cgranade

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by cgranade 14y ago
I get that there are compromises made in every decision I make, and that to that extent, I am complicit in the actions taken by the companies that I support. I certainly did not mean to exempt myself from that; rather, I was trying to arg
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by cgranade 14y ago
"Evaluate technology for its tech, not for the company's legal team." No. Doing so means that I can become complicit in legal actions that ultimately hurt me as a consumer by providing companies like Apple with the revenue they need to fund
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by cgranade 14y ago
I was hoping for a discussion of why we don't more broadly adopt tools such as GnuPG, Tor, etc. to take some modicum of privacy into our own hands. That'd be a discussion that I'd love to see go mainstream, given how important it is, yet ho
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by cgranade 14y ago
Make software secure-by-default, make it difficult to override defaults by accident, easy to override on purpose. This is the thought process that seems to be behind, for example, CyanogenMod's recent decision to disable root access by defa
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by cgranade 14y ago
From the article: "Proprietary security software is an oxymoron -- if the user is not fundamentally in control of the software, the user has no security." I could not agree more.
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by cgranade 14y ago
Just to point out, there is a link, but it's hidden at the bottom of the page under "Related Internet links." That's pretty bad, but it at least beats the many articles I've seen that discuss something on the Internet without ever providing
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by cgranade 15y ago
Yes, the user is prompted on install. This is actually one of the permissions I look for when I'm installing new apps, given how often it's abused.
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by cgranade 15y ago
I get that moving forward means breaking existing paradigms. I'm happy that MS is trying Metro (not so happy with the horribly anti-user policies surrounding Metro, but I digress), and don't mind that it's a change. That said, they need to
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by cgranade 15y ago
On the topic, there was an article about using RPython to quickly implement PyPy-like JIT VMs. http://tratt.net/laurie/tech_articles/articles/fast_enough_v...
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by cgranade 15y ago
I think the idea is so that you can just drop in a dock to connect USB, HDMI and power, rather than plugging and unplugging three different cables each time. That is, the dock wouldn't offer new kinds of ports, so much as collect them toget
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by cgranade 15y ago
This is a very different situation in quite a few ways. For one, IE was not just a big browser, but was almost completely dominant. For another, many of IE's browser-specific features were Windows-only by design, such as ActiveX. Here, we h
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by cgranade 15y ago
From the article: "[Gates] also said there was no viable alternative to the Windows operating system in the market at the time [1995], which would mean Novell does not have an antitrust case." That statement is only even remotely true if on
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by cgranade 15y ago
I agree, that is a poor choice to have as the only way to share something. An easy fix would be to add a link on each item as a kind of synonym for the Share button in the G+ bar. That said, the problem is a pretty minor one given the exten
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by cgranade 15y ago
I don't know why that's true in general, but in my case, when Apple does poorly in the market, I feel more hopeful for the positive impacts computing can have on a society. As many here have pointed out (and as many others have disagreed wi
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by cgranade 15y ago
From my view, this quote summed up so much of what's wrong with the article: "If it’s for those who still want to make some sort of argument predicated on shouting the word “OPEN!”, that’s sad, because Android’s “openness” is a meaningless
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by cgranade 15y ago
Very nice. Thanks for the resources!
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by cgranade 15y ago
Pardon me for being dense with respect to such things, but does Flask work with Google App Engine, being a WSGI framework?
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by cgranade 15y ago
Where personally identifiable information is concerned, transmission implies collection, as there is no way to verify that the receiving party does not record. Any statement to the contrary is to take the recipient merely on faith.
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by cgranade 15y ago
But it's bad for compulsive checkers, too, in that it doesn't let you peruse every item in order like the old News Feed design did. It's a ticker, and so far as I can tell, that means that when you miss an item it's gone.
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by cgranade 15y ago
Ah, neat. They must have just moved sites, then. Thank you!
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by cgranade 15y ago
I do think flagging is appropriate in this case, though, as the title is completely inaccurate and misleading. First, they haven't come close to actually building something that can rightfully be called a "quantum computer." They've demonst
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by cgranade 15y ago
The only thing that I might ever want from functional and symbolic programming paradigms that I can't imagine how to emulate with decorators would be the ability to transform the actual compiled function object in some way. Python decorator
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by cgranade 15y ago
YMMV. I'm definitely not in a ghost town over there. People like Andrea Kuszewski do a lot to generate high-quality content, and keep the conversation going. While my Facebook is more active, sure, my G+ account is where things I care about
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by cgranade 15y ago
Looks really cool, except for that the underlying project hasn't issued a release in over two years. Given how much Android has changed in two years, that would seem to make this tool inappropriate for dev testing, unfortunately. Also, the
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by cgranade 15y ago
That's one reasonable answer, yeah.
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by cgranade 15y ago
Free speech is not the same as enjoying non-profit status. Google cutting off the latter means that they no longer actively sponsor the speech of religious groups, but those groups still are able to speak the same as anyone else. By ceasing
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by cgranade 15y ago
I presume you are aware that we have an extensive amount of evidence that cancer does exist and is a real and likely consequence of smoking, but that we have absolutely no evidence of a hell, much less of which actions would lead one there.
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by cgranade 15y ago
Some of the things that the author claims Apple "innovated" on here are ludicrous. The original Macintosh OS was not an innovation so much as it was an imitation of Xerox research into GUIs, for example. The original iPod was a fairly modes
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by cgranade 15y ago
What we really need is the ability to use pubkey systems like OpenPGP without hacking the script context of a page (a la FireGPG--- while good, it was fragile with respect to Gmail changes). I would love to have browsers bake in PGP support
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by cgranade 15y ago
Patent suits are all too common a practice, I agree, but it has become quite clear over the past year that Apple is going well beyond the pack in their use of patents to shut out competitors. This injunction isn't a shakedown, but an attemp

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