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by mburns 14y ago
Sounds like what the Firefox (and Chrome) devs have been busy creating. http://socialapi.net/ http://jbalogh.me/2012/01/30/push-notifications/ http://www.webrtc.org/ https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebActivities https://persona.org/
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by mburns 14y ago
"The Mozilla Corporation was established on August 3, 2005 to handle the revenue-related operations of the Mozilla Foundation. As a non-profit, the Mozilla Foundation is limited in terms of the types and amounts of revenue." The for-profit
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by mburns 14y ago
>it's all done, to the extent it is done, at the application layer. Sometimes true but often not. Encryption can and does happen at various layers of the (OSI) networking stack (Secure Session Layer, Transport Layer Security, Internet P
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by mburns 14y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoMhMZZjbGg
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by mburns 14y ago
Sure, you can't just throw money at a problem and expect it to resolve quickly. At the same time, Apple chooses which problems it wants to solve, because it has the capacity to plan for the support and engineering time required. It isn't
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by mburns 14y ago
Mostly the survey that got posted to HN a month or two back about Apple being the #1 reviewed place by employees, which is, admittedly, not the same as most desired place to work. http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Apple-RVW1
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by mburns 14y ago
They are literally the richest company in the world, and the most desired to work for company. The idea they couldn't afford or have the capacity to hire the talent they want is ridiculous. They just don't want to.
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by mburns 14y ago
Still implemented as an add-on.
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by mburns 14y ago
You read hard sci fi and you don't have answers to these questions? Q: How will humanity survive the radiation? A: Build igloos or inhabit caves or just plain dig into the ground. Problem solved. Q: How will humans remain mentally healthy?
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by mburns 14y ago
Specifically, Amazon was early to the party on cloud computing because Amazons usage trends vary so widely, their off-peak hours would leave them with thousands of idle servers. Google has plenty of horsepower to spare, sure, but their usag
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by mburns 14y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope
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by mburns 14y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket TCP sockets in Javascript are getting standardized.
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by mburns 14y ago
Memristors?
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by mburns 14y ago
Why not spend a few dollars and double or quadruple your memory?
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by mburns 14y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 ?
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by mburns 15y ago
More hubble telescopes have a limited use. We can learn mysteries of the universe, sure, but they aren't great for finding readily-mineable asteroids. Even with the James Webb telescope discovering habitable planets, we're centuries away fr
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by mburns 15y ago
Elon Musk has only invested $200Million of his money into SpaceX. Pretty impressive results.
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by mburns 15y ago
We use that memory because we do more things faster. Of course we could page to disk whenever we want to use more than 1GB of memory, or render from CPU instead of keeping uncompressed versions in memory to lower footprint... Or we could
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by mburns 15y ago
No, the right way involves increasing economic co-dependence and providing better opportunities than drug smugglers and organized crime can provide. And we undercut our ability to even attempt such things when we overthrow people's govern
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by mburns 15y ago
Twitter wouldn't even put a significant dent into the nearly $100B in cash they have. They'd still have ~$90 billion left over after buying out Twitter.
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by mburns 15y ago
It doesn't matter if it was Conde Nast's doing. They made an investment in a new media property, and it has seemingly gone splendidly with little to no 'fallout' from having a corporate overlord owning a community site.
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by mburns 15y ago
"One caveat is that they can't royally fuck their customers. This is royally fucking their customers." You can't objectively define what constitutes "royally fuck[ing]" their customers. Just saying "this cost more than I think is reasonable
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by mburns 15y ago
http://getfiregpg.org/s/home There was some effort in just such a project, though it seems to have died out.
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by mburns 15y ago
>The player itself has not been a source of revenue for Adobe for quite some time Google pays lots of money for Adobe to auto opt-in Flash installs with Chrome.
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by mburns 15y ago
In contrast to Google, whose malware auto-detection algorithms will still flag Google-owned domains.
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by mburns 15y ago
To be clear, Mac OS X is UNIX certified, not just Unix-like.
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by mburns 15y ago
There will not be an ext5. ext4 was only created as a stop-gap. BRTFS is the future 'blessed' filesystem.
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by mburns 15y ago
http://2012.bloggi.es/#technology
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by mburns 15y ago
Microsoft bought Skype because they had an excess of European profits and, instead of taking the US tax hit by bringing that money local, they spent it in Europe, by buying Skype.
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by mburns 15y ago
Not quite what you want, but a good DefCon talk with code about making a 'real' session layer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aakzkrl-34g

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