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481.
by bct 19y ago
> Blogger (aka Google) supposedly "supports" OpenID, but their login page doesn't let me use one. AFAIK their OpenID RP support is only for commenters.
482.
by bct 19y ago
> It seems to me to be solving half of the problem (needing new credentials for every website) but not the other half (having a corporation be the repository for those credentials). Your second half has been solved for a long time, anyo
483.
by bct 19y ago
I've no advice, but be careful who you market it to; your first x users have a huge effect on the culture of the site.
484.
by bct 19y ago
So use a good password, and don't use an untrustworthy OpenID provider. Most sites will send auth details by email if you forget your password; having your email password taken is just as much a risk as having your OpenID password taken.
485.
Tim Berners-Lee - Giant Global Graph(dig.csail.mit.edu)
5 points by bct 19y ago|0 comments
486.
by bct 19y ago
I'd love to know what's written below.
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Commercial CAPTCHA breakers for sale(lafdc.com)
8 points by bct 19y ago|6 comments
488.
by bct 19y ago
> They say things like auctions, but I don't see what's wrong with SQL for those. For local data sets, SQL's great. For remote, centralized data sets you can use something similar. But once you want to combine data sets spread out over
489.
by bct 19y ago
The Web 3.0 label was a bad idea. The people that have the most to gain from the Semantic Web right now are technical types, and I think most of us are suspicious of the Web 2.0 label. The Semantic Web has an (undeserved) reputation for bei
490.
by bct 19y ago
> That those errors cannot be automatically detected and eliminated is actually relevant to the overhyped semantic web, no? No. That would require your computer to understand sentences meant for humans; the whole point of the Semantic W
491.
by bct 19y ago
The "A-List" is the biggest, least interesting, most incestuous wankfest around. Has Scoble ever actually done anything? Why do we care what he says?
492.
by bct 19y ago
> Programming is a profession. Professions are hard. That's what makes them professions. It could be a matter of tools, though; computing (ie. by hand) used to be a profession, but now we have calculators and spreadsheets and anyone can
493.
by bct 19y ago
> To know which method is called, you need to know the class of the receiver and the method name Unless someone's been using metaclass trickery, eg. array = [] def array.length; "banana"; end array.length # => "banana
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"Expensive Eccentric" - how markets normalize the mob(enthusiasm.cozy.org)
2 points by bct 19y ago|0 comments
495.
by bct 19y ago
The on-off star spent 215 years off, according to Wikipedia. A Fire Upon the Deep, set in the same universe, is excellent too.
496.
by bct 19y ago
Wesabe, as mentioned by natrius above.
497.
by bct 19y ago
It's up to the client what order it downloads chunks in (assuming all chunks are available). I'm sure there are clients that try to download chunks in order.
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Ignorance and Inspiration (on Web accessibility)(adactio.com)
1 points by bct 19y ago|0 comments
499.
by bct 19y ago
That my news reader tells you nothing about me is a feature, not a bug.
500.
by bct 19y ago
Thanks :). People confuse REST with Rails' implementation of it too often, and the slightest hint of that bugs me.
501.
by bct 19y ago
Interesting, but "implementation of REST" isn't a very useful characterization of it. It's a client for Rails' REST-based protocol. It's like calling an HTTP client an implementation of the request-response pattern. True, but it's much more
502.
by bct 19y ago
Again, nobody's claiming that the planet is going to have trouble with global warming. We humans have invested a lot into current climate patterns though, and the transition will be unpleasant.
503.
by bct 19y ago
Sure, Earth would recover. It would be pretty bad for humanity in general, and you and I in specific, though.
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by bct 19y ago
If you decentralize you don't need to monetize. (It's good for everyone except entrepreneurs). I've got plans in the back of my brain for combining linkblogs, the Atom Publishing Protocol and something like http://www.intertwingly.net/blog
505.
by bct 19y ago
I usually defend XML when people say it sucks, but in this case I'll step aside.
506.
by bct 19y ago
Google's GData API is based on it. Word supposedly has an AtomPub client, so you can publish right from your word processor. It's the next step in reinventing USENET. Et cetera. The tech isn't particularly exciting, but it provides a way to
507.
by bct 19y ago
A little background on why you should care: AtomPub is a REST protocol for creating and updating "things" on the web. The primary use case is content management - blog entries, wiki pages, anything with a title and content - but it's really
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The Atom Publishing Protocol is now RFC 5023(ietf.org)
4 points by bct 19y ago|3 comments
509.
by bct 19y ago
Why qualify it with "safely"?
510.
by bct 19y ago
I switched from bzr to darcs for two reasons; `bzr pull` over HTTP is incredibly slow and darcs lets you cherry pick individual changes to record. Oh, and darcs bugs out sometimes and refuses to let me apply certain patches. As far as I can

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