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Thank You, Bravo, For 'Start-Ups: Silicon Valley'(popsci.com)
5 points by blasdel 14y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 14y ago
As someone who's spent a lot of time debugging its custom hardware, that's absolutely not true about the OLPC XO-1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719048
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by blasdel 14y ago
IETF standards are required to have multiple interoperable implementations of the usually post-hoc english language spec. One implementation can never be enough.
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by blasdel 14y ago
Unfortunately, that is absolutely not true in any implementation derived from the original Markdown.pl without a whole lot of bugfixes Because of the chickenshit way he attempted to escape things by replacing them with their MD5 hashes and
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by blasdel 14y ago
You have it absolutely correct He enjoys the credit for being the creator of something used by millions every day, but is entirely unwilling to take the responsibility that comes with that creation being a very public mess. It works for his
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by blasdel 14y ago
There are many great reimplimentations, another would only compound the interoperability issue. The real problem cannot be solved without some forward action on his part. He has refused over and over again.
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Apple's no internal client syndrome(rant.monkeydom.de)
160 points by blasdel 14y ago|42 comments
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by blasdel 14y ago
Go read Markdown.pl, and then consider the millions of uses it's had in the last eight years with neither maintenance, guidance, or abdication. At some point there's no constructive criticism left to give. His program is bad and he should
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by blasdel 14y ago
The perceived simplicity of the format (driven by the naivete of the implementation) played a significant role in making it popular, but lays a minefield of bugs and ambiguities for implementors especially if they want any combination of sa
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by blasdel 14y ago
The thing is this isn't something new, I and a number of other people have been enraged by this for eight years now. Over those years it's grown in usage exponentially, and so has his fame as a sportswriter for team Apple. Throughout that
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by blasdel 14y ago
John Gruber's original Markdown.pl is one of the worst small programs I have ever read, completely riddled with outright bugs and misfeatures that continually bite its users in the ass. It's awful even by the already low standards of hand-w
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by blasdel 14y ago
The Arc process hosting HN blows up at least once an hour (I wouldn't be surprised if there was a cronjob restarting it) and much more frequently in peak usage periods. You wouldn't notice if it weren't for the use of closures for every for
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by blasdel 14y ago
You'd have murdered him by now had you ever read Markdown.pl or run into its hundreds of bugs and corner cases
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If Only it Grew on Trees — 4chan launches subscription service(4chan.org)
1 points by blasdel 14y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 14y ago
Just one problem: a Tesla left unplugged or even charged by inadequate current for a month will irreversibly destroy its own battery and the replacement cost is most of the car's value. I wonder if the power hookups for refrigerated contain
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by blasdel 14y ago
I love Outlier, my first two pairs of their pants are almost clapped out with at least 5000 miles apeice in them, and I recently got another two pairs. Surface Clothing is closest to being Outlier at a lower price point. You're right that t
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"Flick to tv" represents everything wrong with product design today(fuckjetpacks.com)
84 points by blasdel 14y ago|29 comments
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Lessons from the Failure of Readability’s Author Payment Plan(expletiveinserted.com)
6 points by blasdel 14y ago|0 comments
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No, really, secure boot does add security(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
2 points by blasdel 14y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 14y ago
it can also be pathetic: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=11012004
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by blasdel 14y ago
damn it was an inside job! :) I'd been checking every few months for the last several years to see if sockets were available in NaCL, for this exact killer app (along with a vnc/rdesktop client) Sad that it had to be done with an internal w
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by blasdel 14y ago
Java does NOT implement UTF-16, nor do most systems that claim to. It's UCS-2, which is its own even worse pile of bullshit.
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by blasdel 14y ago
bootstrap was changed to avoid jsmin's bug before the ticket was even filed, and crockford added the missing operator cases in jsmin several days ago.
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by blasdel 14y ago
javascript the language itself has a spec that everyone has pretty much always implemented consistently even in the worst throes of the browser wars (the runtime libraries, not so much) the problem was that jsmin didn't just violate the spe
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by blasdel 14y ago
there are even fewer good arguments for changing the semantics of the fucking logical negation operator 17 years down the line in a dynamic language with billions of end users and no discrete versioning
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by blasdel 14y ago
It wasn't a "fragile edge case", it worked just fine with no ambiguity in every javascript implementation. The problem is that jsmin is a naive pile of textual replacements (though not quite as abysmal as John Gruber's markdown.pl) instead
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by blasdel 15y ago
he eventually capitulated and fixed his broken parser: https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSMin/commit/5ca277ea452...
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OpenDNS does not prevent infection of Flashback(brunerd.com)
1 points by blasdel 15y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 15y ago
Exactly, "come at me bro" is a position of ridicule for good reason
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Johnny and Jenny Can Code(fishbowl.pastiche.org)
2 points by blasdel 15y ago|0 comments

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