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The judicial system shouldn't be able to force you to say anything you don't believe in, to your own customers, with no means of telling your side of the story. Self determination …

> Or are they just serving up web pages to users? That's RAM and bandwidth heavy, but very CPU light. You still need the machines to scale your load, but you're not going to be usi…

I can't say I understand that. If RAM utilization is so vastly out-scaled as compared to CPU utilization, there's a significant resource use inefficiency at play. Machines consume …

I don't want my classified ads republished because I've chosen to publish the advertisement in places that target specific types of people. It's incredibly naive to assume you know…

Even if it is a single monolithic application, it in no way could explain the use of that much RAM.

In chrome, I'm seeing a tag, not a plugin.

Anecdotally, gnome 3 attracted me. I now run a Ubuntu system, but I haven't switched my main desktop to Ubuntu because Mac OS X is still better (for me).

I think it would be wrong to reward the PadMapper author's ethically questionable behavior.

If Craigslist doesn't own the posts, then that means the users own their own posts, and you don't have their permission to re-use their posts. This just puts you back where you sta…

> Customers, coworkers, managers, do this intentionally or not, maliciously or not. None of these situations are the same as an interview. If you're providing an explanation at the…

I don't see why the "right" thing would be to reward someone for breaking your ToS and stealing your database as a means of creating a potential competitor to your business. On top…

The storage format is proprietary and some kind of obfuscation of the image data is done. According to the ToS, you don't own a license to the comics, so you can't export them, or …

I don't have a lot of faith in lionized history.

> So if your brilliant engineer spends their time telling younger or less brilliant engineers how they just threw out all their crappy (but functional) code and re-wrote so that th…

Do you have a point that you intend to write a supporting argument for, or are you just casting aspersions?

This is the kind of argument that you see from "stage 2" or "stage 3" management teams installed at a startup. These are the people brought on when the investors or CEO decide (mis…

> Once you deploy then things will change less frequently so the real benefit is when you do have to change something, you're not running a big ALTER statement. Instead, you're wri…

The entire point of the article is that Apple can (and has) put 'transceivers' into cables.

I fail to understand how and why silent failure is considered a reasonable default.

It means that: A) closed development breaks the OSS community model -- that's not anecdote, just fact. B) We have a past example of the slippery slope of closed development.

And yet, look at Apple's profits.

"If you don't like them, don't click them" is a terrible solution, because I don't even want to see them . Is it so wrong that I don't want "free" things if that means I'm the prod…

The point at which Apple's culture significantly shifted away from open source was the point at which they hid all their source code until after the OS was released. This completel…

Doesn't work. If it did work, Ubuntu wouldn't be reaching like this for revenue opportunities.

What it sums up is some Linux nerds' complete disconnection from reality. 1) Donations aren't a sustainable revenue model, and won't prevent Ubuntu from taking equally user-hostile…