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by blasdel 17y ago
I had read it before as authorization, but you're right that it does command the SEC to raise the numbers at least every 5 years starting now, but it leaves the increases completely up to the SEC. The "2.3m" figure is bullshit, the maximum
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by blasdel 17y ago
There's Ian Bicking's http://cloudsilverlining.org/ (formerly toppcloud), but it intentionally doesn't use Fabric.
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by blasdel 17y ago
Bingo — to me the stereotypical KDE app developer is a 15-year-old boy from somewhere in Europe.
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by blasdel 17y ago
I use rubber, which bootstraps that kind of setup from a stock Ubuntu AMI: http://github.com/wr0ngway/rubber/
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by blasdel 17y ago
Portland is also the whitest major city in the US. It was officially a "Sundown town" until the late sixties!
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by blasdel 17y ago
Vancouver BC is having serious trouble with out-of-control real estate prices, where a huge volume of purely speculative transactions overwhelmed anyone actually trying to live there. Crime didn't kill cities, crime is the result of their d
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by blasdel 17y ago
The "$2.3m" thing is a fabrication — Dodd's bill leaves it up to the SEC to adjust the old figure for inflation as they see fit. The original $1m figure was set by the SEC, not legislation. This whole 'issue' is like DEATH PANELS for star
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by blasdel 17y ago
Please stop repeating the same bullshit that seemingly every VC pundit is repeating about the Dodd bill. The "2.3m" figure is a total fabrication! The bill does not set new requirements at all. It just explicitly authorizes the SEC to adjus
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by blasdel 17y ago
They aren't easy to get to: it takes a couple hours and ~50 screws to swap the drive in my 12" Powerbook — but it doesn't violate the warranty to do so. They probably wouldn't have covered it if you obviously fucked it up while taking it ap
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by blasdel 17y ago
Apple only starts to care what you do with javascript in a webkit view if you poke holes in it to expose Cocoa APIs, like PhoneGap does. They would not view a language implemented in Javascript using the normal DOM APIs as anything other th
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by blasdel 17y ago
Just because computers are involved peripherally does not make it CS.
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by blasdel 17y ago
That "partnership with Cartoon Network" is advertising!
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by blasdel 17y ago
But you can still host a GPL'd codebase as a service and use 'outside' contributions without copyright assignment.
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by blasdel 17y ago
That's something I hadn't considered! I'd thought about how you could use the AGPL as a scarlet letter: "I'm the only one that can profit from this", since as the author you still retain full copyright and can do whatever you want with clos
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by blasdel 17y ago
Thank you! I've been making exactly this point over and over ( http://searchyc.com/agpl+eula ), it's nice to see someone else noticing the same bullshit. Freedom Zero is the freedom to run the program, for any purpose
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by blasdel 17y ago
But he only cares about whether your application code generating responses on the server and the javascript running in your browser is Free under his definition. That in and of itself is not unreasonable — except that unlike every single ot
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by blasdel 17y ago
Yes, the GPL is as you describe. But the AGPL is anything but — It takes away Freedom Zero: The freedom to run the program for any purpose
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by blasdel 17y ago
A huge amount of On2's revenue came from Adobe paying them for VP6. Perhaps Google can come in and say "it's free if you include VP8 too"
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by blasdel 17y ago
The situation surrounding the open-sourcing of Theora (née VP3) is remarkable similar to what would happen if something similar happens with VP8: neither codec was ever licensed to a customer . The quality of the code released in the VP3 d
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by blasdel 17y ago
> I don’t personally use gmail, and I never will trust my email to a mail service that actively searches your email and tries to give you ads. Do the people still complaining about this six years later not use spam filters?
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by blasdel 17y ago
> boycotting the company completely might have been more effective Effective at what? Making you less productive? They don't give a shit about whatever "message" you're trying to send them. No company actually listens to the histrioni
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by blasdel 17y ago
Focus-follows-mouse (without raise) is extremely difficult to pull off on OS X because of the menu bar model. 10.6 added a hidden preference to make Terminal.app do focus-follows-mouse, and that's good enough for me. A lot of keyboard short
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by blasdel 17y ago
You really could not be more wrong. WebKit on OS X has a native Obj-C plugin system: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Interne... If you want to add VP8 or Theora support in <video> to WebKit apps on OS X, just
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by blasdel 17y ago
Nobody else ships codecs baked into their rendering engine because that's a fucking stupid thing to do, something you'd only do if you wanted to prevent users from using other codecs without forking the entire project. Everyone else links
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by blasdel 17y ago
Webkit has used Quartz on OS X to do accelerated drawing for a long time, and Apple's port to Windows had basic hardware compositing. The GTK+ port uses Cairo for drawing and gets whatever acceleration Gecko would on those platforms. Goog
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by blasdel 17y ago
That analogy is perhaps uncomfortably apt, considering how soundly Webkit is beating Gecko on every front except for self-aggrandizing wankery over hypothetical freedom. The only active non-XUL Gecko application is Camino, the rest died sev
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by blasdel 17y ago
git/hg/etc are not doorknobs. My simile was comparing you , and people like you, to doorknobs. http://www.google.com/search?q=dumber+than+a+doorknob No version control system, centralized or distributed, actually handles blobs better tha
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by blasdel 17y ago
Yes, git asks that you make your commits actually make sense, instead of "oh I'm about to leave, better check in all the unrelated shit I did today" Sounds like you'd fit in just fine with ClearCase users.
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by blasdel 17y ago
Because anyone cleverer than a doorknob uses the right tool for the job: rsync. They're almost always artifacts , not assets. You handle versioning either through filesystem snapshots, or by just using different paths for each version.
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by blasdel 17y ago
I had another sentence in my post that I edited out that was a caveat to Mercurial: at least it's possible to get the 'git revert' behavior with hg without implementing it yourself from a patch-series dump. To me, revert means "stage a ne

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