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   by frabcus 12y ago

   I'd love to see a review of this from someone who has tried using it for a while - also compared to Sandstorm which is similar (newer, more sandboxed) https://sandstorm.io/
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   by frabcus 12y ago

   Tools can help developers write safer code. Yes, a good developer can write safe code in bad environment. But an average developer writes safer code in a good environment.
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   by frabcus 12y ago

   I'm not from GDS - however they're one of our customers at ScraperWiki, and I know lots of the people there (via the digital civics NGO mySociety which we started over 10 years ago). There's been lots of interest in GDS from
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   by frabcus 12y ago

   This might be a good time to sign the promise not to use C/C++ on new projects... http://www.flourish.org/promise/
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   by frabcus 12y ago

   I'd love a technical explanation of how this works. Are all the messages kept on the phone? How does it relate to the Whisper Systems end to end encryption on the Android to Android version of WhatsApp? Is there some relationship betwe
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   I promise never to use C/C++ for a new project(flourish.org)

   18 points by frabcus 12y ago|11 comments
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   by frabcus 12y ago

   I agree - I've just made a simple promise pledge, as a ceremony to commit to not using C/C++ for new projects: http://www.flourish.org/promise/
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   by frabcus 12y ago

   How can they claim this text file applies? There is also a file with the industry-standard name LICENSE ( https://github.com/facebook/fbcunn/blob/master/LICENSE ), with a standard looking BSD license in it
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   by frabcus 12y ago

   Nobody reads EULAs. They are irrelevant in a historical context. They'll clearly be replaced by consumer law at some point. You don't have to sign a 20 page license to go into a shop and buy a banana, do you? And yet there are all
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    by frabcus 12y ago

    I wonder if Instagram will in the end shut down all third party clients like Twitter did. I feel once bitten twice shy - the whole non-standard Twitter client thing was a complete waste of everyone's time.
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    by frabcus 12y ago

    There's lots of friction on spending if it's in an offline wallet.
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    by frabcus 12y ago

    Yes you can - at least my experience of seeing some Chinese guards (e.g. outside an embassy) is that they don't blink. This article claims 1 hour shifts of not blinking for a guard: https://www.recruiter.com/i/blin
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    by frabcus 12y ago

    You could always fork repos to your own robot account, and then do the pull request from there.
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    by frabcus 12y ago

    This is a good place to mention Fairphone, a dutch foundation who make phones and document their supply chain in public, improving various things about it
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    by frabcus 12y ago

    It can matter a lot which page you're visiting. Also, DNS can be secured later. When the EFF project to make and update free certificates for everyone launches, there's no reason not to put everything on HTTPS.
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    by frabcus 12y ago

    I've been using Firefox again recently - I stopped when it was slower and less stable than Chrome. These days it often feels faster than Chrome.
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    by frabcus 12y ago

    Yes, Google Search does get better the more people use it. There are three reasons: 1) The actual search gets more signal. Literally from activity on the search engine, but also from many other places Google gets data. 2) The more popular G
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    Twitter app graph steals list of your mobile apps(support.twitter.com)

    5 points by frabcus 12y ago|0 comments
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    by frabcus 12y ago

    Bitbucket is extremely good these days!
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    by frabcus 12y ago

    There's also Ethercalc [ https://ethercalc.org/ ], a spreadsheet version of Etherpad. Etherpad, Ethercalc and Mailpile (and more!) are all available on top of Sandstorm [ https://sandstorm.io/apps/ ]
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    by frabcus 12y ago

    Yep. And Facebook have done other privacy-aware things recently - such as setting up a Tor hidden node: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/facebook-offers-hidd...
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    by frabcus 12y ago

    The pins puncturing the cold-gas jet system on Philae have apparently failed - which will make it harder to stay on the surface. http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/1111232... Still has two h
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    Philae update: “Go” for landing, despite apparent failure of cold-gas jet system(planetary.org)

    1 points by frabcus 12y ago|0 comments
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    XKCD live-cartoons today's real attempt to land on a comet(explainxkcd.com)

    1 points by frabcus 12y ago|0 comments
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    by frabcus 12y ago

    ScraperWiki, Liverpool, UK - Data Scientists We're always looking for people interested in Python, Go, Data, visualisation and so on. At least get in touch to say "hi!" for a coffee! https://blog.scraperwiki.com&#x
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    by frabcus 12y ago

    Telling us your name would be a start!
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    by frabcus 12y ago

    Microsoft's web based Office is surprisingly good. EtherPad and EtherCalc for open source.
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    by frabcus 12y ago

    Medical insurance is an important exception.
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    by frabcus 12y ago

    I've been waiting for this for literally a decade! Before that, it used to be true on desktop platforms like Windows and Linux - not so on the web and for apps. There have been many attempts. Things like http://sandstorm.io&
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    by frabcus 12y ago

    Probably not. See Twitter's response to this blog post of somebody trying to do something similar: http://mashe.hawksey.info/2011/03/export-twitter-followers/ Even if we could, the users would have to re