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VLC Chocolate(2.borgodoro.it)
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In WhastApp, there are two little checkboxes next to every message -- one indicates the message has been received by the server (which is actually very useful!), two indicates the message has been delivered to the client. Coupled with the &
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We'd have to cover too much land with solar panels. What we need are more nuclear power plants, but no one will build them anymore.
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VP6 in Flash was always delivered losslessly over TCP, and never used for video capture in Flash. Skype is what makes VP8's shortcomings (for video chat) even more interesting, but On2's codecs show a very clear evolutionary path
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I wrote one of the first de/packetizers for VP8 RTP back when the spec was released. My impression was that the codec isn't really designed for network transmission. The probability table for the entire frame is sent up-front, so
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> from your tone and the "side" you picked I basically assume you're running iOS and OS X exclusively Please don't mistake technical pragmatism for ideology. I'm a big supporter of software freedom, most of my w
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This wasn't the case last I checked (with x264), especially if you consider video quality. Historically VP8 has been much slower, mostly because existing H.264 tools have had more time to mature.
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Being "open source" has nothing to do with it. The H.264 specs are open, there are plenty of FOSS tools available, and its supported ecosystem is much more robust. The only advantage to VP8, from a developer's perspective, is
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Don't know of any articles, but there are a number of papers on linear logic and linear type theory. Most are pretty dense, but the first few pages of Wadler's "Linear types can change the world!" give a very readable ov
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With a purely linear type system, memory management could be handled statically, negating the need for traditional GC. The underlying behavior would be closer to C-style just-in-time {de-}allocation, or C++ RAII. LinearML is an attempt at t
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> But seeing tables being used for layout annoys me far more than the blink tag. How come? CSS positioning is pretty unintuitive, and sometimes it's just easier to get something working with tables. If the end results look fine, wha
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It'd be nice if the "political" stories were confined to discussing the code+philosophy of privacy and Internet freedom. But the majority are puff pieces or knee-jerk outrage articles that contribute very little to the over
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Auth Basic can be done directly against postgres, plus a few more modules (headers-more and eval was how I did it, IIRC). Could probably do it with just openresty too. After authentication, you have the credentials needed check authorizatio
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I downvoted him this time. Not only because I disagree, but also because espousing misinformation of that sort is genuinely damaging -- it's downright wrong, and calling something communistic carries a lot of negative connotations (whe
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Plugins are where it gets weird. Technically there should not be proprietary plugins at all with the GPL, but it might depend on the interface or manner of linking (eg, would a HTTP-based "plugin" API be considered a derivative wo
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You are, once again, either misunderstanding or willfully misrepresenting everything that's being said. Users aren't being denied anything, because proprietary software doesn't exist under the GPL. Developers and distribu
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You clearly misunderstand his goals and those of GNU/FSF -- that is evident from every single one of your posts on this article, despite all these people trying to explain it to you. Not going to continue here; have a good evening.
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Users -- those who are actually interacting with a running version of the software -- lose nothing with the GPL. On the contrary, their rights to the code are secured. Developers -- those who modify and redistribute the software, in binary
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As the copyright holder of a piece of code, I can use the GPL to ensure my users won't ever have to wonder about the provenance of my bit of code, no matter where it ends up. When developers adopt the GPL, it should be a conscious deci
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It's not just the code itself, but also derivatives thereof. Eg, no one would argue that iOS is free in any sense of the word. There are many, many reasons for wanting the ability to inspect, modify and compile code yourself. The GPL s
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> I don't want some ed tech startup with vc funding to use this code. Startups would still be free to use it as long as they abide by the license. With the AGPLv1, they have to publish their changes. Also, if the project offers a fa
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IIRC: Crossroads I/O was forked from ZeroMQ by its original author, who subsequently decided to start from a clean slate with nanomsg. His blog has some really good insights on various design decisions and "lessons learned" f
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Funnily enough, last time I set up a supervision tree hierarchy with Upstart, I was thinking the whole time, "this would be so much nicer with Erlang." I think that was my a-ha moment for OTP. For most standalone systems though, U
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Crossroads I/O has been superseded by nanomsg: https://github.com/250bpm/nanomsg It's still pre-alpha but has a ZeroMQ compat layer already.
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> But defending it with these kinds of points just seems tired and strange. Why? Those are the points that are important to him. The set of points that are important to you are likely non-intersecting. You say you're trying not to d
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If DRM wasn't implemented in the form of an opaque binary blob, would the FSF still object to it? There is no freedom-destroying threat from media itself, only in how it's packaged and distributed. The problem is fundamentally one
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> 1 If they don't, it's probably because NSA is actively preventing it (albeit while doing it themselves). Anyway, we're not disagreeing here. > 2 Like it or not, it's how the world works. > 3 ...and Godwinned.
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Rose-colored glasses, maybe? How about slavery, segregation, the treatment of Native Americans, Japanese internment, McCarthyism, etc. Find a country with a history of unblemished human rights -- it doesn't exist. Anyway this thread is
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>If we don't demand moral just governments we will never get them. OK, here's a clue: truly moral governance is only sustainable if all governments follow the same moral behaviors. Unfortunately, that's not a stable equili
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> believes the US government can be reasoned with and negotiated with Whistle-blowing is an important exercise that keeps the system in check. And I do think this whole thing was an important wake-up call. But it really seems that Snowde

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