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by dlitz 14y ago
More people need to ask this kind of question.
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by dlitz 14y ago
It doesn't work from the US. We just get a creepy voice that says, "This content is currently unavailable."
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by dlitz 14y ago
You guys should touch base with the https://tent.io guys.
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by dlitz 14y ago
Personally, I don't see Bitcoin replacing nationalized currencies like the USD as a store of value. I just see it as a great way to send and receive payments online. Kind of like PayPal, but decentralized. For that use-case, it doesn't ev
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by dlitz 14y ago
> But it is much easier to create a frictionless user experience if you do not have to redirect people to somewhere outside your side. Under this model, how do you train ordinary users to avoid phishing?
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by dlitz 14y ago
Free-speech issues aside, there's also the question of whether you want the IAB/IESG/IETF engineers to continue define Internet standards, or whether you want a group of telephone monopoly bureaucrats to take it over. Let's consider some of
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by dlitz 14y ago
But then when I come up with a good idea that I want to use in FOSS, I still have to keep it secret for days/weeks until it gets though a "patent-mining process" at whatever company I happen to be working for at the time. There are a lot of
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by dlitz 14y ago
Until you buy something with it.
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by dlitz 14y ago
This is actually what Stallman is advocating! In his own words: http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/richard-stallman-softwa... > My suggestion is to change the effect of patents. We should legislate that developing, distributing, or
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by dlitz 14y ago
> We're still trying to figure out how Stradivarius made violins, for example. We're actually not trying to figure out how to make violins that sound just as good: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stradivarius&o... Also
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by dlitz 14y ago
I'd comment further on this, bu-- OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space
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by dlitz 14y ago
No, seriously, please just use autotools. It's way better for users and packagers of your library. If you're not going to do that, then use an alternative that provides the same command-line interface as autotools (so that things like "./c
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by dlitz 14y ago
The Linuxes still have different library locations, and things move around as new things get added (e.g. multiarch). Seriously, get over it and just use autotools.
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by dlitz 14y ago
Why do you only ask about "large points"? If you implement 'most of CSS, except for minute details', then you haven't implemented CSS, and web developers suffer because they have to add UA-specific hacks for your implementation.
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by dlitz 14y ago
Well, nothing yet, but multi-signature Bitcoin accounts are the current top priority of upstream Bitcoin developers, so I suspect we'll soon see hardware tokens and/or 3rd-party services acting helping to prevent Bitcoin theft. Actually, th
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by dlitz 14y ago
But how much do you fine them, if their misrepresentation causes a chilling effect that scares people away from not just Samsung's current product, but anything deemed Apple-like? The result of this sort of misinformation campaign, if left
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by dlitz 14y ago
How do you think client-side window decorations impacts this? It seems to me that it would be difficult or impossible to create a secure GUI if every application gets such complete control over user interaction.
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by dlitz 14y ago
But... but... nVidia makes the best Linux drivers in the world! Etc.! You just can't innovate using them.
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by dlitz 14y ago
You think that's X11 and not _Firefox_?
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by dlitz 14y ago
It's a troll patent. Is it owned by a patent troll?
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by dlitz 14y ago
Did you actually have any problem understanding it? I suspect that you didn't.
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by dlitz 14y ago
Don't forget that Civics isn't a required course in school anymore.
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by dlitz 14y ago
How reliable is that?
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by dlitz 14y ago
Right, but it was improving. If there's no high-performance 3D hardware target with a hope of having FOSS driver support, it'll put a stop to any innovation in that space. Hence, this is bad.
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by dlitz 14y ago
This (from the EFF) might interest you: https://defendinnovation.org/
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by dlitz 14y ago
> where's HURD, 20-something years later? Please. HURD is now a low-priority hobby project that a few people are working on for the hell of it. The urgency of building HURD ended when Linux took off.
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by dlitz 14y ago
What does it even mean to provide an "understanding of the world" if you're not offering predictive, objective power? As far as I know, understanding the world---by definition---means building a mental model of it that has predictive pow
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by dlitz 14y ago
The preferred syntax, which is more flexible and doesn't leak the loop variable, is to use generator expressions: >>> x = ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5'] >>> y = list(int(i) for i in x) >>> y [1, 2, 3
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by dlitz 14y ago
This is all way too complicated. All of the service-discovery you need can be encoded in the WWW-Authenticate header. The only problem that OAuth really solves is coming up with some way for a third party to get an arbitrary set of revocab
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by dlitz 14y ago
Javascript is just Scheme with a C-like syntax and a limited number of bad design decisions (like automatic semicolon insertion and the == operator). PHP is a never-ending fountain of bad design decisions, because its core devs continue to

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