adityab

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by adityab 12y ago
I'm a Github user because of the convenience it affords, and I appreciate that. But if I had a mature open source project that wasn't trying to 'grow' as fast as possible, I'd move it off the service.
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by adityab 12y ago
Strawman. The alternative to using the CLI is not Github. He dislikes the fact that a large % of new users of git are wholly dependent on a proprietary service. This is a very understandable attitude if you are involved in the 'older
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by adityab 12y ago
Heads up: Your website, http://whisper.sh , is slow to load, and only displays a blank white page. Also, the name is uncomfortably close to https://whispersystems.org/ which focuses on private communication.
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by adityab 12y ago
Tandem looks interesting. However a cursory look at the source reveals that it actually uses the diff-match-patch technique and not OT, which is fine for plaintext, but ultimately a bad choice for Quill... To be fair, I have not investigate
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by adityab 12y ago
Sad to hear that. This was interesting work, as a non-google (albeit salesforce-hosted) alternative OT API. Why do these interesting OT-powered projects never live long enough? Notable exception being Etherpad... /rant Questions to GoI
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by adityab 12y ago
> Here, you omitted the phrase 'known terrorist' from the middle of the sentence you quote on page 22. This totally changes the meaning of the quoted sentence. Ah, damn. The "text" version of the page which I tried to
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by adityab 12y ago
Two things are very noteworthy in this: Page 9 (concerning the definition of "terrorism"): > 1.14.1 involve Violent acts or acts dangerous to human life, property, or infrastructure Property ? Tell me this is not a deliberate
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by adityab 12y ago
> Looks like an overzealous persecutor found himself in front of an overzealous judge. Combined with the English courts agreeing as well that he be extradited. Quite an international conspiracy! This is perhaps the second most political
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by adityab 12y ago
The two women have not accused Assange of sexual assault. Ever. They merely went to the police and asked if it was possible to pressurize him to submit to STD testing. The accusations of rape are done by an overzealous prosecution office th
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by adityab 12y ago
> expresses the actual position of the prosecution, which is that (i) Swedish legal procedures require he is brought into custody and interrogated in custody before the charge is formally made My statement that the prosecution has ref
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by adityab 12y ago
The latter, yes.
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by adityab 12y ago
> A Swedish court has ruled that an arrest warrant against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on charges of sexual assault will stay in place. This article uses certain terms very loosely and irresponsibly. No "charges" have be
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TSA won't allow uncharged devices on flights(mashable.com)
5 points by adityab 12y ago|0 comments
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Krita (open source painting software) is on Kickstarter(kickstarter.com)
25 points by adityab 12y ago|4 comments
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by adityab 12y ago
> Since cursor position is not included in OT I'm not sure I follow your example where abcd|ef becomes abc123d| though. In the OT-less example, I meant that for A, abcd|ef
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by adityab 12y ago
For collaborating on general JSON documents, you ought to check out ShareJS; it is a great library. However, for more complex tasks like rich text editing (at least richer than what markdown supports) you'll need to have an implementat
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by adityab 12y ago
This is nice! WebODF[1] developer here. Commenting because the project is doing this sort of thing and I have decent experience writing OT. I'll give a short explanation of how Operation Transformation works. "Build your own Googl
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by adityab 13y ago
When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we're protecting you against criminals, not our own government. Why? Any company that cares about 'security' and controls such a massive amount of p
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by adityab 13y ago
Krita is actually built on Qt libraries, just like VLC and even some of Photoshop. Which makes it look native on most platforms, and AFAIK won't require X11 on OS X -- because Qt uses Cocoa there.
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FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video](steamcommunity.com)
155 points by adityab 13y ago|97 comments
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OwnCloud 6 released with WebODF-powered OpenDocument collaborative editing.(blog.karlitschek.de)
2 points by adityab 13y ago|0 comments
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by adityab 14y ago
You're talking about formal declarations of war. Afghanistan? Iraq? Vietnam ? Going to war might not be semantically the same as declaring war, but that doesn't change a thing, within the context at hand.
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by adityab 14y ago
I do. I also call BS on: 1. The US has not declared war in over 70 _years_. -> Denial of objective reality. 2. In fact one of the biggest issues with a cyber attack is that we may never know where it came from. -> OMG must contr
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by adityab 14y ago
You're joking right? If you believe what you're saying, I am reminded of 1984.
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by adityab 14y ago
Exactly. I use ownCloud for dropbox-like sync and sharing (it's better than dropbox!), postfix + dovecot + roundcube for email, a Jabber server for IM, and am moving to Kolab for other groupware - Calendar, Tasks, RSS, Contacts, etc - encry
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by adityab 14y ago
> If I opted into using their service and agreed to their TOS that included them keeping my data. Then thats my fault. You forget that all service providers have these TOS. You don't have a choice. > Them having my data is hardly
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by adityab 14y ago
> I blame its open source nature for this. Why is it's open source nature to blame here? Can you elaborate? Is it the product vs. project argument?
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by adityab 14y ago
This is the American mindset. They are targeting Europe and mostly Asia at the moment. Living in India, I know for a fact that most people don't buy smartphones locked into carriers. We do have conracts tied with devices, but the market fo
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by adityab 14y ago
I am happy. I've always wanted a real Linux phone that is well-supported both by a community and a commercial vendor. Consider the alternatives: iOS and WP are closed, Android is based on Linux but needs a JVM to do most things - and of cou
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by adityab 14y ago
It does. As a nice addition, you can also control stuff within apps directly from the multitask grid.

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