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by mcgwiz 13y ago
I agree. Along with that I'd add that they've taken off because of their expert marriage of the concepts of social networking with open source development, to harness Metcalfe's Law. By providing such a good social experience
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Thanks for your reply. First off, you're right, cheers for resuscitating SF. Not that it would by any means be easy, I was suggesting a conceptual re-think of SF to attract and enthrall new users/projects. However your response (a
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Good write-up, thanks. But this isn't a sustainable strategy. You're basically asserting SourceForge's unique selling point/competitive advantage is its ability to host files. You've got to be kidding. GitHub has ta
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Verizon Wireless Service Coming Soon to Transit Wireless Network in NYC(businesswire.com)
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Thanks for the pointer. Will dig in.
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How about a demonstration of something of real-world significance? - content negotiation (basic building block of hypermedia APIs), - authentication (and ensure SSL is used when authenticated), - most importantly, HTTP caching, where -- una
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Ah, yes. The law. If someone breaks the law, they are punished. Justice is that simple. Oh, wait, unless the laws happen to constrain the interrogation techniques used against detainees. Or if they prevent access to the private lives of Ame
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The Core of 'Mind and Cosmos'(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
It looks nice (much like Google Image results) but IMO it's not "equally distributed". For example, an image that has dimensions 800x531 gets ~2.3x the space as one with dimensions 531x800. That arbitrarily incentivizes/
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
This is interesting but I don't like it. It's a quirky non-idiomatic hack. Using vertical-align/line-height/inline-block is equally-effective and IMHO conceptual and readable/self-documenting. Details: http:/&
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In my opinion, he describes a basic mechanism of survival for cultures. Cultures that inspire such defensive "inability to think clearly" about the subject have increased survivability (social propagability). But in order to survi
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Certainly amusing demo. What might actually have a chance at winning me over (having deep real-world experience with and trust of other tools) is an account of more complex usage: - deep look at componetization/composition techniques,
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The article was very sympathetic toward Aleynikov and accounts his acquittal on appeal, so it breaks that "law" (which IMHO is upheld primarily due to confirmation bias).
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Although I acknowledge the sympathetic angle of the article, I cannot fathom why he would take such a risk. During my 2 years consulting in global investment banks in NYC, it was standard practice for all employees, internal or external, wi
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Er, is that why the screenshots use Google Chrome?
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> he seemed to be saying that clients don't get to go to his site and then reject his use of analytics by (for instance) refusing to load the scripts. I find that attitude quite objectionable. Yeah, it's perfectly fair and reas
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Client and server, guys. A web browsing experience is a cooperative endeavor that occurs on property controlled by both the host (web server) and the visitor (user agent). At a fine-grained level, different aspects of that experience can
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Setting aside the defense of RS by sibling comments, part of the reason this article is of interest is its presentation format. Find a peer-reviewed science journal that also provides a rich multimedia experience and you can argue that ther
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
To spell it out, the precise problem with this specific patent is the ambiguity of the terms used in the claims. "Online information" and "reader comment" can describe the content of any one-to-many data relationship pre
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Reddit's new multireddit functionality is now live(reddit.com)
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You could use something like TrueCrypt to encrypt the vhd/vmdk(s). How aggressively you mount/unmount the volume depends on the circumstances.
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
mike at scrambledbrains dot net Cheers!
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
This post is annoying in that it conflates and oversimplifies far too much. On the point of humblebragging: I (and 95% of the internet population) agree, humblebragging should not be done (even though the author later goes on to humblebrag
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.NYC TLD – New York City's New Web Address(nyctld.com)
5 points by mcgwiz 13y ago|2 comments
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TypeScript 0.9 Preview Release(blogs.msdn.com)
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
I don't understand what the difficulty is. You either act, or you don't actually perceive immorality. People are not acting immorally at all times when they're not attempting to remedy the most immoral thing, as long as their
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
This underlies one of the core questions of philosophical ethics: "what should you do?" There are many moral frameworks* but the way I've always understood it, underlying each of them is that morals are defined by the oblig
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Misattribution corroborated by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/when-government-fea...
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Agreed, a nice library overall. And at first I was impressed by the overlay, especially considering the novel implementation. However, after a little thought and setting that novelty aside, I think that effect is broken. It's simply not at
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Well said. A similar idea is that "you can't please everyone." (It's not the same idea, because this one presupposes an aim to please others where there wasn't necessarily one in the article.) This trips up many people, including myself at

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