I use Debian/Ubuntu because OS X lack apt. The package managers I tried on OS X just gave me more trouble. But sure, I can't run Photoshop. Anyway, the point is -- for my work station developer use case, there is better…
HTML existed before Mosaic.
I'm hellbanned (too easily trollable) so you probably won't see this, but I recommend an article by Krugman which changed my world view: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/19...
Reality checks are valuable. It is better to get the depressing stuff from a good writer. But sure, there is some spin. You might note about e.g. the Netscape browser example that Microsoft got into legal boiling hot…
rms is probably a bit on the autist spectrum and can be less than sensitive to others' viewpoint, but so am (probably) I and many other computer guys. Stallman have made the world a much better place. Even without…
You have a point. But the other side of the coin is that if you document what you do and make a point of helping others that are stuck, you'll have an easier time getting the next good job. (As long as your co workers…
Interesting link, thanks.
I am a day late (and I might be Hell banned?), but Blindsight by Watts ought to be mentioned. It was a total kick. It might be space opera, but with little of faked science. People's taste either seems to go literary…
>> the blase assertion that a nuclear Iran is any worse than the existing nuclear powers Iran has one of the worst dictatorships around, it exports weapons and ammunition everywhere. The regime support groups that as…
Well, one day after. I don't think I'll see any good motivation that you were making reasoned arguments, without double standards for the different sides? :-) (And these were your new account's first two comments. So…
You really handpicked the references about the teenagers. Hamas has admitted it was their cell, it has been discussed in other comments. Sigh... At least be honest about well known facts. :-(…
Afaik, the borders were open and people commuted to work from the West Bank/Gaza and there were purchasing trips between the areas. That ended with the second Intifada, to protect Israeli civilians from organized…
... and the Palestinian allies in the wars kicked almost all of their Jews out, in total more people than the Palestinians fleeing 1948, not in a burning civil war but in cold blood. Just because of their religion.…
On this website it ought to be more Linux users than Windows users? Last time I went to the Ubuntu hardware compatibility chart. (Or is OpenBSD the popular choice and I'm behind the times again? :-) )
>> if you actually knew how to spell the name The commenter spelled correctly in the GP of the comment where it was wrongly spelled. But you probably knew that... I tried to not read the rest, so I would be tempted to…
As you know: In my references, most researchers seems to be between 15-20 millions. My definition of slave: Someone living with no rule of law. No human rights. E.g. their property and lives can be taken on a whim by…
Yet another misrepresentation of what I wrote. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8372340 Original link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_r...
>>Your real research smells hoax Discuss that on the wikipedia page, by presenting other research. Oh wait, you don't know any. Bye.
Scandinavia at the time (and a few centuries after) was a violent clan society. War, raids etc were what people did instead of playing football and ice hockey. And business. The trips to (e.g.) England were business, it…
It is a new world after at least 1989 (probably decades older), the CIA almost only destabilize non-democratic juntas. Personally, I don't really care about the working situation for the juntas, they are generally…
You were probably too Microsoft specific in your work environment. CVS is older than most(?) HN posters and had no locking problem. So your pain was not necessary. :-( (The wikipedia says VSS was bought 1995, so the…
I believe it is painful in high security organizations, by definition. You can often e.g. only use tools which are vetted and stamped OK by a complex and expensive process -- so they are old. Imho, security is really…
>>illegally crossing a border will get you detained or fired at in almost any place now and ever, Leaving a border will generally not make soldiers shoot at you from the country you leave. Being that locked in only…
>>That was no more slavery than what was happening in the West in the same time Oh, please... Extraordinary claims need extraordinary support. Post a careful comparison. We are back to the original point -- people had…
Bring your claims to the academic authors -- I quoted 8-61 million from the wikipedia page, which quoted the researchers. The researchers seem to differ in, amongst other points, how much of the hunger was planned.…
I use Debian/Ubuntu because OS X lack apt. The package managers I tried on OS X just gave me more trouble. But sure, I can't run Photoshop. Anyway, the point is -- for my work station developer use case, there is better…
HTML existed before Mosaic.
I'm hellbanned (too easily trollable) so you probably won't see this, but I recommend an article by Krugman which changed my world view: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/19...
Reality checks are valuable. It is better to get the depressing stuff from a good writer. But sure, there is some spin. You might note about e.g. the Netscape browser example that Microsoft got into legal boiling hot…
rms is probably a bit on the autist spectrum and can be less than sensitive to others' viewpoint, but so am (probably) I and many other computer guys. Stallman have made the world a much better place. Even without…
You have a point. But the other side of the coin is that if you document what you do and make a point of helping others that are stuck, you'll have an easier time getting the next good job. (As long as your co workers…
Interesting link, thanks.
I am a day late (and I might be Hell banned?), but Blindsight by Watts ought to be mentioned. It was a total kick. It might be space opera, but with little of faked science. People's taste either seems to go literary…
>> the blase assertion that a nuclear Iran is any worse than the existing nuclear powers Iran has one of the worst dictatorships around, it exports weapons and ammunition everywhere. The regime support groups that as…
Well, one day after. I don't think I'll see any good motivation that you were making reasoned arguments, without double standards for the different sides? :-) (And these were your new account's first two comments. So…
You really handpicked the references about the teenagers. Hamas has admitted it was their cell, it has been discussed in other comments. Sigh... At least be honest about well known facts. :-(…
Afaik, the borders were open and people commuted to work from the West Bank/Gaza and there were purchasing trips between the areas. That ended with the second Intifada, to protect Israeli civilians from organized…
... and the Palestinian allies in the wars kicked almost all of their Jews out, in total more people than the Palestinians fleeing 1948, not in a burning civil war but in cold blood. Just because of their religion.…
On this website it ought to be more Linux users than Windows users? Last time I went to the Ubuntu hardware compatibility chart. (Or is OpenBSD the popular choice and I'm behind the times again? :-) )
>> if you actually knew how to spell the name The commenter spelled correctly in the GP of the comment where it was wrongly spelled. But you probably knew that... I tried to not read the rest, so I would be tempted to…
As you know: In my references, most researchers seems to be between 15-20 millions. My definition of slave: Someone living with no rule of law. No human rights. E.g. their property and lives can be taken on a whim by…
Yet another misrepresentation of what I wrote. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8372340 Original link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_r...
>>Your real research smells hoax Discuss that on the wikipedia page, by presenting other research. Oh wait, you don't know any. Bye.
Scandinavia at the time (and a few centuries after) was a violent clan society. War, raids etc were what people did instead of playing football and ice hockey. And business. The trips to (e.g.) England were business, it…
It is a new world after at least 1989 (probably decades older), the CIA almost only destabilize non-democratic juntas. Personally, I don't really care about the working situation for the juntas, they are generally…
You were probably too Microsoft specific in your work environment. CVS is older than most(?) HN posters and had no locking problem. So your pain was not necessary. :-( (The wikipedia says VSS was bought 1995, so the…
I believe it is painful in high security organizations, by definition. You can often e.g. only use tools which are vetted and stamped OK by a complex and expensive process -- so they are old. Imho, security is really…
>>illegally crossing a border will get you detained or fired at in almost any place now and ever, Leaving a border will generally not make soldiers shoot at you from the country you leave. Being that locked in only…
>>That was no more slavery than what was happening in the West in the same time Oh, please... Extraordinary claims need extraordinary support. Post a careful comparison. We are back to the original point -- people had…
Bring your claims to the academic authors -- I quoted 8-61 million from the wikipedia page, which quoted the researchers. The researchers seem to differ in, amongst other points, how much of the hunger was planned.…