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by mustpax 18y ago
What I love about Dropbox is that you don't have to check in/check out every time you make the slightest change. The versioning is implicit, which is the way it should be for most personal files (although it would be a disaster for SCM). I'
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by mustpax 18y ago
Okay, I admit, I was being cheeky :) But there was a whole section of the query that I left out that looks like this: ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238082049&sr=1-1 This all looks like info they use for clickstream anal
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by mustpax 18y ago
Ok, I'm gonna try to address each of these "loopholes" one by one, because this whole thing smells like fishy PR stunt (I'd say FUD, but HN ain't slashdot right?): 1. Non-private uploaded images: This is the image URL http://docs.google.co
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The thin client is back, says IBM(news.zdnet.com)
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by mustpax 18y ago
Looks like a pretty neat course. I've been meaning to jump in to the Processing language for a while now; never had enough time to. If you're in to data visualization, I would highly recommend Edward Tufte's beautiful tome Envisioning Info
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by mustpax 18y ago
Comparing global traffic for Justin.TV and Hulu borders on being idiotic since Hulu is, um let's see, not accessible outside the US. How can TC write a whole article about this and not even mention this pretty pertinent fact? Edit: It's b
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by mustpax 18y ago
The relevant papers section is very cool. Great reading for VM/JIT compiler geeks: http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/RelevantPapers God, I'm a total sucker for a project with a good bibliography. Must resist urge to go to grad
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by mustpax 18y ago
You're probably right. But there's a bigger problem here: big corporations make the consumer (the developer in this case) sign the most onerous contract imaginable and say "oh, we'd never enforce it that way." When the poop hits the fan, th
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by mustpax 18y ago
The term firewall has been completely diluted. If the same thing had happened to anti-virus software we'd be calling file extension based blockers anti-virus agents. Now, Skype's technique is quite interesting and clearly well executed. But
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by mustpax 18y ago
I love Hulu. Hulu gets it. But, for god's sake, when is the plague that is geoblocking going to die already? I understand that Hulu's hand is being forced to do this by the content owners. Still, how hard is it develop a business model arou
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by mustpax 18y ago
That's not how I read it, I think this actually makes a lot of sense. In a regular (non-cloud) deployment, there are unavoidable differences between the staging and real production configurations. No one can afford to double their hardware
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Well, any change invites considerable resistance. So I'd even say they have to ignore more than 1%. Most of us tech savvy people don't realize this, but a lot of people (if not most) use software through memorization. They memorize their pa
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by mustpax 18y ago
Exactly. Does your contract with engineer cover the very likely case of the project being delayed? I mean, most projects out there are subject to delays or budget overruns. Writing software is unpredictable business. If your contract does n
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by mustpax 18y ago
Fair point. But I'm sure you'll concede that the more abstract goal of "supporting motivated students" cannot be supported so straight-forwardly. Should I be donating to an inner city Charter school? Or to a public school run by the school
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by mustpax 18y ago
Where's the Google integration in the Facebook UI anyway? As this article points out, there isn't one. They don't have a Google search box. They don't use Google's index for their internal search engine. So, what could Facebook change to de
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by mustpax 18y ago
The scholarship that allowed me to attend my Alma Mater was entirely funded by the donations of other Alumni, some of whom I've met. I know most students in the US get federal support as well, but being an foreign national, this wasn't true
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by mustpax 18y ago
Honestly, if the jump from IE6 to IE7 is too much for some users, the jump from IE6 to IE8 going to be even more frightening. Remember IE7 didn't really fix any IE6 rendering issues, still some (badly designed) websites had issues with the
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by mustpax 18y ago
I cannot think of a government agency less capable of conducting a proper security audit than the FTC. This is like expecting the Better Business Bureau to do penetration testing. The widespread use of Google services and the relative lack