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by blasdel 16y ago
The approach that rubygems works terrifically, and is depended upon by the Ruby community — you can trivially install as many versions of the same gem as you want to satisfy the dependency requirements of other gems and apps. Library author
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by blasdel 16y ago
This is in no way specific to Ruby — if you look at the way any sufficiently advanced software you're familiar with is packaged in Debian, you'll find it to be completely fucked. Ancient versions, nonstandard configuration files, random thi
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by blasdel 16y ago
There's even a High Score List: http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
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by blasdel 16y ago
But that wouldn't employ typographers!
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by blasdel 16y ago
But that's only because you can say you got the same resulting serialization of vectors from creating it yourself from scratch.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Sorry about that, the introductory paragraph became unclear when I rearranged things. We fully agree, I think it's awesome that typefaces are not IP — what I find fucked up is the present situation where everyone tiptoes around that fact an
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by blasdel 16y ago
Ubuntu doesn't ship it by default because of FOSS-wankery in the style of debian-legal — the Microsoft Core Fonts are perfectly free to redistribute in their original compressed form. apt-get install msttcorefonts
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by blasdel 16y ago
What's so fucked up is that there's no intellectual property protection for typefaces — in the eyes of the law they're just goddamn shapes. You hold copyright over the exact contents of the distributed file, and you can trademark the name,
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by blasdel 16y ago
How do you still not understand this, 7 years later? The RSS specs you defined do not allow the author to specify the type of text contained within an element — the processor has to guess whether it was plain text or HTML based on how many
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by blasdel 16y ago
But this has nothing to do with the internet or technology, and everything to do with projection: http://essays.dayah.com/lazy-evil-genius
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by blasdel 16y ago
There may ideally be only 4 versions of RSS, but Winer was responsible for 6 of them :) Mark may be an asshole, but he's nearly always correct (save for his recent Apple II fixation), and he follows up instead of trying to edit his mistakes
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by blasdel 16y ago
It's not an attack on him, it's a warning to others. All these technologies are yours, except those that Dave Winer claims ownership of. Attempt no landing there.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Considered as a separate site, Youtube is actually #2 in search volume behind Google and ahead of both Yahoo and Bing. Craigslist and Facebook are both in the top 10 search engines.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Yes, it's him (who else would submit his posts?). He's got several accounts: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=brilliant
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by blasdel 16y ago
Atom exists because everything Dave Winer touches becomes a clusterfuck, overwhelmed with problems both technical ( http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/04/incompatible-rss ) and social ( http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/04/21/what
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by blasdel 16y ago
It even has Macros: http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/2008/03/kenny-and-firing-s...
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by blasdel 16y ago
> I frequently get asked how and where I registered a non-ASCII domain name. Many — probably most, in fact — domain name registrars don’t support IDN. I used Dynadot to register mine, and consider myself a satisfied customer. Bizarrel
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by blasdel 16y ago
No, Debian is doing it wrong. Ubuntu is doing it wrong at a faster pace. What's wrong is the cycle of freezing all the packages for a 'release' and then 'supporting' them in the future by trying to extract 'bugfix' patches from newer versio
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by blasdel 16y ago
> Ruby and Clojure stuff are the only thing I download and install myself. And why do you do this? Because the Debian/Ubuntu packages for these things are old and broken, primarily because they are insistent on breaking up the package
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by blasdel 16y ago
"Being Geek" has a book trailer : http://vimeo.com/15113923
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by blasdel 16y ago
The real problem is with the coders that you don't eat lunch with — the authors of the shitty gems that get pulled in as dependencies. For your companies' code reopening a class should be a huge flag in code review (something like gerrit sh
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by blasdel 16y ago
That would require direct physical access, and if you had that there's a lot of much easier ways to root a box.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Woodward and Bernstein had far less integrity than Arrington! Arrington's source was one of the potential conspirators, and he's blowing it up early to kill it and get it out there so more sources either publish or leak. Woodward and Bernst
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by blasdel 16y ago
You can at least control the degree of blocking in the latest Webkit: http://webkit.org/blog/1395/running-scripts-in-webkit/
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The Iron Fist Coding Standard(yosefk.com)
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by blasdel 16y ago
Letting these cuts expire is the lowest-hanging fruit for boosting revenue — there are a lot of others above it, like expanding the estate tax before the boomers all die. They're just doing the simplest thing first.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Try contributing to discussions instead of copy-pasting the same promotional tagline. You could also make some effort to actually understand vi — your app doesn't take you out of insert mode! Using hjkl and ypu does not somehow make anythin
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by blasdel 16y ago
But that's the thing, it's only managing processes, not scheduling them nor managing the minutia of their stacks — it devolves that responsibility to the real kernel by using 'dumb' native processes instead of inventing its own fucked corou
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by blasdel 16y ago
What I want is NaCL implementations of urxvt+SSH and VNC/RDP. I don't need yet another local posix system to maintain, I want remote access to my real server where my main screen session lives, and I want that access to live in a tab.
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by blasdel 16y ago
I'm actually waiting to buy a Netbook until it comes out, in the vain hope that someone will ship a decent ARM-based system using it. But it is just slightly-extended Chrome running directly in X unparented without the standard Gnome Deskto

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