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by mtigas 16y ago
FWIW, though a lot of the details were wrong and changed over time, I’ve got to agree with his unhappiness about the oozing optimism of the time. A couple of examples he brought up: * e-readers are still relatively new, and have not (yet) c
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by mtigas 16y ago
This is awesome. It's one of those pet peeves of mine that some SSL-enabled sites don't ever default to the secure version (and sometimes you don't know one exists). I've actually been using Privoxy ( http://www.privoxy.org/ ) to do the sam
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by mtigas 16y ago
This looks a lot like Gordon ( http://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon ) — a JS implementation of Flash. In which case, the point is that you don’t need a service to convert your files — your SWF files would work as-is. Ideally — provided JS
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by mtigas 16y ago
Very good point. The cynic in me thinks that if Apple pulls GNU Go, it’ll be solely for the copyright issue. (Similarly, other GPL’d apps that may exist in the app store via unofficial ports or forks.) What’s Apple to lose if a user or de
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by mtigas 16y ago
I’ve wondered about these license conflicts for a while now, as I’d been tinkering away on a couple of apps I’m planning to open source. This is, hands-down, the clearest plain English explanation I’ve heard regarding the combination of GPL
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by mtigas 17y ago
The price scaling issue worried me at first, and then I noticed the monthly budgeting — great feature. In the long run, you’ll always sacrifice price (vs. an external hard drive) for off-site data persistence anyway. In any case, this looks