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by sid0 15y ago
I meant "stories" in the journalistic sense.
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by sid0 15y ago
I'm merely citing the fluff that has occupied Hacker News recently such as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3100278 . What sane, non-obsessed person gives a flying fuck what uniform someone wore and why they wore it?
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by sid0 15y ago
Yeah, that wasn't true when I made that comment earlier. I'm happy that the community seems to have come to its senses.
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by sid0 15y ago
Don't litter the frontpage posts on our heroes Speak for yourself. Steve Jobs was not my hero. I respected him but did not like him one bit.
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by sid0 15y ago
let's not compare both. Ah yes, the cognitive dissonance of an Apple fanboy developer who knows that C is far more important than anything SJ ever did yet can't reconcile that with their belief that SJ was god. Shame on Hacker News's audi
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by sid0 15y ago
But Dennis didn't wear black turtlenecks everyday so obviously he's less important. </sarcasm>
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by sid0 15y ago
However, that actually requires ordering socks, which as we all know is O(not gonna happen).
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by sid0 15y ago
Yeah, those aren't types, they're merely annotations.
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by sid0 15y ago
2) A programmer who disposes of the idea of using memory efficiently has probably discarded the idea of algorithmic efficiently in any way whatsoever. Space and time have to very often be traded off against each other in algorithms.
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by sid0 15y ago
Well, multiple versions of code being loaded means that there are fewer common pages to share across processes. However I think it is the right tradeoff to make.
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by sid0 15y ago
I disagree, and I'm presenting as much evidence for it as you are (i.e. none). In which conference was Apple's finding published? Where can I download a PDF of the paper?
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by sid0 15y ago
Evidence? Citation? Or are you saying that on blind faith simply because it's Apple?
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by sid0 15y ago
AKA door-in-the-face. Standard psychological trick studied since at least the 1970s.
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by sid0 15y ago
It's not just what he's saying, it's obvious objective fact. A device that I can't play around with and run my code on without paying my dues is merely a toy. I'm not universally opposed to toys -- my music player is an iPod nano, which is
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by sid0 15y ago
They're Apple fanboys, what do you expect. Next they'll start quoting Ayn Rand. Thankfully Steve himself had far superior cognitive capacity.
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by sid0 15y ago
But does the peg's circle circumscribe or inscribe the hole's square? Sorry, I couldn't resist.
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by sid0 15y ago
The service wouldn't give the browser elevated privileges. If you're worried about an update being compromised, then don't, since they're delivered over SSL and (I believe) are also signed separately.
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by sid0 15y ago
I'm not reducing anything to anything. I'm saying that the default, natural, rational position is for ideas to be free, and that any deviation from that position should be sufficiently justified.
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by sid0 15y ago
I don't see how my posts contradict each other. I do not think "buy an optical drive, pay through the nose and wait a month for an imported CD to arrive" is a reasonable condition when the trivial alternative of pirating it exists. It's up
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by sid0 15y ago
Of course I don't believe that morality is whatever suits you. Morality includes property rights, but I do not think the moral rights of the creator of some intellectual property, once his creation is released to the world, extend as far as
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by sid0 15y ago
Yep. The cost of waiting (up to a month for imports) and buying an optical drive especially for this is prohibitively high. I will not pay that high a price. I also take moral issue to calling piracy stealing.
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by sid0 15y ago
Firstly, what are the current equivalents of a mobile App Store for (pirated) music? What.cd.
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by sid0 15y ago
Since you're speaking in terms of entitlements, let's make this clear: the natural state of any idea (including large numbers such as the sequence of bits that make up an mp3) is to be free. Every human is naturally entitled through his con
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by sid0 15y ago
I can't buy most music digitally (except via places like Bandcamp) where I live. I could buy or import CDs, but I don't like waiting and my computer doesn't have an optical drive. Pardon my French, but if you think I shouldn't listen to mus
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by sid0 15y ago
Until webkit becomes the only rendering standard This shouldn't ever happen. We've been there before and seen how much it held back innovation. It is our duty both as individuals and as a collective to make sure it doesn't happen.
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by sid0 15y ago
Haha, "float is a monad" is the first thing that popped into my head when I read that.
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by sid0 15y ago
How is this any different from storing source code on GitHub, or using Campfire to communicate? A very reasonable argument is that you shouldn't be using those either. GitHub is fine for open source projects but if I were involved in writ
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by sid0 15y ago
But with frictionless sharing it isn't idempotent, right? If I refresh a page I'm reading it'll show up twice in the ticker.
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by sid0 15y ago
Fair enough -- you're correct. Coming back to the original point (and not in response to you in particular), using "begging the question" to mean "raising the question" is very common now, and trying to object to that does no one any favour
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by sid0 15y ago
I think your definition of descriptivism is incorrect. Descriptivism certainly doesn't mean everything anyone ever says is gramatically correct. Please read http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001843.h... .

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