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by blasdel 16y ago
Awesome! This is the first real confirmation that Google is going to ship Native Client to end users as a supported technology. They'd intentionally kept it off the agenda when introducing ChromeOS before, so it wasn't clear to me that they
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by blasdel 16y ago
None of those are remotely Unixy from a user perspective. Neither the iPhone nor WebOS ever expose a filesystem to the user. Neither Android nor WebOS expose Unix to App developers. Android doesn't even present a real Unix system to the OS
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by blasdel 16y ago
That's only because if you're not doing all the claims, you're not infringing.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Sounds like it's an ActiveX control -- I thought you could only get away with that in South Korea.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Reddit itself is hosted on EC2, right? I use scripts ( http://github.com/wr0ngway/rubber/ ) to boot up, configure, and deploy to my instances from a stock Ubuntu AMI -- but from the looks of this maybe you set up and maintain AMIs for each
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by blasdel 16y ago
And that's why the AGPL provides no value: Code < Data < Community
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by blasdel 16y ago
Because the codecs are unsandboxed native code running in the browser process with full access to your user data. That you downloaded from the internet. To enjoy pornography and pirated media (and pirated pornography!). It'd be a perfect ex
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by blasdel 16y ago
If you can pay the $1000/m for it: http://code.google.com/premiumsupport/ It's currently tied to the per-user program, but there's no innate reason why it has to be just for internal apps: "you can get these features by migrating your ap
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by blasdel 16y ago
Safari supports everything that Quicktime does. You can add the support yourself, just like you could with Theora: http://xiph.org/quicktime/ http://perian.org is a Quicktime Component that wraps around libavcodec (ffmpeg) that has a pr
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by blasdel 16y ago
Because complaining about "mixed content" was completely pointless in the general case -- you could mix content across multiple https sites, but the certificates were never correlated, and the second site would still get all the headers ju
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by blasdel 16y ago
Were either of you using Webkit browsers?
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by blasdel 16y ago
Will they start using GStreamer in Firefox like in one of their Fennec branches, or will they just add libvpx along with the existing liboggplay and implement their own half-baked media handling layer?
853.
by blasdel 16y ago
'decode' was probably the wrong word to use there — how about 'consume'?
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by blasdel 16y ago
OOXML is no easier to decode than the old memory-dump and COM-based DOC formats which were comprehensively documented first by third parties and then Microsoft. It's just like how SWF was trivial to decode long before it was 'opened'. Conta
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by blasdel 16y ago
FAT may be an incredibly shitty lowest common denominator, but that's completely irrelevant here. The SD card can't be used reliably because upstream never provided a common API for all apps to interface with it. They didn't even have the c
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by blasdel 16y ago
Verbs! Getter and setter methods on objects are like OK and Cancel buttons in dialogs. Just because it's uniform industry "best practice" doesn't make it not completely retarded and obscurantist.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Eponysterical!
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by blasdel 16y ago
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/04/21/fuck-the-foundri... They could start crawling the web today for PDFs that embed fonts infringingly, but they aren't very sophisticated, and even they aren't that stupid. The situation on the gro
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by blasdel 16y ago
The VML APIs that've been in IE forever are all pretty damn fast individually, but displaying the results slows the rendering down significantly. It's like how straightforward PHP is damn fast as a templating system, but absurdly slow for i
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by blasdel 16y ago
The SD card in Android is a gibbering nightmare in far more ways than that. For starters, that it's necessary at all! The first devices all had only 256mb of flash, but then the OS got bigger than that (can't upgrade older devices cleanly!)
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by blasdel 16y ago
Apple has been selling an average of 100,000 iPhones a day for at least the last 6 months. For the analysts that want to see growth in your growth so they can hype while you boom, I'd bet that they'll break through that 'plateau' when they
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by blasdel 16y ago
Android wasn't gutsy at all: they hired the original Sidekick developers that were already most of the way through developing a bastard medley of other failed platforms on top of a bludgeoned Linux kernel. Palm's WebOS and HP's acquisition
863.
by blasdel 16y ago
Are you referring to the "{this is good]" thing? They stole that from FilePile (which was an exclusive private imageboard-like community for dot-com yuppies)
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IPhone Apps I Can't Have(mikeash.com)
1 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 17y ago
Bravo: this is the first time I've seen you publicly acknowledge that they exist. Baby steps! You know them well enough to invite them to a private party at your office. Do you know the CO2stats people better, given that you're including
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by blasdel 17y ago
And here's my snarkier version: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1194542
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by blasdel 17y ago
Though since it searches the comments too (with links to the parent + story), and commenters often also have vague ideas of what the story is, it works extremely well in practice.
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by blasdel 17y ago
http://searchyc.com is the solution to your particular problem, not sharded communities. It's unfortunate that pg petulantly refuses to acknowledge its existence. Even talking about in person, he'd only engage with me on the subject when
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Value Propositions: An Encyclopedia of Paywalls & an exploration of value online(thepaywall.com)
2 points by blasdel 17y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 17y ago
The real problem is that pure content is being treated as an application. There needs to be a separate whole section of the iTunes Store for this shit: Music, Movies, TV, Apps, Interactive . It'd come with its own Webkit-based development

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