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by pi18n 13y ago
A couple of days ago I saw some posters criticizing Stallman and calling him "crazy". I hope those same posters see your writing, because I'm pretty sure problems like these are exactly what Stallman has been predicting (and fighting) for q
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by pi18n 13y ago
And there are occasionally similar articles where the author informs us all that AdBlock and NoScript are literally destroying the internet. And that misguided blogger this week who wants Apple to force users to accept push notifications fr
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by pi18n 13y ago
A small one, sure. There's already a CPU heatsink and fan in there. If they combined them it might be even smaller. Or maybe you are right and there just isn't the space to support it.
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by pi18n 13y ago
That's right, don't let their pedantry get you down. It was an interesting post, thank you for sharing it.
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by pi18n 13y ago
Every time I see one of these things it is fully exciting. Then the actual product gets bogged down in patent bullshit and we never see it. What happened to the CPU heatsink where the whole damn thing rotated? If the fan in my laptop was
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by pi18n 13y ago
I agree with you but I doubt very much that Microsoft does. Requiring it to have a persistent connection and offloading core parts of the game to the cloud is going to be delightful for their DRM team.
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by pi18n 13y ago
It's also like the common advice that you should watch carefully how your date interacts with the waitstaff. It's too bad Americans can understand the one but not the other.
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by pi18n 13y ago
Good point. I think you half misunderstood; their certificate should be replaceable so that you disallow third-party software from developers in their developer program and allow it from your company only or vendor A only. Obviously one wou
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by pi18n 13y ago
Hey! I actually had a try on your site few months ago and it didn't pan out for me. I must not have an attractive enough skillset for the businesses browsing.
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by pi18n 13y ago
I have that feeling too... I kindof want to look but don't want to do the whole song and dance.
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by pi18n 13y ago
What I don't like about Gatekeeper is that there is no way to revoke Apple's cert and replace it with another. Not that that would protect the activist in question, but it would certainly make a company machine secure against this kind of a
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by pi18n 13y ago
You are correct. I should have simply said I don't think this scanning is appropriate.
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by pi18n 13y ago
I would prefer they put their efforts into making a secure operating system in the first place instead of trying to nanny their users in such a creepy fashion.
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by pi18n 13y ago
Takes public data, simple heuristics, and some insights and produces great results. Very very clever. That was well worth the short read.
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by pi18n 13y ago
I like the simplicity of the big operators and the ideas on parallelism they were considering. What a huge disappointment that they aren't going to continue work on it.
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by pi18n 13y ago
Of course they will shut it all down. Eventually they'll be forced to when nobody cares about them anymore.
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by pi18n 13y ago
I could have gotten them from Amazon for cheaper with free next-day delivery, but I bought my last set of parts from Newegg specifically because they shat on a patent troll's parade. I'm totally willing to pay a premium for that, I have not
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by pi18n 13y ago
1. Google is not obliged to create an app for any platform. Regardless of user count. WTF. 2. Microsoft is obliged to follow the ToS on websites they are pulling data from. Regardless of user count. I'd love to see Google forced to admit wh
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by pi18n 13y ago
They're abusing the patent system to extort money from Android device manufacturers and they have to gall to completely ignore requirements in a ToS. I'm looking forward to the day when Microsoft is completely irrelevant. They should just s
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by pi18n 13y ago
This sounds interesting! Have you published anything more substantial on it? I yearn for the day when I can have a Plan 9-ish resource sharing and file system connecting my personal computer to my cloud computers.
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by pi18n 13y ago
Turing completeness is maybe not desirable... look at what happened when YAML was allowed to create objects of any class it liked. I like your declarative language idea very much, though. As long as it cannot execute arbitrary code.
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by pi18n 13y ago
They might be moving towards some kind of XPC service so you can talk to a JIT through a Mach port. Speculation is my own, derived from: http://oleb.net/blog/2012/10/remote-view-controllers-in-ios-...
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by pi18n 13y ago
You should be able to to run code downloaded as part of IAP also. But this is one of the major things I wish they would change, and also one of the major reasons I'll be switching to Android.
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by pi18n 13y ago
I think this comment would have been better if you had listed some insanities that make Javascript unusable. It doesn't seem objective at the moment. I, for one, honestly cannot think of what you might be referring to, but I only have a pas
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by pi18n 13y ago
Ah. I agree with your first point, it's ineffectual. But my hope would be that an app can help people boycott more effectively (who would guess that bottled waters are sold by Coke and Pepsi?) and have a greater total effect. I don't think
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by pi18n 13y ago
> people should be free to make their own decisions without being ordered about by small-minded busybodies whose self-image depends on the delusion that they know what's best for everyone else You do know they funded the Tea Party.
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by pi18n 13y ago
I said I was going to get this but just changed my mind. Holy shit. Thanks for posting.
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by pi18n 13y ago
And if a charity is going to toss out donations of Harry Potter toys because they "promote witchcraft" they are out as well. I'm going to try this app.
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by pi18n 13y ago
I'd like a red X over people that discuss, say, the political opinions of celebrities. Also I think avoiding products if you disagree with the company owners is laudable and I don't really get why you are responding with such snark.
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by pi18n 13y ago
You are probably right that impoverished parents are going to have a hard time raising children, but you are also advocating a form of social Darwinism. I agree that fewer people should procreate but disagree with measuring the necessity of

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