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by masonlee 15y ago
Great post!
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by masonlee 15y ago
Perhaps it is not banal to say "INTERNETS" if you are indeed writing about the problem of network fragmentation?
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by masonlee 15y ago
Anyone know if they Amazon is actually hijacking " http://market.android.com/.. . " links, or are they just taking over the "market://..." url protocol handler? Huge difference.
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by masonlee 15y ago
Twitter already has client-to-service encryption with their https APIs.
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by masonlee 15y ago
iCloud doesn't enable public sharing. It's a personal backup system.
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by masonlee 15y ago
You cannot yourself with Xcode install the very same signed "Distribution" binary that you submit to the App Store. The closest you can get is one signed for "Ad Hoc" distribution, but even those binaries interact with the OS differently t
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by masonlee 15y ago
Will Apple open Siri to third party developers before Siri is out of "beta"? It would be nice to be able to ask Siri to do something that involves an arbitrary third-party app. Maybe apps could register to respond to certain voice "intent
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by masonlee 15y ago
The ace up Apple's sleeve is their full hardware and operating system control on iOS devices. Siri is just another example of this. Third-party software on iPhone is sandboxed in many ways that give Apple apps a competitive advantage. Wit
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by masonlee 15y ago
Namecoin and .bit
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by masonlee 15y ago
This is a good idea for a business! Custom site design of that quality can easily run someone a couple grand. Feature request: room for iPad screenshots!
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by masonlee 16y ago
Yikes. Hope Twitter is preparing for a DDOS themselves. These bot nets need to be shut down.
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by masonlee 16y ago
But it gets more interesting. He adds: "goal is p2p dns, not root-servers. We need root-servers for transition fast." http://twitter.com/brokep/status/8857561784651777
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by masonlee 16y ago
This is most disconcerting. Here's a bit of background: The original NYTimes Charlie Savage article from September breaking the news the that "crypto wars" may be heating up again: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html Blog
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by masonlee 16y ago
Seriously! In his keynote, Jobs likened the feel of the iPhone 4 to an old Leica camera. A Leica without a shutter button?
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by masonlee 16y ago
It was Wikileaks' publishing of the private pager messages in New York from the day of 9/11 that turned me off to them. ( http://911.wikileaks.org ) Would Wikileaks also have published all my private email from that day had they obtained i
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by masonlee 17y ago
Ouchie! My particular combination of installed fonts and plugins makes my browser unique among all 250,000 browsers tested there so far.
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EFF Panopticlick reveals your browser's perhaps surprisingly traceable footprint(panopticlick.eff.org)
2 points by masonlee 17y ago|2 comments
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A DNS takeover could compromise Twitter passwords(masonlee.org)
3 points by masonlee 17y ago|1 comments
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Thoughts on .Tel and WebFinger(masonlee.org)
1 points by masonlee 17y ago|0 comments
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by masonlee 18y ago
Hm. Use one letter variable names for scoped variables? Excerpt from lines 92-112: "* The length of an identifier determines its scope. Use one-letter variables for short block/method parameters, according to this scheme: a,b,c: any
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by masonlee 18y ago
Well not exactly... The work we are doing at Borange is more concerned with scheduling and availability than sending group SMS, and my main point was that there are possible strategies for migrating people off of SMS by including SMS compat
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by masonlee 18y ago
There are still a lot of innovations you can make here without replacing the SMS backbone wholesale. For example, users interact with user interfaces, not messaging layers. If you can get people using your interface, you can switch the mes
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by masonlee 18y ago
Gives new meaning to grading on a curve.
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by masonlee 18y ago
It took us four weeks and four rejections to get Borange approved. The back and forth via email with the App Store people moved at a snail's pace. The most helpful thing was for us to call Apple developer relations people and discuss our i