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by kam 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (USA, American Citizen) I go a little beyond what they call "full stack". I write code for both sides of the HTTP request as well as both sides of the USB cable. My current project involves d3.js, node, LLVM, and custo
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by kam 14y ago
As a developer of a hardware project [1] that was funded on Kickstarter last year, I have to say that the real value is not the easily-reproduced payment infrastructure, but the eyeballs. A significant portion of our backers found the proje
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by kam 15y ago
Phillip Torrone of MAKE has a radical suggestion for libraries' "next big thing" -- provide resources for building things. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/03/is-it-time-to-rebui...
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by kam 15y ago
Creating new files from the web-based editor is a little feature that should really be there. There's another good use-case, which I've suggested to them: Their "We recommend adding a README..." message could just link to a markdown editor,
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by kam 15y ago
Frontier does this.
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by kam 15y ago
The musicians, portrait artists, and carriage drivers of 1900 would have been glad to stop all progress and prevent recorded music, photography, and cars from "killing" their jobs. I'm glad that didn't happen.
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by kam 15y ago
Take a look at the URL bar in the first second of the video. Fake.
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by kam 15y ago
EtherPad is under the Apache License (non-viral, like BSD)
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by kam 15y ago
There's no DRM with the current Flash iteration either. They use blowfish to obfuscate the audio URLs in the XML playlists, but the audio files themselves are standard unencrypted AAC/MP3 downloaded over HTTP.
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How Bitcoin Works(en.bitcoin.it)
156 points by kam 16y ago|50 comments
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by kam 16y ago
A few days ago they reinstated the account of Courage to Resist, a Bradley Manning defense fund. The organization seems to think it was because of the pressure from bad publicity: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20036476-38.html
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by kam 16y ago
That's also because it's an emulator. A TRS-80 surely couldn't emulate itself at full speed.
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by kam 16y ago
http://vps.kevinmehall.net:8123/hn An Operational Transformation (like Google Wave / EtherPad) implementation in node.js and coffeescript. Source at http://github.com/kevinmehall/OTpad . It's much cleaner and lighter-weight than the Eth
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Scott Aaronson explains his $200k bet (8 Signs A Claimed P≠NP Proof Is Wrong)(scottaaronson.com)
106 points by kam 16y ago|16 comments
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by kam 16y ago
Paranoid secrecy probably costs more to maintain than the benefit they receive from it. Their secret isn't much of a competitive advantage. Their brand is. Keep trademark, kill patents. > "Some bakery experts were skeptical about Bimbo’
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Jeff Jarvis: Google is too big for its own good(buzzmachine.com)
6 points by kam 16y ago|1 comments
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by kam 16y ago
People are uncomfortable with this because it inverts the roles of the sensor and the sensed. The participant loses control over their decision whether to check in or not. It reminds me of Cory Doctorow's "Are You the Scanner or the Barcode
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The culture war: Android App Inventor vs iPhone App Store(radar.oreilly.com)
1 points by kam 16y ago|0 comments
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by kam 16y ago
They don't necessarily need their own desktop app. Just enable SIP and allow us to use GV with existing VOIP software and handsets.
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by kam 16y ago
I implemented something very similar (albeit slightly less slick) for the GNOME panel. It works nicely. http://blog.kevinmehall.net/2010/bringing_pin_tab_to_wnck
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by kam 17y ago
They claim they're using DIGEST-MD5, so not quite plaintext, but a broken hash algorithm http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=16742 http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=16741
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by kam 17y ago
This has actually been done - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Minerva Unfortunately, Tonga claimed the island and kicked them out.
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by kam 17y ago
The original link goes to the last page. First page: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/31770765/the_girl_who...
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by kam 17y ago
This habituates users to download and install software when a site tells them to. How can average Facebook users be expected to tell the difference between this and an "Antivirus 2009"-style trojan presented by a rogue Facebook app?
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by kam 17y ago
It's a <canvas> element.
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by kam 17y ago
But, presumably, solving capchas will be easy for AI by then.
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by kam 17y ago
However, Facebook is reportedly storing contacts imported but not selected, and using them for friend suggestions - see http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/06/12/facebook-now-sugges... Personally, I'd never give an email password to a thir
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by kam 17y ago
It might work better if the URLs in the video tag didn't 404 http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody/video_for_ev... http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody/video_for_ev...