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I feel like the main issue with this article was a failure to adequately define "computer" and "information processing". There were some good points. In particular the fact that a …

THIS

Fantastic article

This is completely unreasonable. The NSA doing this in secret is one thing but now they aren't even trying to hide it.

What does lavabit actually do?

Since you are making this claim, I'll assume you've read the entire codebase of iOS. Is there anything stopping Apple from sending out an update that uploads the fingerprint?? Is t…

Yeah and Jobs wasn't exactly the innovator everyone wants to make of him anyway. Ritchie anyone?

The outrage is because objectivism is a fantasy that rich people use to convince them selves they are better than others. Just because I am fortunate enough to be a software develo…

Why is an article that basically says "I'm a randian objectivist and I think capitalism is just great at the top of Hacker News. So you're an naive idiot who thinks Steve Jobs was …

Does anybody know what grievance is being aired here?

I really like this idea but I'm not clear on how this would fit into the current UI. Reddit does threads a little better I feel.

This is a philosophical stance that goes beyond the article's point. We have very good models for most of technology but we don't know enough about how Lithium batteries fit into t…

I don't know if you are more closely acquainted with the OP than I but I wouldn't assume that he isn't actually doing anything good in the world. If nothing else he's trying to enc…

What is the point? You don't like this company's business model so don't buy from them. Either you're right and nobody will buy from them and they'll fade into obscurity or you're …

How is that a fairly strong statement? Here's a much stronger one: PHP is terrible at being a general purpose language. General purpose language doesn't mean you can do things that…

I think this may be too optimistic. It seems to me that PHP's lack of vision has already made it a horrifically bad language. The problem is not that it tries to do OO while also n…

All the more reason to back Ubuntu on phones.

I cannot wait for this!

Except if Ferraris were also really slow in addition to having bad gas mileage.

I think this quote sums it up: "Do not tell me that “good developers can write good code in any language”, or bad developers blah blah. That doesn’t mean anything. A good carpenter…

Ruby and Python are increasingly invalidating this argument. Python has some of the best diverse library support of any modern non-Java language. And for web stuff (which is basica…

I completely agree. Why has nobody made a WP replacement in rails yet?

The problems of PHP have been well documented here: http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de... I think its relevant that PHP does object and classes in terribl…

I had precisely the same reaction. I'm used to seeing singletons in the context of Java. The reasons to want a singleton pattern seems obvious to me but I would only describe it th…