lambda

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2221.
by lambda 17y ago
If they don't show up, how do you fine them? This isn't just about a person who misses a court date because they're lazy; it's also about people who may flee to a different country, or start working under an assumed name, or anything of the
2222.
by lambda 17y ago
Actually, all over the front page I see ØMQ, not 0MQ. It's read "zero", but it's spelled with a slashed capital O.
2223.
by lambda 17y ago
ePub is not DRM free; ePub simply has no standardized DRM. All of the major ePub bookstores sell books with some sort of DRM; for the most part, the only ePub books you can find without DRM are the public domain books from Project Gutenberg
2224.
by lambda 17y ago
I think this essay, written in 1997, is worth another read in light of the recent iPad announcement, and the closed and locked down platform it provides.
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by lambda 17y ago
Huh. An interesting development in light of the locked down iPad announcement. Are they going to allow Google Voice now, too?
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The Right to Read - Richard Stallman(gnu.org)
71 points by lambda 17y ago|9 comments
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by lambda 17y ago
How does an alternative web browser confuse people? Has Firefox been taking market share from IE because it confuses people? No, it's because Microsoft got complacent, and let their browser rot, and some open-source hackers managed to produ
2228.
by lambda 17y ago
The thing is, without an open platform, the new, innovative ways of working with this machine will never be invented. This is about far more than running your own Ruby scripts. It's about the fact that true innovation cannot exist in such a
2229.
by lambda 17y ago
But, this isn't about giving the users freedom from choice; with 140,000 options in the App Store, that's a lot of choices. This is explicitly about locking developers down, and not allowing them to do things that Apple does not approve of.
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by lambda 17y ago
I tried asking this question on Stack Overflow a couple weeks ago. I got some good answers, though I don't feel like I got one really definitive answer. Anyhow, I'd recommend reading through that thread to see if anything leaps out at you.
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Encoding images in tiny messages; don't align values at bit boundaries(stackoverflow.com)
6 points by lambda 17y ago|1 comments
2232.
by lambda 17y ago
You can log into StackOverflow with any OpenID (LiveJournal, AIM, Yahoo account, Gmail account, etc). But I'd rather have code than just a suggestion; it's easy to think of an idea that sounds good on paper, but harder to actually implement
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Twitter image encoding challenge; compress an image into 140 Unicode characters(stackoverflow.com)
8 points by lambda 17y ago|2 comments