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by zmanji 14y ago
What evidence do you have to support your claim? As far as I can tell Instagram was a cool idea/product that got lots of users. I am unable to see a moneymaking opportunity from any angle from the current iteration of the product. In additi
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by zmanji 14y ago
Are you honestly saying that Instagram's team was "trying to grow a very large, independent businesses"?
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by zmanji 14y ago
[...] it would have been very hard for them to get to the scale [...] Without revenue you can say it would have been very hard for them to, you know, exist as a company for some period of time.
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by zmanji 14y ago
This is the stupidest drivel I have ever read. If you brought this up outside of the inane SV bubble, you would be laughed out of the room. They even state "for many apps, like Instagram [...]" as a good example when revenue is not needed.
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by zmanji 14y ago
Why? Some prof worked hard to create the starter code for many assignments so the student could focus on a few key parts. After the student completes the few key parts of the assignment it is obvious it is a derivative work of the professor
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by zmanji 14y ago
This has expressed the ideas in my head far better than I could. When I first started to work with Rails in many projects I just dumped all of the gems I wanted to use in my Gemfile. I quickly learned that a simple bundle update could fuck
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by zmanji 14y ago
I feel the judge will rule that APIs are not subject to copyright. There is no expression of creativity and it is fairly mechanical. I also think that if they are subject to copyright lots of people are going to get sued.
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by zmanji 14y ago
I'm not sure what is being contested in the case any more. Larry Page testified that their implementation of Java was a clean room implementation. Is Oracle trying to assert that an API is something that is subject to copyright?
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by zmanji 14y ago
Did you read the article? It relates the increase of people renouncing citizenship with the increased enforcement of IRS and legislation targeting foreign income. This has been a topic of discussion in Canada for some time now where there a
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by zmanji 14y ago
I think that this is fairly reasonable. When joining the military you agree to abide a very different set of laws and rules. I think that it is fair to demand that military personnel respect their Commander in Chief.
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by zmanji 15y ago
Not even close. By default there is no license at all.
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by zmanji 15y ago
Out of curiosity what is classified as "Quake in Space" and "WoW in Space" ?
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by zmanji 15y ago
“Whenever I would talk in Washington about this cloud technology enabling data centers to run without people, this was interpreted as jobs going away,” Kemp says. “There was a serious political challenge to the project…and I was called befo
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Lessons Learned Building Open Source Software(mitchellhashimoto.com)
63 points by zmanji 15y ago|4 comments
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by zmanji 15y ago
Does this mean that the entire Android userland will run on a vanilla 3.3 kernel?
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by zmanji 15y ago
Tangentially related: How does one write 'modern' LaTeX today? What packages/tools do people use to ensure their documents work properly?
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by zmanji 15y ago
Why is it not possible to compile gcc with llvm-gcc? The last time I checked llvm-gcc compiles C and C++ with most GNU extensions.
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Xcode 4.3 Released(developer.apple.com)
5 points by zmanji 15y ago|2 comments
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by zmanji 15y ago
This is outrageous, I can't believe that Zuckerburg did not try any other action after the window closed to prevent paying so much tax.
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by zmanji 15y ago
Is it possible for all of these to be implemented as git command aliases?
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by zmanji 15y ago
This is an excellent talk. The presenter has tremendous energy.
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by zmanji 15y ago
This honestly looks like the plot of a movie.
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by zmanji 15y ago
The first event was learning Ruby. See: http://ladieslearningcode.com/events/
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by zmanji 15y ago
How did you get your operating system to do that?
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by zmanji 15y ago
That is the textbook definition of anything related to Intellectual Property. The State is supposed to grant a time limited monopoly and in exchange the protected item will return to the public once it is finished.
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JSON will be a core type in PostgreSQL 9.2(people.planetpostgresql.org)
358 points by zmanji 15y ago|41 comments
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by zmanji 15y ago
I'm not going to purchase a device because the software might improve in the future. I'm going to purchase a device that has functional software from day 1. Otherwise every day that I have to use the terrible software until it is improved
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Interns Are Latest Target In Battle for Tech Talent(online.wsj.com)
6 points by zmanji 15y ago|1 comments
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by zmanji 15y ago
I really wish this was baked into some SASS framework so I could get this for free.
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by zmanji 15y ago
Can anyone shed some light on how this can happen? Don't managers use the product and ensure that it is better than the previous versions? How can they release Playbook OS 2.0 without BBM, email, etc?

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