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by evv 12y ago
So the question remains: is there a copyright at all? Was the photo really produced "solely" by the animal? No. You couldn't exactly say that a monkey with a camera lives in a natural environment. The real talent here was pre
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by evv 12y ago
Everybody is talking about Uber's announcement, but Sidecar is also apparently experimenting with the same thing: http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/29/sidecar-shareable-rides/ There are also many ways t
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by evv 12y ago
> When I create an API, web or otherwise, it is rarely of the type popularised by Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET MVC and most other MVC frameworks. These tend to think of an API as simple resources with HTTP methods – two GETs, a POST, a PUT and
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by evv 12y ago
It is only natural for centralized parties to emerge. I'd rather have centralized players with a decentralized back-end versus the banking system we rely on today. With paypal there is no consumer oversight, but because of the block ch
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by evv 12y ago
This feels like christmas morning. And because it's wikipedia, we can harvest this data all the way back in time!
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by evv 12y ago
> Apple has never had any pretense of caring about people or society, including its own customers. Very true, and it hasn't held them back in the slightest. I bet a lot of people have a closeted respect for that- Apple doesn't
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by evv 12y ago
I've been working on a startup that addresses this. It is best described as "a front-end as a service": use our interface and API to build a cross-platform native mobile app, with a matching mobile-friendly web app. Targeting
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by evv 12y ago
By that you mean php dev environment? That would be more of a safe bet 10 years ago.
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by evv 12y ago
For decent security, both problems need to be addressed- trusting the identity of public keys, as well as securing your private key. Unfortunately, I can't think of a decent key-protection solution that doesn't involve custom hard
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by evv 12y ago
I have coin laundry in my apartment building. Once every month or two I go down to the closest laundromat with 2 twenties and walk back with forty dollars of quarters jangling around my pockets. I may be abusing the laundromat for their coi
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by evv 12y ago
I'm suggesting that, as hackers, we ought to try and "cure" this disease that the economy tends to have on the world, rather than complaining about the symptoms that pertain to us. If we're gonna talk symptoms, there are
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by evv 12y ago
Sigh, I suppose we're supposed to feel outraged. Believe it or not, other industries have faced their share of exploitation too. Software development, at its lowest level, is a new form of labor. It's only natural for the economy
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by evv 12y ago
I had assumed the worst: that the escrow was for the payout of the initial $3k prize, or some significant portion of it.
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by evv 12y ago
AFAIK, most routers use OpenBSD over Linux for security reasons.
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by evv 12y ago
I wonder what is considered "unlawful" data collection by Microsoft's standards? Most mass surveillance today is quite legal. > "I want law enforcement to do its job in an effective way pursuant to the rule of law,&qu
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by evv 12y ago
That is Google Apps for business. What about a @gmail.com account? Its been my primary account for the past 10 years, but to my knowledge, I have no way of paying for it.
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by evv 12y ago
Load testing as a service- thats a brilliant idea! But why tie yourself to Ruby? (My initial impression is "gross!", but I can't say I'm much of a language purist as I spend most of my time in JS) Would services like Str
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by evv 12y ago
Eliminating pools entirely is the intended effect. We need to avoid pooling in order to prevent centralized parties like GHash from emerging.
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by evv 12y ago
I must have missed the other discussion. I looked around the big threads but couldn't find much about FCC's authority when it comes to international networks. Feel free to link it. On US soil with US citizens and US companies, it
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by evv 12y ago
This brings to mind an interesting question: Does the FCC even have the authority to regulate net neutrality? Even if the US government did somehow manage to regulate the US-based telcos, the FCC would have no legal way of regulating net ne
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by evv 12y ago
Node isn't a web framework either. It is a runtime for JS, outside of the browser. The complete ecosystem being referred to is all of the libraries available in node's package manager (npm). If lua had an awesome built-in package
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by evv 12y ago
I can't find a reference for this, but I've heard that the IRS has attempted several multi-billion-dollar system overhauls, with no success. It's fascinating how much of the world is run by decades-old software, with no ser
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by evv 12y ago
Actually, probably not. Snapchat used to have this "problem", and they were never kicked off the app store for it.
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by evv 12y ago
I'm pretty sure you can disable the proprietary DRM blobs on your browser. You will miss out on a lot of DRM'd content out there, but you can still choose.
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by evv 12y ago
You're right that issued wildcard certs are typically quite expensive, starting around $100/yr. But a wildcard is not difficult for anyone to implement- it is literally just adding an asterisk to the host name in the cert. Nothing
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by evv 12y ago
I've been using react on node.js to pre-render the entire site as it would appear with the dynamic client-side app. Each app uses little wrapper libaries to agnostically behave the same way on client/server. Both the client and se
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by evv 12y ago
Personally, I hate and avoid the practice of building twice, once for SEO and once for usability. I am always careful to build dynamic apps which render the HTML correctly on the server. Its handy not just for SEO. It also allows you to sup
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by evv 12y ago
> However the biggest issue I have with Soylent is that I cannot trust it. It hasn't been tested long term and it doesn't sound like it's being developed by people who know what they are doing. Totally valid point, but loo
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by evv 12y ago
It would help to have a bit of context. What do you want this idea to become? Are you creating a free we site which will earn some money with ads? Are you trying to create a monetized, profitable service? Or are you trying to become a ventu
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by evv 12y ago
> Email is much easier and more controllable than notifications. True, but not for the user. I would much rather accept notifications than type in my email address. I avoid the risk of getting spammed, don't need to decide what emai

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