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by blasdel 16y ago
Neither Coca-Cola nor Phillip Morris invented their products or market segments — cola/caffeine and tobacco/nicotine have been used for thousands of years by huge portions of every population to gain access to them. The products have always
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by blasdel 16y ago
CAS is definitely somewhat less of a clusterfuck than OpenID, and actually gets the SSO cookie-handling part right. But it's still a pile of redirects where the net result is that you can tie a user to their identifier and nothing more — it
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These languages differ from INTERCAL in that their designers were serious(funcall.blogspot.com)
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by blasdel 16y ago
Yes, I clicked the reply link on your comment from there. I figured you had to know about this bug, since it happens to me regularly (maybe 10% of eligible comments) when I comment in active threads during standard procrastination hours. T
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by blasdel 16y ago
It's a problem for me when the fnids in every reply <form> cause them to expire several times a day when the server crashes. Edit: also when the server redirects me back to the wrong origin, I was sent to http://news.ycombinator.co
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by blasdel 16y ago
There's also epic flood control stuff on the river north of Tokyo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Area_Outer_Undergr...
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by blasdel 16y ago
Holding down option while pressing delete in a playlist prompts you with the "Move to Trash" / "Keep in Library" deletion dialog.
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Keeping the Internet weird (and pseudonymous)(infotrope.net)
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Squaring the Triangle: Secure, Decentralized, Human-Readable Names(aaronsw.com)
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The Java Saga (1995)(wired.com)
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The experiment infrastructure at Google(glinden.blogspot.com)
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by blasdel 16y ago
Topic bans can be a godsend, especially on a site like this one with short-lived threads where it's even easier to repeat the same tiresome 'discussion' over and over. In another community I frequented for years, the set of mostly-verboten
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by blasdel 16y ago
TIFF itself is an inconsistent mess :/
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by blasdel 16y ago
Because the plugins in question are for the operating system's video infrastructure (Quicktime and DirectShow), not the browser. <video> still acts as a standard platform API across browsers regardless of codec support. It's not lik
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by blasdel 16y ago
Create a second account, turn on [showdead] in its profile, and view the submission in that browser session.
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An Encoder Is Not A State Machine(subfurther.com)
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Does the Mac App Store allow commercial use?(techradar.com)
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by blasdel 16y ago
You are again spectacularly incorrect, this time about the relationship between the distribution of open source code and patent law. It is perfectly 100% legal to distribute uncompiled source code without a license to any related patents. A
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by blasdel 16y ago
You are spectacularly incorrect about how Chrome and Chromium are built — the only difference between the two regarding <video> is which flags the bundled copy of ffmpeg's libavcodec was built with. There is no secret source code. W
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by blasdel 16y ago
I remember when they first launched, Backtype seemed like something I had been looking for — a way to automatically aggregate and archive the comments I've posted on various blogs and such. I spent some time getting increasingly frustrated
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Pattern Matching vs. Destructuring… to the death(blog.fogus.me)
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by blasdel 16y ago
There is still an even more subtle point that you are absurdly close to understanding, and that the article touches on a bit — there really is no such thing as a type system, only a set of times and places where types are(n't) checked — op
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by blasdel 16y ago
They make it a condition of licensing you the ability to encode or decode the video — contract law. If you read the EULAs and such on even a piece of 'professional' software like Final Cut Studio or Avid, it'll describe how the encoder is o
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by blasdel 16y ago
The selection of answers for #9 ("What is your involvement in purchasing?") were incredibly well formulated — one of the best survey questions I've ever seen.
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by blasdel 16y ago
You're belittling RTFHIG like a "WASP mom" for belittling app authors like a "Chinese mom". There's more than one way to show attitude, and politeness is one of them. It's an affectation, no different from RTFHIG's all-lowercase ironic outr
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by blasdel 16y ago
Except that now you're no longer talking about something that requires the fuzzy handwaving of 'strong' vs. 'weak', which lack the well-defined one-way transformational characteristics of which you speak :) The type-system property you're
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by blasdel 16y ago
I like your style but your definition doesn't hold — there's plenty of implicit downcasts that are still 'strong', like boolean tests on data bigger than 1 bit or gt/lt comparisons between different numeric types — a type system that allows
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by blasdel 16y ago
As far as I know the only pieces of GPLed software in AOSP are the Linux kernel and the userland half of the bluetooth stack. Neither have any copyright assigned to the FSF or any relation to GNU. All the Google-authored userland code is un
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by blasdel 16y ago
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Scott+Stratten%2... The speaker's statement hinges on not being the kind of person that uses those other sayings. I suppose he could take the position that he himself is a professional "Jackass
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by blasdel 16y ago
He must have attended the Kai Power Tools School of Design

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