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by mustpax 16y ago
Your interpretation of Oracle's claim is spot on. I am just questioning the validity of the said claim. As you note, both parties are trying to make the current case more costly for the other. The burden-of-proof question does very little t
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by mustpax 16y ago
To summarize: Google is asking Oracle to provide evidence of specific devices that are infringing on Oracle's patents/copyrights. Oracle suggests, and author agrees, that this constitutes Google throwing its partners under a bus. Author goe
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by mustpax 16y ago
Anecdotally I've seen smart and capable developers make this mistake numerous times. It usually gets caught by code review, automation etc. But not always. It's basically the birthday paradox. You take the probability of a very unlikely eve
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by mustpax 16y ago
Omitting semicolons in JavaScript is like omitting braces from one line if blocks. It's all well and good until someone turns this: if (conditional) statement; Into this without realizing what they've just done: if (condition
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by mustpax 16y ago
I still don't understand why they don't send a DMCA takedown request to Apple and call it a day. Have they already done this yet Apple is refusing to takedown the offending app? I highly doubt Apple would take on that sort of liability.
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by mustpax 16y ago
Now I feel pretty bad for being wrong about TekSavvy et al being DSLAM terminators. Please accept my apologies. If I may be so bold, I'd still like to say I wish you had made this correction directly to my post above. I think people would n
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by mustpax 16y ago
Download caps are way too low, no doubt about it. Providers are protecting their own self interests by undermining businesses like Netflix, no doubt about it. However that is an entirely separate discussion. It is not a separate discussio
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by mustpax 16y ago
The situation is much more complicated than that. Smaller ISPs only piggy back on Bell's telephone lines only in the so-called last mile of the connection. The resellers have their own DSLAM equipment at the switchboards and they have to ma
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Temporary restraining order granted against George Hotz for PS3 hack(scribd.com)
2 points by mustpax 16y ago|0 comments
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by mustpax 16y ago
I can think of four reasons: Scalia, Roberts, Alito, Thomas.
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by mustpax 16y ago
Is trying to attract developers to a niche micro-platform a better business move? Android market might be crowded but it is for good reason. Getting developer mindshare is very very hard.
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by mustpax 16y ago
No mixed content warnings here though. The ISP is editing the login page to include JavaScript that posts the password back, seemingly, to Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/wo0dh3ad . Being a man in the middle, the ISP can capture all re
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by mustpax 16y ago
Unfortunately just encrypting the login page would not protect user accounts from Tunisia's ISP. The ISP can just sniff your session cookie and hijack your session instead. They won't be able to change your password but they can read and wr
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by mustpax 16y ago
A degree is more than the sum of course materials for the same reason that Y Combinator is greater than the sum of all Tuesday night dinner talks. Experienced mentors, inspiring peers and the stamp of approval act as multipliers on the know
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JsFiddle: a REPL for web development(jsfiddle.net)
116 points by mustpax 16y ago|24 comments
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by mustpax 16y ago
Just adding var wouldn't be enough, you're still referencing the variable from the outer scope. You need to create your own copy. Instead of: els[i].addEventListener('click', function(){alert(i);}); Do: els[i].addEventListene
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by mustpax 16y ago
Unfortunately for the pedants, "the new generation of web standards" does not have the same ring as HTML5. Marketing requires simplification, get over it.
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by mustpax 16y ago
I for one find Guy Kawasaki's tweets a bit spammy. They all have linkbait titles and for some reason redirect all stories through alltop.com. Maybe most importantly, his stream conveys no personality whatsoever. Hardly the perfect tweet or
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by mustpax 16y ago
This is beautiful through and through but you are missing a favicon. You might already be aware of this, just thought I'd let you know.
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by mustpax 16y ago
Facebook cookies are not marked SSL only. That would be a temporary and unreliable fix.
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by mustpax 16y ago
Are they using fake SSL certificates or do we have to wait for another year before a government launches a major attack like that?
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by mustpax 16y ago
Contract employees are paid to perform specific services as laid out by, well, their contract. This makes them a lot less beholden to management than their full time equivalents. The most vindictive thing management could do is to not hire
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by mustpax 16y ago
OT, is there an equivalent semi-technical analysis of the Tumblr outage? I've been searching through their status blog and all I can find is “we accidentally brought the db cluster down.” Does anyone know how this happened?
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by mustpax 16y ago
Jason, you might want to read my comment again. I am not dismissing the usefulness of your compilation. There's also nothing wrong with building up page rank for a new domain as long as you're adding value doing it. Anyways, best of luck to
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by mustpax 16y ago
Probably building up page-rank for the Launch.is domain. This is a pretty useful compilation so as far as SEO tactics go it could be a lot worse.
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by mustpax 16y ago
I used to do quite a bit of street photography in Istanbul. It is an awesome way of learning to talk to strangers. The more comfortable you become the more comfortable others are with you. Truly the best kind of rejection therapy around. Th
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by mustpax 16y ago
By outdoing them in features, performance, installed userbase. You know, competing.
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by mustpax 16y ago
The problem is that some hardware can't handle the way they wrote the code. Um, that's the definition of fragmentation.
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by mustpax 16y ago
Thank you, I just used WYERTFK6XLXX and left a review. Looks great!
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by mustpax 16y ago
I know what he said so let me clarify. Facebook's wall permissions break down into three groups of differing granularity: 1) Who can see a given post by you on your own wall: Each post can have different permissions w/ groups. 2) Who can se

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