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by anon1385 12y ago
I'm afraid you have been led astray by people who were deliberately trying to misinform you. You should probably be angry about that. >The problem is that the models have all been wrong. All models are wrong, but some are useful. Cl
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by anon1385 12y ago
>I think its amazing that only 5,000 years ago it was much warmer than it is now, as this area not only supported grazing herbivores but a human hunting population which was eating them. It's not really that amazing if you consider
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by anon1385 12y ago
FirefoxOS and ChromeOS are more than just browsers. They have a set of (currently) non-standard APIs for doing various things because the current browser standards don't cover many of the things you need to build a usable mobile OS. Th
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by anon1385 12y ago
'It's more work to be open' is an excuse we have heard for many years now from the likes of Microsoft. Often it was valid from a business point of view, but it's pretty amusing to see Mozilla using it now after years of
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by anon1385 12y ago
>Both browser based OS's are still in their early phases. What if the hardware could run both, just as easily as you could put whatever flavor distro of linux on your desktop? This isn't a valid replacement for just being able
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by anon1385 12y ago
>How is that any different than with native code? On an open platform I have a choice of web browsers. On a Javascript sandbox based browser-OS I don't have any choice. >You can't just rip out your OS' implementation of
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by anon1385 12y ago
Having to convince users to install your fork of the OS really isn't the same thing as being able to run a different native browser alongside their existing software. If the only way to use a browser other than Internet Explorer had be
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by anon1385 12y ago
>The browsers that are in the Apple App store are handicapped by legal limitations, which are not present on other, more open operating systems. Is FirefoxOS more or less 'open' than iOS? You can't write a competitive java
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by anon1385 12y ago
>competition in the browser market is vital to keep the web platform progressing and to prevent a single party from controlling web standards I don't see much difference between a single party and a cartel of 3-4 parties. They are a
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by anon1385 12y ago
> if we could ship an alternative browser engine implementation with competitive JIT'ing JavaScript engine Which is not possible on FirefoxOS. So I don't see how 'open' wins here (I'm using 'open' as th
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by anon1385 12y ago
Obj-C is 31 years old. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect new languages/frameworks to have progressed in that time.
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by anon1385 12y ago
'Optional Chaining' sounds like it lets you join thing together to some extent: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
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CVE-2014-3466: GnuTLS buffer overflow(bugzilla.redhat.com)
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Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose(andrewgelman.com)
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We Need Hardware Traps for Integer Overflow(blog.regehr.org)
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by anon1385 12y ago
>I really do wish he'd elaborated though so we know for sure https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=APILE934L348N >You will not, without our express, prior written permission: (a) issue any press release or make any
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>I.e., my startup might grow 10-fold, but Facebook is unlikely to. Yes, startups, an investment famous for attracting only small scale investors of small means…
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>They're a model corporation as far as I'm concerned I think we must have a very different idea of 'model corporation' http://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/worse_than_wal_mart_amazons_... &g
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by anon1385 12y ago
Ignoring the merits or not of the criticisms, I did find it interesting to compare how much effort the FT and Economist put into finding errors in this work and how much exposure they gave their findings, compared with the way they have lar
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by anon1385 12y ago
https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=APILE934L348N >You must set your Digital Book's List Price (and change it from time-to-time if necessary) so that it is no higher than the list price in any sales channel for any
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by anon1385 12y ago
>What are these "extremely onerous terms"? There aren't any. They will pay you 70% of retail, on time, every month. No they won't. 70% royalties is only available if you sell your book for less than $9.99, otherwise i
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The gremlins did it? Iffy statistics drive strong policy recommendations(washingtonpost.com)
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by anon1385 12y ago
>Use the bitwise AND operator & to check for a selected bitmask enumeration value. You should take care if you store result of this in a BOOL (or pass it to a method or function that takes a BOOL). BOOL is only char big and plenty of
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by anon1385 12y ago
>Also no ads or commercial content A bit of nostalgia: http://www.arachnoid.com/freezone/
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by anon1385 12y ago
The European Parliament report is here: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//... Here is an example: Who: NSA, What: Wind wheel for electricity generation, developed by Aloys
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by anon1385 12y ago
>An analog would be like the NSA harvesting data from Samsung and then passing it to Apple, which is the type of stuff that we have no evidence of thus far. What ? We've known that the NSA was engaging in corporate espionage on beha
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by anon1385 12y ago
>ForHackernews, we say in our quality guidelines to "Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines." The problem with that is that it's not true (in my admittedly very limited experience). I used to believe that u
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by anon1385 12y ago
So you're saying all ads are 'paid links', except I presume Adsense ads. That sounds fair and reasonable.
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by anon1385 12y ago
People use nofollow because they believe (rightly or wrongly, none of us know for sure since it's a secret) that if you link to a site that later turns out to be a link farm you can be punished for it because it appears to Google that
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by anon1385 12y ago
> Google considers his links low quality because they are. So what? Why should I have to care that Jeremy Palmer (or any other person) is linking to my site? The point of the article is that webmasters are going around trying to get link

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