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fabjan··on PlayStation 4 runs modified FreeBSD 9.0
Companies using GPLed software also don't have to share more than they're comfortable with sharing, or they would not be doing it. They are just comfortable with a bit more than other companies.
fabjan··on European entrepreneurs: Les misérables
Without the coastal states, how does the US stand?
fabjan··on Apple to DOJ: Bite me
How is it price fixing when it's in your own store only?
fabjan··on Germany sets new solar-power record
Covering up the Chernobyl mess? What makes you think covering up Fukushima has cost a lot? I mean, yeah the nuclear industry has a lot of free PR drones in IT for some reason, but still, it's gotta be pretty costly to run the kind of shit they did.
fabjan··on Germany sets new solar-power record
The reason we're still using the old plants is because even wind power is cheaper per watt hour than a modern nuclear plant.

Finland is building one at the moment. At $4.1 billion it's now 50% over budget.

fabjan··on Why airplane bathrooms have ashtrays
And Sweden.
fabjan··on OSX For Hackers
I use the two finger click.
fabjan··on Functional Programming For The Rest of Us
Just a nitpick: Erlang is not an academic language, it's designed in the industry, for industrial use.
fabjan··on Steve Jobs personally asked Eric Schmidt to stop poaching employees
Unionize.
fabjan··on Steve Jobs personally asked Eric Schmidt to stop poaching employees
Matching the salary of the competitor is pretty easy when the competitor has an agreement with you not to offer a higher salary for your employees.
fabjan··on Steve Jobs personally asked Eric Schmidt to stop poaching employees
Why are everyone in here so surprised at Google being in on this? Are tech people really that blinded by their fanboyism?
fabjan··on Steve Jobs personally asked Eric Schmidt to stop poaching employees
Why are lawsuits needed if it's criminal?
fabjan··on What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies?
A counterpoint to what, exactly?

Your comment seems to have nothing at all to do with the link.

fabjan··on Why I'm a Pirate
Someone writes music and sells it to someone who wants to play it.

Or maybe someone wants to make a film, so she hires a music writer for the score.

fabjan··on Why I'm a Pirate
So the hen should control what the cow does with any bread the hen chooses to give the cow?
fabjan··on Steve Jobs has died
A girlfriend who requires upkeep? Is this 100 years ago?
fabjan··on Agile Scrum: Delivering Broken Software Since 1991
There is nothing textbook about Scrum without flexibility.
fabjan··on 80% of People Quietly Despise Their Lives
> If, after ten years, you'll read what you have so far, it'll be sh.t because, in ten years your style and your way of thinking will change a lot.

I saw an artist on TV the other day that said she throws away any song that takes more than 30 minutes to write. Because her mood and thoughts will change if she spends too much time writing the song.

fabjan··on Fucking Sue Me
Here in Sweden a lot of contracts are standardized. Extremely so in the construction industry.

We have a standard contract called "Avtal 90" (lit. Contract 90), that a lot of industries use.

fabjan··on Microsoft Garage releases Mouse Without Borders
Isn't it the same at Google? But there they do their regular work in nights and weekends instead.

That's just what I've gathered from reading articles about Google workers. Maybe I'm wrong and they really do work no more than 40 hours per week, including the 20%. But that is not the impression I've gotten from reading.

fabjan··on Homeless Man Has Three Degrees and Can't Find a Job
Personal plasma physics projects.
fabjan··on United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P
Point 3. I don't know who these cool people are that you're talking about, "liberals" I assume. I find it hard to believe they will call you heartless if you socialize your health care to make it cheaper and available for all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Total_health_expenditure_p...
fabjan··on Lion: Cocoa Autolayout Release Notes
How so?
fabjan··on Forget Acquisitions: Apple control the Supply Lines
Or the user experience is superior as in you bought a car that just works and you don't have to service. As opposed to, say, a kit-car that you can build yourself if you like cars that much, and you have much better control over.
fabjan··on Who holds the copyright to a picture taken by a monkey?
If a human stole his camera and took a picture, it would not be his.
fabjan··on LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story
A box of vintage wine?

I thought these were boxes of wine: http://www.instructables.com/image/FO6BCL6F8DOSUHR/FINISH-OF...

fabjan··on Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in serious trouble
My Sony Ericsson from 2005 does this, why have Apple patented it?
fabjan··on Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in serious trouble
Isn't Google the default search for iPhones as well?
fabjan··on You should probably quit your job
Mine is, or I don't really know.

What's the problem?

fabjan··on What G+ is really about (pst it's not social)
I really don't see Google allowing people to share apps they bought.
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