codabrink | 14 years ago | on: The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA
Well then I guess the question boils down to 'Do we support morality or do we support loopholes?'
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codabrink | 14 years ago | on: The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA
Why are people suddenly embracing this argument that piracy isn't theft?
People work to create music just like people work to mine the earth to produce coal. Should one not get paid just because what they're producing can't be physically held?
codabrink | 14 years ago | on: TaskRabbit Gets $17.8M, Wants To Grow Internationally And Beyond
http://viatask.com Still in private beta, but launching soon.
codabrink | 14 years ago | on: Find His Porn: Evil Website of the Week
It depends on what kind of relationship you have. Traditionally, and what seems right to most people is a relationship with a level of commitment towards the other. I'm not saying this is always true, but that level of commitment does have benefits, usually resulting in a stronger relationship because of the trust developed.
codabrink | 14 years ago | on: ArchLinux, Not Just For The Elite
>The installation process may take a while (several hours.. or less)
It depends on what you're talking about. With relatively fast internet (I have 20Mb/s), I can have a functional box up with my favorite DE in just an hour or so. It's true that I configure things here and there for the next couple days as I need them, and each configuration is simple and only takes a second or two, but several hours seems a lot longer than the average install to me.
codabrink | 14 years ago | on: Guy Fawkes Day
This reminds me.. whatever happened to Anonymous' vows to take down Facebook today? Are they still standing on that?
codabrink | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Anyone interested in becoming the second co-founder of my startup?
Do you use Rails? Email me at my username at gmail.
codabrink | 14 years ago | on: Starting is easy. Finishing is hard. Finish something at Finish Weekend.
And karma should only be from comments. I don't understand why someone has downvoting power just because they stumbled across and posted a popular story on HN.
Like the guy who submitted the story for Steve Job's death, now has over 1k karma simply from posting a link to apple.com at the right time, and from nothing else. How does that qualify him to downvote over me, who has been thoughtfully posting comments here and there for nearly a year now?
I'm not really that concerned. I don't care about karma, really. I just think it's a very stupid system.
codabrink | 14 years ago | on: Starting is easy. Finishing is hard. Finish something at Finish Weekend.
Wow, this is right in my area. I'm definitely going!
codabrink | 14 years ago | on: The Little Book on CoffeeScript
Is there a good way to compile this into an ebook? I'd love to have this on my kindle.
codabrink | 14 years ago | on: Massive data stealing vulnerability found in many HTC Android phones
It's true that there's always risk involved with advancing technology. Faster, better and more capable phones are better at doing good things for you, but it also makes them more capable of doing bad things to you too.
codabrink | 14 years ago | on: Startups to Watch: GazeHawk
This is a little off topic, but I can't stand sites that make me click 'next' 10 times just to read their article.. It instinctively makes me not want to read it.
codabrink | 14 years ago | on: Arch Linux – "It is what you make it"
If I remember the same incident that you're talking about, it was a single file that had to be manually removed, and the fix was displayed right on the home page of http://archlinux.org for months..
codabrink | 14 years ago | on: Arch Linux – "It is what you make it"
What do you mean by 'minimal'? If you're talking about wine and flash, there are 32 bit builds available to be installed in 64 bit.. But that's the way it has always been.
codabrink | 14 years ago | on: Why no Steam, Notch?
My thoughts on why I would want to mod something very popular is because I would almost immediately have a following if my product is good. Also, I'd be able to create a mod that has functionality that I desire, and I'd get the satisfaction out of using it. And lastly, I don't know if this is always true, but it certainly makes you feel more elite changing the behavior of someone else's code rather than my own. There may be other reasons I haven't mentioned.
codabrink | 14 years ago | on: See what Google knows about you
This always results in a redirect loop for me..
codabrink | 14 years ago | on: A lot of tech companies in NYC are hiring, here's a list
Is there something like this for San Francisco too?
codabrink | 14 years ago | on: Apple's officially over the optical drive, for better or worse
I can imagine that this makes the laptops much more sturdier. This is why my last 2 laptops have been without CD drives. I just bought a $50 external, and I've been having a hard time understanding why more manufacturers didn't make optical drive-less computers.
codabrink | 14 years ago | on: Estimate your English vocabulary size
It appears that this is accurate within 4 or 5 thousand words.. I've taken the test a few times, and my results are relatively distanced..
codabrink | 14 years ago | on: Thoughtback - Program Your Mind
Yeah, except this seems more like a "don't forget this lesson learned" kind of site to me.
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