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by blasdel 17y ago
The idea is that if you're going to do it at all, you should do it competently. The biggest component of the early uproar over the approval process was that it was a total cockup. As for "written policy or term of service", those only apply
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by blasdel 17y ago
About 9 months ago one of the Scribd cofounders emailed me to follow up on comments I made on HN tearing his product to shreds, and while he was surprised that I had detailed answers to his questions, I think I was even more surprised that
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by blasdel 17y ago
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/04/21/fuck-the-foundri...
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by blasdel 17y ago
It was already a PDF/DOC/etc. aggregator -- that's always been their entire business model. What's new is that they're demonstrating that they care about people actually being able to read the content.
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by blasdel 17y ago
I think it's Jeff's preference too -- it's just that he places a whole lot more people in the first group.
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by blasdel 17y ago
If your collection is truly random access (array, search results, relational sets) then use a form that takes the 'foreign key' as input. Then there's one URL and standard query parameters. In pretty much all other cases a collection would
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by blasdel 17y ago
The previous thread he mentions regarding HATETRIS: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1253492
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by blasdel 17y ago
Part of the problem is that there are a number of completely orthogonal ways to aggrieve an author: Infringement of Copyright, Infringement of Moral Rights ( droit d'auteur , unauthorized alteration of the work or attribution), Plagiarism,
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The arrangement with my code is the same as with my text. I create, you consume.(qntm.org)
49 points by blasdel 17y ago|34 comments
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by blasdel 17y ago
Big surprise: conferences about social bullshit for social bullshitters are full of bullshit All the new-media types that spent the 90s pushing "Multimedia CD-ROMs" found their feet again with "the social" -- and now that they can no longer
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by blasdel 17y ago
I place all the blame for the cargo-cult validation-seeking know-nothing standardistas squarely on the shoulders of Jeffery Zeldman. If it wasn't for his ignorant boosterism, we probably could have euthanized XHTML a long time ago.
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by blasdel 17y ago
For fucks sake, there is no such thing as a RESTful URL scheme. 'Pretty' URLs are a major anti-pattern -- they not only don't make you any more RESTful, they actively undermine HATEOAS, which is the true signifier of RESTfulness. Actual R
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by blasdel 17y ago
O'Reilly says he sometimes wonders what would have happened if he had raised venture capital and given his company a chance to get really big. But he sounds more amused by this question than truly troubled by it. "Money is like gasoline du
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by blasdel 17y ago
pg only links nepotistically in HN, with the one exception of that CO2stats web bug bullshit that he pays for without having invested in (which frequently times out and blocks the page rendering). pg is constitutionally incapable of not pus
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by blasdel 17y ago
WebOS is a real Linux, it uses vanilla kernels (close to stock linux-omap, the hardware platform is basically a beagleboard), standard drivers, and a mainstream userland with glibc, gstreamer, pulseaudio, etc. Android is none of that. It's
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by blasdel 17y ago
The worst part isn't the x86 processor, but the ancient standard x86 hardware platform that can never be changed because then Windows XP won't boot. The Atom might only use 2.5W, but the chipset to go with it uses 9W!
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by blasdel 17y ago
> I wouldn't want to buy a book by JK Rowlings if it was actually written by Umberto Eco What. How could you have the capability to conceive of that, yet not want eagerly to read it?
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by blasdel 17y ago
Foxit has had some pretty blatant security vulnerabilities -- straight up unprompted local code execution: http://blog.didierstevens.com/2010/03/29/escape-from-pdf/ It does a mediocre job of rendering, and isn't faster than Acrobat if you
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by blasdel 17y ago
They make an insane amount of money from the way that enterprises spend hundreds of dollars on Acrobat Professional licenses for every single computer. Sometimes they wise up and implement a baroque license management server where they on
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by blasdel 17y ago
A bytecode for JS would be more optimal for other languages than the status quo: compiling to lexical javascript. I they added a few extra bytecodes for stuff like TCO or goto or integers, it'd be pretty fantastic.
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sshuttle: a new kind of userspace VPN(apenwarr.ca)
30 points by blasdel 17y ago|6 comments
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by blasdel 17y ago
The funniest part is that MPEG-LA doesn't even gross that much money in license fees to get distributed to the pool — it's effectively peanuts for pretty much everyone paying in (only producers of 100,000 devices need to pay, and then it's
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by blasdel 17y ago
So everyone should use only MJPEG or worse end-to-end because he says so — obviously the only path to freedom is Bondage and Discipline Somehow it's only the freetards that respect Patent law to the letter — they may be campaigning to dis
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by blasdel 17y ago
Flash isn't an open standard by any useful definition. Sure they specified the container format, bytecodes, and data structures — but everybody had figured that part out a long time ago because it's obvious and easy to capitalize on by deve
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by blasdel 17y ago
Was that Functional Completeness not obvious in my joke? Except that in this case, they're not quite as equivalent as NAND / NOR are — continuations assume a lot more "required stuff" (as you put it) than just a basic memory space, a means
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by blasdel 17y ago
I did a spit-take because for some reason in my head I'd gotten jeresig mixed up with this kid who did a Google Tech Talk on jQuery when he was twelve : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mwKq7_JlS8
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by blasdel 17y ago
Conditional Jump: Another Control Flow Construct to Rule Them All
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by blasdel 17y ago
A good metric for measuring shell script infestation of the boot process is the PID number of the first process you can start after the system is fully booted up. Boot up, log in, open a terminal, and type echo $$. Try that on your Linux s
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by blasdel 17y ago
They let you choose which of several keyboard-mouse combos you want with your computer, all for the same price.
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by blasdel 17y ago
Why the hell do you want the web to use stateful, synchronous, persistent connections? Good luck implementing Xanadu.

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