Millennium

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by Millennium 9y ago
The tiered Internet is in the interest of a handful of ISPs -not even all ISPs, just the very largest- and literally nobody else. Neutrality made the Internet what it is today, and when people seek to spoil it for the sake of charging econo
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by Millennium 9y ago
As I understand it, this is the year that the last of the MP3 patents expire, nd some already have, but there are still two left. One of them expires on August 29, and the last one expires on December 30. It seems kind of odd to do this so
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by Millennium 9y ago
Or they realize that comparing console hardware isn't a useful exercise. The upgrade cycle hasn't done anything to make games better in years; the Wii came closest, but required a marketing pivot that third parties didn't wan
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by Millennium 10y ago
To be perfectly honest, pointing people's smart home devices at a page that anyone can edit with a few mouseclicks does not strike me as a very smart PR move. This will not end well.
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by Millennium 10y ago
I don't think anybody disputes that the GPL is viral and restrictive. The debate is about whether or not that's a bad thing.
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by Millennium 10y ago
Remember what day it is, folks. If it seems a little early, consider Tokyo.
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by Millennium 10y ago
Remember what day it is in Tokyo, folks.
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by Millennium 10y ago
Tough to say for certain, but probably real. Russian humor is... special.
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by Millennium 10y ago
Is this not essentially Microsoft's catalog?
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by Millennium 10y ago
So I get the sense that jwz has something of an axe to grind with this site. What's the history there?
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by Millennium 10y ago
Oops. As I was writing this, the original post still talked about copyrigt rather than trademark. It has since been edited. Sorry about that.
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by Millennium 10y ago
Talk to a lawyer. Although there are probably some lawyers on HN, I'm not one of them, and it would be difficult if not impossible to verify the credentials of anybody who claimed to be one. The US government generally does not claim c
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by Millennium 10y ago
I've tried a couple of times. Gearing up for another attempt soon. But there's one thing I've found interesting. I'm still stuck in Chapter 1.2: the infamous Mathematical Preliminaries section. I am not proud of this. Fr
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by Millennium 10y ago
Four people to study /pol/ in depth, and four people to be the trauma therapists keeping them sane.
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by Millennium 10y ago
Apple's rendering engine is already open. That isn't what the lawsuit is about. It's about opening the operating environment to other browsers (or rather, other rendering engines).
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by Millennium 10y ago
>Is this just speculation, or is there actual case law? France is a civil-law system, so case law is in theory irrelevant. In practice it isn't so irrelevant these days, but it still doesn't carry nearly the same weight that it
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by Millennium 10y ago
Because even though cool URLs don't change, not all URLs are cool. Ideally, GUIDs would stay the same even when the URL doesn't.
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by Millennium 10y ago
On the one hand, the goal of Unicode is to be able to encode all scripts, historic and contemporary. The swastika made it into a number of scripts before the Nazis ruined it for everybody, and so if Unicode is to encode those scripts, then
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by Millennium 10y ago
It sounds to me like these arguments aren't so much against JSON, per se. They're against using JSON.parse() (or json.loads() in Python, json_decode() in PHP, or whatever) as your entire data-import process. Instead, the argument
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by Millennium 10y ago
They're called the dark ages because the historical records from that time are pretty scant. Both their predecessors and their descendants seem to have shown more awareness of history as it was happening, and kept a much more thorough
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by Millennium 10y ago
...and they're back. That was odd.
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by Millennium 10y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20160801094831/http://www.kagi.c... Site seems to be dead already. This seems awfully fast, given that they only ceased operations yesterday and still have a couple of things
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by Millennium 10y ago
s/tanks/mines
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by Millennium 10y ago
I wouldn't mind if it were just the fact that the Wii Classic Controller is wired. What bugs me is that the cable is really, really short: only long enough to run into something that you'd be expected to hold in your lap. Of cours
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by Millennium 10y ago
1 - You could use C# (provided that a compiler exists), but this only gets you the language, not the APIs and libraries commonly used by it. In that sense, it's not much different from using Emscripten (a compiler that goes from other
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by Millennium 10y ago
>You can never prove that any food is safe beyond a doubt. Ultimately, this. You can test for very, very small numbers, but you can't test for zero. This is why, for example, even though lead has no biological function, extremely sm
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by Millennium 10y ago
I'm coming to the conclusion that a better long-term solution might be more along the lines of what Pembient[1] is doing: devise methods to produce ivory and related materials in the lab, ensure that it is indistinguishable from the &q
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by Millennium 10y ago
>asm.js is progressing in to WebAssembly, a more mature technology (still in development) with enthusiasm from all major browser makers. If it's still in development, then in what way is it "more mature" than asm.js?
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by Millennium 10y ago
When people talk about "graphical Web browsers" in a historical context, they're not just talking about browsers that run in a GUI. The term specifically refers to browsers that can display graphics and text in the same windo
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by Millennium 10y ago
I want to paint doors with this stuff. Especially red ones.

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