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by bxr 15y ago
>3. I can't copy/paste from my paper books either, at least not in any way that's not also available to kindle owners. You mean I can chop the spine off of my kindle and run it through that massive scanning/OCRing beast like I did with
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by bxr 15y ago
At the same time though, if you host it yourself you can switch out the backend or interface whenever you want with no inconvenience to users unless going in to or out of a locked-in system like google. Hosting is cheap, and someone running
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by bxr 15y ago
What does it really matter if android ships a XMPP library? Is the barrier to entry to use a 3rd party library seriously that high? Sure it would be nice if it came standard, but the impression I get from many of these posts is that the be
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by bxr 15y ago
>Well, the number of engineers that can actually patch something, in say, the JVM, are rather limited. So I'm not sure open source is nearly as big a deal as it's made out to be, as far as patching goes. Rather limited? Thats just not
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by bxr 15y ago
>It may come as a shock to some people... Outside of your strawmen, I don't think you're shocking anybody.
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by bxr 15y ago
You might be able to find a SIP provider that is cheaper, I used to use one here in the states that was about $5/month.
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by bxr 15y ago
>True, but I don't think that's a concern for most people. But that is the kind of thinking that lead to the whole issue with Dropbox in the first place. Its deceptively "secure" to any user who can't analyze the implementation implica
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by bxr 15y ago
Its Tim Berners-Lee, of course he has a w3 email address. And yes, that is the real one.
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by bxr 15y ago
We can tell that you posted this comment within a minute of creating your HN account and would appreciate it if you were up-front about your connections to Lanyrd.
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by bxr 15y ago
Apple does make good products, and for that reason I willingly sacrifice the ability to use the product in all the different ways I can their competitor's. I understand that the cost of a polished UI/UX is making some things impossible. Ho
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by bxr 15y ago
Even they, who actually have a real reason to police names, allow the same first and last name when there is a different middle initial.
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by bxr 15y ago
>100MB of 3G data a month Thats less than a workday's worth of use at a desktop computer. And you're telling me that's the limit for a device that relies so heavily on the cloud?
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by bxr 15y ago
I've never done this kind of programming around GC, is manual memory management in a garbage collected language any better than manual memory management in a language without GC? >I'm not so sure there are applications which simply cann
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by bxr 15y ago
Is this the syncing we saw demoed at I/O last year? That got me excited, but I haven't heard anything more about it. If hope this is good enough that I can re-retire my ipod. I brought it back out after I discovered listening to music on
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by bxr 15y ago
Fair enough. I've always seen my robots.txt files as a friendly way of saying "you probably don't need to worry about this stuff" to crawlers. That's not your use case, and I'm happy to have my "Disallowed" content to be crawled, I expect
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by bxr 15y ago
>several of the group’s sites had been hacked in a coup d’etat by an administrator who decided that he didn’t like the leaderless command structure that AnonOps Network Admins use. Thats poor planning. A coup doesn't work within an str
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by bxr 15y ago
This article has no facts to support that assertion, and serves to support the argument that there is a bubble.
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by bxr 15y ago
Anyone know if there is a website like this for the US?
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by bxr 15y ago
It sounds like you're looking for the Freenet project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet
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by bxr 15y ago
>why doesn't Facebook have tech in place that stop apps when their post frequency to walls gets out of hand Because Facebook is an advertizing platform. Apps can send as much garbage as they want and you can just ban the app from from
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by bxr 15y ago
Thanks, I completely missed that list. I'm going to try and find a friend with one of those so I can play around with this a bit.
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by bxr 15y ago
Seems like a neat idea for a search engine, but I tried with photos from 6 different cameras and none of them stored the serial number in exif. I wonder how many models this is actually useful for.
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by bxr 15y ago
Its also worth it to decide if you need user email addresses at all, chances are you don't. For most services the only function of having the email address is to spam the user. Yes, there are password resets but you don't have to force it
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by bxr 15y ago
Having the newsletter unchecked by default is effectively the same as not having a newsletter. Personally, I think "don't have a newsletter" is a great idea (it reduces UI cutter too), but people want to send newsletters and the only way to
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by bxr 15y ago
>Again, with COICA it seems that censorship is not really seen as a major roadblock for prominent politicians. In the US we just shuffle the actual act of the censorship to the private sector. Add in some cognitive dissonance to that l
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by bxr 15y ago
The whole process stinks, the reasonable thing to do is just give the Hudson trademark to Kawaguchi. Oracle won't do that because they want to be in control of the winning project, and they know that without the now-Jenkins community the H
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by bxr 15y ago
They've probably never _used_ Lua's tables.
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by bxr 15y ago
So, basically now your business model relies on on users blindly clicking OK to everything when installing/firstrun of an app? Just like they've been conditioned to do from years of desktop software? Not much of an improvement.
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by bxr 15y ago
>Your human relationships should not be treated as if you were a spy behind enemy lines. If you think this is an appropriate framework with which to reason about your human relationships, you are doing something /very wrong/. I agree wi
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by bxr 15y ago
This article is all about the problems with Facebook's process, but the thing I found most telling wasn't mentioned. Facebook issued a statement to ReadWriteWeb before contacting Ars as to why their page was taken down or restoring it. Th

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