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by ygaf 9y ago
Yes, these posts aren't connecting with the general populace because the truth is too inconvenient, not because they suffer from any incoherency.
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by ygaf 9y ago
That is a profound point although you're only going to get downvoted for the first point. My analogy of the web is that internet websites are street establishments, and at least two parties (ISP / the website owners) have you on C
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by ygaf 9y ago
We've got the Lib Dems; no matter how ineffectual a Lib Dem vote ostensibly is, you're not having to choose one of the other two.
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by ygaf 9y ago
Put the drone soapbox away.
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by ygaf 9y ago
Our security is very powerful, second-to-none, it's a beauty.
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by ygaf 9y ago
Motives are irrelevant to being a hero?
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by ygaf 9y ago
I think his implication is that patentholders encourage the support/use of the format, abstract as it is (a concrete example being PC vendors obliged to sell windows machines only).
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by ygaf 9y ago
I see your point, but like the author I think mp3 has plenty of inertia even from this point in time. Even if I overestimate mp3 usage nowadays, those other journos are getting ahead of themselves.
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by ygaf 9y ago
It's a bit surreal. Engadget interprets "becoming patent-free" as "being retired". Gizmodo interprets it as "it's dead". We're not in a world where file format fanboys have the writing prowess to
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by ygaf 9y ago
While lazily throwing it out there that nationalism is bad, you do acknowledge the benefit of... continentialism?
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by ygaf 9y ago
I think that was fleshed out, but yeah, the article doesn't even need the word capitalist in it. ("capitalist firms" - as opposed to what?)
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by ygaf 9y ago
SQLite: they support a subset of SQL? unacceptable. MySQL: a proprietary product if ever I saw one. CouchDB: wow, does that hide bits of data until you search next week?
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by ygaf 9y ago
Legitimate buyers can convert the other way.
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by ygaf 9y ago
I opened the second link for the funny title, and its a worthy read. >Jigsaw has had a multi-year development and feedback period in which the views of other module system creators have been led to substantial design changes again and ag
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by ygaf 9y ago
If football team A wins a because an act of god wiped out team B, I don't believe A were the better team even for that game. You've got a chip on your shoulder about people making excuses, when obviously excuses can be valid.
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by ygaf 9y ago
I don't think it's right to call that having control. But whatever, your post was more honest than the average GPL advocate's.
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by ygaf 9y ago
>If my project had been BSD, I might have seen someone making money from my project and associate my name with something that I had zero control on. If he went along with his product being forced to be open, what then? It still has your
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by ygaf 9y ago
The anthrax jibe made me laugh though.
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by ygaf 9y ago
Thus, the quote is true?
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by ygaf 9y ago
This is all tangential. Are you saying that weirdos and neurotics, people less successful in the real world, do not have more chance of being online all the time?
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by ygaf 9y ago
How did your family change, exactly?
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by ygaf 9y ago
There is substance in the article, but the author is insulting and cliched right at the start (the worst place - for him). If HN says nothing, we're agreeing to that stuff in the first paragraph.
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by ygaf 10y ago
>people who knew them will say to the news "I never expected them to do such a thing" or "they were such a sweet person" The shittiest of people have friends/family who will vouch to journalists "he loved hi
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by ygaf 10y ago
Perfectly put. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14067039
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by ygaf 10y ago
Some of the most interesting posts happen by accident.
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by ygaf 10y ago
It depends what you mean by quality. The perceived image of writers doesn't come from what they say, but how they say it along with with the status they start off with (e.g. it's the Economist). Readers don't scrutinize anyth
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by ygaf 10y ago
I can't rule an April Fool out. A company that can't make secure software, probably has an upside in that they are people-persons with a great sense of humour.
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by ygaf 10y ago
No the premise is simply that young writers wouldn't get respect, and who would disagree?
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by ygaf 10y ago
I'm not surprised that Python performs miracles (the title is a bit biblical). I've not done much with Python, only made a couple of small hobby scripts, but both of them were programs I would never have wanted to make if python
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by ygaf 10y ago
>It's not intuition, it's rote learning. Nobody cares if Eris is a planet or not, because nobody memorized a list of planets that include Eris. Couldn't have put it better. The author seems scientific or at least highly ed

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