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by sielskr 16y ago
Since the link is in a comment that begins, "MS is not a horrible stack to develop on," and ends, "I'm glad I went with .NET for my startup," a reader could get the impression that the link somehow provides support for your pro-MS position.
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by sielskr 16y ago
The writeup on what Quora is built on say that, "Quora uses Ubuntu Linux as it’s OS of choice," and does not mention any Microsoft technologies at all.
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by sielskr 16y ago
Read this passage again: >"The dirty little secret," a former AOL executive says, "is that seventy-five percent of the people who subscribe to AOL's dial-up service don't need it." [emphasis mine]. The OP (at Huffington Post) very str
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by sielskr 16y ago
I like the UIs of HN and Craigslist much better than most sites.
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by sielskr 16y ago
This promises to remove the only obstacle to my spending $99 on an Apple TV box, namely, my fear of being locked into Apple's content distribution system. Will someone unaffiliated with the project please describe their experiences with usi
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by sielskr 16y ago
"Note that you will have to repeat this process every time you upgrade your Mac OS to a new patch release (10.6.5 -> 10.6.6)."
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by sielskr 16y ago
"If visual contact was essential for forming significant relationships then the blind would be unable to make friends." Maybe the blind are much less successful at making friends. What is your evidence to the contrary?
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by sielskr 16y ago
Wait because the software is busy. E.g. OS X's spinning beach ball. (Emacs is single-threaded, but so is a Unix shell.)
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by sielskr 16y ago
I would rather have an Emacs that offers fewer choices but looks good out of the box. Example: the software supplied by Apple with a Mac does not have any themes except for the choice between Blue (colorful) and Graphite (subdued) in the Ap
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by sielskr 16y ago
I regret the trend towards gray rather than black maintext.
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by sielskr 16y ago
Thanks for the AdblockPlus rule!
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by sielskr 16y ago
I'd like to grayscale my browser while leaving Emacs in color. Actually, I'd pay good money for a grayscale version of Firefox.
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by sielskr 16y ago
"Submissions are cheap and skippable." By that logic, you will not mind if I spam your mailbox since emails are cheap and skippable.
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by sielskr 16y ago
Can a person join an existing Posterous Group using only email?
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by sielskr 16y ago
"big budget entertainment will increasingly have to compete with more and more free and low-cost entertainment options on the internet" By "free and low-cost entertainment options" do you mean pirated content? I do not see non-pirated cont
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by sielskr 16y ago
I saw compiler flags for OSX in the source tarball [1] but to install on OSX probably requires installing from source, and if my experience with using macports to install Conkeror and uzbl is any indication, installing all of the dependenci
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by sielskr 16y ago
because the authorities have no control over the supply of cash, would never try to outlaw cash, or never require banks to report the withdrawal or deposit of cash.
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by sielskr 16y ago
Sure, but I did it because the OP did it. Also, there's a good chance that Orwell would have just as much of a problem with "estate tax" as with "death tax", "estate tax" being the choice of people with an agenda after all.
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by sielskr 16y ago
When I saw "the Deaths of Four People Cost the U.S. Government $6.5 Billion" I imagined the government taking 6.5 billion from taxpayers and spending it extremely inefficiently. But I am not a journalist living in New York City (if the blo
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by sielskr 16y ago
Well, now that Assange has demonstrated the effectiveness of using internet technologies in this way, yes, Assange is probably replaceable. If (as I suspect) the technology to do what Assange did was available 10 years ago, that is evidence
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by sielskr 16y ago
Good point. Before concluding that things have permanently changed, maybe we should wait for some large leaks for which the leaker does not get caught.
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by sielskr 16y ago
Because using code plus data where just data can be used introduces security risks and limits what people can do with the document. I would have hoped that the industry would have learned that already from PostScript, PDF, COM and the Micr
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by sielskr 16y ago
"work with someone else, with each one being able to look at the other's monitor." This trick works even when the other person is remote: for the last 6 weeks, I have spent about 25 or 30 hours a week using VNC to watch someone 11 time zone
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by sielskr 16y ago
So you got more or better or smarter friends or work partners in your life, which stopped your HN addiction? Or by "someone in your life that inspires" do you mean a sexual or romantic partner? Specifics please.
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by sielskr 16y ago
In various conversations on the internet, starting with comp.text.sgml where XML was born in the 1990s, I have seen many signs that someone hopes or expects some of the immense richness in meaning that humans assign to words and other symbo
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by sielskr 16y ago
The tops of the keys are spherical, which I have not been able to find in a modern keyboard (with the exception that the 8 home keys on some Kinesis keyboards are spherical -- or at least were when I bought a Kinesis about 7 years ago -- bu
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by sielskr 16y ago
I bet that the next time I go on Amazon, the pages I visit will still consist mostly of what are essentially advertisements whose main effect is to distract me from my reason for going on the site, and I bet that information I consider very
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by sielskr 16y ago
I've been unhappy with X since I learned enough (in the 90s) to have an opinion -- but not for the reason Shuttleworth gives: "We don’t believe X is setup to deliver the user experience we want, with super-smooth graphics and effects. I und
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by sielskr 16y ago
"NVIDIA made the decision to fully support linux a long time ago." NVIDIA is not legally obligated to support Linux; are they?
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by sielskr 16y ago
>My experience with the RBL has been exclusively negative to date. >a well meant but incompetent attempt at improving the situation I do not mean to dismiss your frustration, but I wonder if you are comparing the present situation t

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