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by hughw 15y ago
You dropped out of college because of a "ridiculous emphasis on calculus" yet you are able to track and form opinions on the quality of "algorithms teaching in top universities"? I doubt it.
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by hughw 15y ago
We already have a lot of miles on ChromeOS. Why isn't it more popular? Is there anything fundamentally inferior about a device that is all web browser? Will B2G have the same barriers?
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by hughw 15y ago
That looks like a full fledged game running in a canvas. It looks great to me. Is it somehow inferior to native Angry Birds? (I've never looked any other version).
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by hughw 15y ago
G+ is Facebook for Asperger's.
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by hughw 15y ago
Yes. The problem is that at some point you talk to some library function that uses java.util.Date, and there goes your time zone information (although with hackery you can sometimes get the library to do the right thing).
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by hughw 15y ago
Actually, CloudFlare tells you the client's IP in a header CF-Connecting-IP, so you can add that to your log format.
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by hughw 15y ago
I can only speculate. They don't really offer comparative figures. but they do say: "We now have over 1 million users of the Web app. A lot of customers have switched over from the native app." One million users is a lot! I doubt they have
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by hughw 15y ago
"We've had super positive response from users overall. But the experience is so close many people probably did not recognize the difference. We resolved some glitches from the initial release and now things are running smoothly." This is an
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FT replaces iPad app with web app(w3.org)
2 points by hughw 15y ago|3 comments
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by hughw 15y ago
The MPAA/RIAA argument amounts to: We would like to do business on the Internet but existing Internet architecture isn't satisfactory for our business model. Let's make a law to change the architecture.
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by hughw 15y ago
Some of these are just notional and don't exist; e.g. "petroleum dataset" https://aws.amazon.com/datasets/2900
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by hughw 15y ago
Funny... that was the first thing I noticed, too.
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by hughw 15y ago
Keep corporations out of it. Almost everything they touch turns into an ugly mess.
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by hughw 15y ago
It's a ridiculously gerrymandered district, winding around to catch the Republican precincts in Austin. I live in the district. Sure, I'll drop him an email. Just for the exercise. I've done it before. There's zero chance he'll react. You c
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by hughw 15y ago
Havre you looked into the dojo build system? That's how you make your single minified js file. Pretty straightforward, I think? http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/build/
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by hughw 15y ago
Yes, there is seemingly a lot of documentation, each part of which describing about 80% of what you need to know. They've put a lot of effort into it, I think, yet it needs more effort. Since I haven't contributed to that effort, I can't co
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by hughw 15y ago
data-blah is HTML 5 legal and dojo is changing its patterns to use it. dojoAttachPoint is an attribute dojo uses in widget templates. I don't really know what you would propose to replace it (except data-attachPoint, say). If you're going t
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by hughw 15y ago
Ideally we'd have languages impedance matched to making assertions and queries in the logical language of relations. Prolog? (Googling "Prolog SQL" turns up this Stack Overflow discussion about translating Prolog to SQL http://stackoverflo
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by hughw 16y ago
A Web GL version of that model would be very welcome.
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by hughw 16y ago
A goal of social policy is to modify the incentives that make "cruel" and "unavoidable" the logical choices. When child labor was legal, working them long hours was a cruel, unavoidable, and rational decision by employers too.
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by hughw 16y ago
Interesting to contrast Google Apps Marketplace: It charges 20% of "the total amount your customer ends up paying you for your application and related add-ons", specifically including recurring revenue but also excluding sales of items like
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by hughw 16y ago
I'll reword it for you. Well have a Special class. We'll pay an instructor to come in and give our devs a half day course on How not to Violate the GPL. GPL is another bureaucratic hoop to jump through, just like race and gender discriminat
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by hughw 16y ago
Yes. We need better prophylactics in place to ensure we don't catch the GPL virus. That's why people call it viral. You're correct that other open source licenses can present similar issues of poisoning.
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by hughw 16y ago
The responses all have the theme, "Inadvertent? Who would do that? Only irresponsible ninnies would do that." So they ignore the premise of the article, which presumes that inadvertent inclusion does happen. Additionally, I posted a few exa
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by hughw 16y ago
And your point is, people shouldn't do that? Well, you're not convincing me that the GPL doesn't spread virally and inadvertently then.
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by hughw 16y ago
I think, a lot. Here's a nifty little FFT code. Hey FFT's are kind of generic, right? This one's only 40 lines of C. I'll just copy and paste this one little function. Nobody'll ever know. Or maybe nothing so complex as an FFT. Maybe it's a
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by hughw 16y ago
Don't address these rhetorical questions to me, using me as a straw man. I didn't assert people are spreading FUD about "inadvertent" infringement. The author did.The author uses "inadvertently" right in the first sentence, as the very prem
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by hughw 16y ago
dojotoolkit.org has a well baked module system. You can use just the smallish dojo core, then edit your scripts to use dojo.require.
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by hughw 16y ago
The article starts off reasonably. The first sentence pulls you in, describing the case you fear most: you have "inadvertently" incorporated GPL code into your proprietary code. But by the time it gets to the conclusion,you, the inadvertent
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by hughw 16y ago
It's creepy how so many comments here are about the impact on the company, on shareholders and investors. "Steve, it's so rude not to recognize the impact your disease and likely death is going to have on me." C'mon people. He's a goner. He

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