kubrick

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by kubrick 17y ago
I guess this is the point at which I go from left-leaning to right-leaning. Stop fucking spending my money on bullshit and you won't have to create new taxes.
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by kubrick 17y ago
So the law is within the bounds of common sense when it defines the copyright period as the life of the author plus 99 years? The constitution says a copyright is granted for a limited time to encourage artists to create. How is Walt Disn
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by kubrick 17y ago
I would like to tell the Pirate Bay the same thing everybody has told us for the past 10 years. They should go out and find a new business model, one that doesn’t involve profiting from stolen property…What everybody who steals music shoul
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by kubrick 17y ago
Unclear what I'm presuming. But are you actually saying: 1- the world needs more people who write like arrogant assholes (even if they're not actually assholes) 2- it's better to be pompous than to actually have a conversation Because that'
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by kubrick 17y ago
I agree: caveats can be distracting. I'm not at all suggesting that, for instance, the 37 Signals boys start adding cavaets. I'm suggesting that they stop constantly posting articles that say, in essence, "Hey, world, you're doing it all wr
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by kubrick 17y ago
You're right, they're not equal. But sounding arrogant -- on purpose -- is still kind of a dickly thing to do. It's I'm-making-up-for-a-small-penis behavior, and the world needs less of it.
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by kubrick 17y ago
I'm gonna get dinged for this, and I don't care. Admitting that you like sounding arrogant doesn't make it OK. Just a little more honest.
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by kubrick 17y ago
... or, as My Little Pony prefers to phrase it, Sun is reverse-acquiring Oracle.
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by kubrick 17y ago
"Trait Transfer" is an interesting idea, one that had not particurly occured to me in my 45 years on Earth. I'm gonna work on that one.
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by kubrick 17y ago
Shouldn't he wait until the cost comes down and settles a bit before he bothers writing a whole screed about the expense? It's like decrying the HDTV as not worth the money -- they're over $10,000 each! Or, they were, a few years ago.
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by kubrick 17y ago
The idea that the split infinitive is bad comes from a fixation in the 18th century that Latin (long dead even at that time) was a somehow superior language. You can't split infinitives in Latin (or most of its descendents). "To sleep" in L
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by kubrick 17y ago
You're right that the first sentence is more informative. Among its other problems, it's too informative. It's like saying that pi is 3.27394 rather than 3.14. Judgement call. "Too" informative? Perhaps for people who prefer brief sentenc
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by kubrick 17y ago
I slowed when I got to Guy Kawasaki (interested in startups but with no direct experience, contrary to popular belief) and cringed when I saw Scobleizer (same story as Guy), and stopped flat when I got to Seth Godin. Seth's got interesting
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by kubrick 17y ago
One reason: they've pulled some of the links out of the current page. The wayback machine has the original links to the other archived sites.
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by kubrick 17y ago
Very good points, although it's worth pointing out that the system can be rigged. Meaning -- just speculating -- a guy like Rupert Murdoch can use his influence with a judge to get a warrant. It's also worth mentioning that the author claim
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by kubrick 17y ago
It's slightly more nuanced than you're making it sound. For one thing, Twitter may very well be more reliable than your email system (YMMV). For another, email doesn't generally beep loudly and alert you. The idea that an additional part au
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by kubrick 17y ago
Twitter hasn't had any serious downtime for months.
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by kubrick 17y ago
You could probably pair this advice with http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ in your is-it-down script, so that you really get a good idea about how widespread your outage is. Just a thought.
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by kubrick 17y ago
YMMV, but in my experience twitter would be prompter than the typical SMS service from a big carrier. More reliable, too.
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by kubrick 18y ago
I love how HN is full of reflexive down-voters. What, you're pundit fans?
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by kubrick 18y ago
ROFLcopter. Really funny to see punditry fail epically.
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by kubrick 18y ago
Sometimes I, as a Rails developer, forget which is supposed to be pluralized, the model or the table. (Gah!) Still, Rails' pluralization algorithm is savvy enough to know when it can't just add an 's'. Most of the time, it works. If you don
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by kubrick 18y ago
The Railiens make a big fuss about favoring convention over configuration, and of course they picked the most bone-headed, moronic conventions imaginable, like coupling data objects to the database, using pluralized table names He's entit
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by kubrick 18y ago
It is grossly irresponsible for the baby boom generation to expect Generations X and Y to be saddled with our national debt, our trade debt, and our infrastructure debt -- and the retirement debt created by baby boomers enjoying long retir
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by kubrick 18y ago
To wit, here is my current status: Total Bandwidth Provided: 13128 GB ($0.1/GB over) Total Used So Far: 1.362 GB Estimated Usage For Cycle: 2.484 GB Estimated Overage Charges: $0.00 Obviously that's not the "unlimited" plan.
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by kubrick 18y ago
Uh, actually I don't. Maybe I signed up at the wrong time or something. Big enough, but definitely not unlimited.
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by kubrick 18y ago
Who's removing domains? I was thinking strictly about unlimited bandwidth and storage.
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by kubrick 18y ago
Is there any reason you couldn't just sign up for another account? Different credit card? Not the same as getting another year for $10, but you'd have unlimited bandwidth and disk for a year for ... $10.
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by kubrick 18y ago
I think this is why God made proxy servers. Actually, that's really surprising. Why on Earth would you not be allowed to get to those services? Canada, of all countries? The 51st state? ;-)
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by kubrick 18y ago
I think the world needs contrarians like this, but that the world also needs to know not to take them entirely seriously.

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