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by justinsb 15y ago
That's a clearer explanation than I was able to parse from the article - thanks! It seems to me that the right thing to do is to implement the blanket redirect centrally. If ISPs want to implement something different for their traffic, the
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by justinsb 15y ago
This article is much clearer on this point than the linkbait that was posted last time, but: This is a patent application, not a patent. When/if it is granted, the claims will not be anywhere near as broad as they are now.
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by justinsb 15y ago
Why not redirect _all_ DNS requests to the address of an informational HTTP server, saying "This computer is infected; here is how to fix it..." I am sure that Geek Squad would pay a substantial amount of money to be listed as one of the re
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by justinsb 15y ago
This is not a patent; this is a patent application. Anyone can write anything they like and file it as an application, and that is a good thing. If a patent is ever granted from this application, I guarantee you those claims will be nowher
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by justinsb 15y ago
Nice idea. I built a one part device. Sadly it looks like there's a bug in Google's saving code, so there's an extra (completely unnecessary) wall. https://developers.google.com/events/io/input-output/ahNzfmd... If you're going to share
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by justinsb 15y ago
Is this because as the price drops more applications become cost-effective?
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by justinsb 15y ago
Ah - that is a fair point, transparency of the "unit". The "box usage" formula was reverse-engineered and shown to be fairly simple: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-06-25-dissecting-simple... This is a big step forward in transparen
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by justinsb 15y ago
True, but I then see this as a step backwards vs SimpleDB's pricing model.
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by justinsb 15y ago
My understanding is that DynamoDB's Capacity Units are just a query throttle, and you get charged based on the throttle you set, whether or not you use that capacity. It also looks like you can still have one query that consume many, many
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by justinsb 15y ago
It is amusing that was positioned to try to address SimpleDB's problem of "pricing complexity". These aren't those complicated "Machine Hours", they're "Capacity Units"! As someone who has grappled in the past and is grappling again with t
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by justinsb 15y ago
The lock-in comes not from the data format, but rather from the quirks of the particular system du jour: API lock-in.
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by justinsb 15y ago
It's a non-standard (NoSQL) database. Even SQL databases, despite years of standardization and efforts at poaching each other's customers, still have rough edges that make moving between different SQL database products non-trivial. Just b
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by justinsb 15y ago
Can the 10GB per domain limit be raised on SimpleDB? Or do I have to promise to refer to it as DynamoDB to do that? :-)
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by justinsb 15y ago
Very interesting that there's no mention of the CAP theorem here, despite Amazon's heavy reliance on it in the past when marketing their non-relational stuff.
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by justinsb 15y ago
I really like the idea of using SSH keys: one less password to manage, and it avoids sharing a secret with your provider. With hash-based signature schemes, you know that your secret has to be stored in cleartext, which is why you can't cho
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by justinsb 15y ago
"Personally, I'd prefer that the means of solution, if non-trivial enough, was protected, rather than the entire set of all possible solutions to a problem." That's exactly what patents are.
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by justinsb 15y ago
That's the big difference between patents and copyrights. With a copyright, you can only infringe if you copy code. With patents, you can infringe if you implement the same idea. I think it makes many people uneasy with the patent system
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by justinsb 15y ago
I think this is a great discussion; much more productive than the normal religious arguments. The first is reasonably sound. A potentially very interesting idea is to allow anything filed within 3 months of filing to be considered "prior a
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by justinsb 15y ago
I don't think it's fair to say that "anyone can be said to be infringing it". I think if you're a bank that's using scanned check imaging instead of mailing around checks, you're (likely) infringing. If you're building a social network, y
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by justinsb 15y ago
So DataTreasury fixed the way check clearing works, apparently pioneering a new digital approach instead of mailing around checks; implemented it; raised money and created 100 jobs; but couldn't get the banks to work with them. The banks t
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by justinsb 15y ago
FathomDB: San Francisco / Bay Area or remote. Full-time Software Engineers. FathomDB needs you to build the next-generation relational database. Fully buzzword-compliant: distributed, fault-tolerant and cloud-ready; more importantly a gre
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by justinsb 15y ago
The petition is only for software patents, so would not affect this patent.
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by justinsb 15y ago
Fototime was threatened by a NPE (aka troll); I can't imagine this pledge could have helped them.
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by justinsb 15y ago
Do non-trolls really bring patent cases against small companies? A company of <25 people probably doesn't have the cash to make a financial settlement worthwhile, and if a small company has a good product it'll have >25 people soon
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by justinsb 15y ago
I'd like to know more about this. My understanding is that every method in Clojure has this sort of signature: Object F(Object, Object,.. Object) So Add looks like this: Object Add(Object, Object) Now if Clojure recognizes that this is of
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by justinsb 15y ago
I've seen some of the previews. I don't put too much stock in them - Longhorn looked pretty awesome as well, until it shipped as Vista. My concern is that once every faction at Microsoft has had their say, you end up with this: http://www
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by justinsb 15y ago
A few sources... I wouldn't put too much faith in the details, but in terms of rough magnitude they're probably pretty accurate. Gartner says PC sales in 2011 will be <400 million. I'm pretty sure that's mostly Windows: http://online.
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by justinsb 15y ago
I definitely agree that it isn't an obvious choice at the current price point, but perhaps that's because Google knows that it isn't ready yet (needs better hardware, offline support in Google Apps, a more sensible approach to managing file
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by justinsb 15y ago
Have you tried a ChromeBook? The current hardware is a bit slow, the software is still very much a version 1, but in my experience it's like an iPad for "real computing": because it has a keyboard you can use it for emails etc, and in my o
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by justinsb 15y ago
It's reflected in (my reading of) Microsoft's statement. Sales figures are retrospective; this section of their 10-K is forward looking. Also, if you define the market to include smartphones and tablets, I'm pretty sure Microsoft doesn't ha

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