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I'm sorry you feel that your poetry isn't any good yet. I think it was Orson Scott Card who said that everyone has about a million words of garbage in them they have to get out bef…

I'm sorry people copy your stuff. I'm not one to tell someone else how to run their business but could it be that relying on fragile concepts such as "Intellectual Property" are no…

You may find this is the case with a lot of topics commonly considered 'black magic' - the real determinant IMO is whether you enjoy work that requires a high attention to detail! …

Us middle class white folk who didn't understand what all the fuss was really about till years later.

Cue fond personal memories of living in South Africa in the 80s... Used to be so bad you made sure to not wear jeans&t-shirt if you were going to fly just so you didn't get pulled …

The danger of individuals with vast pools of funding is that they can afford to cause havoc in the community & their bank accounts for years before finally giving up on ideas that …

That point which I am making. You are not getting it. If we had followed up on proposals in the 90's for distributed DNS this article would never have needed to be written. Is this…

So HN downvoters prefer the current centralized model of Internet name services which are vulnerable to a denial of service attack from technologically illiterate politicians? I ju…

DNS is long overdue for a replacement anyway.

If we want to routinely produce global scale startups in Africa we need to concentrate first on gaining sufficient skill to routinely produce continental scale startups.

close the feedback loop between the obstacles of the teachers and the policies of the pencil pushers.

Is normal, widespread behavior for humans when we are not getting what we want I think! One practice is to be more conscious of when we're not getting what we want and pay extra sp…

If Greg had started his post with a question along the lines of: "Dear Mark, what can GNOME do to help Canonical integrate your work & devs with upstream?" Rather than: "*omfgroflc…

Certainly observed by this African watching both continents.

It's a shame you feel that way, but down-voting the truth is not going to fix your economy, un-pollute your oceans nor end your wars. Feel free to shout once you've had enough and …

> Apple has investors like any other company. This move is good for the investors. Any move that is bad for the customers won't be good for investors. There is no short term vs lon…

>> b) Some other, smaller, amount along with a list of the effects you have discounted from the full amount and justification for such discounting. > Well it's certainly got to be …

>> the dollar amount required to reverse all of the effects of the disaster >Holding the debate hostage with demands for physical impossibilities is definitely a red flag in a conv…

'kay. HN just turned into Slashdot. I'm outtahere. Cheers, It's been fun while it lasted.

Insurance concerns -> If the existing policies don't already cover it they can easily be extended to cover parental involvement. Teacher unions -> They are welcome to complain but …

In times of economic woe money may be scarce but time tends to be cheaper. Mayhap this is a good time for getting back into the habit of parent involvement with schooling? I someho…

"In the name of the great FSM (oh great and merciful one) I hereby declare thumb war upon you and call upon all my followers on hte twitters to hunt you down and dislocate both you…

Let me see if I have you right: Proposition: We do not have universal 'x' Proposition: 'y' depends on 'x' Conclusion: We should not work on 'y' until everyone has 'x' You, dear sir…

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