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by bct 13y ago
That's an interesting line of thought, but: 1. if they can't use the update service, then they can't deploy anything that they're coding up anyways. 2. I assume they sign their updates, so it shouldn't matter that t
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by bct 13y ago
I'm agreeing with you.
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by bct 13y ago
> The only truly secure way to record messages up to the point of break-in is a one-way remote log. And if you have this then you don't need a fancy cryptographic syslogd to detect tampering.
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by bct 13y ago
Annoying people is easy, I don't know why he would go out of his way to do it. It's certainly not something to be proud of.
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by bct 13y ago
Only a select few can implement specific DRM modules, but nobody is talking about standardizing them. The standard (that is being proposed) in this case is an interface that the actual DRM modules hook into. Anyone can implement the interfa
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by bct 13y ago
If "standards compliant" means implementing every feature then no new (or existing) browser will ever be standards complaint anyways. This is not a lever that can be used to force everyone to implement DRM.
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by bct 13y ago
I'm glad you did (but I wouldn't have finished if you hadn't). More people learning & having fun is better. IMO people only complain about the extended deadline because of its effect on the rankings. The scoring system wa
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by bct 13y ago
The problem description did say: # Our test cases will always use the same dictionary file (with SHA1 # 6b898d7c48630be05b72b3ae07c5be6617f90d8e).
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by bct 13y ago
> we should have perspective on its inexorable march. There is no such thing. There are only specific technologies. Some march inexorably, some are jokes (if they're remembered at all).
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by bct 13y ago
"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into y
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by bct 13y ago
And `git checkout -p` too.
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by bct 13y ago
An example: webkitgtk requires (IIRC) 16GB of memory for the final link step if you turn on debugging.
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by bct 13y ago
quannabe: You have been hellbanned since your second comment.
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by bct 13y ago
> Just adopt the best of those You say that like everyone agrees on what "the best" is.
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by bct 13y ago
Basically, but it also handles some details specific to the websockets protocol.
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by bct 13y ago
That's an issue with this implementation, not the idea of hooking up stdin/stdout to websockets.
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by bct 13y ago
spacebe4time: You have been hellbanned for several months.
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by bct 13y ago
The intent is simple, but there are many ways to express that intent. Some of them work well when there are two components sitting right next to each other in memory on one machine; others work well for an unknown number of components inter
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by bct 13y ago
> If you're lucky it will be 'article'. But you probably won't be. This situation can be improved (and is being improved). If we treat HTML as nothing but a display language, then it will become one - and if that&#x27
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by bct 13y ago
> The HTML you get when you go to a web page is anything but an abstraction of a data type. You don't think that "this is an article", "this is a paragraph", "this is a link", "this text should be
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by bct 13y ago
> You may not even need the API if the CMS doesn't screw around too much with the presentation by putting, say, ads, in the middle of the content. This is exactly what I'm saying. > Then you could screen scrape and convert t
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by bct 13y ago
alphadogg, you have been hellbanned for more than 2 years.
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by bct 13y ago
I'm familiar with the distinction between document and data. I'm talking about a site like a blog, where the document is the data. That was the original context of this conversation, IIRC. HTML is emphatically not a poor documen
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by bct 13y ago
> So why on earth would you use that very bad library design Because when you design a Web API you're not designing a library, you're designing part of a distributed system. Accessing code on a remote server is not like accessi
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by bct 13y ago
> You don't store data as HTML You do if your data is a document. And after CSS was introduced, HTML was definitely not supposed to be presentational.
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by bct 13y ago
> easily get the content you need in JSON format or similar When user stylesheets were conceived this is what HTML was.
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by bct 13y ago
You don't need responsive CSS, all you need is max-width. The (technically) ideal place to solve this is in your browser's user stylesheets (then you can have the page look however you like!), but that's a bad solution right
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by bct 13y ago
tomaszkubacki: You have been hellbanned.
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by bct 13y ago
The obvious next question is "can't you achieve the same thing with gzip": time curl http://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.0.3.js > /dev/null 236k bytes real 0m0.432s time curl http:&#
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by bct 13y ago
It feels exactly the same arguing from the other side. I think that means we're working with fundamentally different premises.

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