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by blasdel 16y ago
Nobody compiles Chromium that way — it has a dependency on libavcodec (ffmpeg), and everyone just links it with the version already installed on their system. If you're a freetard running gNewSense, you'll only have support for WAV, Vorbis,
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Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development(halfarsedagilemanifesto.org)
3 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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Can Open Source Be Saved From Itself?(gigaom.com)
1 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
Awesome, they must have cleaned up their act when they implemented WebM. Do you know what it uses now? (I'm on my iPhone now)
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by blasdel 16y ago
I actually did start working on this about a year ago — and realized that I didn't actually have to write any code! A Mozilla developer had already written a gstreamer backend for use in Fennec, because the original implementation couldn't
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by blasdel 16y ago
iTunes could perform liposuction (seriously, `man 1 lipo`) on the app bundle when transferring to the device.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Mozilla could just use the host platform's codecs like Safari (Quicktime) and IE (DirectShow), or use a cross-platform abstraction like Opera (GStreamer), or ship an easily-replaced dynamic library like Chrome (libavcodec), but of course th
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by blasdel 16y ago
"power users" — the affected gits that fancy themselves knowledgable because they aren't afraid to click through dialog boxes and wizards, install inane themes, randomly strip files and kill services as 'optimizations', and copy-paste inept
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by blasdel 16y ago
> There needs to be a Godwin-esque term for "takes one data point and extrapolates it to the entire world". "Gladwelled"
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by blasdel 16y ago
He sure as hell wasn't at Startup School 2009 -- he was bouncing up and down in his seat during the presentations raring at the bit to be an asshole, and interrupted several in just about the rudest possible way ( http://news.ycombinator.co
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by blasdel 16y ago
I agree with your sentiments, except that I'd invert your sanity bitmap. I'd place John von Neumann as having been extraordinarily sane, and one of the most productive minds in history. I'd put Eliezer as far crazier and more potentially de
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by blasdel 16y ago
That's a habituation to the reality of the Win32 style — "Find reached the end of the document | OK" Users don't have an a priori instinct to dismiss dialog boxes out of spite — on the contrary, the elderly noob reads every one carefully as
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by blasdel 16y ago
Car Analogies? Even Stephenson's book that the GP references doesn't pull that off. Why do cars need to be refilled with gas? Why do their engines require regular oil changes? Why do their doors and ignition devices have keyed locks? Why do
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by blasdel 16y ago
Bingo! YC abhors any startup that wouldn't be started anyway without their investment — like Mark Twain's refusal to join any club that would have him as a member. In this round a huge chunk of the startups were already founded and taking r
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Keeping Your Unique Referrers List Clean and Useful(shawnblanc.net)
2 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
It's like YC funding film producers — it's a mercurial content business, not something that can scale wildly like their typical investments. I think they've funded at least a couple companies selling tools & platforms for game developer
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by blasdel 16y ago
They're taking after the RMS school of linkbait PR — a mix of activism that's too earnest for all but their most strident supporters and neologisms so punny that even your dad would groan at them.
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by blasdel 16y ago
For it to work at all, each user would have to have a different URL for each group they were in. Along with nearly every other SSO solution short of LDAP, OpenID infuriatingly only authenticates the username — it provides no means whatsoe
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by blasdel 16y ago
I used to have a huge axe to grind with pg over his use of hellbanning as the only metamoderation mechanism. I would track down [dead] users when I noticed them, but I mostly stopped after noticing that this guy was still posting. This guy
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by blasdel 16y ago
But doesn't your 'discovery' use-case rely on a local herd of self-promoting new media douchebags using it to 'communicate'?
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by blasdel 16y ago
The "blog post as direct response" model works really well on Tumblr. Everywhere else it only works at the extreme ends — for total takedowns like the recent Kurzweil/Myers dustup and friendly 'Sue's post on x inspired me to post this on
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by blasdel 16y ago
I intentionally program in that style all the time, especially in the absence of a REPL. It's really not much different than writing it out with pen + paper first. It lets me get the idea out of my head and on to the screen where it can be
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Progressive Disclosure in Software Education(blog.andymatuschak.org)
3 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
In Google Chrome 5.0.375.125 on OS X, your new website looks like this after a brief flash of working content: http://imgur.com/kvDye.png If I block the TypeKit script, it works just fine. I think it looks better too.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Schmidt could have phrased it much better as "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, Don't tell anyone. "
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by blasdel 16y ago
Well-behaved desktop apps have a far stronger version of 'back': 'undo'
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by blasdel 16y ago
Oh come on, even Zeldman's given it up and recognized that the 'XHTML' he'd been marketing was bullshit and that he'd never actually used XHTML. I think Microsoft did a great mitzvah with the way they mercifully prevented it from ever actua
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Kindergarten enrollment dates affect ADHD diagnosis rates(news.ncsu.edu)
56 points by blasdel 16y ago|61 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
Mega-volume travel agencies / search engines are their customers, not you.
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by blasdel 16y ago
But with pg making comments that are just a link to the readability bookmarklet, I think this battle might be lost.

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