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by mnutt 14y ago
I think NAT traversal is actually only one part of P2P becoming successful. Between UDP hole punching, uPNP, and other techniques you can cover a pretty large percentage of users. The harder part, to me, is distributed trust in the discove
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by mnutt 14y ago
That's exactly his point: Thousands of entrepreneurs would be a lot happier if their focus was a solid, growable, defensible niche business that might never go public or be worth $100-million.
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by mnutt 14y ago
True, but doesn't losing mean having the patent declared invalid anyway? Which renders it worthless whether or not loser pays.
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by mnutt 14y ago
The SHIELD Act is a great step, but I wonder how this will fare against the patent troll practice of setting up separate legal entities specifically for litigating individual patents? If they lose, they declare bankruptcy and move on to th
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by mnutt 14y ago
While I agree with your points, doSomething () -> 'hello' just isn't valid code. Is valid code. Not that you'd ever actually want to use it: coffee> doSomething = (fn) -> if fn then fn() else (-> 'hi') do
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by mnutt 14y ago
It would hurt founders' perceptions but wouldn't actually decrease any individual founder's chances of success. YC would just accept a bunch of people who aren't likely to get funded. What would happen if you split up the batches into two
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by mnutt 14y ago
I wasn't referring to the tradeoff between plain text formats and usability, I was talking about the tradeoff between 1password and pass as it is today. I realize the apps can be written, and I think it has the potential to be better than
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by mnutt 14y ago
You're missing his point. pass looks cool and is the 'right' way to do it from a unix perspective. However for the vast majority of people out there, 1password and others are much more usable because they can access them from their phones
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by mnutt 14y ago
It seems like it would be easier to just create another github user, add it to your organization as a read-only user, and then add each machine's ssh key to that user as a real ssh key rather than a deploy key. The downside is that you can
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by mnutt 14y ago
It's just nomenclature; CSS3 will eventually just become "CSS" and each module will move forward on its own. And they're really just codifying what was already happening: browsers never jumped from CSS1 to CSS2 or CSS2 to CSS3; they just a
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by mnutt 14y ago
Postgres's replication is very good these days, and it works for many of the read-scaling use cases. Scaling writes is a harder problem and I don't think there's a automatic drop-in solution for any sql store that I know of. Mongo gets aw
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by mnutt 14y ago
My company does this currently. The upside is that the HTML is very configurable. (we have a rake task that generates a tumblr template from our rails app layout) The downside is that tumblr is down a lot more often that I'd like, and t
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by mnutt 14y ago
Its not fun for anyone when you have A team of developers with their dummy's out the pram because you wont open any to any routes on the dmz firewall so they can use some new sexy message queue when any one of the well behaved, well proven
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by mnutt 14y ago
This is very cool, and I have a suggestion for an enhancement: you're hosting the sliced up images yourself, so you should be able to load them into a canvas element and analyze the colors. If the user switches to "solid color" or "custom
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by mnutt 14y ago
Perhaps they are referring to speech recognition, which would either consume a lot of bandwidth being sent over the wire as audio or consume a lot of power to be processed on-device.
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by mnutt 14y ago
Maybe check out Leaflet: http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/ It works with many different tile providers, including OSM.
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by mnutt 14y ago
In all of the industries I'm familiar with, I just don't see it happening that someone says "Hey, I wonder how they did that. I'll go check out their patent filing!" Certainly not in software. And the concept of willful infringement give
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by mnutt 14y ago
The problem is that it seems nobody actually benefits from reading patents when implementing ideas. First, if you read a patent you can be found liable for willful infringement, which can triple the damages. Second, patents are intentiona
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by mnutt 14y ago
It's a neat technology and I'm very interested in using it. It's almost a perfect fit for my business, which deals with serving traffic during email spikes. I think the questions are just around the economics to make sure you guys stick ar
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by mnutt 14y ago
I've found that if it's a pull request of any significance, if you want it merged it's good to hop on IRC and talk to one of the maintainers and get their take on it. That can head off a lot of issues and save a lot of your time. Then if
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by mnutt 14y ago
In that case, they may as well take it a step further and have their employees "open" the website when they clock in when they arrive, and "close" the website when they leave at night.
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by mnutt 14y ago
It's interesting that in a "blog about making culture" that he doesn't address the issue of archival. While a CMS can produce a nice snapshot for archive.org or another mirror to capture, streams are trickier, especially if they rely on th
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by mnutt 14y ago
This is really cool. I wanted something like this a while back, and began looking into implementing it for nginx. But one of the services used websockets, so I ended up building a node.js app that combined everyauth (oauth for about 50 di
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by mnutt 14y ago
No, I'm not. I think people's confusion lies in the fact that there are actually two separate areas where javascript is run in Phantom: one is the javascript that controls Phantom and has a filesystem API; the other is the javascript that g
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by mnutt 14y ago
It's no less safe than loading hostile 3rd-party web pages on your browser at home.
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by mnutt 14y ago
It actually is possible to render those pages in phantom at scale, but it's not very elegant. It seems like something like env.js would be sufficient to render the page, though. I think other people have done that, although I haven't seen
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by mnutt 14y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but the way I've seen it play out is that the company will usually represent the person if they're co-defendants. Unless his interests and the company's diverge at some point, in which case he will want get his own counse
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by mnutt 14y ago
They wouldn't have to store your password in plaintext to determine that. They could just hash commonly used passwords and compare the hashes to yours.
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by mnutt 14y ago
I don't know what sort of data they're storing in redis, but it seems like you would want any over-the-internet replication of any kind to be encrypted via ssh tunnel or some other means.
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by mnutt 14y ago
This misses his point that originally he had app <-> nginx <-> user, then he added cloudfront so he had app <-> nginx <-> cloudfront <-> user. At that point is nginx really serving much purpose? I th

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