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by jedsmith 16y ago
Though I mostly agree, I sincerely hate this, and this isn't the first time I've seen it: > but I can't imagine people who write such poor code being able to compete with a startup that actually uses technology competently It's a pretty
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by jedsmith 16y ago
> I'm not an audio person, but if the component tracks (sublayers, like audio, vocals, guitar) of a song were separate, it seems like a reasonable use. Yeah, but not for Git. If you tried that with Git you'd basically have a nice wrappe
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by jedsmith 16y ago
You're right, it's Git's. Github did set a good precedent, though, by allowing you to see the diffs of images in a few different ways. That's a really clever feature that gives Git new functionality. Image diffs make sense, though, because
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by jedsmith 16y ago
So is Github just an excuse to self-promote your album on HN? Git is quite useless for binary data in the general case. I mean, did you use Git to manage your audio during production? If not, why use Github -- a service built around Git and
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by jedsmith 16y ago
I look forward to the useful commit logs from forks. Binary files a/song and b/song differ
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by jedsmith 16y ago
That's a different argument than you started with. You lost the plot somewhere, which is that I think attacking his employment over this goes beyond a line. There is only one reason to proudly put in your attack: Someone that works at
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by jedsmith 16y ago
> However, if he were actually certain to get the right guy, what's so bad about "attacking his family" as you define it? Spoken like a bachelor. Two things I firmly believe in, especially when it comes to Internet squabbles, disagree
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by jedsmith 16y ago
> Mr.Mueller has accused Groklaw lying and attacking him to get attention. There is no shortage of irony in that statement.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Jealous? Forget what an outpouring of support feels like? Or do you just never pass up an opportunity to divide people and call attention to yourself, in a quest to remain relevant?
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Full IPv4 tunneled through DNS[1] and even ICMP[2] has been possible for ages, and I've personally used ICMP-TX on an airliner to avoid paying for Wi-Fi (not because I'm cheap, mind, but because their registration didn't work). [1]: http:/
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by jedsmith 16y ago
If someone were to pursue it further and remind Amazon that not following OCILLA means being liable for every single copyright infringement that they host, whether on EC2, S3 (looking forward to that one!), or the Kindle store, they might c
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by jedsmith 16y ago
The DMCA is a law. Not following the rules of OCILLA is not acting according to law, which is identified by the word illegal . Illegal has nothing to do with criminality.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
> The culprit -- whose copyright agent doesn't respond to DMCA takedown notices unless they come on law firm letterhead -- is none other than Amazon.com. That's illegal. There are well-defined bullet points that make a valid DMCA compla
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Intentionally altering your site so that the automated scraper pastes personal identity all over the target site is an act of vigilantism, and feeds the wild West that the author laments. Hell, digging up identity and then using it agains
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Okay, I'll take the alternative view: this is embarrassing for the OP. What worries me is that the OP found the name Bart Burns on the WHOIS for the domain, and assumed (a) that's who registered the domain, and (b) that the information he f
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by jedsmith 16y ago
This has a surprising score, implying that I should care. I hate to be that guy , but why should I care about this? There's no context or overview of the ramifications of this. By all appearances this is people being morons to each other o
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Presented at USENIX NSDI. Abstract: http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi11/tech/techAbstracts.html#... Paper: http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi11/tech/full_papers/Wang_Yo...
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by jedsmith 16y ago
It was revealed [the week of March 9th] that Rovio's hit mobile title Angry Birds cost only $140k to create and has already generated an estimated $70 million. http://www.industrygamers.com/news/angry-birds-one-of-the-mo...
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by jedsmith 16y ago
With a source fairly prominently displayed at the bottom. Follow along if you absolutely must know more: 1. Navigate to twitter.com/scobleizer. 2. Observe first tweet. http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/status/56062315665178624 Th
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by jedsmith 16y ago
I work on a 27" iMac with a 27" second monitor, and a third 19" on a Linux box with Synergy. My primary language is Python, so I do have a place for that shit in the real world.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
You could have made that point without the personal attack.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
The problem with that example is how contrived and narrow it is. All it proves is that verbosity doesn't aid loop indices. ConcurrentHashMap<K, V>, on the other hand, says everything it needs to in the name. As does NSMutableArray,
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Doing that is probably fine if you are working alone and nobody will ever read your code. Reading Objective-C is already enough of a challenge without having to context switch to a header just to mentally resolve symbols. Instead of using a
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by jedsmith 16y ago
I see your Java, and raise you Objective-C: NSString *thing = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Result: %@", [foo someoneCouldntComeUpWithAShorterNameWithZipcode:08205 name:@"larry" parcels:5]]; NSDictionary *request = [NSDictionary di
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by jedsmith 16y ago
I would strongly disagree that it's contentious. (Think that over...disagreement about contention. I raised my eyebrow too.) Some of the more exotic features of what people call "OOP", like polymorphism, take a bit more care and feeding t
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by jedsmith 16y ago
I never spoke to ig1 in my comment. "You'll" there was in the general.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
I have a bit of experience with Xen. If you're actually seeing a whole lot of steal (how much?), that's a bad sign because it means you're on a box with a lot of contention. In an ideal world, Xen should steal very little from you. I'm burn
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Every time something interesting that I want to read shows up on the front page, and clicking on it yields a spinning tab while the other end flaps about in agony, I can't help but wonder how many administrators know how to use ab(8). The r
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Missed the connection between your reply and the second paragraph of your parent on first read. I responded initially to your combination of comments with that oversight in mind -- connected inferiority to inclined to disagree to me --
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by jedsmith 16y ago
I agree with your point of view, but TAOCP isn't really a work to be completed , and I'm willing to wager that anybody who says they have completed it flipped through it and put it back on the shelf.

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