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by mnutt 12y ago
For what it's worth, most US cities I know of have certificate of occupancy standards requiring bedrooms to have minimum amounts of natural light.
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by mnutt 12y ago
Are you familiar with the hilariously bad 1978 version of Lord of the Rings ? It's animated, but at some points switches to rotoscoped live action to save on costs. And it doesn't even finish the story. https://www.y
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by mnutt 12y ago
What if Uber just gave bar bouncers an app for hailing Ubers and shared a small cut with the bar? They'd just need a Square-like credit card swiper so that customers could pay for the rides individually.
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by mnutt 12y ago
I'm guessing that language was hard-coded into the landing page and got pushed to diasp.org in an update, and nobody noticed. It looks like you can still sign up there by clicking the signup link.
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by mnutt 12y ago
This seems like it might integrate really well with crossfilter[0] which is a really neat multi-dimensional filtering tool but can completely lock up the browser as the data is loaded. [0] http://square.github.io/crossfilter
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by mnutt 12y ago
I don't know if it does this, but it's at least possible for the app to retroactively categorize based on metadata added by your browser. Right-click, "Get info", "More info" should tell you the page the file
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by mnutt 12y ago
You may like the documentary Rip: A Remix Manifesto. They have a particularly relevant part where they step through songs from artists like Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones and compare them to the songs they were (heavily) inspired by.
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by mnutt 12y ago
I was also thinking that it would be negligible for slideshow gifs, but the iPhone example went from a 1.5MB gif to a 500KB WebM. Using video means you also remove the 8-bit color restriction that is imposed on gifs. (without hacks, at lea
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by mnutt 12y ago
Defensive patents are not effective against patent trolls, since the trolls do not produce any products. The publications do make sense, though.
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by mnutt 12y ago
I assumed that was a tweak of his similar joke about in-flight wifi. And since many in-flight wifi systems use a combination of air-to-ground and satellite, it is going to space and back in a roundabout way.
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by mnutt 12y ago
Worse than that, it may be that large websites just pay it since they benefit from the barriers to entry it creates for smaller websites. When your ISP has a deal that makes Facebook and Twitter free but all other websites have very strict
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by mnutt 12y ago
Their support site is most likely hosted by Zendesk, who have a different configuration.
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by mnutt 12y ago
I got it about a week and a half ago in Canary, and I stuck with it for about a week until it was disabled. I didn't like the idea but I'm interested in new UI experiments. I hated it. Not only for the reasons other people mentio
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by mnutt 12y ago
Email server administration has its challenges, and the tools could definitely get better. But email is one of the few decentralized forms of communication, and all of that fixing, patching, and protecting is the product of a decade of har
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by mnutt 13y ago
It could be that some people use password managers that require pasting. (though many don't) It could lead to people using passwords that are easier to remember if their password manager doesn't work.
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by mnutt 13y ago
What if tarsnap released a command-line tool that could be run on a directory to estimate its storage cost, pre-signup?
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by mnutt 13y ago
I recently had an app rejected under 2.12 for using webviews. It was dependent on a service that needed OAuth, and I had used a webview just to authenticate. The reviewers rejected it even before attempting to authenticate, and specifical
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by mnutt 13y ago
Sure, but browsers are perfectly right to throw up a giant red warning that says "THIS IS NOT OK". Otherwise MITMing will become commonplace, and users won't care.
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by mnutt 13y ago
I was familiar with the reasons why using self-signed SSL didn't buy you anything, but hadn't really put together how it would completely weaken the whole ecosystem until now. "Oh, that's just Verizon MITMing me like al
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by mnutt 13y ago
From what I understand, owncloud is basically webdav on the backend. (or at least has a webdav interface)
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by mnutt 13y ago
If that is the case, then many people are now having their rights violated because they aren't able to figure out how to turn off the filter.
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by mnutt 13y ago
For an even starker example, look at the Google Books case. They scanned thousands of books and made portions of them available online. Authors guild sued them, and it was dismissed because it benefited society to have the works available
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by mnutt 13y ago
Second edit: d'oh, I meant where ever Google's main west coast datacenter is, maybe Oregon? The point being that it appears that all of the traffic goes through a single geographic location.
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by mnutt 13y ago
I set up some servers in the US and Asia and had some images proxied to them through GMail's proxy. The traceroute paths and latencies from the requesting IPs lead me to believe that the servers were in the US, most likely Mountain Vi
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by mnutt 13y ago
A clarification: GMail's proxy is in two pieces; your email client connects to GMail's CDN, but in order to load content from the origin it passes through a pool of servers in Mountain View. My guess is that the transcoding serve
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by mnutt 13y ago
Some other technical aspects of this: GMail serves all images from a datacenter in Mountain View, CA, so if your email's images were served from multiple datacenters or a CDN, there is a good chance they will load more slowly, dependin
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by mnutt 13y ago
The article doesn't mention it, but the proxy IS transcoding the cached images. However, there are many instances where the resulting images are larger and/or look worse than the originals.
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by mnutt 13y ago
Incidentally, the one place I often have to deal with values of different types for the same key is from a java app that is poorly converting XML -> JSON and converts a list with a single element into just the element.
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by mnutt 13y ago
I assume the location bar only auto-completes previously visited URLs, while the search bar auto-completes search queries by hitting google with every key you press. So in chrome's unified case, google knows how many times you type
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by mnutt 13y ago
My team uses Slack ( http://slack.com ) and is very happy with it. It's in active development, and has good cross-platform clients. (Flint for Campfire is great, but last time I asked they didn't have any way to do vol

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