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by dthunt 15y ago
I think it's more accurate to say that writing efficient program requires some modicum of thought, foresight, or planning. In a rush to put in new features for the past few years they've become the new Winamp of web browsers, stealing the c
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by dthunt 15y ago
The immediate feedback was multiple issues closed as if they were not serious.
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by dthunt 15y ago
Honestly, I am less likely to want to use github in light of this announcement. You handled this incident badly, and then didn't acknowledge it, nor offer the much-needed props to Egor for exposing an issue you guys didn't think was serious
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by dthunt 15y ago
And yet Egor made several attempts to illustrate the depth of a single problem, and nobody was able to understand that this was serious badness. Sometimes, it is actually necessary to pull down someone else's pants to expose a problem. I th
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by dthunt 15y ago
EFF has a network of people they can put people in touch with, even if for a variety of reasons they can't offer legal help in a particular instance. But that's not the point. While we can be grateful for the CCC and the EFF for existing an
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by dthunt 15y ago
> If it's a concern, get a hold of the company and let them know. Easier said than done. It's hard enough to find the right people to talk to when people are so paranoid about connecting devs with customers, and if by chance you wind up
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by dthunt 15y ago
<3 I read this back in college, ages ago. Still relevant - not quite up there with K&R as far as technical writing goes, but it does indeed do the job of making a theoretical problem into an understandable & exploitable one, an
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by dthunt 15y ago
people were having fun with forkbombs a bit ago. Presumably we're on the synflood stage now.
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by dthunt 15y ago
Sorry. I should be more clear. The initiation of an HTTPS session is expensive because it consumes a large chunk of CPU for a real-world-measurable chunk of time, all at once, in most libraries. Everything beyond that point you're dealing
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by dthunt 15y ago
As it turns out, he did elaborate (as did others): https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10902 There's some vitriol from various parties in there as well, and all the points you would expect from people trying to create an open,
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by dthunt 15y ago
I do rather wish he'd elaborate.
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by dthunt 15y ago
I'm referring to the power of the web to provide a uniform and accessible experience, yes.
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by dthunt 15y ago
Not accepting it as part of HTML5. Things continue as they - the real cost of these DRM layers isn't the bit of browser glue that issues an http request for a key.
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by dthunt 15y ago
I take issue with some of the thoughts I see echoed by this and other comments - that the real goal of encrypting video content is to prevent third parties from watching it off the wire, or that the reason we should have DRM is so that vide
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by dthunt 15y ago
Since nobody else is saying it. The issue with this proposal is that it it creates a segmented web, whereby if a vendor does not ship a "CDM" for a particular platform, you will never see DRM'd web content for that platform. To those of you
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by dthunt 15y ago
The expensive part of https is session creation.
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by dthunt 15y ago
The DRM stack is outside the browser.
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by dthunt 15y ago
You said it, not me. There are people who care very much about the visuals. They're not stupid for paying extra.
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by dthunt 15y ago
lulz. The author's bio. This says it all. Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and is regarded as the world’s foremost expert on innovation and growth. Jam
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by dthunt 15y ago
Apple is the company that sells $3000 laptops that are comparable to most $1200-1500 laptops, but are slightly prettier and less serviceable and $70 keyboards with broken debouncers. If you're going to write an article about 'ignoring profi
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by dthunt 15y ago
That sounds too juicy to ignore. If you find it, please post it here!
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by dthunt 15y ago
There's more here than zeroing memory. People writing fast, single-threaded network stuff may see immediate value w/r to poll(), or any other situation where you need a packed, easily update-able list of things.
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by dthunt 15y ago
This article mostly seems to be suggesting that vendors derive more benefit from GPLv3 - which is more focused on coming into compliance, rather than punishing companies that get it wrong. I'm not sure what this has to do with busybox, save
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by dthunt 15y ago
Do you guys not remember the blue ribbon campaign? The practice is to blacken your page. Force someone to read a "WTF IS THIS ABOUT?" and then pass them through to your usual service (still themed in black)
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by dthunt 15y ago
You do however have legal recourse to ensure compliance (in the sense that you can demand they comply with their requirements under the license). If you're out for blood, contact the copyright holder.