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by meanguy 14y ago
... have you tried PowerShell? It's actually more like a scripting language. But if they called it PowerScript we'd just make fun of it for being bad Python. And the command window itself still sucks. I use cygwin/rxvt/screen/bash and only
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by meanguy 14y ago
The shell really is inexcusable. Ever seen this? So close yet so far: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX I moved to cygwin+bash years ago which is 95% there -- and boy does the 5% have really sharp edges.
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by meanguy 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias I don't think this says much about CoffeeScript, which I use. However I do think it says quite a bit about how GitHub has plenty of room to grow as they make themselves more attractive to a broa
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by meanguy 14y ago
That's "traditional" in audio software. In 2D graphics software, radial manipulation is common. And don't forget the wonky 3D software modes where you just wiggle the mouse until something sort of rotates. Those are my favorite.
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by meanguy 14y ago
They take up less room than a slider. And certain controls are commonly radial: dimmers, volume dials, focus. Sometimes it just feels right.
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by meanguy 14y ago
Audio software made a bit of mess with the whole knob vs. slider thing. Digidesign released several products that used their linear fader code, but they only changed the graphics -- not the mouse code! Yup, you'd move up or down and the thi
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by meanguy 14y ago
Microsoft continues to cling to some weird file extension restrictions regarding what you can do with SkyDrive. Leading to idiotic documentation notes like this: "(downloading any audio file type, and uploading Waveform Audio File Format (.
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by meanguy 14y ago
OP mentioned revenue was via Google AdSense. So he'll need to get that sorted out as well.
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by meanguy 14y ago
I look forward to hearing how NameCheap and Google handle this. Followup please? Good luck.
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by meanguy 15y ago
Psst.. var xhr = $.ajax({ type: "HEAD", ... xhr.getResponseHeader('Content-Length') I wound up using Silverlight. Sigh.
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by meanguy 15y ago
Yet another nice stab at the problem. But every time I look through a component like this, it simply does not work. The corner cases kill you with end user complaints. No fault of the engineer: THIS NEEDS TO GET BUILT INTO THE DAMN BROWSER.
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by meanguy 15y ago
I converted some old, overcomplicated, YUI-inspired javascript that relied heavily on class inheritance: big win. I converted some events-gone-nuts code that talked to Google Maps: not a win. The productivity issue that nobody seems to talk
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by meanguy 15y ago
Unfortunately the Constitution eventually meets the road: Copyrights and Patents -- in US law -- derive from Acts of Congress. If you think there's any chance of repealing that stuff and going back to Jefferson's quaint musings on the topic
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by meanguy 15y ago
You're mixing patent ("idea") with copyright ("property"), but perhaps that's not a bad thing. I don't think copyright is hopeless (as pg implies), but I do think patents are fundamentally broken. So bear with me: The copyright debate shoul
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by meanguy 15y ago
If by "StackOverflow" you mean "Tumblr" then yes, I agree totally.
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by meanguy 15y ago
In that case, you'd likely be charged under a fraud statute (misrepresenting a product) versus counterfeiting (misrepresenting the source of a product). Selling a sugar pill isn't a trademark violation. Stamping Viagra on it is.
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by meanguy 15y ago
Counterfeit is different than generic: it was explicitly defined in Section 202 of SOPA as "falsely representing the source, manufacturer or distributor." As I wrote in a previous essay "You can still buy your overseas boner pills; they're
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by meanguy 15y ago
Ok, I'll bite Mr. Corporation Replacer. Where does the long-term R&D investment come from? Microsoft Research alone outspends Y Combinator by a factor of 50,000,000. And they're thinking 10+ years out. Money aside, their internal expert
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by meanguy 15y ago
Depends on your volume, of course, but seems expensive. 1 million jobs scheduled, 4 steps per job? $200. And you're locked into their API. You can have 8 workers each polling an Amazon SQS queue once a second for $19/month. Having had huge
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by meanguy 15y ago
Different types of creative work may deserve a different treatment. (The same people who want copyright protection reduced to 5 years max probably haven't thought through the GPL implications!) Imagine you wrote a truly great short story. S
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by meanguy 15y ago
Ahem: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57358947-261/dns-provision...
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by meanguy 15y ago
"the only thing I had in my mind was MongoDB." Well, when you approach it like that...
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by meanguy 15y ago
If PayPal or Google take down a site, it shifts liability to them. Addressing liability is a big part of SOPA and the DMCA before it. And you're right: laws don't work that way. But debate over pending, proposed legislation most certainly d
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by meanguy 15y ago
Yeah, I file that under "Raymond glossing things over." NT 3.5 shipped 11 months before Windows 95 did! People forget that Microsoft wasn't always a lumbering giant. Ship dates: NT 3.1 - July 93 NT 3.5 - September 94 NT 3.51 - May 95 NT 4.0
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by meanguy 15y ago
Raymond also glosses over this a bit in his article. Microsoft wasn't selling Windows 95. Microsoft was selling an upgrade product to corporations who ran Office. There were few (if any) 12MB machines, it was mostly 8MB or 16MB. (If you had
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by meanguy 15y ago
As someone who worked in the systems division throughout the 90s, I've often found Raymond's history a bit odd. "Windows 95" was originally "Windows 93" and explicitly wasn't going to have a new user interface. They wanted to maximize reven
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by meanguy 15y ago
Not shilling. Take away the DNS portion, take away the government extension portion, but leave Section 103 please: It extends the DCMA's definition of service providers to include Ad Providers and Payment providers (not DNS, not tinkering w
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by meanguy 15y ago
Unfortunately you can't really cite something that isn't there. My point is that there's nothing in SOPA that says what Tom's Hardware claims. The bill breaks down into two main sections. Section 102 covers foreign sites only. It grants the
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by meanguy 15y ago
"It would require web services like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to monitor and aggressively filter everything all users upload." False. It's the opposite actually. A site continues to have existing safe harbor protection UNLESS it does t
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by meanguy 15y ago
Product manager: coordinating officer, delegating company divisional chores / From manufacturing to vacuum-wrapping packaging, a model of corporate exacti-ture / He's pre-eminent -- isn't it evident? -- as his title infers / His word is law

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