moxiemk1

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FAA approves iPad to replace paper maps onboard planes(wired.com)
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
>> Second, even if you don't like vector graphics, there are great Free Software projects like Gimp and Krita that deserve our attention and our support. I'm not sure that I follow here. Why do they deserve our support? (Not to say
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
I haven't seen it get used very often, but during SJ keynotes, they have been using this. When I watched, it delivered really high quality video, and managed to stay way smoother than any flash stream I've ever seen under presumably heavy l
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
What's always concerned me is that I don't know how to draw that line. Where do you put it?
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The point is that it does take away some freedoms, that the BSD license does not take away. This keeps getting brought up because people say that the GPL is about "freedom" when the freedom it guarantees is rather explicitly freedom for
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
This seems to be someone making an OSX version of Apple's already existing Sherlock program? I'm not really sure how Sherlock 3 was copying Watson, since it was pretty clearly an evolution of Sherlock 2.
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
We really need to stop measuring "compatibility" numerically. Its dishonest and encourages engineering decisions to be made instead of policy ones, when the data is purely the result of someone else's policy decision. Not all things have eq
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Microsoft has had automatic updates for years now, I believe. Firefox seems to have no problem prompting me to update it when its required. I'm not sure I understand what disadvantage they're at?
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
I think its more like if Google had also developed their own standard for sending pages to replace HTML/JS/CSS, replaced DNS with their own page discovery system, provided tons of pre-built reusable components that make up almost all parts
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Which development platforms did Microsoft make available for free? The Express Editions of VS are a relatively recent phenomenon, and are crippled. Apple's tools are free and fully featured - paying gets you the ability to publish on their
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
We're really proud of having a low-friction deployment process at Etsy. Today, even one of our board members, Fred Wilson, deployed code: http://twitter.com/#!/fredwilson/status/36122482490482688 http://www.flickr.com/photos/allspaw/5436
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
This site is inaccessible on mobile browsers (or at least iPhone) It "helpfully" redirects to the IEEE Spectrum mobile homepage. If you are making a mobile version of a site, please don't redirect blindly. I followed a link, I expect to g
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
I don't know much about how the UI widgets are implemented on Android - Is it such that Nokia/Intel could reimplement these and have Android apps look consistent with MeeGo UI, or will developer have to do some UI tweaking in order to look
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
I don't think I understand why people would pay for a tool like this: If I want to collect data from the users of my site, I'm going to write the survey ui myself: matching with the design of my site exactly and feeling seamless is crucial
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
That would be pretty neat - if they could have an implementation compatible enough to only require cross-compiling, we'd be going somewhere darn cool. Many APIs have had the promise of multiple implementations (and some have succeeded in at
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Where did you find these rumors? Everything I've read indicated that only DOM applications and Flash+friends applications will be possible on the Playbook.
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
This is true if that's how you frame journalistic neutrality; the important thing to realize then is that there's no way to discuss the neutrality of a news source at all meaningfully. Perhaps a different term would be better, but when I sa
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
In my experience, Al-Jazeera is remarkably neutral compared to most US news sources. They do tend to adopt a pro-Palestinian stance, but they're very professional about it.
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Here at Carnegie Mellon University, we're allocated routable IPv4 addresses (and real DNS entries) for each MAC address you connect to the campus network with. As far as I can tell, I have zero support for IPv6. Autoconf doesn't work at all
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Video formats are extremely complex and require huge amounts of expertise to make. With your logic, why should I pay money for content? So far, it seems to be impossible to prevent ripping and transcoding, so maybe the answer would be "yo
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
It's valid when it ships.
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Freedom 2 is not absolute, since I can't help my neighbor by making an improved version of the software that compiles against closed source libraries and distributing it to them. Same with freedom 3 - if I make changes in that manner, I may
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
(not attacking here, just curious) Have you been in contact with the company that developed the app? Honestly, I don't seem why Apple would feel like they need to discuss anything with you, because you're not the entity they are dealing w
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Should we expect companies to hold out when subpoenaed? Though I know it's often not the case, aren't the subpoenas vetted by the court issuing them? I'm certainly not a lawyer, but when I expect a company to follow laws for protection of m
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
When you define words and phrases like "subjects," "docile obedience," "science education," "scientific literacy," "educated," "school," and "ignorant" differently than their common usage (as you have done), it is possible to make an argume
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
I never knew that. I always assumed that someone out there was paying for all these questions. Good to know.
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
I had an internship in NYC last summer, and that was one of the most amazing things about the city. I was glad I didn't have a car with me. The subway was excellent.
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
The guy who ticked off Reddit for being rude to a customer was this guy: http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html The Oatmeal may get most of their money via Reddit, but I don't think Reddit has a beef with them.
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
I hope that in determining which HTML is optimal bandwidith wise, there is also some consideration of what HTML is optimal rendering wise. (obvious cost savings of going hard down the bandwith optimizing aside) Knowing how the parser tr
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Apple does allow virtualizing OSX server, as long as you're on Apple hardware. (one hell of a restriction, but it doesn't have to require hacking) http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2008/01/virtual-leopa-1.html

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