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by gpjt 16y ago
Cool, sounds useful!
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by gpjt 16y ago
Thanks for the ideas! Re: posting -- I guess I would worry that the "attacker" would say that although the letter proved that I posted myself something on a given date, if the package was not tamperproof then it could have been anything.
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by gpjt 16y ago
That interesting, thanks -- I didn't know that.
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by gpjt 16y ago
Yes, that could work, though of course we might then have to prove that GitHub's records of when the repo was created/populated were correct -- I like mindcrime's suggestion (peer of yours) of combining that with a PR blitz, though. Re: a n
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by gpjt 16y ago
Hey, thanks! I like the last idea -- I'm sure a PRWeb release ($200 or so) would get picked up by enough random press-release-republishing semi-splogs to make the publication date pretty easy to prove. And a GitHub repo would give us anot
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Ask HN: how can we establish prior art to fend off future patents?
5 points by gpjt 16y ago|15 comments
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by gpjt 16y ago
Thanks!
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by gpjt 16y ago
- Backed by Google, Apple and Microsoft (and because of that able to capitalize on Flash being blocked from the iOS platform) - Already included in every major browser (if you include IE9) You're right about Google and Apple (and Mozilla
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by gpjt 16y ago
I'm obviously biased, having put time and effort into this particular one, but I think it may do better than the previous attempts. Two big things that I think help it: * It's built into all modern browsers, either in production (Chrome) o
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by gpjt 16y ago
[Site owner here] Aha, I was wondering why my site had had 578 visitors in the first hour after midnight... I'll keep an eye on the 512Mb VM that is my terrible excuse for a server and make sure it stays up. A quick note about the lessons:
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by gpjt 16y ago
At one stage, when we were selling a very expensive version of our spreadsheet product, we'd offer a pre-sales service of going through some of a potential client's spreadsheets and converting them to our own system -- the aim, of course, b
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by gpjt 16y ago
Agreed, I read the original post too quickly and until I saw this comment, I had the impression that mahmud was the scammer. A clarifying edit would be good.
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by gpjt 16y ago
Re: mobile websites -- I guess there's an "early bird gets the worm" problem here. About ten years back the story was that Japan was rushing ahead of the rest of the world because everyone had amazing mobile phones that could browse the we
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by gpjt 16y ago
Hmm. Last time I was at the new terminal at Barajas, they had announcements every two minutes explaining that for purposes of making the terminal a peaceful environment they don't do announcements. The building's nice, though.
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by gpjt 16y ago
We had a similar course at school (circa 1990) called "Computer Literacy And Information Technology". The "A" in "And" was carefully capitalised on all course material for some reason or other.
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by gpjt 16y ago
The thing is, they changed the spec after the PR 1.2 Nokia update that enabled WebGL was released in June or July. In August WebGLFloatArray was renamed to Float32Array because the low-level typed array specification was broken out of WebG
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by gpjt 16y ago
A lot of stuff is missing; last time I looked, IronPython (Python for .NET) wouldn't run on the restricted mobile CLR due to missing support for various introspection/code compilation APIs.
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by gpjt 16y ago
True, we've had to put porting our .NET app to Mono (for Mac/Linux support) on hold because of that -- the grid component we were using had a load of native code under the .NET layer.
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by gpjt 16y ago
I follow the public list where a subset of the spec-writing stuff is discussed, and it sounds likely that the spec will be done before the end of March, yes. There was quite a heavy hint dropped at the start of December: http://learningwe
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by gpjt 16y ago
The current Chrome and Firefox betas both have hardware acceleration for the desktop versions. WebGL is based on OpenGL ES, the version used by devices like the iPhone, rather than on the full "desktop" OpenGL -- this was apparently a delib
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by gpjt 16y ago
Now, seriously, Windows failed once on RISC platforms because software vendors were not interested in supporting them. Can an ARM-based Windows desktop function when the only software it runs is Windows? I guess a lot depends on how mu
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Fun with Google Books Ngram Viewer and the long S(gilesthomas.com)
2 points by gpjt 16y ago|0 comments
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by gpjt 16y ago
I think they generated it using Sphinx, which I heartily recommend as a tool -- you write your docs in REST, and it generates HTML (with built-in JavaScript search), PDF or other formats. It was developed for the latest version of the Pyth
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by gpjt 16y ago
Indeed -- and the problem doesn't sound any worse than it is for (say) .NET or Java desktop apps.
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by gpjt 16y ago
I've heard this called the "Netscape Effect" after NS4, which was so bug-riddled and bloated that people left for Internet Explorer in droves... it makes sense. But some of those problems sound like they could be ameliorated by minimising f
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by gpjt 16y ago
I think you can upload your own extensions to Picloud.
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by gpjt 18y ago
"Programmability in something other than VBA (Python?)." Resolver One is a spreadsheet that has that: http://www.resolversystems.com/products/programmability.php OpenOffice Calc has some kind of Python programmability too, though I don't