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by halo 18y ago
Does Google scrape content in whole, separate them from the original page and reuse them on other people's commercial websites without my permission? Y'know, the same difference between Google and a website that steals articles from other s
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by halo 18y ago
If Apple can do it in their hugely successful Mac vs. PC ads, I see no reason why Canonical can't deal in the same hyperbole themselves. Apple's posturing hardly turned off people from buying Macs.
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by halo 18y ago
So what? A lack of a robots.txt rule doesn't imply "I can take other people's content, reproduce it wholesale, remove it from context, and put it on other people's sites or otherwise do what I want to it" does it? A lack of a robots.txt rul
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by halo 18y ago
So you're taking content written on other sites, scraping it without permission of the original authors or site owners, and reproducing wholesale on your site? This is unethical at best and outright illegal at worst.
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Web2ExpoSF 09: A Conversation with the Founders of Threadless(youtube.com)
1 points by halo 18y ago|0 comments
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by halo 18y ago
If you pay for premium you could also use despotify: http://despotify.se/
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by halo 18y ago
'The Design and Implementation of Virtual Machines' or 'Theoretical Computer Science by Example'.
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by halo 18y ago
In the UK they can't legally be used on pavements which restricts their usefulness.
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by halo 18y ago
Isn't that Peter Seibel's "Practical Common Lisp"?
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by halo 18y ago
Nice idea. Reasonable implementation. Ugly design. Poor colour choices, inconsistent fonts and poor and inconsistent layout decisions preclude it from looking professional. It all feels a bit 90s and clunky, frankly, and would put me off us
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Protovis: A graphical toolkit for visualization with the Canvas tag(vis.stanford.edu)
7 points by halo 18y ago|0 comments
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by halo 18y ago
It's the same reason people are suspicious when Microsoft associates itself with open-source software. Past actions make people suspicious as to whether they can rely on them for support in the future, especially when it comes to something
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by halo 18y ago
Having a quick read of the documentation, Ext Core 3.0 is very similar to jQuery, except no-one uses it, its syntax is uglier (i.e. the distinction between Ext.get vs Ext.fly is problematic, the weird inclusion and naming of Ext.radioClass
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by halo 18y ago
Three words: Worse is better. Inelegant imperfect but simple design meant that Linux was more accessible to contributors and progressed quickly and hence succeeded in building a community where more complex designs have largely failed. Perh
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by halo 18y ago
The video of the talk: http://pycon.blip.tv/file/1947373/
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PyCon 2009 Videos Uploading(pycon.blogspot.com)
2 points by halo 18y ago|0 comments
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by halo 18y ago
No. British broadsheet The Guardian had a high-profile redesign in 2005 which shifted the newspaper away from the traditional broadsheet into a full-colour Berliner, and soon after the paper won multiple design awards and their circulation
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Wired: Scientists Map the Brain, Gene by Gene(wired.com)
1 points by halo 18y ago|0 comments
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by halo 18y ago
It's worth adding that Stack Overflow has licensed their content under CC-by-SA, and so has cnprog.com, which suggests to me that they may be operating under that license and may not have even broken copyright law. Moral of the story: if yo
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by halo 18y ago
You could compile down to PHP. A similar approach has become popular with JavaScript.
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Juicydrop: Milkdrop-style music visualisation using canvas(nihilogic.dk)
2 points by halo 18y ago|0 comments
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by halo 18y ago
It's interesting that in New Scientist's article on the same thing ( http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16820-roomtemperature-... ) Krivit's views seem rather less optimistic than presented here, while they have an expert to seemingly co
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by halo 18y ago
There are corner cases where goto is more convenient than hacking around it using higher-level constructs. It's not inherently evil. It's repeatedly been shown that the developers of PHP regard it as a "kitchen sink" language where every fe
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New Explorer Canvas release with IE8 support(explorercanvas.blogspot.com)
3 points by halo 18y ago|0 comments
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by halo 18y ago
The bottom 2 product names are cut-off on a maximised browser window in Firefox at 1280x800 (i.e. a 13" laptop), which is quite a big problem.
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by halo 18y ago
There's also the very similar http://www.shell-fu.org/
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Rich Internet Application Plugin Statistics(riastats.com)
4 points by halo 18y ago|2 comments
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by halo 18y ago
Firefox has changed lots since 1.0, you probably just don't realise it because it's taken a while. Off the top of my head: * Major look and feel changes in 3.0 * Spell checking in 3.0 * Performance improvements throughout the browser. * Imp
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by halo 18y ago
This is as much a war as Dell vs. Apple is - i.e. not at all, and it's misleading to frame it as as such. This is not a "winner takes all" scenario: it's two competing products in a single marketplace where getting a small fraction of sales
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by halo 18y ago
Sadly, interoperable standardised protocols tend not to get public mind-share these days.

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