easily available, there's less of an emphasis on computers being programmable for users - less useful manuals, etc Sure y
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by wnight 15y ago
> It's almost as if people derive personal satisfaction from poking holes in Yes, many hackers/engineers like fixing things. The first step is to identify the problems. It's almost as if people derive personal satisfaction from playing
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by wnight 15y ago
No, it's not. Analogies are hard, you aren't up it it, stop using them. If someone provides the work you expect, despite actually sleeping 4/5ths of the time, you're getting what you paid for. That they could have provided five times more w
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by wnight 15y ago
> As the Co-founder of a statup that has dealt directly with situations like this in the past, I don't see much wrong with how the situation was handled. If I saw a service I use unreasonably lock someone's account I'd be concerned for
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by wnight 15y ago
You probably won't hit a limit, CPUs are fast and even "slow" Ruby can do quite a lot. If you do hit the limit though, and have exhausted algorithmic improvements, you've got your Ruby as an acceptance test for your C++ which will make it u
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by wnight 15y ago
Premature optimization. If your code runs slowly on larger datasets it'll be easier to write what you need in C then than it will be to guess what you need now.
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by wnight 15y ago
> Also, on Biden's comment about attending mass: that's just Biden being a good Catholic. Yes, and that he is religious and leads a country is the issue. He gets his orders from the same place as Osama Bin Laden and George W Bush. >
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by wnight 15y ago
All is a kind of some.
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by wnight 15y ago
Then what's the difference? You were talking about how you preferred uneditable histories, why does only rebase count?
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by wnight 15y ago
What makes you think the government can run an economy? Our economy, despite recent "deregulation" is the most regulated, especially when you count criminal and civil law as well, in the world. There are countless laws against selling known
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by wnight 15y ago
> Your idea of "unethical" (to say the least of good business sense) is markedly different from mine. I'm sure it'd be more profitable (and thus good business sense) to treat customers better based on the publicity they have. But do you
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by wnight 15y ago
> all the potential social advantages of being roughly grouped by age Actually, from what I've seen the one-room-schoolhouse concept is the best. You don't have a single age-group preying on each other in a lord-of-the-flies situation.
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by wnight 15y ago
Better he learn what the system is like while young. With media attention on his arrest he's likely to be unmolested. There's no alternative where he was safe, just ones where the risk wasn't realized. Now he'll know what many complacent pe
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by wnight 15y ago
The risk has always been there. Have you ever seen/used a lock-pick gun? They'll open anything non-specialized in less than a second. Failing that, a lightly skilled (50h practice) lock-picker can open most household locks, even "secure" on
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by wnight 15y ago
Surely he did though. At some point he (roughly) had to add up the weight of the building and make sure the supports were thick enough to bear it. It's just too basic to talk about.
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by wnight 15y ago
Perhaps by permuting your code the system could determine if there was anything that wasn't required to make the test pass and exclude it from the check-in. I often code three or four commits worth at once when on a roll and it's a pain doi
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by wnight 15y ago
> And "as any fule kno" [sic], this is idioicy during a design or hacking or greenfield phase of development. When you write something you run it to make sure it works. Bottle that and call it a test. And then merely do this before you

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