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by aaronem 12y ago
Well, that's the problem with having an ad broker serve as the primary user interface for the web. I'm honestly not sure how that problem gets solved. In theory, it just needs a collaborative low-friction curation scheme, each of
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by aaronem 12y ago
There are proxy registrars for that, if you're worried about it. After all, it's not required that your actual contact information be present in the WHOIS record, only that you can be reached via the contact information provided t
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by aaronem 12y ago
Bit too complicated for them, really.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Well, OK, so Klabnik is an asshole, that's hardly news. It's unfortunately true that participating in OSS, as in any shared endeavor encompassing such a large subset of the species, requires dealing with assholes. The current cont
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by aaronem 12y ago
Someone who should know better, then. Disappointing. Perhaps he was simply having a very bad day.
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by aaronem 12y ago
It is perfectly complete and exactly what it claims to be. It's just not what whatsisname expected it to be. Are we expecting OSS developers to be mind readers now?
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by aaronem 12y ago
That's really the problem here. Ignorance is excusable, especially in someone who hasn't got a lot of experience yet. Rude ignorance is never so, especially around a library on Github where, if it's really that big a damn d
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by aaronem 12y ago
Come now! Surely you can defend your sacred cow more vigorously than that. You're not starting to entertain second thoughts of your own, are you?
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by aaronem 12y ago
Consider the amount of time, money, and effort North Korea has invested in presenting the image of a rabid dog to foreign policymakers, in hopes of improving that nation's ability to maintain its sovereignty against the threats it perc
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by aaronem 12y ago
More like replacing the en-dash with a colon.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Yeah, that's an easy difference to spot -- LP playback is just so lossy, with so much artifacting, that it's just not worth the bother.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Comparing Angular with PHP doesn't strike me as entirely fair; Angular, whatever else one might say about it, has a high degree of conceptual consistency in its internals, whereas PHP, for all that it's improved over the past few
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by aaronem 12y ago
The comparison between Angular and Rails I base on broader characteristics than those embodied in language or framework features. One of those characteristics, a primary one in fact, is that of convention over configuration; Angular, like R
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by aaronem 12y ago
You know, I'm just going to say it: Angular is the Rails of Javascript. That probably sounds like a derogation. But behold: I offer nuance! They're both big and powerful, and capable of rewarding dedicated study with enormous powe
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by aaronem 12y ago
Industry vs. academia in two comments. Well done, the pair of you. Now stop it.
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by aaronem 12y ago
USB OTG, which I gather is becoming quite common on Android devices, should allow for USB-to-serial adapters with relatively trivial effort. > Still, I can only imagine how neat it would be if all of these devices had a simple two wire s
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by aaronem 12y ago
It renders predation on you maladaptive, because the predator doesn't get back the energy expended in hunting, so over time it does actually make you less likely to get killed.
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by aaronem 12y ago
The press release explicitly excludes that use: "Those efforts are separate from military laser designators to guide precision munitions, non-lethal crowd control devices or discontinued instruments intended to blind enemy electro- opt
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by aaronem 12y ago
Or it could start with "spotlight and loud hailer", and crank up the power to "a few rounds from a Browning M2" if they don't surrender, and get pretty much exactly the same effectiveness in the operational context
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by aaronem 12y ago
I doubt that was the only barrier.
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by aaronem 12y ago
So it's sort of chip-and-PIN, with the secure element standing in for the former and the iPhone's existing authentication methods for the latter?
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by aaronem 12y ago
It's been some decades since the only option for a payment card was a line of revolving credit. You can get one that's tied to a deposit account, no chattel-slavery strings attached, and they sure are handy things to have. (I don&
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by aaronem 12y ago
Young bull, old bull. Credit card associations don't overtly lean on anyone much, and neither need Apple do so now that it's working with them. As Apple Pay gains traction, the same effect will come into play on its behalf that ke
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by aaronem 12y ago
Well, sure it is. But if Wal-Mart wants to use the card associations' infrastructure, then Wal-Mart has to play by the card associations' rules. The whole point of "CurrentC", as I understand it, is to launch and build o
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by aaronem 12y ago
> One is a full EMV track read transaction and the other is not. I don't see how that can be true; loading a card into Apple Pay is done via photo or manually, neither of which entails a swipe of the card through something like a Sq
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by aaronem 12y ago
> Someone is going to drain out all their internal records What could they possibly have worth stealing?
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by aaronem 12y ago
No, there isn't, nor should there be. Rails and Django are both heavyweight, all-in-one frameworks, full of canned magic and optimized for easy OOB experience at the cost of inflicting undue difficulty when it comes to complex tasks, i
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by aaronem 12y ago
Ironic that this article in particular should lie behind a pay wall.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Be more subtle.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Mine's at least as good as yours. It's not.

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