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by gioele 14y ago
If the AWS GUI is difficult, then what about the Rackspace CloudFiles GUI? But you are right, we pay them for their services, not for their web interfaces.
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by gioele 14y ago
Don't build a business on an API whose backend you cannot change at will. Same goes for protocols (Facebook Login vs OpenID), format (DOC vs ODT) and data sources (Gracenote vs MusicBrainz). If you cannot replace a service that is behind an
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by gioele 14y ago
The source shows quite clearly why the HTML community needs try to address the adoption of namespaces in HTML5 ASAP, maybe not in the current form but in some simplified form. I feel uncomfortable with the use of non-namespaced tags and squ
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by gioele 14y ago
> I'm happy enough to pay the small fee to have access to a huge music library across all devices. As long as it lasts. I want my music collection to be accessible also when Spotify will go out of business, sued into oblivion or acquire
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by gioele 14y ago
> Very large sites would love to see a 'noindex' parameter in robots.txt; sadly it's not there. Isn't User-agent: * Disallow: / enough?
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by gioele 14y ago
> Micro kernels are very hard to debug. Microkernels are not harder to debug than monolithic kernels. I'd even say that they are easier to debug, much easier. (Personal experience in debugging both.) The problem with microkernel-based O
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by gioele 14y ago
Given that Safari/WebKit is based on KHTML, I'd say that Alexander was named after KDE's Konqueror.
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by gioele 14y ago
> The evolution of the web technologies is an organic growth that won't be stopped in time to say "HTML5 certified". At the same time now you have a way to say "When I say HTML 5 I refer to these features, at least". Without a spec fixe
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by gioele 14y ago
Fact checking of some assumption of existence. * «MPEG 3»: Yeah, sure. * «We can print working guns right now»: No, you cannot, neither you will be able in the foreseeable. Please prove otherwise.
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by gioele 14y ago
It is claimed that it also happened to the OpenBSD crypto code: marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129236621626462&w=2 (a bit of analysis on the story: https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/experts-openbsd-backdoor-... ). Long story short.
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"ie=☠" to force UTF-8 in forms(de.pons.eu)
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by gioele 14y ago
Thanks for sharing. One can clearly see * the "I like last.fm" moment, * the "let's make the content bigger" moment, * the "actually I prefer Facebook" moment, * the "ehi, Soundcloud is cool after all" moment, * finally the "maybe I found m
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by gioele 14y ago
Microsoft Office do not produce or read Office Open XML files as defined in the OOXML ISO standard. They produce something that looks similar but not quite right. The same thing happens with the older formats, they are not produced or read
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by gioele 14y ago
> Every computer at a store today is fast enough for 99% of people. The request for smaller, fancier appliances that consume less power will always be there. Also, the world outside your PC is moving: JIT VMs in the browsers, computatio
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by gioele 14y ago
The title should be "Writing JavaScript code that turns out to be fast and memory-efficient in the 2012 editions of JS engines". When discussing the efficiency of a language, especially an interpreted language, one must always take into acc
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by gioele 14y ago
If I understand it correctly, they claim that you must be in what is thought to be the top 2%, in other words your IQ must be over 130-something. But this does not mean that they reject 98% of the people that take the tests. People interest
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by gioele 14y ago
Ask HN: what is the acceptance/rejection rates for Mensa tests?
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by gioele 14y ago
Beware of the gargoyles: http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/cyborg/kawstretch.html «Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, bro
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by gioele 14y ago
This result, although positive, may have much bigger drawback in the not-so-long term: this is a first blow to net neutrality. First net neutrality is broken for obviously good sites: Wikipedia & Co. Then it is broken for obviously usef
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by gioele 14y ago
Interesting bit in the comments: «I remember being at a demo of Adobe Digital rebook reader when it was first released many years ago. The rep went through the license agreement with some care and pointed out that under the rules, it was fo
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Kobo says you cannot share your account: not with a spouse, your kids, anyone(the-digital-reader.com)
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by gioele 14y ago
> philosophy in general isn't synonymous with "detached from practical concerns". I strongly agree with you on this; I did not make my point clear enough. What I do not like is the use that the article's author did of the term "philosop
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by gioele 14y ago
"Philosophical" means related to wisdom or knowledge. Philosophy inquires about the nature of things and the boundaries of nature itself. In that sentence, «philosophical reasons», philosophical meant abstract, remote, detached from practic
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by gioele 14y ago
> Aside from being exciting to FOSS enthusiasts for philosophical reasons Freedom is not a philosophical reason.
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by gioele 14y ago
From my long comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4687151 > The minutes of the 31 March meeting Before that meeting, some of the scientists have been "used" by various politicians and high-level civil servant in their publi
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by gioele 14y ago
> The minutes of the 31 March meeting Before that meeting, some of the scientists have been "used" by various politicians and high-level civil servant in their public speeches and interviews with the media. There are records of the dire
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by gioele 14y ago
> I was considering buying myself a Kindle for Christmas, but that's not going to happen now. You can still treat yourself with one of the many currently sold ebook readers out there: http://www.the-ebook-reader.com/ebook-reader-compar
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How to walk across Dublin without passing a pub.(kindle-maps.com)
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by gioele 14y ago
A dark archive is an archive that is not meant to be publicly accessible. As you said it is used to store information that must survive in case of disaster. But what is a disaster for a library? Yesterday it was a fire, today is a publisher
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by gioele 14y ago
What is the point of buying a Kindle then? You could have bought one of the many ebook readers available out there. What about a Kobo? Or a stylish Sony PRS? A small Booken? A feature-packed Onyx? An hackable iRiver Story? Why giving money

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