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by ytinas 17y ago
Um... no, it might be what drove him to use bitkeeper. Losing bitkeeper is what drove him to create git. This is pretty well documented.
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by ytinas 17y ago
Virtualization is good in e.g. cloud scenarios where the usage is spread out to different machines through out the day. Rather than have 10 machines averaging 5% utilization at all times you can have 1 machine with e.g. 60% utilization all
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by ytinas 17y ago
People always site multi-tasking as some huge problem when talking about the iPhone/iPad, but you use this kind of device differently than a computer. Everything you actually need multi-tasking for can be done some other way (e.g. timer
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by ytinas 17y ago
Well for one thing, anonymity. If you are very free with your opinions on e.g. youtube, but use your real name with gmail it can be really annoying when a purchase fuses these two.
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by ytinas 17y ago
Most anything from Noam Chomsky should be good.
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by ytinas 17y ago
>...but who somehow feel that they do know enough to try and falsify a theory? You don't have to try to falsify a theory not to believe it. Agnostic is also a valid position (so long as you're not trying to influence others one way or
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by ytinas 17y ago
>They could simply be using a reversible encryption algorithm. I'm sorry, but this difference is completely trivial. Putting a password in some reversible encryption is just security by obscurity. In the worst case the people who mana
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by ytinas 17y ago
Great post. For some people science is absolutely a religion. These folks don't know enough to try and falsify the theory they believe but they have no issue trashing people who aren't as convinced.
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by ytinas 17y ago
I don't know why this was downvoted. I don't agree with the post completely but I don't find it snarky or anything. To the post itself: It's a bit more complex than that. If the kids mean a lot to you then splitting up means seeing them l
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by ytinas 17y ago
I said "seems" because I didn't want to make the statement absolute and spend a bunch of time debating the point. Regardless of what is theoretically possible, what appears to happen in practice is a (terminal imo) short term focus. The mo
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by ytinas 17y ago
Sorry, I obviously wasn't clear enough. What I meant was: Capitalism is a system to manage resources. Since it seems to end up with an extremely short term focus when it isn't tightly controlled, I wonder if there aren't possible alterna
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by ytinas 17y ago
True, but (regardless of your stance on if drugs actually should be illegal or not) do we punish the drug dealers or the users harsher? In cases of exploiting a vice, the precedent is to punish the exploiter harsher than the exploitie.
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by ytinas 17y ago
I don't buy that they are as efficient as actually possible. I wish there were some means of trying out different resource allocation strategies, but I think people who are doing so well in the current setup will do whatever it takes to ma
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by ytinas 17y ago
Ah, I interpreted your comment to mean that what ever happens we will be smart enough to solve it. I agree that worrying about things utterly beyond our control is senseless.
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by ytinas 17y ago
Well, in the case of the US the voter has consistently and demonstrably voted against their own interests for a while now. How else would you explain e.g. the flood of money from the middle classes to the rich since at least Reagan, the co
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by ytinas 17y ago
You think doing a lot of censorship would improve discourse? What do you mean? Just remove snarky comments? Fine, but those get strongly down voted anyway. Comments someone in charge doesn't agree with? Then it isn't discourse. EDIT:
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by ytinas 17y ago
>But what are THE ODDS of us not figuring out a solution in time? What? If the right size celestial body were heading for the earth there wouldn't be much we could do about it. There are a great deal of things that can happen that we
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by ytinas 17y ago
>Open-source has created more clones than any single company, and it keeps on cloning. Well, it takes more than simply dumping a free product on the market. It has to be comparably usable. >do you see it competing against Facebook?
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by ytinas 17y ago
I recall reading a study about happiness somewhere years ago [1] that showed people's happiness generally doesn't change that much. It reacts temporarily to positive/negative effects but then tends to go back where it was. [1] I think it w
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by ytinas 17y ago
As far as I got, they had some good points (i.e this race to the bottom is going to impact the consumers themselves at some point), but I think it's part of a bigger overall issue and is probably better (and less frustratingly) covered by e
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by ytinas 17y ago
What a horrible post. Google hasn't done anything for us , they've done things for their business. It happens that for the moment their business model (largely) requires them to do things that we find convenient or good. This is extreme
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by ytinas 17y ago
Ok, fair enough. I suppose in the case of some of our manufacturing industries the labor was sent oversees not because it had to be fundamentally cheaper, but because it was easier than dealing with the unions.
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by ytinas 17y ago
Well, I don't know that growth is a fair metric. Once you hit saturation point you can't grow much anymore. I was actually thinking desktops (windows, OSX, Linux. In that order). OSX may have some BSD code but they have heavily modifie
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by ytinas 17y ago
>openness always wins What do you mean? If we take OS'es the most open one is the least used.
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by ytinas 17y ago
At which point your currency/bonds are worthless to everyone who doesn't have to pay taxes with them since you look for reasons to break your promises when things don't go your way.
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by ytinas 17y ago
Uhm, what? For a developed country, the US has very cheap labor already. And there are minimum wages laws to deal with as well. How exactly would the US compete with labor as cheap as it is in China? I can't imagine you actually mean sla
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by ytinas 17y ago
Google is a better MS in the same way that MS was a better IBM. And for me personally Google is synonomous with NIH. I mean, a search/ads company making their own Phone? Operating system??? Router ?!
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by ytinas 17y ago
You don't? You're on this site so I imagine you dream of having your own start up some day, no? How would you like it if every single idea you have ends up with you working it to 80% completion only to have Google release a free version
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by ytinas 17y ago
Kudos for watching The Power of Nightmares , but did you miss the part where they pointed out [b]that these organizations are largely fictional and used as a tool by governments to appear more necessary than they are[/b]? The government i
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by ytinas 17y ago
Wow, thanks! I hope you find good resources to draw from so it doesn't turn out disappointing to you. I would look at things that Joe Armstrong writes. Not so much erlweb and stuff like that.

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