chris_mahan

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by chris_mahan 12y ago
We need http-streaming in html5 VLC supports it, why not the browsers?
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
You don't own media content. You own a license for media content. Your use of the media is dictated by its license.
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
I have never bought an Apple product. Not even a iTunes file. Apple is still doing well, though.
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
Excellent. I've been waiting for this for a long time.
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
Same here.
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
The problem with cryptography is that if a human is supposed to remember the key, the key is probably weak and could be brute-forced, and if a computer remembers the key, the computer could be compromised and the key stolen. To me, that&#x2
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
But that was because the Guild navigators needed the spice to fold space, to enable space travel. Therefore, SpaceX. (I can imagine Elon in a spice tank, with orange vapours). (I include the British spelling since he's South African (h
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
YouTube is becoming OurTV.
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
I've been looking a the cintiq too, and may still do that, because wacom caters to illustrators directly.
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
You mean it took 266 years to get that fact right? (From 1510 to 1776)
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
Sort of like two parents who deep down despise each other yet act normal, for the sake of the children, but who don't realize that the children know exactly what's going on and wish their parents would either forgive each other an
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
"People over Process" shouldn't be only for Agile software development.
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
SELECT B.x FROM tableA A JOIN tableB B on A.foreign_key = B.index WHERE A.index = 5 That's very simple, if you know SQL. I think
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
The terms of his security clearance cannot be allowed to nullify his oath to protect and uphold the Constitution of the United States, can they?
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
The first rule of security is you do not talk about security.
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
Awww, poor Verizon...
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
I just make my own urls look correct, easy, and easy to type (not 988 characters of goop).
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
True diversity is diversity of thought.
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
True that. I use SQL extensively, and never run into all these problems other people run into. I also don't use ORM. there's so much you can do well and fast with SQL. (I've also seen dreadful abominations in sql, like stored
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
I live in the first world, and I want one of those too.
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
I need pygraphviz in 3 and it's not. :( I guess I have to roll up my sleeves on that one. It's a dependency for networkx, to draw diagrams...
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
Exactly. It's not Amazon.com.
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
Wait, you're telling me that the book is available elsewhere (like the barnes & noble website), but not amazon? What's stopping average joe to go to a different seller and buy it there? If Amazon doesn't want to sell some
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
Why don't the publishers make it easy to buy books from them, instead of all this rigamarole about rights and regions? I want to go to your website, pay with a credit card, and you ship it to me, anywhere in the world, and fast. No, in
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
If the patent portfolio of these companies that go bankrupt sold at auction to satisfy creditors? Who buys these, other patent-trolls? That might be a problem right there.
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
(1993!)
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
I edit my own site by hand. I ssh into linux vps, navigate to folder, launch nano, edit, save, exit. Then I go to my browser, hit F5, and presto, my change is displayed. Ahhh, and I don't even use CSS! Only html5. I use the following t
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
I'm using css less and less these days, and letting the browser decide how to render html5 on its own...
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
Except my boss isn't happy with that concept.
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by chris_mahan 12y ago
Well, I don't "work" 80 hours a week. I work 40 hours a week. I commute 8 hours a week. I volunteer (he comes with me sometimes) 2 hours a week. Lunch breaks: 5 hours. (so far 50 hours) Then I do all the routine stuff that ne

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