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721.
by cwp 13y ago
So prejudice and hatred are OK, as long as the group you hate isn't marginalized? Or maybe it's a hipster thing? Marginalizing immigrants and transvestites is so 20th century. These techies are getting too big for their britches
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by cwp 13y ago
> where can more housing be built? >Much of the western half of the city is single family homes. As are neighborhoods like Glen Park, Bernal Heights, Potrero Hill, etc. You've answered your own question.
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by cwp 13y ago
Nice work! The UI is simple and focussed on the music, feels fast and responsive. One thing I can't easily tell, though, it why you built it. It was obviously a lot of effort; what feature was YouTube missing that made the effort worth
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by cwp 13y ago
You're right that actions matter. Part of what makes this a good apology are the actions that back it up. They took meaningful action to redress the harm they caused, and put a policy in place to prevent the mistake from recurring. It&
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by cwp 13y ago
Well, it sounds like their system is the polar opposite of the US: they can't choose their government, but it does what the people want.
726.
by cwp 13y ago
The law is more than the statues. The rulings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court are classified, so we don't know how the statutes are being interpreted and applied. We do know, however, that the executive has a history of
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by cwp 13y ago
It's true, email is mostly transmitted over TLS. But I'd be very reluctant to conclude that the NSA doesn't have clear-text for the vast majority of email that gets sent. Google and other email providers have denied giving th
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by cwp 13y ago
Because nobody can exercise it anyway. Freedom 0 is really just a corollary of freedom 1, "The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish." If you can't change a program, you c
729.
by cwp 13y ago
Copyright would be more appropriate there. Children could be considered derivative works, but I don't see how they could be patent infringement.
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by cwp 13y ago
Wow. This is the first time I've encountered an exception to Betteridge's law. The article makes a pretty strong argument that the answer to the headline is "yes".
731.
by cwp 13y ago
Right. There's no need to write a whole new tool just to simplify invocation for common cases. For a guy who uses the command line "a LOT" he's not making good use of his shell.
732.
by cwp 13y ago
Well, the Internet would certainly be a very different place if everybody blocked ads. It's hard to predict who would benefit and who would suffer, but "we'd all be fucked" doesn't seem like a likely scenario.
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by cwp 13y ago
If it wasn't being used by the public, then the protocol wouldn't be rapidly changing. Internal use, even by a company as large as Google doesn't give enough variety of circumstance and use-case to drive the changes.
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by cwp 13y ago
The deal Steve Jobs made with Microsoft after he came back to Apple. The story is that MS had copied Quicktime code into Windows, and Apple had proof. Job could have gone after MS and gotten cash—probably hundreds of millions of dollars. In
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by cwp 13y ago
Not interesting at all. He doesn't understand what nix is doing or why, and just points out all the ways that it's different from Debian.
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by cwp 13y ago
First, not all free licenses require you to share changes. See, for example, the MIT and BSD licenses. They only require that you preserve the copyright notice, and refrain from suing the original authors. Second, even the GPL doesn't stop
737.
by cwp 13y ago
The point was two-fold: first, existing touch-screen devices had tiny installed bases. He didn't say there were no touch devices, just that (approximately) nobody was using them. Second, people buying iPhones now are often existing iPhone u
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by cwp 13y ago
Ok... But have you checked it out?
739.
by cwp 14y ago
The list was maintained on the server, but filtering was done in the client. That's why it had to be sent to the client on every log in.
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by cwp 14y ago
Have you ever watched a child learn language? They're not conscious of grammar at all. It's basically impossible to correct them, the just ignore you and keep on saying the wrong thing. Eventually they figure out the right thing themselves.
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by cwp 14y ago
Ah, very clear. Thank you.
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by cwp 14y ago
How does this compare to dtrace?
743.
by cwp 14y ago
This is something I've long been worried about myself. But lately I've begun to question the assumptions that this position is based on. Clearly we're moving into a world where it's possible to know more about people's behaviour than ever b
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by cwp 14y ago
That makes sense. I bet CNBC loves bitcoin. Breaking News! Bitcoin loses 75% of its value! Bitcoin Rallies! Bitcoin hits all-time high! Bitcoin down on fears of IRS scrutiny. "As we head into the noon hour, we have a panel of experts in stu
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by cwp 14y ago
Exactly. And further, if you go to war with us and lose, it'll cost you, because we'll go after your patents.
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by cwp 14y ago
Interesting, thanks. I tend to be a little skeptical of attempts to make "pure" forms of communication, because I think there are bound to be trade-offs, as in any engineering endeavour. I'd rather see schemes that are optimized for a parti
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by cwp 14y ago
I'm fascinated by this kind of cultural technology. I think we ought to be experimenting with notation of all kinds—numerals, alphabets, languages, measurement systems, calendars and so on. We need to make it easier to learn new systems of
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by cwp 14y ago
It's really good for analog HiFi cabling. Plus it's sparkly.
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by cwp 14y ago
I regret that I have but one upvote to give. It's a little depressing to see how much of any discussion of charity is centered around "what if they use it for something pleasurable instead of investing it?"
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by cwp 14y ago
We're seeing the beginnings of this with Apple's lightning connector. It's designed to be as flexible as possible, to the point where the AV cable that attaches to it has an ARM chip in it and runs (a very stripped down) OS X. By moving sma

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