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by mnutt 15y ago
It seems like the ideal scenario is: 1) Your data is stored, encrypted by you, in the cloud 2) In a standards-based service which you pay for 3) And federated to other services by you Mozilla Weave was an instance of a narrow application of
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But why is it a benefit to society to protect it? I think what I said about software patents applies to hardware patents as well, if less so. There is this idea that patents are a compromise: I file a patent, and I get a temporary monopoly
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by mnutt 15y ago
Jammit is great, but I think he meant he built one for node.js.
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by mnutt 15y ago
There's a good video overview of it at a Posterous talk: http://vimeo.com/35907658
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by mnutt 15y ago
aren't the useful arts strengthened by legal protection in exchange for continued disclosure of innovation No, they're not, at least not in software. Nobody reads software patents, for two reasons. First, the majority are either non-n
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by mnutt 15y ago
Agile means different things to different people, but to me "the big rewrite" sounds pretty un-agile. You end up making a lot of architecture decisions all at once and go a long time between working releases. If your business needs have co
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by mnutt 15y ago
None of the open source browsers will be able to include the DRM in their source code anyway , so how different is it from downloading a proprietary plugin? I assume this will be something that is available in Chrome and Safari but not Ch
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by mnutt 15y ago
They could use the exact same setup they have right now. They'd just serve the exact same (static) html for every twitter.com/username URL. I don't think it's exactly terrible Javascript hackery to look at the location.href and do an ajax
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by mnutt 15y ago
It doesn't sound like they're switching to rendering on the backend, though. So you're most likely still going to have to execute a huge chunk of javascript before displaying the page, though hopefully it will get faster.
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It analyzed a bunch of flash sale sites and showed graphs of when their products sold out.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Thanks, I didn't see that initially but it's mentioned in the Macworld article.
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Which is a problem. Suppose I want to run an app that I trust, but Apple does not. I'm going to go find the option in System Preferences and turn it off so it stops bugging me, then probably never turn it back on.
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by mnutt 15y ago
It preserves the freedom for developers to ship whatever they want, though I wouldn't say it benefits them. But it's within the realm of possibility for Apple to start refusing support to users who disable GateKeeper. I would disable it
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by mnutt 15y ago
Apple doesn't need to remove the "No unsigned code" option, they just need to scare users into being too afraid to use apps that aren't signed. And then your unsigned app, should you choose to try and distribute it, is in the same category
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by mnutt 15y ago
Interesting. Let's say I'm a developer writing a Bittorrent client. Do I leave it unsigned and get lower adoption because people are afraid of malware, or do I sign it and hope that Apple doesn't someday revoke my key? Of course, Apple co
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by mnutt 15y ago
You can use HTML in Mail.app signatures already; you just have to copy some HTML from your browser and paste it into the signature field. But considering how bad Mail.app's signature UI is, this is pretty handy.
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For 500M req/day, that's 6000 req/sec on average. That could plausibly fit with 40,000 req/sec peak.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Sorry, by "your" I meant the company's.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Node.js only has a single thread for the event loop. (where the user's javascript is run) Internally it uses a thread pool. You could certainly do what you describe and it would be very similar to node's Cluster module, which uses multiple
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He filed their incorporation papers for them. Assuming he continued to do various legal things for them (they presumably didn't get an actual lawyer later) wouldn't he be effectively their counsel? There are a lot of unknowns here, but I'm
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by mnutt 15y ago
I wonder how much higher rate of failure you'd get with spun-down disks, since starting and stopping is often when they fail.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Thanks! I'll check those out. We've built an app that dynamically generates images and serves them up inside of emails. People skim through emails pretty quickly so it's important that the images load as quickly as possible. And we usual
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by mnutt 15y ago
Are there any up-to-date resources you could recommend for TCP tuning?
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I don't think it even starts off strong with the bug counts. That wasn't node, but using Chrome/v8 directly to parse web pages for their web crawler. I'm not the least bit surprised that parsing unfiltered HTML from the internet dominates
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by mnutt 15y ago
I couldn't get the email part to work, but this app is seriously responsive. Nice work on this demo app and MacGap!
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by mnutt 15y ago
Using GitHub for authentication of internal apps is actually really nice. If you're using Jenkins for CI, there is a plugin: https://github.com/mocleiri/github-oauth-plugin And my company needed a more general solution so we built Doorma
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That makes sense, but unless bandwidth is the limiting factor, it sounds like there is a potential optimization where the I/O is only performed once for both secondaries.
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Interesting story, though I don't understand what he says at the end about not being able to redirect the QR Code to another link because the QR Code is the link. Why not just send a 302 redirect? He sounds like he wouldn't do it on princi
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by mnutt 15y ago
What they describe is almost exactly GroupMe, circa 2010. Group chat app, uses SMS so it works on non-smart phones, no signup required--just text /add [number] to add someone to the group, and they're auto-joined. Not to say it'll work f
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by mnutt 15y ago
That seems fair, though it might be better to use average story karma. The bots in question probably have a fair amount of karma just from the sheer number of stories submitted.

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