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by anon1385 13y ago
Sorry but there isn't a chance in hell that I'm uploading my bash history to an untrusted 'cloud' service.
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Sexist Tech Startup Titstare(publicshaming.tumblr.com)
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by anon1385 13y ago
>Can you name examples of this "brittleness", how it is caused and how it has affected the food supply when compared to another way of farming Not the parent but yes. Look at the history of banana cultivars. Up until the 1950s
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by anon1385 13y ago
That's probably true, but some of the Go creators (Pike for example) have been saying very negative things abut Java since long before the Oracle lawsuits. Often in fairly trollish ways.
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Intel Reverts Plans, Will Not Support Ubuntu's XMir(phoronix.com)
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by anon1385 13y ago
It started in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
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Is it ethical to use Google Analytics on an 'anonymous' crime reporting site?(webmasters.stackexchange.com)
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NSA Spied On Al Jazeera Communications(spiegel.de)
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by anon1385 13y ago
>Why do people assume that courses delivered on premises by an average teacher is going to be better than a MOOC delivered by world class guy. Assume? I just gave you an example of a shit course delivered by a 'world class guy'
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by anon1385 13y ago
(This post isn't intended to be personal so I hope I don't cause any offence). I often see people talking about how great they personally found a MOOC course, but that self-assessment is largely useless. To put it bluntly: you don
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by anon1385 13y ago
Yes one must always trust something[1], but the impression I get is that people seem to want to use JS crypto specifically so that users don't need to trust the server with their data. But crypto in a js webapp can't provide that
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by anon1385 13y ago
>This is wrong, because using both means that the web service we are using (for example) never knows our plaintext password, so they can't attack us under the assumption of password reuse, like in http://xkcd.com/792
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by anon1385 13y ago
By that logic Linux isn't truly FOSS either since it no doubt infringes on many software patents and users of Linux have been sued over patents[1]. This is one of the main problems with software patents: they are so broad and numerous
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by anon1385 13y ago
>dropping H.264 for the open sourced VP8 You are aware that there are open source H.264 encoders and decoders?
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by anon1385 13y ago
I'm well aware of what happened. Making it paid was as good as closing it for a lot of the free services that were using it. The point was that a lot of people were upset about it when the closure was announced, and thus we can see tha
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by anon1385 13y ago
>In fact, I'd go so far as to question why he chose today to register an account on hacker news. He has actually commented here with a different account in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=FlorianMuelle
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JSMin isn't welcome on Google Code [2009](wonko.com)
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The vi editor causes brain damage [2007](lwn.net)
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by anon1385 13y ago
Funnily enough, I actually originally compiled that list long before Reader got shut down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3120666 I just added a few more recent things to it since then. So some of us at least were poi
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Mir, the Canonical CLA and skewing the playing field(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
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by anon1385 13y ago
It seems you have forgotten about Code Search, Google Video, Wave, Buzz, Google Labs, Google Desktop, Google Notebook, Google Sets, Google Listen, Google Reader, Google Squared, Google Catalogs, Google Answers, Audio Ads, Google Base, Brows
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by anon1385 13y ago
They have shut down (among others) Code Search, Google Video, Wave, Buzz, Google Labs, Google Desktop, Google Notebook, Google Sets, Google Listen, Google Reader, Google Squared, Google Catalogs, Google Answers, Audio Ads, Google Base, Brow
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Testing compile time constness and null pointers with C11′s _Generic(gustedt.wordpress.com)
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by anon1385 13y ago
>Bundleware toolbars for IE that fake search engine choice make pretty money, malware that steals money - too. Not a reason to enter this business. Paul Graham disagrees: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5059806
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by anon1385 13y ago
>Medical research, for instance, is full of correlative research that never amounted to a hill of beans. Yes like smoking being linked with cancer. I'm glad we listened to the corporate funded libertarians on that one and didn'
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The Northern Sea Route is Open for Container Ships(rabett.blogspot.co.uk)
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by anon1385 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation Argument to moderation (Latin: argumentum ad temperantiam; also known as [argument from] middle ground, false compromise, gray fallacy and the golden mean fallacy)
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New 'Crisis Disaster' at Fukushima. Oh wait, it's nothing. Again(theregister.co.uk)
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by anon1385 13y ago
How disgustingly condescending.
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by anon1385 13y ago
>I am just surprised it's at outfits like The Telegraph I'm not sure why. David Cameron could literally murder a baby on live TV and Dan Hodges would describe it as a 'political headache for Miliband'. Nobody takes hi

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