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The Ethics (and Legal Issues) of Automating Content(dpearson.me)
2 points by dpearson 14y ago|0 comments
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by dpearson 14y ago
My bad with the copyright, although it looks like Twitter leaves themselves nice leeway to kill at least your personal account for it, as it is forbidden to "access or search..the Services by any means other than through our currently avail
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by dpearson 14y ago
Technically, if those keys could be extracted (I'm no expert on that), that would be the easier option, as Twitter cannot really afford to revoke those without massive headaches on their end. You likely couldn't distribute those keys, but I
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by dpearson 14y ago
Of course, Twitter can prevent the use of any of their trademarks, making branding difficult, to say the least. Sure, you could make an unofficial Twitter client without any problems, but Twitter might be able to take legal action if you
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Show HN: A Twitter Bot that Summarizes College Football Games(twitter.com)
2 points by dpearson 14y ago|0 comments
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by dpearson 14y ago
What Apple has done with the iPad 1 (I'll refrain from speculating on motives, as I have absolutely no idea why they actually EOL'd it) is still not as bad as what they've done with armv6 devices. A developer, if they want (and some won't
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by dpearson 14y ago
This might not, intellectually, be the kind of article that belongs on the front page of HN, but it was nice to read and brought a smile to my face. I upvoted it.
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by dpearson 14y ago
As long as this stays Unity-only, I wonder if the other Ubuntu-based distros (Xubuntu, Kubuntu, etc.) will see a surge in users. Even if the ads can be removed, this move still sours me on Ubuntu more than a little.
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The truth about Twitter(thenextweb.com)
1 points by dpearson 14y ago|0 comments
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by dpearson 14y ago
No, I'm just that bad of a writer. It wasn't edited, but was a complete mess to begin with.
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by dpearson 14y ago
Simply switching to another browser isn't a panacea; Chrome, Firefox, and Opera all have the benefit (currently) of not commanding the same market share as IE except for recently. If IE stays behind Chrome for a while (and if other browsers
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NFLScoreBot is a failure. But I'm okay with that.(dpearson.me)
1 points by dpearson 14y ago|0 comments
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by dpearson 14y ago
Neither side especially comes off well in all of this. 9to5mac misspelled his name? I don't see how that's especially funny (and it is childish), but Arment needs to lighten up about that. I also don't see how even the accusations regarding
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by dpearson 14y ago
If they went that route, they would be limited to 100,000 users. Tapbots likely had more users than that when the new API guidelines were announced, which means that they can have two times their current userbase, a (potentially) significan
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by dpearson 14y ago
Not to be a spoil sport, but it's rather easy to raise money and buy land; it's much more difficult to get a probe built and onto the surface of another world. Plus, does that estimate include support satellites (it apparently doesn't inclu
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by dpearson 14y ago
The government (at least in the US) prefers RHEL more for consistency and accountability than anything. RHEL also has Red Hat standing behind it, which, for security, is important (as a read through the entire CentOS codebase would be cost-
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by dpearson 14y ago
There will be, but, even if there wasn't, a Hackintosh might be an option for a professional-grade desktop.
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I'm not sure if I can bring myself to buy another Apple laptop(dpearson.me)
2 points by dpearson 14y ago|0 comments
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by dpearson 14y ago
Due to the complexity and breadth of the iOS APIs, I have my doubts that this is a reimplementation, especially one completed by one developer. If that's not the case, this would be technically feasible, but of dubious legality.
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by dpearson 14y ago
The problem is, IE 9 and 10 are not everywhere. I know for certain that my school (and, I'd be willing to wager, many businesses) only deploys IE 7 and 8. IE 6 still isn't dead, despite Microsoft publicly encouraging migration. Until Micros
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by dpearson 14y ago
There's also services like GeekSquad and the Genius Bar, as well as others, to bail out users...that's more along the lines of what I meant by that sentence.
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Ubuntu 12.04 might be great, but it's still not for the average user(dpearson.me)
2 points by dpearson 14y ago|3 comments
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Decommissioning the Space Shuttles(theatlantic.com)
1 points by dpearson 15y ago|0 comments
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by dpearson 15y ago
While not a framework per se, .NET is often termed a "language."
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by dpearson 15y ago
Aside from the cheesy opening line, it is nice to see an author that does a decent job writing to a nontechnical audience (as well as one who provides examples of the value of programming to readers). With increasing publicity, it will be i
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Windows 8 is the best OS from Microsoft so far...for the majority of users(dpearson.me)
3 points by dpearson 15y ago|2 comments
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Why our schools lack technology education(dpearson.me)
2 points by dpearson 15y ago|0 comments
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by dpearson 15y ago
While this is a great step forward, it could be rendered pointless if auto-updating is disabled and updates are not pushed out quickly after going through an approval process. Given how quickly Google pushes out major updates, old versions
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by dpearson 15y ago
My comparison on setup was mostly in comparison to the effort in setting up a toolchain or an interpreter, in a situation like this where you have to support users on different OSes/hardware without spending valuable teaching time on it. I
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by dpearson 15y ago
I would disagree in this case. The mere fact that a JS engine is present in any browser alone makes it compelling for those that have never programmed before. There really is no setup, and the OS becomes (to a degree) irrelevant. Further, j

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