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by crb 13y ago
Still CDDL, so still cannot be included in the main Linux kernel tree?
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by crb 13y ago
Google also knows all the secrets of General David Petraeus, or anyone else that uses Gmail. And everything you've (secretly) searched for. Google's business model is based on aggregating that information and gaining value out of
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Bradley Manning: 'I want to be a woman'(bbc.co.uk)
11 points by crb 13y ago|1 comments
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by crb 13y ago
Does that Groklaw logo on the Guardian have a CafePress watermark in the background?
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by crb 13y ago
As a Google Calendar user, I'm used to being able to drag down on a time period to book an event, and then enter event details. I can't do that on your demo.
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by crb 13y ago
Another data point: A single Google Apps mailbox costs $50/year - ~$4.20/mo.
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by crb 13y ago
I'd have liked to see some sort of screenshot tour (or a product video as there is presumably a real-time component) before signing in - there's very little detail available, which might be good for conversion, but it meant I didn
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SIGCOMM paper on B4, Google's global software-defined WAN(conferences.sigcomm.org)
1 points by crb 13y ago|0 comments
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by crb 13y ago
You enter by clicking the double arrow on the ground (move your mouse around the image if you don't see it). Should look like this: http://i.imgur.com/mrl11c8.jpg I'm told it doesn't work on the new Maps beta
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Google Maps easter egg: street view inside the Tardis(maps.google.com)
168 points by crb 13y ago|38 comments
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by crb 13y ago
pastebin is a legitimate mirror of their own blog post: http://www.opscode.com/blog/2013/08/01/security-breach-user-...
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Are Mobile Web Apps Really Doomed?(mobilesoftware.tumblr.com)
1 points by crb 13y ago|0 comments
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by crb 13y ago
The 80% number was for a "dedicated instance". A dedicated instance is not the same as a reserved instance. Dedicated instances, charged on top of the regular price, are where you are guaranteed not to have anyone else on the sam
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by crb 13y ago
In what you might loosely term the golden age of the Windows Desktop - lets say 1995 to 2005, - "custom business application", especially within a large company, was generally done on one of these platforms: - Excel - Visual
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by crb 13y ago
Not a watch face, but a Space Invaders game for Pebble: http://www.mypebblefaces.com/view?fID=2052&aName=pocketscien...
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by crb 13y ago
Stoneburn - London, UK (sorry, no remote workers required) - http://www.stoneburn.com/ Stoneburn are a Google Enterprise premier partner & consultancy. We take businesses on the journey to the cloud, primarily using Go
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by crb 13y ago
My answer to the Stack Exchange question. (Never 100% sure what discussion to add in a post which points to another discussion site...) There's a good article to answer your question on the Washington Post website [1]: All those jok
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by crb 13y ago
Does this mean Glenn Greenwald can move back to the US now?
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by crb 13y ago
> MCollective (which Puppet Labs acquired several years ago) was (and remains!) fiendishly complex to set up. I didn't find MCollective hard at all - you just install some debs, a message queue server (Stomp was easiest at the tim
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by crb 13y ago
That's what Netflix do: http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/03/ami-creation-with-aminat...
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by crb 13y ago
I understand that, but an application isn't an island; presumably a server that speaks JSON is easiest to deal with, and there are probably a number of gotchas on "how best to build a backend that works the way AngularJS works wel
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by crb 13y ago
All the introductory stuff for AngularJS I've seen so far is "client-side" - auto-updating bindings, the ToDo list etc. Is there a similarly pitched tutorial about how to persist this back to a server, or how to write an API
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by crb 13y ago
It was considered, at the time, the most expensive house in New Zealand. However, he only rents it. He tried to buy it, but the New Zealand government get involved in overseas investment deals/land purchase, and he was denied permissi
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by crb 13y ago
Worse: "the FBI actually believed Dotcom had a Dr. Strangelove-style “doomsday device” that was capable of wiping out all evidence of Internet piracy with the flick of a switch." http://bgr.com/2012/08/10
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by crb 13y ago
That post seems to talk about how to implement this functionality yourself - as in, what the server should do when someone pushes new changes to it. In the case of App Engine, Heroku, Azure etc, that is all abstracted away from you - as is,
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by crb 13y ago
Stoneburn • London, UK We are looking for talented developers who can hit the ground running on writing web applications on Google App Engine. - Java - JavaScript (preferably with a modern MV framework such as Angular) - Google Apps Script
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by crb 13y ago
Worth noting: the release of Windows 8 brings IE11, which means that Google's "n-1" policy for browsers will now deprecate IE9. IE9 is the last version that runs on Windows Vista (as IE8 was the latest version to run on Windows XP.)
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by crb 13y ago
The principle of it.
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by crb 13y ago
It feels a feeble threat - I would want to know who I can formally complain to in order to be able to do anything. I went to the people I believed I could complain to and they said there was nothing they could do.
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by crb 13y ago
Scroll down the Kickstarter page for a very readable explanation: "The secret behind the Windcatcher's amazing speed of inflation is its ability to leverage the awesome properties of air. Simply put, the two most important properties are: -

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