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   by comex 14y ago

   Note that the second one outputs " -n", which is probably not what you want.
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   by comex 14y ago

   This could be fairly easily manipulated, though.
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   by comex 14y ago

   > That seems unnecessarily nasty. Being unnecessarily nasty to and making fun of people who make misguided legal threats is par for the course for popehat. It's fun to read, but in my opinion not really laudable.
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   by comex 14y ago

   Indeed. Vendors won't be forced to make a HTML5 version - on the desktop the formula that's allowed them to provide browser plugins hasn't changed, and on mobile they're already making an iOS app and an Android app because today, apps prov
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   by comex 14y ago

   I thought the video was pretty terrible - strange special effects and fairly vague - but the project sounds awesome. Backed. edit: I'd sure like an explanation for the gaming, though.
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   by comex 14y ago

   Although app.net has the advantage of time, including the launch hype about Posthaven but not app.net is quite unfair :) Anyway, I think number of Google results is a bad measure, since it counts posts and comments equally, and seems somewh
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   by comex 14y ago

   On the contrary, my memory is that while Posthaven had a few front page posts as it launched and has since been mostly left alone, app.net has had a constant barrage of them during its "kickstarting" and afterward. Your own Google link see
8. 4358.▲
   by comex 14y ago

   Note that the EFF is trying to prosecute a case over this clause [1]. IANAL, but it seems to be hard to hold someone responsible for a bad DMCA notice unless they specifically knew that it was bad (rather than merely being sloppy and sendi
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   by comex 14y ago

   This is incorrect: the default UI runs on X.
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    by comex 14y ago

    Just to comment on one of the issues in the thread: not everyone uses a command line editor or even an editor which can be easily invoked from the command line (though I do), so requiring a special command, "git edit-link", to edit some inh
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    by comex 14y ago

    > Zenocoin argument stands. If you have access to the full bitcoin chain, can you write a mathematical proof that allows one account to transfer anonymously to another account, without using a "tumbler" mixed account? Surprisingly, yes:
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    by comex 14y ago

    The author of the game did an AMA on Reddit yesterday: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1c7lka/im_cary_walkin_...
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    by comex 14y ago

    It seems apparent that it wouldn't - convincing all your friends to download some random app is one thing, convincing them to pay more than $2 is another. Then again, app.net went with this model and a fairly high price and is moderately su
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    by comex 14y ago

    This thread is full of hackers eager to apply a technological solution - encryption - to a problem which is better solved legally. Encryption has rather obvious usability problems, such as being fundamentally incompatible with webmail (and
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    by comex 14y ago

    Except that YouTube is under no obligation to host his video and is free to remove it for any or no reason, so it couldn't be forced to reinstate the video.
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    by comex 14y ago

    > It proves exactly what I intended -- that, contrary to an earlier point, Web-based technologies aren't being embraced enthusiastically, that there are circumstances in which they're not the right approach. The outrage about SimCity wa
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    by comex 14y ago

    According to the link, the block only applies to certain types of resources, notably excluding images (presumably because malicious images cannot really take over the page).
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    by comex 14y ago

    > If you want people, who have never stepped foot in an office and have never turned on a computer, to believe that programmers are treated horribly because they have to type "gobilty-gook" all day long, it would be a pretty easy sell.
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    by comex 14y ago

    Well... yeah, but even without hidden text, what are you going to do after you clone the repository? Probably `make` or `ruby something.rb` or any number of other commands that can run arbitrary code. If you don't trust someone, you shoul
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    by comex 14y ago

    This is why bans should start with a warning - hellbanning may be efficient from an administration perspective, but among other issues, without the possibility of appeal it's fundamentally unfair and prone to mistakes. (The ability of user
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    by comex 14y ago

    Indeed. While in this case it seems that CPBR is clearly at fault, the quoted copyright notice is equally clearly incorrect: it is quite easy to reword someone's ideas in a way that would be considered plagiarism if presented academically
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    by comex 14y ago

    which is funny, because I long for plain gdb on Windows - not that gdb is so great, but on Windows if you want command oriented and thus scriptable, you're stuck with WinDbg, which is not as smart as gdb and has much worse syntax.
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    by comex 14y ago

    While it might be beneficial in some cases to save the DOM to disk (mostly because of reboots but also, yes, because of people opening hundreds of tabs), I doubt the API would make much difference - sane browsers would still keep any single
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    by comex 14y ago

    Not necessarily. If the judgement that APIs are not copyrightable is upheld (which is a big if), the computing world will be a better place than it would be if Google had managed to avoid the question.
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    by comex 14y ago

    msisto, you appear to be hellbanned. > I remember being at a basement show in Allston when I was 18 that was broken up by the cops and thinking "This is so fucking cool". I mean, it's a pain in the ass and sucks for the bands. It can to
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    by comex 14y ago

    > I'd love to see NaCL grow into having actual on-chip support for NaCL-style sandboxing A bit off topic, but this already exists, in the sense that there is no difference between NaCl-style sandboxing and what every OS kernel already p
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    by comex 14y ago

    Off topic, but those messages are sure a lot longer than 140 characters in translated form. I suppose that if app.net wants to know whether its longer character count limit is a good idea, it can just look to China.
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    by comex 14y ago

    And sure enough, someone has done this in another front page post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5391677 (edit: which is why, even if the parent is somewhat tongue in cheek, I'm complaining about it, heh.) The problem is that falla
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    by comex 14y ago

    That's an interesting thing to say, because from my unskilled perspective, a set of equations in a math paper really does often require enough background knowledge and deep understanding that there's not much point giving variables long nam
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    by comex 14y ago

    Wow. The code mentioned (J compiler source) has to be seen to be believed. Here is a snippet: static F1(jtthn){A d,t,z;C*tv,*x,*y,*zv;I c,*dv,k,m,n,p,r,*s,wd;VF fmt; n=AN(w); r=AR(w); s=AS(w); thcase(AT(w),&wd,&fmt