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by Finster 13y ago
Yeah. Think about what sites you may have worked on in the past, then ask yourself, "Did I use Facebook Connect to handle authentication?" about each one. BAM! You now know what sites you have used it on.
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by Finster 13y ago
Remember this is the speed (in theory) that you get from Netflix on that ISP. Netflix is not measuring your total ISP bandwidth. They can only measure how much bandwidth the ISP provides you for Netflix.
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by Finster 13y ago
When choosing a language, the community is (almost) everything. If the community is divided and unwilling to support v3, that is more than enough reason to "penalize" them and not use the language.
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by Finster 13y ago
Really. You're trying to compare Gitmo to North Korean prison camps? Certainly, Gitmo is no picnic, but I have to question if you actually RTFA.
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by Finster 13y ago
i.e. China's economic system?
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by Finster 13y ago
Agreed. After years of haranguing Nvidia, for example, it wasn't until Valve started pushing linux gaming that Nvidia FINALLY started clearing the air a bit on their atrocious driver support. Valve has a lot of influence in PC gaming.
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by Finster 13y ago
Flash sites? If the content didn't load in lynx it wasn't worth viewing.
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by Finster 13y ago
Haha, that's so like him!
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by Finster 13y ago
Tell that to the NSA. They just Cease&Desist'd on intellectual property grounds someone who made a satirical t-shirt using their logo.
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by Finster 13y ago
So the government can C&D anyone who uses their proprietary business information (like UPS or Fedex) without paying royalties? Sounds great! Another victory for the proletariat! :C
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by Finster 13y ago
My favorite is when I try to take my laptop to a meeting so I can, you know, actually get some work done. And then, I'm lucky to get 5 minutes of useful work done for each hour of meeting.
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by Finster 13y ago
It becomes problematic when these companies get control over the content of a brand search. There are ramifications for consumer advocacy. What happens when I start searching for "apple sec ruling" and I am given a full page spons
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by Finster 13y ago
FWIW, I can build an app in html5/javascript for every major desktop and mobile platform that runs "natively" on the host OS.
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by Finster 13y ago
Your argument applies even more to something like Breaking Bad or even the venerable Babylon 5. The strength of those offerings was the build-up over many seasons. Ugh, and please let's not judge Star Trek TNG on its first season. Yike
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by Finster 13y ago
I'm usually the first to rail against NSA shenanigans but I also believe you shouldn't ascribe to malice what can more easily be explained by stupidity.
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by Finster 13y ago
It's common when writing a scientific paper to write opinions like that. "We showed there is no correlation. Possible explanations for past correlation may be..." It's not just some guy throwing theories against a wall t
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by Finster 13y ago
Will Symantec's trademark lawyers be a threat here?
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by Finster 13y ago
Aren't some of these arguments against Gladwell along the same lines as people complaining about Mythbusters' lack of rigor? Well, then I defer to zombie Feynman. http://xkcd.com/397/ I'm not saying Glad
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by Finster 13y ago
This isn't in reaction to Valve's SteamOS announcement, is it?
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by Finster 13y ago
Exhibit A: Xbox vs. Xbox 360.
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by Finster 13y ago
Nortel? Or Novell? I guess both apply, but Novell seems to fit much better.
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by Finster 13y ago
It's fairly obvious that the author knows next to nothing about military research, or even how much engineering goes into modern industry, defense or otherwise. A lot more goes on than just "researching things that kill people.&qu
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by Finster 13y ago
Then there's Facebook. "We integrated with Facebook a few months ago, it should be easy to do it again." Famous last words. I've lost count of how many times I've become an "expert" at some aspect of Faceb
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by Finster 13y ago
By claiming you are The Other, that clearly places you in the category of domestic terrorism. You are no longer The Other.
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by Finster 13y ago
And that's the core of the issue for me. I don't have any problem with the NSA working with and studying encryption and methods to break encryption. What I have a problem with is invading my privacy and gathering my communications
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by Finster 13y ago
It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you.
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by Finster 13y ago
Last year's was pretty good, too. He talked about managing developers and trying to fit code reviews and static analysis into their process. I learned a lot.
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by Finster 13y ago
That's not true. Starcraft is a game of perfect knowledge. For instance, good scouting and/or good observer placement can reveal what units are built, what is being produced, and what technology has been researched. There is nothi
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by Finster 13y ago
But is Cassandra web scale?
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by Finster 13y ago
I pretty much agree with you, but I think the point is that focusing on technical education and incentivizing that learning (like the WPA2 key hidden in a 10,000 line text file) can help build critical thinking skills. If instead of putting

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