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by antitrust 13y ago
That's an insightful analysis. For me, the question is knowing what exactly I'd do differently. On a lot of crucial points, I don't know and don't know how to find out (except experimentation).
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by antitrust 13y ago
The weird thing about online communities is that at some point they transition from being promotional opportunities owned by the promoter to online communities owned by the users and promoters alike.
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by antitrust 13y ago
Part of the role of Reddit, HN and other social media is to motivate you, the collected developers out there, to write your own version and fix all the problems you see in the system (software + admins + "culture") as it is now. T
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by antitrust 13y ago
Another option is a middle path: It will turn out, how it turns out. Sounds tautological, but it preserves the idea that multiple real world forces determine the outcome, not wishing or feeling. That might save us from paranoia.
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by antitrust 13y ago
I have learned distrust. I distrust anything that makes me feel good without having achieved something that merits that sensation. Alcohol is like being wrapped in a comforter. You are warm, the world is soft, and like a child, you trust in
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by antitrust 13y ago
Once, deep in a meditative trance, I channeled Perl. My friends took me to the hospital after I refused to stop speaking in regular expressions and hashes of hashes.
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No, your data isn't secure in the cloud(computerworld.com)
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by antitrust 13y ago
Keep pushing, Google. We're all waiting. Is the future of Gmail that it will be manipulative corporate bloatware, or a cool hacker innovation that changed email by streamlining it? Looks more like the former today.
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by antitrust 13y ago
Your second mistake might be assuming that rationality, logicality and common sense are one and the same.
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Apple should be breaking new ground – not the law(theguardian.com)
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by antitrust 13y ago
> the structure of a persuasive essay is a non-fancy, workaday model that works just fine. I agree with this, but would like to point out that grey-area's point was that there are other forms which fit other uses: > There are var
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by antitrust 13y ago
> the habit people have of making a list (as the OP does) as if this is a substitute for properly structuring their thoughts - to me that's a cop-out and not far above no structure at all. Speaking as a language professional: If the
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by antitrust 13y ago
> I object to a huge, creepy advertising company having that much access to me and my data, I think it’s unwise to use many proprietary, hard-to-replace services in such important roles, and I think it’s downright foolish to tie that muc
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by antitrust 13y ago
> And who says that big government stifles entrepreneurial innovation? "A brilliant exploration of new ideas in business argues that government is behind the boldest risks and biggest breakthroughs" http://www.ft.com
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The average price for a Windows XP exploit is $50,000 to $150,000(computerworld.com)
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Microsoft is incorporating spyware into local search.(computerworld.com)
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Suddenly, Google is making great hardware(cnn.com)
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by antitrust 13y ago
BRB, need horses and guns.
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by antitrust 13y ago
This is great news. Thanks for posting it. To me, Perl represents the most organic language out there. It arose from a collection of traits in other languages and macro vocabularies. It's held together by a series of lexical assumption
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by antitrust 13y ago
You should come to one of our local PerlMongers meetings ( http://pm.org/ ). I think it would change your mind about a number of things!
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by antitrust 13y ago
> In my view, the "walled garden" of iOS is just the next step in what Apple had already intended to establish for the original Mac. I imagine this is a quandary that shows up not in computing, but anywhere that users interact
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by antitrust 13y ago
I agree. Perl is great and often the fastest way to git 'r done, especially across multiple operating systems. Perl got a bad rep for two reasons. First, writers of boutique languages wanted a reason to feel good about themselves. Seco
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by antitrust 13y ago
> the Internet as a new Wild West I thought that idea died, was buried, exhumed, and reburied back in 1996.
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by antitrust 13y ago
> I don't know how to improvise in conversations. This is hard for everyone. It's why people make so many references to television, movies, music and sports in their small talk.
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by antitrust 13y ago
I wish they'd taken a middle path. Having BASIC (or another language) built into the machine was a big plus and encouraged people to see continuity between the OS, the hardware and the code. If that BASIC had to use built-in functions
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by antitrust 13y ago
This was my experience exactly. I loved the open Apple //, even though it had limited growth potential. I found the Macintosh to be confining (and still do, although more in an interface design sense now).
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by antitrust 13y ago
The Apple //e was the hacker-friendliest machine ever. It's probably the ideal learning platform for anyone looking to go into computer science, although perhaps not app programming as a career, which requires a narrower skil
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by antitrust 13y ago
This is great advice. I have a long list of projects I wish I'd done with the intent of accomplishing and then telling people about, as it would force me to get them done and make them into contributions. Many are small, others would h
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by antitrust 13y ago
> spending more time writing documentation in the internal wiki than doing actual work I have to disagree that this isn't actual work, as long as he's documenting something important. But this: > organizing meetings with no
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by antitrust 13y ago
You've got to fight ... for your right ... to -- Oh. Ew.

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