DrSprout

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by DrSprout 16y ago
Not for me. For new users. Have I misread something? I find it hard to fault them for changing defaults, the big thing is my settings haven't changed. (But again, some peoples' settings are bound to have been corrupted or mis-imported durin
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Perhaps I'm being overly cynical, but if their intent was to show what a load of nonsense Apple's insistence that native apps are better is, it sounds like they couldn't have done a better job.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
I believe that they haven't intentionally changed privacy settings, but in the frequent privacy overhauls it's inevitable that they break stuff and throw people's data out to the world. They need to stop thinking about innovating and think
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>In a 2001 study, two scholars in Canada asked 70 people to read “The Demon Lover,” a short story by Elizabeth Bowen. One group read it in a traditional linear-text format; they’d read a passage and click the word next to move ahead. A
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Why is human supremacy a necessity? Why must a child be flesh and blood? If we want our children to be smarter, more powerful, and happier than us, why should we create children as feeble as us?
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>Jesus, if you account for the fact that they promised 1 year hosted service, and 1 year phone support for anyone who donated more than $350, these guys are already underwater. By "hosting" they mean 1 year of a Diaspora account on thei
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>If people actually used such a website in good faith But they don't, which is the point of his comment.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Farmer : producer. Walmart : distributor. Car manufacturer : producer. Car dealership : distributor. Software developer : producer. Apple App Store : distributor.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Did you read the root post in this thread? Apple is distributing GPL code, and therefore Apple is responsible for providing source. Cut and dry, cannot get any simpler. If you distribute binaries compiled from GPL source, you are required t
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by DrSprout 16y ago
When my university put RFID tags on all of our ID cards, I fantasized about setting up enough scanners to create a marauder's map. All you would really need is a simple web server and a shit ton of RFID readers set up all over the place. Co
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by DrSprout 16y ago
I knew a physicist who only programmed C++ in notepad. He was having some problem with some multiple-body simulation he was working on, and I took one look at his code and told him to paste it into Gedit or Notepad++ or something (since he
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Calling that real-world corruption seems fairly self-important. Real-world corruption is when you have to bribe the DMV to get a driver's license on top of the normal fee. Or when you can bribe your way out of most criminal offenses. Gettin
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Back when that deal was being floated, it was pretty obvious that most of the potential buyers would probably cause users to leave in droves. Especially since the most likely buyer was looking like Microsoft. Facebook is very dependent on b
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by DrSprout 16y ago
You have to know that -Wextra exists, which I for one didn't until just now when I ran a sample program. All my projects just compiled with -Wall, which doesn't catch that error. Also, unless every programmer on the project is being scrupul
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by DrSprout 16y ago
The point of Flashblock and NoScript is security without sacrificing usability on trusted sites. Yes, it lets you ignore the Flash, but it doesn't actually protect you because the Flash is still loaded.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
I use NoScript. HN and GA are both whitelisted.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>Basically use V phones for V, or throw them out. Sans contract my Droid is still a nice mp3 player / WiFi device. I'm hoping they back up their bluster about switching us all over to per-GB plans before my contract runs out so I can ei
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Thanks. Point stands on Perl. Also... BASIC, among others.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
It's rather semantic, but I would differentiate typed from untyped by type checking vs. type being an inherent property of a variable. So you have something in Scheme like: (define foo 1) (define bar "1") And that is typed, t
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>[Scheme is] untyped, which makes it ideal for web-based programming and rapid prototyping. Erm... While Scheme can be useful for web and prototyping, it is typed. That's why R5RS requires functions like number->string and so on.
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Maintainer of OpenCart dismisses csrf vulnerability as a user problem.(blog.visionsource.org)
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>A sincere question, why is the onus on microsoft to make sure its .net stuff runs on "one of Google's new fangled hand-held devices"? Adobe is doing it with Flash. Sun/Oracle does it with Java. FOSS projects do it even with C/C++ code.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
The phone numbers thing is really their own fault. Evil is streaming from open "everyone post your numbers" groups.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
I know it's kind of a spiritual successor, but Dwarf Fortress might just take the cake...
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by DrSprout 16y ago
The first-gen iPhone had a really good web-browser. Even if Microsoft miraculously finishes IE9 and ports it to WinMo 7 in time for the launch, it's still going to be a substandard mobile browser, and thanks to the all-Silverlight developme
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by DrSprout 16y ago
He would also have to include a Webkit browser by default.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Basically yeah, I'm saying that this is a mutually assured destruction situation. Google having MPEG pay them license fees would validate an MPEG lawsuit against VP8 users. On the other hand, if MPEG decides to sue, Google will do a counter
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Maintaining two per year for 500 years is more than sufficient. Personally, I expect false starts in the next couple centuries. The beta testers will be healthy and fit into their hundreds, but those that follow may get to 200-400, then pos
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Someone really needs to start a nonprofit Facebook with the same basic design goals, a steering board, and probably some nominal monthly costs for accumulating more than 2GB of photos. Facebook solves the Internet anonymity problem, but it
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by DrSprout 16y ago
They don't have to indemnify VP8 adopters. VP8 is only patent-free if you agree not to do what MPEG is doing. And while it may be true that MPEG holds some patents that apply to VP8, Google clearly holds some patents that apply to H.264 (be

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