mcmc

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by mcmc 16y ago
In agreement with what Zed is saying, you would be shocked by the number of companies, YC companies especially, who use Orbited (www.orbited.org) but never ever mention it, contribute a patch, offer me a job, or really add anything of value
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by mcmc 16y ago
That isn't correct. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Spencer_(computer_engineer...
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by mcmc 16y ago
From the article: "And here's a detail that matters in any copyright infringement litigation: 17. Google does not receive any payment, fee, royalty, or other remuneration for its contributions to the Android Platform." I don't why this "mat
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by mcmc 16y ago
As I've been slowly recovering from back injury/surgery over the past few years, I've been unable to sit for long periods of time. In order to be able to write software at all I've had to construct a laying down desk where I look up through
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Making Things: Soap(tellumo.net)
2 points by mcmc 16y ago|0 comments
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by mcmc 16y ago
Note the extra querystring arguments in the url: ?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo I wonder if replicating this stuff messes up techcrunch's metrics sign
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by mcmc 16y ago
"With node.js... you really, truly and most awesomely don't worry about race conditions." Most of node.js's fanbase well and truly believes this nonsense, that you can't have race conditions simply because there is no pre-emption of your ru
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by mcmc 16y ago
IANAL, But this doesn't sound entirely correct. Youtube is operating as an OSP under the DMCA safe-habor laws, and this has been upheld in court. Youtbue must therefore act neutrally in each case -- that is, they have obligations both to th
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by mcmc 16y ago
I ran a non-profit called ossline for a while (www.ossline.org) which helped open source projects with contributor license agreements, so I am familiar with the issues. I don't understand this "no way in hell I am signing a contract just to
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by mcmc 16y ago
If you need real-time web/network/mobile work done, I have a ton of experience and love doing it. (SF/Bay area, telecommute okay) - I wrote Orbited (www.orbited.org) - Designed WebSocket handshake (officially recognized by w3c/html5) - Come
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by mcmc 16y ago
It seems like it is a fair comparison; why do consumers care what MS's target market is, except insofar as it affects a product they want to buy? I suppose this is why many people prefer Ben and Jerry's ice cream to Safeway.
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by mcmc 16y ago
This is a cool demo; props to the guys who made it. I have done a few demos like this, and it turns out to be surprisingly hard to turn it into a product. For instance, just because you can send over changes to the DOM, you can't necessaril