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by gioele 14y ago
> > I treat all E-books purchased with DRM as rentals. >Good for you. Nobody else outside of HN does. Lawyers and librarians also do. There are big discussions in those circles about the meaning of the verbs "to buy" and "to pos
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by gioele 14y ago
_At least one_ of them is wrong.
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by gioele 14y ago
Because an accepted paper without some report is something that has never been seen and thus highly suspicious. No typos to report? All the prose is perfect and understandable? No missing references? No formatting issues?
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by gioele 14y ago
Couldn't we get rid of some "features" that have little practical use and create problems for implementers and make optimisation harder? For example `$~` and `$_` variables. Yes, they are lazily loaded but they force the VM implementers to
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by gioele 14y ago
Have a look at this other answer by LarsH: < http://superuser.com/a/486904/99285> . I think it is a much better more in-depth answer than the accepted one.
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by gioele 14y ago
The CAA is hosted and managed by archive.org; it is reasonable to expect that their lawyers greenlighted the project before hosting it. And for complains they already have a system in place to manage all the DMCA requests that they receive
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by gioele 14y ago
> seems silly to have wasting space on the hard drives of millions of users. I'd be more worried about memory consumption, wasted CPU cycles, lost opportunities to let the CPU sleep, the cost of running CI tests... I am also worried abo
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by gioele 14y ago
Chuck Moore's philosophy is well explained by this paragraph: > Likewise the conditionals. In Classic Forth we used IF ELSE THEN > And I have eliminated ELSE. > I don't see that ELSE is as useful as the complexity it introduces
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by gioele 14y ago
That thread also predicted the weird and unrealistic "let's-stay-inside-the-existing-boundaries" responses: > SGML does provide an official way of doing this folks and even if Dan C ain't here to round us up we maybe ought to stick to
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by gioele 14y ago
I think the crux of that conversion is: «Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu) Fri, 26 Feb 93 13:32:09 -0800 Tim Berners-Lee writes: > I don't want to change HTML now if I can help it, until it has gone to RFC track I absolutely agree i
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by gioele 14y ago
Caching without a Cache-Control header is a bug, agreed. The point is that in the original bug report the Cache-Control header was set in a way that implied the resource to be cacheable, but only for 0 seconds. This kind of declarations are
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by gioele 14y ago
Revalidating is optional. A browser MAY not revalidate if it likes so, unless you use `must-revalidate`: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-14.9.3 > A cache MAY be configured to return stale responses without validation, but
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by gioele 14y ago
I would like to defend Safari's behaviour. To me this problem reads "I was doing something wrong, but it has worked, it should keep on working". In this case, if there has always been a working proper way, I think that it is OK to break the
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by gioele 14y ago
Already discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3472142 . Every time this gets discussed a new security vulnerability comes up and is caused by the lack of -fPIE or -fPIC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3473068 .
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by gioele 14y ago
Not generally, say ARIN an RIPE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion#Markets... IP blocks are "licensed", not sold. These licenses can be transferred, but only under certain strict conditions. The ARIN CEO stated [1] «As
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by gioele 14y ago
That part is not part of the law, just introductory text. The law says in Article 5: «3. Member States shall ensure that the storing of information, or the gaining of access to information already stored, in the terminal equipment of a sub
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by gioele 14y ago
To all the people bashing the EU e-Privacy directive [1] (the "cookie law"): have you bothered read it all? If so, could you please pin-point which part of the directive you do not like? Which part are hard to implement? Can you also explai
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by gioele 14y ago
Misleading title. Flamebait. Mozilla devs have limited resources and they decided to tackle developing a better DOM before adding new auxiliary features. How is this wrong? The main comment says: «On the DOM side, there is a major refactori
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by gioele 14y ago
Basically they rediscovered RDF. They should switch to an RDF triplestore, at least they would be able to exploit some of the RDF-only optimizations and their validation tools.
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by gioele 14y ago
And nice, playful hacks get discarded as "Totally unusable." because they do not work on latest iOS. [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4442829
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by gioele 14y ago
Let's check the some facts. (Conclusions: the author seems right.) The application author claims that, among the others, a "DocuManager" application bundled its software and sold it with 1) disclosing that the original software is his "Maya
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by gioele 14y ago
It is not CC that is not working for your; you have (understandable) problems dealing with 500 authors that do not share an agency. CC images (BY-SA) could becoming a nice source of revenue thanks to Flickr (discovery) and their recent deal
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by gioele 14y ago
It works in a different way: the CC licences tell you what you can do without asking permission. All the things that are not permitted by the licence can be directly discussed with the rights' holder. So, if you see a CC-BY-ND piece of work
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by gioele 14y ago
My personal opinion on the causes of the inability to keep virtuous habits is that people lack external stimuli, review and pressure. Talk to teenagers who train for swimming competitions. They have to be in the swimming pool by 6:30 or 7
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by gioele 14y ago
Doesn't "shutdown" work like "login"? "To shut down", "To log in" are verbs. "I will shut down my computer in 10 minutes", "Click on the key to log in". "Shutdown" and "login" are action nouns. "The shutdown happened at midnight, two hours
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Password Turtle(twitter.com)
1 points by gioele 14y ago|0 comments
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Tales of a First Time Driver Developer(smallperturbation.com)
1 points by gioele 14y ago|0 comments
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by gioele 14y ago
«database of faces collected in Germany» "Collected in Germany". It is nice to see how politics and law keep applying physical verbs to non-physical infrastructure. If you ask around you will see that there are almost as many definition of
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by gioele 14y ago
I forked this file into a proper repo [1] and made some adjustments. Now the script does not spawn external processes any longer, making the shell lighter and faster to came up. Enjoy. Patches are welcome. [1] https://github.com/gioele/bas
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by gioele 14y ago
> SPDY is an IETF draft, working toward a ratified standard. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mbelshe-httpbis-spdy-00 Now it is, before it was not. And that is exactly my point in my reply: you cannot take whatever you call "SPDY" at

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