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   by metajack 15y ago

   One big one is that you can check out a working copy of a particular sub-path in the repository. This means you don't need the whole repo (or the repo's entire history) locally, which is necessary in workflows where build products and othe
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   by metajack 15y ago

   I think that the idea is that if you declare the taxable value, then later try to sue someone for a much higher value, then you've now committed fraud against the IRS. Of course, the easy work around to this is the claim that it's value inc
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   by metajack 15y ago

   I believe he meant technologies that have the bulk of their logic server side, as opposed to on the client side (ie, old Twitter vs. new Twitter).
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   by metajack 15y ago

   There's a workaround on the mailing list: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-July/06017...
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   by metajack 15y ago

   I wrote my senators and congressman in NM a while back about this. I fly for work, but my family hasn't flown anywhere (and most likely won't) since the groping and naked cameras started. Instead we drive, which is quite a bit more dangerou
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   by metajack 15y ago

   Almost all the smaller airports I've been to have them. I think they put them in the smaller places as a warmup.
7. 247.▲
   by metajack 15y ago

   No they don't, and you don't have to settle for it.
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   by metajack 15y ago

   > 1 - Javascript is not fundamentally easier to code in than Java. I wouldn't make that statement with Ruby for example, but I've done lots of all 3. It depends on what you are writing. But personally, I find that languages with first c
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   by metajack 15y ago

   Considering that they were known to die and they only recovery methods were to destroy the device to get the drive out or to send it to Apple who won't give you your data back potentially, it seems a very poor choice for backups. I had one
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    by metajack 15y ago

    It turns out that if you ban a certain set of users they will react strongly, often causing many more problems. At Chesspark I was just amazed at the lengths people would go to to get revenge for some perceived wrong when they got reprimand
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    by metajack 15y ago

    Yes. Google did the original work for Jingle, but passed it to the XSF for standardization. That work has been done for some time and implementations have been appearing in various places. Even so, I suspect it will be a long time before Sk
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    by metajack 15y ago

    Thanks for the kind words!
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    by metajack 15y ago

    That sounds like a book I would buy, but of course, I have almost all the other Erlang books too.
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    by metajack 15y ago

    I wrote Professional XMPP Programming with JavaScript and jQuery ( http://professionalxmpp.com ), which is a book about developing XMPP applications (and not just chat related) using the Strophe.js ( http://strophe.im/strophejs ) library. T
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    Show HN: Snack Words - Real-time, Multi-player Word Game for iOS

    16 points by metajack 16y ago|2 comments
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    by metajack 16y ago

    The EDoc improvements are a long time coming, and the halfword emulator may drastically reduce the amount of memory needed for some people. Erlang improves at quite a rapid pace for a mature language.
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    by metajack 16y ago

    > I've never understood the objection to MPEGLA. [...] MPEGLA is a licensing agency, so there are no personal or political issues. Others have comments on other parts of this statement, but I wanted to mention that the political factors
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    by metajack 16y ago

    Those are good ideas. LFE is still in active development, and I don't think Robert has completely fixed those things in stone yet.
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    by metajack 16y ago

    I count myself very lucky that this hasn't happened to any groups I run yet. I have moderation turned on, and that seems to stop all of it. /me knocks on wood.
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    by metajack 16y ago

    "Would the US gov't go after the NY Times if they were the ones leaking the cables?" They did with the Pentagon Papers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers#Legal_case
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    by metajack 16y ago

    There is no real documentation yet, which is unfortunate. "rebar -c" is pretty helpful for what commands it has, and most of the layout conventions are not rebar's, but OTP's (those are documented here: http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_pri
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    by metajack 16y ago

    For Erlang specifically, you should probably use rebar ( http://github.com/basho/rebar ). It is pretty much the best thing ever. A common pattern lately is to use rebar with a very minimal makefile that just makes things like "make" and "ma
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    by metajack 16y ago

    The plural of anecdote is not data. How many companies with exits with liquidation preferences didn't make the VCs money? How many without preferences didn't make the VCs money? How many involved the founders getting screwed because of thes
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    by metajack 16y ago

    The IETF is an open forum where anyone can participate. If you want your voice heard, join the mailing list and make your suggestions. Also, I don't appreciate this mindless bashing on XMPP. All IETF protocols are encouraged (required?) to
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    by metajack 16y ago

    Have you missed the vague patent threats against Theora? MPEG-LA has spewed their share of bullshit, and Thompson before it spewed plenty as well.
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    by metajack 16y ago

    You have big friends with the Xiph codecs. Almost all the big game publishers ship Speex, Vorbis, FLAC, and Theora. Epic, EA, Microsoft, etc. The adoption in that market is ridiculously high. That's a lot of cash on the table for patent tro
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    by metajack 16y ago

    I'm not going to defend Winer's point of view, but I also prefer XML for some tasks. Namespaces make XML extensible in a way that JSON is not. In XML, I can add an attribute or a child node anywhere without affecting anything else. There is
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    by metajack 16y ago

    People have indeed put many things (some strange) into the Ogg format. I was once contracted to build MIDI + Vorbis support and I added a mapping for MIDI in Ogg fairly easily. Granted, I was heavily involved with Xiph, but I am not Monty.
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    by metajack 17y ago

    The goal of the Xiph.org Foundation was never make Vorbis or Theora take over the world. The goal was to provide royalty-free multimedia codecs. If VP8 is open sourced and they make the required patent grants, the world gets a royalty-free
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    by metajack 17y ago

    It's fairly common. After all, you can also think about it as you pay for how many users will be using it. Google has a lot more users than Collecta.