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by blasdel 16y ago
So the people complaining about complaints over UI being about style instead of substance are themselves complaining about argumentative style instead of substance.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Why did you argue with yourself instead of editing your parent post?
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by blasdel 16y ago
It's because it's the best codec we have for moderate-resolution video, and it already has almost %100 of the market (played back via Flash). Making it available in <video> would allow people to drop the Flash part.
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by blasdel 16y ago
I understand what you're trying to say, that type coercion makes a system 'weak', but your example is terrible. Python's type system uses interfaces, so strings are effectively also of type sequence, which is also of type boolean. Any objec
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by blasdel 16y ago
It's what linux distributions have been doing by default — just replacing it with a symlink to the system's installation of ffmpeg. The sane ones take the added step of not crippling their default ffmpeg :) Unlike Firefox, Chrome extensions
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by blasdel 16y ago
This wonderful article has helped me help a great many people over the years and I'm glad he's rehosted it again after the original domain got snatched. There is only one thing I find missing — I think it would be prudent to avoid the use o
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by blasdel 16y ago
To date Chromium has always supported whatever codecs its bundled copy of libavcodec was compiled with. Hopefully they do not purposefully constrain the codec support, like Microsoft did. IE9 uses the system's DirectShow plugins, but whitel
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by blasdel 16y ago
Firefox (at least on Windows) has a special Flash installer baked into it for several years — if it can't find the plugin, it prompts you with an infobar, which then kicks off a streamlined installer that downloads a xpi package and install
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by blasdel 16y ago
With Chrome(ium) you can just replace the copy of the libavcodec dll/so, and it magically supports whatever codecs the new one is built with. For Firefox, you'd have to fork it along with Gecko and XULRunner.
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Please report your SVM’s kernel(anyall.org)
7 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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Request URI Handling in HTTP: A Primer(cdsmith.wordpress.com)
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An Old Article I Wrote: "What To Know Before Debating Type Systems"(cdsmith.wordpress.com)
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by blasdel 16y ago
'Products' aren't just iOS apps — the category also includes purchased music, movies, television, audiobooks, and iPod games; as well as rentals of movies & television, iTunes U content, and probably more that I'm forgetting. For the re
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by blasdel 16y ago
If format control was what Apple cared about, they wouldn't have approved the app in the first place. Really, they would have left it at that.
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by blasdel 16y ago
What's so funny about all this is that the distribution constraints of the App Store do not make it incompatible with the GPLv2. Having to pay Apple $99/year for keys is irrelevant, as is the signing of binaries that prevents redistribution
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by blasdel 16y ago
Except that this webapp is absolutely built with an MVC framework — it's just that the M, V, and C are in different places than they are in the dogmatic arrangement. MVC is not a fixed design, it's a legitimate universal Design Pattern (u
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by blasdel 16y ago
You're still mistaken — the freedoms the GPL ensures are for the software itself, not the developers or the users. In the case of VLC the developers have lost the freedom to publish it and end-users can't get it anymore, but those lines of
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by blasdel 16y ago
You can't run the program on your own computer if other people can connect to it over the network without assenting to the license. It's a goddamn clickwrap EULA, something Stallman used to stand strongly against until he felt the need to r
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by blasdel 16y ago
Freedom 0 is stripped way by the AGPL, since you're not allowed to run the program in public without distributing source to your audience.
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by blasdel 16y ago
This is much more about a single VLC developer spitefully griefing the others than the GPL. The only reason he has grounds to send C&D letters to Apple is because he holds copyright over his contributions to VLC. The other developers do
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by blasdel 16y ago
The classic is people fretting over master/slave nomenclature on hardware: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp
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by blasdel 16y ago
What federal regulations are you talking about? Most cities seem to at least have normal buses to their airports — all those service employees have to get to work somehow! Seattle now has light rail directly to the airport, and Portland has
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by blasdel 16y ago
It is time now to talk about The Wheel: http://www.metafilter.com/58583/Youre-so-smart-you-probably-...
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Big Ideas for Haskell(cdsmith.wordpress.com)
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by blasdel 16y ago
While talking to Jason Fried after Startup School 2009, I realized that trolling on their blog is what they do instead of adding features to their products. Everybody needs a creative outlet! Letting everyone at 37signals post directly to S
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by blasdel 16y ago
Every single thing a user could do was based on FOAF-keyed permissions, and graph traversals were slow as hell. In implementing Facebook, Zuckerberg redefined the problem space to give him an implementation advantage at every turn. Limiting
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by blasdel 16y ago
> Hacker News and Metafilter compete on the quality of their communities, not their codebase. Ding Ding Ding! A couple years ago at the Metafilter 10th anniversary party in Portland, after he made his entrance Matt Haughey walked rig
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by blasdel 16y ago
I wouldn't even consider Mickey Mouse to be a character - he hasn't been used that way by Disney for at least 50 years, and never had much character development to begin with even when he 'starred' in minstrel cartoons. Mickey Mouse is a lo
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by blasdel 16y ago
Nitro is what Squirrelfish was renamed in Apple's marketing materials after they shipped it in Safari.
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by blasdel 16y ago
If you want to understand the fundamentals, read the classic: http://web.archive.org/web/20080822101209/http://www.pphsg.o...

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