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by arto 15y ago
> What I wonder is why did we end up with the copyright model in the first place? See Karl Fogel's excellent essay "The Surprising History of Copyright and The Promise of a Post-Copyright World" for a good overview of how copyright laws
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by arto 15y ago
The story in more detail at NPR: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/02/06/146490064/rem... [...] "We all knew what the implication was without actually coming out and saying it," a tearful Boisjoly told Zwerdling in 1986. "We all kn
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Nearly all binary search and merge sort implementations are broken (2006)(googleresearch.blogspot.com)
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by arto 15y ago
In the UK, they already claim the power to jail you if you don't hand over the password: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/06/jail_password_ripa/
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5 MB hard disk drive, 1956(retronaut.co)
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by arto 15y ago
Seconded. I've used Namecheap for some 7 years now. Unlike so many of their competitors, they actually care about customer satisfaction.
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by arto 15y ago
> In a world where everyone just copies everyone else freely (e.g. the desktop PC world) there is/would be much less innovation. For a counterpoint, see e.g. Johanna Blakley's excellent TED talk on how the copyright-free fashion industr
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by arto 15y ago
Hardly the equivalent of shoplifting. If I steal your gadget, you no longer have that gadget. If I torrent your film, you still have your film. Evidently the copyright industry is enjoying some success in their ongoing attempts to equivocat
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by arto 15y ago
Some of the confusion here arises from not clearly differentiating between legal and moral obligations. It's perfectly reasonable to ensure that the legal strings attached to a piece of software are as few as possible (BSD/MIT/ISC, the Unli
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Linus Torvalds on C typedefs(yarchive.net)
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by arto 15y ago
> The mainstream interpretation most certain is that copyright is to protect creators, not distributors. That is certainly the idealized, simplified narrative that most everyone will have been taught these days, but in terms of how copy
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by arto 15y ago
A brief history lesson: http://questioncopyright.org/promise
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Billion-ton comet may have narrowly missed Earth in 1883(technologyreview.com)
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by arto 15y ago
I meant 'slow' as in 'slow to trickle in', not as in 'performant'. Concretely: I love the idea, would gladly have our startup sign the pledge, but I'm not enthused about giving a third party that level of access to the company's Twitter acc
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by arto 15y ago
Signups may be slow as long as the app is requesting unnecessarily broad OAuth access to signees' Twitter accounts: "This application will be able to: read Tweets from your timeline; see who you follow, and follow new people; update your pr
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by arto 15y ago
Here's a link to Agner's optimization manuals, for the benefit of those who may not be familiar with them: http://www.agner.org/optimize/#manuals In short they contain what is probably the best x86 instruction latency reference, based on
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How reference counting is used in the Linux kernel(open-std.org)
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by arto 16y ago
In our ( http://dydra.com ) case, ZeroMQ's misuse of assertions proved to be the deal breaker. We evaluated using ZeroMQ for inter-shard communication in our distributed database engine, and while ZeroMQ had a lot going for it, in the end e
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by arto 16y ago
This is a good quick overview of RDF for programmers: http://rdfabout.com/quickintro.xpd
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by arto 16y ago
I thought I had made it pretty clear what my estimate was based on (observing new projects pop up nearly daily over the course of the last year) and that it was merely my personal estimate, not some peer-reviewed fact as you are supposing
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by arto 16y ago
If you think it that important, feel free to improve upon the list; it's maintained at https://github.com/bendiken/unlicense.org . Fork the repository, update the list, and submit a pull request to merge. Easy as pie. Given that the list a
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by arto 16y ago
You can freely incorporate public domain code into a code base licensed under any license whatsoever. For example, as the FSF states in http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html , "Public domain material is compatible with the GNU GPL.
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by arto 16y ago
I also wrote some thoughts on this subject recently at: http://blog.datagraph.org/2010/04/rdf-nosql-diff
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by arto 17y ago
There is also a good book of the same name: http://mises.org/store/Against-Intellectual-Property-P523.as... ...as well as the more in-depth, similarly-titled and themed Against Intellectual Monopoly: http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general
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How to Build an SQL Storage Adapter for RDF Data with Ruby(blog.datagraph.org)
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Why Vector Clocks are Hard(blog.basho.com)
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by arto 17y ago
This originated entirely from practical concerns. I came up with the set of AWK aliases referred to in the blog post when working with some large N-Triples datasets on remote servers that had no RDF tooling installed nor available. AWK, tha
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RDF for Intrepid Unix Hackers: Grepping N-Triples(blog.datagraph.org)
11 points by arto 17y ago|3 comments
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by arto 17y ago
Mark, you could use the RDF::Sesame plugin ( http://rdf.rubyforge.org/sesame/ ) to interface to Sesame, which does inference for you. There is also an in-the-works RDFS gem ( http://rdfs.rubyforge.org/ ) that will provide RDFS++ natively in
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The Curious Case of RDF Graph Isomorphism(blog.datagraph.org)
4 points by arto 17y ago|0 comments

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