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by callahad 12y ago
"Outstanding" isn't exactly the word I would choose...
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by callahad 12y ago
Looks like some confusion around the Firefox for Android search activity. I've filed a bug at https://bugzil.la/1143585 to track this. Edit: For the time being, you can click the gear in the lower right of the search a
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by callahad 12y ago
Cool! Free SIM card with data!
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by callahad 12y ago
> How on earth would this ever benefit you? Breaking taboos is a good way to get noticed. Zach getting noticed is a good way to broadcast the fact that he's available for hire. That, taken with his strong reputation in the communi
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by callahad 12y ago
The Conservancy isn't just this lawsuit. They primarily provide truly fantastic infrastructure and support for major projects like Git, Mercuial, Boost, PyPy, Busybox, Selenium, and more. For example, the Conservancy is a registered 50
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by callahad 12y ago
I'm actually agreeing with you. The trick is that the remedy for defrauding a vendor is clear: you pay a fine. I've worked directly with folks who believed that the only remedy for a GPL violation was completely turning over the
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by callahad 12y ago
Not the OP, but I think that question moves the goalposts. The states involved in this dispute recognize the idea of intellectual property and protect it with copyright. Questioning the validity of intellectual property as a concept is a ve
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by callahad 12y ago
> I don't think other companies have to feel threatened. Many CTOs of large enterprises have, let's say, a less nuanced view of the GPL. Their concern is that "just complying" would mean the complete and total revel
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by callahad 12y ago
Since it seems we're going down this path regardless, I sincerely hope the Conservancy sends a loud, clear message that they attempted to resolve this issue amicably and reasonably. We must create the impression that violating the GPL
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by callahad 12y ago
I'm concerned about losing access to public projects that are not actively maintained, and thus won't make the transition to GitLab. Is it possible to leave Gitorious online in read-only mode after the May deadline?
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by callahad 12y ago
> At the company level, in terms of having a "category killer" product, they never had one. Yahoo's Directory and Search offerings were category-defining once upon a time, weren't they?
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by callahad 12y ago
+1; this feels unhelpfully verbose, and it tries to do too much. I spent the last two weeks reading the entirety of the 30 minute intro, TRPL, and Referecne, and Rust By Example. My background is primarily Python / Java / JavaScri
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by callahad 12y ago
I'd appreciate it if you provided a bare link to your channel instead of one that pops up a Subscribe modal.
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by callahad 12y ago
Executives far, far removed from the decision to preload Superfish are unlikely to actually understand the problem. And that's OK. Their job isn't to understand how these things work, it's to set policies for folks who do.
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by callahad 12y ago
I bought my mom a Chromebook under similar circumstances. She absolutely loves it, and had zero difficulty switching, whereas she was previously even uncomfortable turning laptops on or off.
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by callahad 12y ago
AFAIK, no US bank is actually offering true "chip-and-pin" cards. USAA used to, but they re-ordered the CVMs on cards issued since last June. Now their cards prefer signatures over PINs, just like most other American EMV cards.
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by callahad 12y ago
I think he's more concerned about appearing like a flake. I.e., why is he looking just a month after starting somewhere?
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by callahad 12y ago
From the landing page: "Using SALt lamp 8 hours a day every day will give you an anode lifespan of 6 months."
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by callahad 12y ago
Why this is bad: Google is saying "I don't care whether or not your browser can view this site, I won't even let you try. " If more online properties go this way, we effectively give Google the exclusive ability to deve
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by callahad 12y ago
I'd love to take another run at Persona in a few years once DNSSEC gets sorted out. As the world exists today, requiring a specific response to GET /.well-known/browserid over TLS on the apex seemed like the most reasonable o
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by callahad 12y ago
The Profilist add-on dramatically improves the multi-profile experience in Firefox. It's effectively as seamless as Chrome's. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profilist/
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by callahad 12y ago
I feel like the Ruby webdev community had a similar ethos, but I dropped out of that scene before things really coalesced. Can anyone comment on how things are playing out there?
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by callahad 12y ago
Further discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8924600
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by callahad 12y ago
In what way is your bluetooth audio broken? If you're seeing frequent disconnects, switching from 5 GHz to 2.4 GHz WiFi seems to have resolved it on my Nexus 7. Which is utterly ridiculous, but hell, it works.
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by callahad 12y ago
In 2011, a $100,000 salary gave you a higher individual income than 93.4% of all working-age Americans [0]. Around that same time, the nationwide median salary for a software developer was $93,350 [1]. Thus, today the majority of developers
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by callahad 12y ago
Check the discussion from 11 days ago. I think your concerns are misplaced. BPG ships a polyfill... and it works. That's what you're seeing live on the parent page. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by callahad 12y ago
> Make sure to let all the Opera devs working on web standards know this. I don't mean to denigrate their work, nor have I forgotten Opera's role in the fight for web standards, but in the case of Blink, their contributions p
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by callahad 12y ago
> it's not hindered by Google's politics. Opera is actually based on Blink, Google's fork of WebKit, so it does inherit Google's politics, and contributes to Google's monopolization of web standards.
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by callahad 12y ago
The switch from a single worldwide Google deal to three regional deals with Yahoo, Yandex, and Baidu feels like a nice assertion of that independence.
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by callahad 12y ago
Note the year ;)

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