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by frabcus 14y ago
I've started playing with zombie.js recently as well - much lighter and faster than the ones that instrument a completely full browser. But has a full Javascript engine.
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by frabcus 14y ago
Yes, it is complicated. That said, this is partly just because there aren't enough cases - and partly because the law hasn't stabilised (took a century to stabilise after invention of printing press). It isn't clear what rights society shou
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by frabcus 14y ago
Having never done this, I find it mystifying. Would love to see a proper, long writeup of how this works in practice.
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Kickstarter in 3D printing patent threat(3ders.org)
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by frabcus 14y ago
In the UK, WhipCar
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by frabcus 14y ago
My experience makes me think you're not right. I worked on what I, at the time, called software to do "3D printing" in the late 1990s. CAM - Computer Assisted Machining - software. (It was CNC drilling, not additive sintering). Sure, it was
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by frabcus 14y ago
I think of it as being similar to the right to reverse engineer which you get for hardware in some jurisdictions. I feel as a user as though I should be allowed to automate my use of Internet services. I should be able to use improved cli
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by frabcus 14y ago
As far as I know, Google+ Hangouts doesn't let you call people. Is there a way to actually just phone somebody with it, the phone on their computer rings, and they answer it? Preferably with a standalone client, as I can't guarantee I'd rem
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by frabcus 14y ago
Video conferencing is the main pain I have that this would help with. Obviously, really high quality audio, HD video, with multiple participants. Then I'd like a bit more than that - panorama video so I can see all the surroundings in detai
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by frabcus 14y ago
I'm confident it was Firefox. Not the browser, but the community-based marketing campaign - Spread Firefox when it was launched, and before that geeks installing Firefox on their parent's computers (and so on). For me, a key moment was when
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Contour map of travel time to Big Ben in HTML5(property.mapumental.com)
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by frabcus 14y ago
Liverpool, UK: ScraperWiki, a platform for getting, cleaning and analysing data. We're hiring a data scientist, a technical manager and a business data product director. The adverts aren't on our website yet, am taking advantage of first of
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by frabcus 14y ago
It seems to have a special space meaning: "Aerospace & Engineering. According to plan or design: a nominal flight check." http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nominally
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by frabcus 14y ago
Thanks both for pointing this out - I've left a comment on the blog post asking him to change "open source" to "shared source" (which is what I thought Microsoft call such visible but not open code). I'll give Leonardo the benefit of the do
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by frabcus 14y ago
I launch innumerable copies of mutt without -R, and have never had any conflicts. Like the original poster, I'm using offlineimap and maildir's entirely. What kind of conflicts do you get?
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by frabcus 14y ago
Webkit was just Apple's fork of KHTML. The KDE Linux desktop people should get way more credit for having written the engine the powers Android's browser, Safari and Chrome...
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by frabcus 14y ago
You're totally locked into the issue tracker.
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by frabcus 14y ago
She hasn't said why it failed. As a paying customer (via ScraperWiki), I find that frustrating. It gives me little new knowledge, and makes the move seem sudden and strange. From the outside, Grove looks quite successful. A simple "we only
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Mapping the product/market space – an hallucination(flourish.org)
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Self-assembling Duplo - is my Washing Machine an AI?(drj11.wordpress.com)
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by frabcus 14y ago
Umm, it only makes sense in the UK, where we have a very large plug standard.
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by frabcus 14y ago
@leashless mentioned it on Twitter, and it shocked me! He's worth following for quite unusual stuff.
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by frabcus 14y ago
It could go the other way. If the founder has all their wealth tied up in the company, they might be more likely to manipulate to sell the company early to make themselves a multi-millionaire. If you give them a bit of an exit, they then ha
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Satellite killed by trajectory patent(en.wikipedia.org)
195 points by frabcus 14y ago|71 comments
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Acquiring competitors, international expansion, a team to do deals with ecommerce sites.
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by frabcus 14y ago
Just today there were two things I couldn't find with Google: Finding how/why the lighting switch on a gas stove could cause a (mild) electric shock. I read the first 3/4 pages of results, got one or two very low quality forum postings and
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by frabcus 14y ago
At last! There are good reasons, but they're all regulatory, and there are workarounds. Let's have some proper disruption of the finance industry, please. Now!
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by frabcus 14y ago
A little history would help here... Mozilla are a non-profit. They came into existence because round about the year 2000, Microsoft had a monopoly in browsers and operating systems. It's hard to express how extreme this was, if you didn't l
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by frabcus 14y ago
Mildly depressing that this is all proprietary. I'd much much rather use something that's a hybrid of CouchDB and Unhosted... It's definitely the future to build syncing as the core operation though.
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by frabcus 14y ago
Absolutely! Ironically I was investigating Heroku in order to think more about markets, and why its market worked. But I can see that my writeup ends up focussing more on the apparently technical side. It's really about the market aspects o

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