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by dasht 14y ago
I agree that "emulate the user==feed simplicity of twitter" is the best counter-argument to "make the user name distinct from the feed name for greater flexibility" position. But here: In twitter APIs, can't you get something like, say, a u
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by dasht 14y ago
To avoid building in a dependency on DNS does not require that the identity system problem be fully solved, first. It only requires ensuring a good abstraction barrier before too much code propagates that depends directly on DNS. For exa
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by dasht 14y ago
"4. A user is a feed. So the name points to a feed." What if the user wants to have more than one feed? Or wants, sometime down the road, to have routable resources that are not feeds? Wouldn't it be better to say that a user name is a use
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by dasht 14y ago
"3. To identify users -- please use DNS." Using DNS to identify users is unwise, in my opinion, because it means that people won't own their own on-line identities -- they'll have to rent them and for real money, too. And if some users are
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by dasht 14y ago
That's a nice essay. I believe you missed a "point of importance and ultimate goal" of the open source movement: to preserve and enhance the market for proprietary software. On that goal, free software and open source are diametrically
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by dasht 14y ago
What ever become of "Doug's Math Aquarium"?
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by dasht 14y ago
Wow, the curve indicating a decline of GNU Wget looks by eye to have the same shape as the curve indicating a decline of Apache. The HTML curve looks pretty similar. Javascript, too. I think there's only one conclusion: The web itself is
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by dasht 15y ago
That prolog idea was fashionable around the late 1970s or early to mid 1980s, briefly. It was one of the real-world case studies that helped people figure out, back then, that it could never even begin to work at all well and, in fact, th
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by dasht 15y ago
This is a strange question because, more or less, it is already the case that the law is version controlled. In fact, version control predates the invention of computers and is found in the practice of legislative bodies going back hundre
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by dasht 15y ago
As an aside: thank you for the great web site.
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by dasht 15y ago
The web site got the letter from a book that Vonnegut put together and published in 1981. Presumably he saved a copy himself, as many letter writers do.
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by dasht 15y ago
There is a terminology problem with that article. People do get casual (or sloppy) with these terms, but its worth keeping them distinct: The note describes memoization as using a "cache". That's a problem because memoization and cachin
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by dasht 15y ago
I suggest asking for advice from the Software Freedom Law Center: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ They specialize in this kind of thing. As a point of ... trivia? ... Eben Moglen, the attorney that created the GPL along with Richard St
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by dasht 15y ago
On a tech topic worth talking about, in the difficult mode of "laying down the law", that's some pretty fine writing that says something that bears repeating and refinement.
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by dasht 15y ago
What authority creates and polices an SCI clearance? Who makes the decision about whether and when to extend that clearance?
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by dasht 15y ago
I like that post because it highlights a complaint I've quietly had when I look at a lot of sites (both start-ups and established). Here's a wish-list (vis a vis commercial web sites): Please... Always have an "about" link that tells me the
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by dasht 15y ago
Anecdotes aren't evidence but I've noticed a subject, steady degradation as well over the "months" end of that time scale.
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by dasht 15y ago
Some publishers of various kinds of media welcome the idea of treacherous computing for exactly the reason you suggest: If enough people agree to buy broken computers - so broken that they can not be programmed to copy certain files, for e
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by dasht 15y ago
kogir wrote: "Exactly. When Apple shipped the first Intel Macs without Boot Camp, there wasn't outrage that Windows/Linux couldn't boot; People that cared just didn't buy them. Just don't purchase a computer that has been crippled by the ma
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by dasht 15y ago
I don't think you really mean this: "I hate to turn this into an RMS rant". If it was true that you didn't want to turn it into an RMS rant, then why did you do exactly that? The "theatrics" you refer to -- picking alternative, damning na
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by dasht 15y ago
How about participating in the movement and guiding folks towards using RSS for distributed and decentralized news suggestion? Dave Winer: occupyweb.org http://scripting.com/stories/2011/10/03/relyingOnFacebookTwi... http://scripting.com
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by dasht 15y ago
If true, that is the fatal bug. About this: "small compared to SF, Palo Alto, or the South Bay" That may be changing: http://berkeleystartupcluster.org/ Which reads, in part, "Launched in October 2010, the BSC's goal is to establish the
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by dasht 15y ago
In Berkeley, at least, that isn't the case. Retail store fronts are zoned for retail use. For example, suppose that a start-up wanted to take over a vacant retail space, put up curtains on the front windows and door, and not offer any r
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Wanna start-up in Berkeley, CA?
8 points by dasht 15y ago|6 comments
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by dasht 15y ago
Wow. It is "stupid" to be skeptical of handing over your home and access to your most valuable assets to relative strangers? It is "stupid" to isolate yourself in a non-public, unwatched space controlled by strangers? And one would onl
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by dasht 15y ago
Ok, well, thanks for answering. The comparison to Albuquerque makes no sense to me. We could as well guess that Airbnb is less safe than riding a roller coaster at Disneyland -- so what? Those kinds of random comparisons prove nothing. Be
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by dasht 15y ago
I think they need to sharply pivot to some very different products or else fold and return investor money. What is their guarantee to guests? What prevents them from being a target for scams to collect host insurance? What statistics ca
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by dasht 15y ago
I know that the rules state the rule of thumb that one should not post explaining down-votes but I am curious about these, if an exception might be carved out. Looking at airbnb over the past week, and winding up with this recent move, I
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by dasht 15y ago
Are you kidding me?!?! a) Airbnb needs to recognize the risks they are creating for guests - this move is purely a reactionary response to placate public perception about the risks to hosts. They do not care about safety so much as the su
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by dasht 15y ago
"The vast majority of the people who use [it] benefit from it" is true of many products that are correctly removed from the market because of the size of the minority that suffer and the scale of their injury -- weighed against the benefit

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