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by nfoz 13y ago
Someone made a game expecting it to be monetizable on the basis of selling and retaining a monopoly on "copies"? lol. Except for the outrage that they expect to control what I can or cannot do with my computer and its data. Seem
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by nfoz 13y ago
It's not as if Google never would have thought to make a web-based mail if someone didn't do it in their 20% time...
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by nfoz 13y ago
oh man, can we get this for regular daily Earthling use as well!?
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by nfoz 13y ago
Are you implying that JS developers know more about UI/UX than others? Most websites have horrible usability, ranging from "everything in CSS popups!" to "every site uses a different widget toolkit, deficient in new and
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by nfoz 13y ago
Many of JS's "straightforward syntax" that "looks similar" to other languages, is subtly different in profound and dangerous ways.
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by nfoz 13y ago
I suspect your concept of memory is incorrect. Outside of rare people with deep automatic synaesthesia or other sever mental differences, I don't think there's much variation in different peoples' inherent "ability to r
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by nfoz 13y ago
It's a reason to proclaim that the people deciding on web standards are doing a horrible job. Scripting should be removed from the web, not made ever more powerful....
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by nfoz 13y ago
My transcription of an interesting part of his talk: ""I don't have an interest, and the people of the NSA don't have an interest, in doing anything other than making sure that where we can prevent a terrorist attack; wh
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by nfoz 13y ago
So close! Try for 100% next time!
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by nfoz 13y ago
Reminds me of early web when Microsoft's websites always worked a lot better in IE than other browsers. And maybe they still do.
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by nfoz 13y ago
Innovation is political.
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by nfoz 13y ago
Where's the source code?
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by nfoz 13y ago
This is really cute. But I hope noone ever actually uses it :) Too much guesswork and dynamism, violating important design principles IMO. But a nice demo.
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by nfoz 13y ago
But there will still be people like me who consider any amount of advertising to be an offense, something that is more desirable if it doesn't exist. You can be as nice about it as you want or feel is appropriate, and I appreciate tha
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by nfoz 13y ago
> I have the right to track how people use my site. lol no you don't. You're choosing to respond to HTTP requests to your site, you put it out in public. I'll make whatever requests I want to your site and do whatever I
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by nfoz 13y ago
"RSVP on Facebook!" sigh
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by nfoz 13y ago
I'm sure if we spent billions to build another Great Pyramid we'd discover a bunch of things that are peripherally helpful to society in other ways. But it will still be an enormous waste of resources. If we want more medical cu
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by nfoz 13y ago
There's no such thing as a stolen idea. Especially not for a startup.
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by nfoz 13y ago
Counterexample: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Internet
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by nfoz 13y ago
... and where the private sector has also failed to date.
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by nfoz 13y ago
But we're still using that word "collect" which they have re-defined to be useless to stop (a normal concept of) collection: https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/wordgames#collect I'm not sure that this
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by nfoz 13y ago
Which makes them no different than their competitors which is exactly the problem
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by nfoz 13y ago
Specifically what problem(s) are you trying to solve? I'm writing a language that uses = for assignment and == for equality comparison. However, expressions and statement are syntactically separate, so that using the wrong symbol is a
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by nfoz 13y ago
Someone trusted them before?
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by nfoz 13y ago
Popup notifications are a horrible idea, and they're a horrible idea in every OS in which they're implemented. Especially so in MacOS X where there's already dedicated space where notificiations could choose to appear, rather
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by nfoz 13y ago
Aren't there circumstances in C++ when this isn't possible? e.g. some uses of templates
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by nfoz 13y ago
I consider most of the crap that goes on in commercial software to be intentionally abusive of users' computers....
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by nfoz 13y ago
Disagree, I don't think their inferior search results have anything to do with tracking/privacy concerns. It's just an inferior (meta-)crawler (they don't do the crawling themselves). Crawling/weighting is extreme
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by nfoz 13y ago
It didn't end, though its progress was slow/hurt by not meeting the targets. I think he's planning a (small) launch soon. http://www.calyxinstitute.org/
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by nfoz 13y ago
Yes.

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