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by A1kmm 16y ago
The way around API limitations on how much data can be read is to resort to scraping. However, Twitter probably blocks individual IPs that access too much data. The solution to that is to convince enough users to install software that lets
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by A1kmm 16y ago
I would be careful using this with data from untrusted sources without knowing exactly what you are doing, especially if you don't provide any hard limits of length of URL data from users. e.g. within a few minutes of looking, I found this:
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by A1kmm 16y ago
In New Zealand: NZ$10.22 to reserve the name (a necessary prerequisite), NZ$153.33 to register the company (total cost ~ US$126.50). There are no fees or taxes due for companies with no income. Companies are legally required to file an annu
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by A1kmm 16y ago
So they first started using duck.com for Internet search in 2009, while DDG had applied for registration of Duck Duck Go as a trademark in the field of Internet search on April 2, 2008 (edit: USPTO does not give stable URLs - removed link).
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by A1kmm 16y ago
If $US 8 10^8 (from http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/internet/Facebo... ) is a good estimate of Facebook's revenue, then, assuming fairly stable advertising income (a reasonable assumption, as Facebook has a market share nearin
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by A1kmm 16y ago
The article is fighting strawmen. I've never heard anyone say that starting off with a good idea isn't important. A good idea is a necessary but not a sufficient condition. What the author doesn't argue against is that potentially good idea
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by A1kmm 16y ago
> This is plain-old piracy That isn't clear - the relationship between a journal and an author is generally that the author retains copyright ownership (i.e. there is no assignment), but grants a copyright license to the journal, and in
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by A1kmm 16y ago
I started early but slow - a friend had a Commodore 64 and we were writing simple BASIC programs at about 7, and another friend had an MS-DOS system with QBASIC. Slightly after then, my family got a Windows 3.1 based home computer, and I us
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by A1kmm 16y ago
"and the principal is also embodied in the Society of Professional Journalists’ code of ethics" I'm not usually one to pick on spelling, but when such an egregious error is present in an article by a supposedly professional news organisat
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by A1kmm 16y ago
Innovations which reduce the amount of human effort needed to do things also reduce the amount of human effort that is directly or indirectly needed per unit of goods or services consumed, and so to fund the same total consumption, less wor
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by A1kmm 16y ago
> it would be equally valid to argue for as many coal-fired > power plants to be built in Africa, India and China as is > humanly possible The author conveniently omits to mention where the coal will come from, and what will h
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by A1kmm 16y ago
When learning any new sufficiently abstract typeclass (whether it is Monad, Applicative, Functor, Monoid, Arrow, or whatever), the best way to learn it is in two phases: 1) What is the mathematical meaning of the typeclass? 2) How can the t
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by A1kmm 16y ago
Haskell (or another functional language). It may not yet be as widely used industrially as some other languages, but it will improve the way you think about programming, and it is also of great practical utility. I find it the easiest of th
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by A1kmm 16y ago
Looks like changes to the Mozilla codebase has recently made it a lot easier to get out of the onbeforeunload alerts: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391834 The continual resizing one is harder - I guess in the interim the ea
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by A1kmm 16y ago
I upvoted this, but I think the headline is slightly misleading - I think they are saying that no one drug can cure all different types of addiction. This seems, in a sense, almost self-evident; it is a bit like saying that it is impossible
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by A1kmm 16y ago
Haskell can solve the same problem that mixins solve, with typeclasses, much more elegantly. Because Haskell isn't object orientated, it is possible to simply not import functions which are not desired, rather than running into namespace po
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by A1kmm 16y ago
> The article is largely trying to, in effect, refute the > usefulness of HN. If merit counts for little, i.e., if > reading about and doing all the things that are discussed > on HN is a waste of time, then why is this s
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by A1kmm 16y ago
If the companies he is suing genuinely are spamming people they have no prior business relationship with, he is doing a service. But how often do people get truly unsolicited spam from overtly US based companies? All spam I've looked at rec
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by A1kmm 16y ago
The cost of production of many consumer goods are determined by a combination of efficiency in manufacturing (good) and unreasonable exploitation of workers and the environment (bad). Consumer pressure in the market can sometimes cause a te
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by A1kmm 16y ago
Firstly, placebo studies don't require deception - patients are generally told that they might be getting the placebo, or they might be getting the real thing; they don't know which one, but uncertainty is different to deception. In a doubl
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by A1kmm 16y ago
If an American firm pays for manufacturing for a Chinese firm to make something and ship it to America, and an American firm to distribute, only the price they pay for manufacturing and shipping count towards the trade. So the manufacture d
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by A1kmm 16y ago
In my comment, I said that asymmetric connections are not a network neutrality issue - by which I mean that proposed network neutrality laws don't / shouldn't cover them, so the article is bringing up a strawman issue. Options 4 and 5 are n
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by A1kmm 16y ago
The article, when read carefully, seems quite disingenuous, because given the way the points are carefully phrased to sound sensible while actually being wrong, it is hard to believe that the author actually believes the argument themselves
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by A1kmm 16y ago
Yes I did click on the link. The fact that the RSS stories displayed is irrelevant - that is data and not UI. Only looking at design elements: First screen shot: Black bar across the top - that is presumably from the OS so doesn't count. Ov
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by A1kmm 16y ago
How many design elements which were unique to Reeder are actually in MobileRSS? Sure, there are similarities, but they are two software packages which do similar a task, on the same platform. Putting the platform specific stuff aside, they
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by A1kmm 16y ago
The author seems to conflate all opposition to the current flavour of globalisation with nationalism. Nationalism in this context basically means thinking that your country and their people are best and so things made there are better - and
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It depends on what your objectives are. If they are to ensure that no single legal jurisdiction can force a domain that has already been issued to stop working by taking actions in that jurisdiction (except via the domain owner), that is ea
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by A1kmm 16y ago
The trouble is that there is a duopoly in the financial services industry, especially in credit card processing. Cardholders want to pay Wikileaks, Wikileaks wants to receive the money, but they are being restrained by the actions of the du
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by A1kmm 16y ago
Yes - and the judge agreed that with the jurisprudence that the Doctrine of Fair Use wasn't a defence under the DMCA. The EFF were absolutely right that the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions could be interpreted by courts to make it illega
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by A1kmm 16y ago
I think it is important to distinguish between the copyright doctrine of fair use, which means using copyrighted materials in a way which is fair, and the consumer's right to use their own hardware for things they want (which does not invol

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