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by anon1385 12y ago
The reason people keep talking about those incidents is that a lot of people defend that behaviour (see other posts in this thread) or even promote it as the best way to manage a project and deal with 'inferior' programmers. If ev
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Is Mozilla being forced to buy Adwords to protect their users from malware?
12 points by anon1385 12y ago|3 comments
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by anon1385 12y ago
The right to free speech doesn't mean the right to not face any social consequences for your speech.
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When Chemicals Became Weapons of War(chemicalweapons.cenmag.org)
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by anon1385 12y ago
I'm not a fan of the gov.uk project (see my other comment on this thread) but the Register is a pretty awful site, and Andrew Orlowski in particular is a total crackpot. For example he writes crazy climate change denial articles. To be
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by anon1385 12y ago
In my experience people who actually interact with government sites regularly dislike the gov.uk changes. People inside the tech bubble don't actually use many of the government sites, so their opinion is mostly based on the fact that
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by anon1385 12y ago
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billi...
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Another textbook example of the toxicity of the open source "community".
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by anon1385 12y ago
This seems to be the tired old "you are a part of this society so you can't criticise it without being a hypocrite" argument. Do you have evidence that Leonard M. Siegel supports "sprawling office parks miles away from p
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by anon1385 12y ago
The dream of the modern web is the concept of a single standard/platform that is used for all user facing software. This is a flawed idea and this article demonstrates one of the biggest reasons for that. By definition, features only b
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by anon1385 12y ago
That's hardly exclusive to Safari. IndexedDB seems to be a buggy mess in all browsers: http://pouchdb.com/2014/10/26/10-things-i-learned-from-readi...
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Flow Tracker: Making programs safe though static flow analyses(cuda.dcc.ufmg.br)
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by anon1385 12y ago
There was actually a project for the GNU Coreutils to make sure that write errors were being reported[1]. It looks like echo is using the "atexit (close_stdout);" method described in that talk to close the stream and detect errors
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by anon1385 12y ago
>Click-to-play prevents Firefox from running any plugin code without explicit user action. I am 99% certain this is also the case for Chromium-based browsers. Wrong: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues&#x2
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by anon1385 12y ago
He is referring to the fact that in Chrome click to play has no security effect at all - pages can click jack you to activate it. To quote a Chrome developer: "Click to play is not actually a security boundary. In particular, it has al
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by anon1385 12y ago
>If you install Google Chrome, you do it voluntarily. Maybe you downloaded some software that also bundled Chrome by default: http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chrome-bundled-with-real...
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by anon1385 12y ago
It doesn't surprise me that people are starting to realise this project was a disaster. My own personal experience is that a lot of useful information that used to exist on various government websites is just gone. You can look through
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Telegraph's Peter Oborne resigns, saying HSBC coverage a 'fraud on readers'(theguardian.com)
3 points by anon1385 12y ago|0 comments
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Literally millions of people are being killed by coal, without any choice in the matter[1]. What analogy would you prefer to use for something as devastating as that? Coal only seems affordable if the significant health and environmental co
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by anon1385 12y ago
This is hardly the first or worst example of a YC company copying something. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3523024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3529607 Being prepared to do this
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by anon1385 12y ago
>The idea that nobody can do anything cool on the web unless all browsers support it seems like a great way to encourage stagnation. But that's the entire point of open web standards. If you don't like using a runtime that is t
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by anon1385 12y ago
>This is going to make the web so much faster, particular on mobile devices. The performance benefits are overblown: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8890839
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by anon1385 12y ago
Because the App Store prevents people redistributing apps they have bought and that is incompatible with the GPL. They actually did allow them until the FSF sued them[1]. Apple limit redistribution because they want to make it harder to pir
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by anon1385 12y ago
mongodb has a licence exception to allow people to use it without releasing the code for the rest of their app: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8966182
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by anon1385 12y ago
>Apple (IMO, irrationally) refuses to make deals with GPL projects. That isn't true. Apple actually proposed integrating LLVM into GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html Also, I see a l
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by anon1385 12y ago
All this discussion about the GPL being the only way to protect users seems to be ignoring the fact that the GPL is largely irrelevant in the web era. All of us are using proprietary software that contains GPL code every single day. We can&
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by anon1385 12y ago
I'm not a fan of DRM, but I don't find this argument very convincing. It's pretty much impossible for anybody to create a new mainstream browser at this point. The standards are huge and complex and require seriously optimise
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Congratulations, you illustrated his point beautifully.
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Yes, but it's impossible to achieve what Cameron said he wants to achieve without restricting encryption. It's hard to imagine a workable law that bans the distribution of chat apps that do end-to-end encryption that doesn't
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by anon1385 12y ago
3. Google refused to stop advertising illegal pharmaceuticals after repeated warnings from the FDA and then eventually received one of the heaviest fines ever handed down by the US government (half a billion USD)[1]. [1] http://w

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