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by dthunt 14y ago
There were a lot of good choices out there around the W7 timeframe. I can't really imagine the decision-making criteria, but I suspect it was a tough choice. Windows is too big of an organization to steer by force of will. Hopefully the n
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by dthunt 14y ago
My experiences with PMs were universally good; these are people who would look at ideas in-the-baking and find ways to improve them, run interference for a number of projects, put together decision-guiding research, and generally somehow ma
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by dthunt 14y ago
There are a great many people in the world who are technical and generally disagreeable. Similarly, not all change is good change. Organizational changes in the Windows org increased fan-out and forced managers to take up additional roles,
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by dthunt 14y ago
I'd definitely ask that question of some of your target audience; whether they'd prefer English or localized explanations, etc. If they're targeting TOEIC, or have passed it, I think it's okay to have some faith in them. Of course, trainin
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by dthunt 14y ago
The pricing page helped me make some sense of things, but I still don't have a good idea of what I get by subscribing to the service, which is probably the big thing that might deter me from digging deeper into the site, signing up, etc. I
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by dthunt 14y ago
Making sure there's at least some legible text in the page if it's not on the last couple lines sounds like a start...
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by dthunt 14y ago
Then just find a way to kill javascript, and the world will finally be sane again.
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by dthunt 14y ago
I think it depends on the legal agreements between the parties. Many hosting and service contracts make an effort to preserve an expectation of privacy.
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by dthunt 14y ago
Because OSX terminal bindings aren't completely insane and broken. (This is a sarcastic comment)
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by dthunt 14y ago
(to the below comment) Yes they did go after authors and redistributors of DeCSS, by arguing that it was a piracy tool. What I think is unlikely to happen, is anyone going after indiviual users who are using it to play DVDs, using provisio
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by dthunt 14y ago
At least as far as the US is concerned, shrink wrap licenses restricting your fair use rights were not received favorably by courts up until the late 90s. This has changed somewhat in the past decade and change. It'll be interesting to se
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by dthunt 14y ago
It's fair use in the States, too, when the result is exercise of fair use. The fact that provisions in the DMCA could allow someone to go after a linux user using mplayer to play his DVDs doesn't mean that someone will pursue that case - i
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by dthunt 14y ago
Heartily agree. But this thread is very wrong about loader basics.
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by dthunt 14y ago
Because the OpenSSL 0.9 APIs have some serious issues, and there are quirks in BIO destruction, etc, that couldn't be fixed without breaking a lot of code. That's why they maintain two trees; 0.9.8 for compatability, and encourage people t
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by dthunt 14y ago
There are big concerns with mobile phones, especially with the radio baseband. I'm reluctant to consider phones genuinely 'secure' until the radio doesn't have access to the user OS or non-radio related hardware, and the microphone and sen
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by dthunt 14y ago
That's a major version change. You expect API compatibility typically with patch-level and minor releases.
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by dthunt 14y ago
We actually got a quick primer on RSI in college. There are a lot of tools and equipment out there. But the simple fact is that you need to do at least one of two things to avoid RSI: Stop stressing your poor wrists and hands. Vary it up.
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by dthunt 14y ago
This in reply to the 'essentially piracy' comment below, which for some reason I cannot reply to (too much nesting?) What's next? Am I stealing music if I put it in a CD player and it makes a 25ms buffer copy while I'm playing? Fair Use is
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by dthunt 14y ago
This article would have read better without the SSL related discussion, which I think distracts from the major point. In general, though, I think we're at the point where we can stick a fork in the trust model we've been using up to this po
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by dthunt 14y ago
Folks are focusing on this point unnecessarily. Large scale real-time collection and cracking of SSLv2 is still out-of-scope for everybody, I suspect. Large scale MITM, though, isn't, through compromised CA's, etc. That threat is much mor
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by dthunt 14y ago
Actually, it doesn't appear to have been against any policy, or it would have been cited as such. This is basically what happens when bad administrators are made to look bad after they over-react to someone providing the community a service
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by dthunt 14y ago
All parties here are responsible. As long as companies keep building up arsenals of shit patents that they can use to justify these preliminary injunctions, or shop jurisdictions, the beatings will continue and make it virtually impossible
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by dthunt 14y ago
I'm with GP on this one. Most HN articles these days are fluff. These aren't bad bloggythings for the most part, but I'd just as soon see these things show up on a more general aggregator. (This is, in part, my failure to recognize the HN
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by dthunt 14y ago
Or, better yet, demand CC if it exists for submitted titles, because in the vast majority of cases it does. If there's a licensing issue here, then people should be suing hollywood.
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by dthunt 14y ago
Here's the thing: Netflix should have done this years ago, and it's a fucking crime that people are still making inaccessible websites. I'm not visually impaired or hard of hearing, but it irks me when I run into a site that is unusable by
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by dthunt 14y ago
I don't actually care that much about compilers - as others have mentioned, there are several options out there. I also am not particularly concerned about updated C++ feature support - the reality is that there are still a ton of really t
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by dthunt 14y ago
Links to patents? I haven't been able to find them. I notice that people are very quick to attack Microsoft here, despite the fact that a great many parties have been touting h.264 as a standard to adopt, and acting like it wasn't a morass
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by dthunt 14y ago
A great motivator for the dev team, sure. Not a great motivator for 'random' people. The 'constant rate' allegation is serious, but given the number of 'votes' involved if there is any truth to the claim it should be trivial to suss out. H
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by dthunt 14y ago
Jumping backwards is fine, too. It's okay to ignore Dijkstra when he is wrong.
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by dthunt 15y ago
It still takes a gig-plus with the usual linux toolchain (also, it takes HOURS, now). It's not just an issue with MSVC link.exe, even if the linux toolset hasn't hit the critical point yet that MSVC has. The point is that other programs m

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