cgranade

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by cgranade 16y ago
The quote is still quite valid when applied to the culture of the Internet, however. People create tools ranging the gamut from Tor to MafiaaFire to circumvent and prevent censorship from occurring, even with systems that are anything lik
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by cgranade 16y ago
It's newly relevant with the AT&T/T-Mo buyout. Do we really want that much more traffic going straight to the NSA?
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by cgranade 16y ago
I'm not saying she should get a pass in life. I'm saying that mercilessly mocking a teenager for failing at something like this is just out of line.
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by cgranade 16y ago
The article seems unnecessarily harsh, frankly. It's easy to forget in all of this that Black is still 13 years old.
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by cgranade 16y ago
I find it interesting that the study found Android to be so markedly better only for sites that weren't optimized for mobiles. On mobile-friendly sites, the median was quite close and even in iOS's favor: "The two operating systems were muc
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by cgranade 16y ago
I miss using ~ to indicate usernames.
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by cgranade 16y ago
I'm surprised that no one here has yet pointed out that posts like this are a part of the self-correction mechanism present in transparent communities. Sure, it may be drama in the short term, but I think the fact that we know about these
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by cgranade 16y ago
Oh, definitely. It's also a bit of a wasted opportunity in some ways, as it becomes harder to retire SMS with each service built on top of it.
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by cgranade 16y ago
Just what we need: more services to depend on the already-obsolete SMS. From the standpoint of a gov't agency, that decision makes a lot of sense, but just further illustrates to me how badly we need to transition to messaging protocols lik
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by cgranade 16y ago
If I understood correctly, the JSend statuses should be used in conjunction with HTTP status codes when appropriate. I guess to me the spec seems redundant, as I don't see the advantage over using just HTTP status codes.
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by cgranade 16y ago
That's just the point: it doesn't just work . My phone has Zebra Crossing (Google's open-source barcode reader), which scans everything from UPCs to QR Codes to Data Matrix... but not Microsoft Tag or AT&T's mobile tag format. Given th
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by cgranade 16y ago
I don't see a lot of barriers against others implementing the same. The vast majority of the legwork seems to be carried by HTML5 (+CSS3 +ECMAScript +...), after all.
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by cgranade 16y ago
Yes and no. For one, Readability isn't a monopoly. Second, Readability isn't prohibiting (so far as I'm aware) authors from selling via other channels at other prices. While Apple and Readability are both offering a service to their various
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by cgranade 16y ago
From the article, the National Cable and Telecommunications Association is quoted as saying that "Sony/Google are asking the Commission to ignore copyright, patent, trademark, contract privity, licensing, and other legal rights and limitati
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by cgranade 16y ago
It kind of amazes me that someone can make a statement like that bolt cutters analogy and not stop to ponder why bolt cutters are still legal, despite their utility in stealing bicycles.
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by cgranade 16y ago
Given how instructive the source code is, I think it serves as a nice demo. Even moreso when you consider that this is (by all appearances, anyway) a personal project and not an orchestrated marketing campaign.
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by cgranade 16y ago
Not in general, no, but they do have quite enough market share in some niche markets, such as smartphone apps. I think that is sufficient to spark anti-trust suits in many jurisdictions.
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by cgranade 16y ago
There's a vast, vast difference between being first to market, and using that advantage to unethically create a monopoly by cryptographically locking users out of their own devices. If we fail to take a stand against such blatant violations
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by cgranade 16y ago
That analogy only works if the theatre was also owned by the moviegoer. A better analogy would be a DVD player that wouldn't play movies if you ate the wrong brand of popcorn while watching in your living room. If you're going to call someo
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by cgranade 16y ago
Exactly. If duplicating a service is grounds for rejection and expulsion, then what is a company to do when Apple moves into a new market? Should the New York Times not have a newspaper app now that The Daily has been endorsed by Apple? Sho
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by cgranade 16y ago
It's not so simple as that. Not at all. For one thing, a platform is a concept. As far as ownership is concerned, the users own their respective devices, not Apple. Moreover, it is not "fair" to exploit a monopoly (in this case, one unethic
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by cgranade 16y ago
The only justification I've heard, and it's a very weak one, is that Apple provides the customers. That is, if Apple weren't around to run the App Store, then customers would be too stupid to find anything interesting to read, listen to or
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by cgranade 16y ago
Frankly, I was all set to buy one, but if I can't even use WiFi from in Canada, that's a dealbreaker.
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by cgranade 16y ago
I am especially bothered by the Verizon details here. First off, how can they prohibit WiFi use? Second, it seems like the Xoom is unavailable in Canada, if it really is Verizon-locked. Ouch and ouch.
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by cgranade 16y ago
I am. Playing around with Google App Engine and Honeycomb at the same time, making some tools for tabletop gaming. Just uploaded first revision ( very feature incomplete) at https://github.com/cgranade/ProjectUmbra/ .
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by cgranade 16y ago
Political parties do this too- conservatives are characterized by liberals as rejecting science, liberals are characterized by conservatives as being irresponsible or pot smokers. The trouble with this argument is that sometimes the
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by cgranade 16y ago
There are some very serious arguments to be made to the effect that Apple's iOS platform has created an effective infrastructure for censorship. This is demonstrated most strikingly in my opinion by the adult app purge that sex educator Vio
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by cgranade 16y ago
And what of Linux, and its variants like Android or MeeGo?
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by cgranade 16y ago
I get really tired of people saying that the patents on H.264 are a "red herring." How is open source software like Firefox supposed to use H.264 if they have to pay massive licensing fees? That enforcement thus far has been weak to non-exi
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by cgranade 16y ago
I like the idea implicitly communicated that there's almost a shopping list of assignments, and each one carries an XP value; if you're not doing so well, then with that kind of a system you can correct that by working harder to learn the s

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