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by genwin 13y ago
Airbnb is legal. It's their users who may be breaking the law. Like Craigslist and users who aren't paying use taxes on the stuff they buy.
512.
by genwin 13y ago
I think the politicians here are just trolling for campaign cash and other favors in kind. When Google greases the right palms the spotlight will shift elsewhere.
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by genwin 13y ago
Search for: A new law signed by President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan requires Shiite women to ask their husband's permission before leaving the home and forces them to have sexual intercourse. ... Human rights activists say the new law gra
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by genwin 13y ago
I'm guessing it suggests that those who are truly paranoid about others snooping into their tarsnap-saved data may want to make their tarsnap payments anonymously as well.
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by genwin 13y ago
Using the Go language you can pretty easily get around the concurrent write issue, using channels. Data for concurrent users is written to the same channel. A routine that reads from the channel does all the writing to the SQLite database.
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by genwin 13y ago
So thankful that Facebook came after all my friends got email! Only one got sucked into Facebook.
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by genwin 13y ago
This is how you'd perpetually write data from all users using a single process, batching the data into transactions for better performance; there's not much new here that isn't covered in most tutorials: On app init create a channel into wh
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by genwin 13y ago
Yes. In the Go language one can use channels to funnel the data to/from a single process that does the SQLite reads/writes. It's trivial to batch up data in transactions as it comes in from users (the current channel length is the number of
519.
by genwin 13y ago
If you are not completely confused by quantum mechanics, you do not understand it - Bohr
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by genwin 13y ago
I forgot that C# added more asynchronous stuff since I last coded in it. I used to love C# but it's more verbose than Go and I'm weary of the obfuscated MS documentation that pushes me straight to blogs. Also I gave up on using Windows for
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by genwin 13y ago
Go's goroutines are superior to threads in C#. C++ is harder and there's no garbage collection. I now have to yet again close my apps and restart my computer for an IT-forced Java runtime update, for some app I rarely use. For that reason a
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by genwin 13y ago
Could a doctor do anything about internal burns? Such questions are prudent to ask in the US, where "being checked out" for a few hours (mostly waiting) can easily surpass $10K.
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by genwin 13y ago
> You can compile a Golang program on one machine, rsync that single binary to another machine ... This is a taskbar button press for me. > The compiler is extremely helpful. Agreed, and for runtime errors Go shows the entire stack
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by genwin 13y ago
Nice! As a longtime developer using a "proper RDBMS" I was amazed at how feature packed and speedy SQLite is for having such a small footprint.
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by genwin 13y ago
The templates are on disk and their contents passed to the template function on initialization. So yes, the app is not a single file. I forgot about these files because they rarely change, hence are rarely deployed.
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by genwin 13y ago
Niflet is my first foray into modern web development (I'm a database developer by day), so I kept it simple, just Go and SQLite. I'm using Go's webserver, which is basic but wasn't hard to extend to do compression and other niceties. Templa
527.
by genwin 13y ago
Thanks to Go, my website Niflet can handle 2K hits/second on a cheap machine, each uniquely and usually within 5 ms. I'm finding Go to be well worth the effort to learn it.
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by genwin 13y ago
Not just this tactic but way worse too. Mass pollution, tax dodging, promoting war for profit, etc. Kim Dotcom is like Mother Teresa comparatively.
529.
by genwin 13y ago
You've still got bills for the gas burner, unless you're willing to give up long distance capability.
530.
by genwin 13y ago
Someone else having control of your currency is a lot different than no one having control over it.
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by genwin 13y ago
No other country matters, according to the US. If a company in another country does business in the US it can be sued in Eastern Texas (patent trolls' heaven).
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by genwin 13y ago
Excoriate Kim Dotcom but to avoid being hypocritical make sure you do likewise for those large corporations who perfected his method.
533.
by genwin 13y ago
The court is usually in Eastern Texas. Expect the unexpected there.
534.
by genwin 13y ago
Maybe for the same reason the masses rally around companies and gov'ts that do it.
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by genwin 13y ago
Some other group who buys the patent from him, paying his bills and then some, would sue to enforce the patent rights.
536.
by genwin 13y ago
I could see a company or investor group buying this patent from him at $50M+. It's worth more even at a penny per authentication.
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by genwin 13y ago
But no worse than what large companies and the US gov't routinely do.
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by genwin 13y ago
> I don't think it's patent abuse as much as it is good old fashioned extortion. Precisely. Large companies routinely employ such negotiation, as does the US gov't to an extreme. Kim Dotcom is no worse.
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by genwin 13y ago
It's a process, which is patentable.
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by genwin 13y ago
The patent clerk has about 7 hours on average to examine prior art. The clerk may not be technologically savvy.

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