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by polemic 15y ago
Heh, PEP 404. Nice.
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by polemic 15y ago
You don't own a meme. Heck, that's almost an oxymoron: "an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture" - http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meme And who actually makes money from meme's anyw
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by polemic 15y ago
Or - how to re-purpose old hardware?
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by polemic 15y ago
I used to be semi-addicted to TF2, until it became free to play. The massive increase in poorly balanced weapons and items and the flood of newbie players who were not that interested in the 'team' aspect of 'team fortress' really killed th
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by polemic 15y ago
This is fairly common practise - for example pastie/pastebin, Skitch, Facebook - all have 'private' URL options. I thought it was obvious, but that's only because I immediately understood the implications of a shareable URL. That's not go
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IDE's with GitHub code comment integration
1 points by polemic 15y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 15y ago
Bluntly: wishing it were otherwise does not make it so. There is an entirely valid economic method for valuing the investment of the developer. It's call the app store. The answer is $12 per device. The 'sick joke' is that so many independe
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by polemic 15y ago
True, but not all developer days are created equally :D
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by polemic 15y ago
This comes off as very self-entitled. 1.) $12 is a lot more than $0 pre-smart phone era. The platform is the vehicle for selling software, not the income stream. 2.) App development (for your average iOS app) requires almost no capital inve
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by polemic 15y ago
Yep, this bothers me too. attr_accesible is to Rail's what magic_quotes_gpc was to PHP: a terribly misconceived 'helper' feature that is almost designed to trip up beginners in the worst way. Of course, that GitHub should get caught by it
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by polemic 15y ago
He took ownership and made it highly visible. That might be unprofessional but it was also audacious - and easily the best way to get the word out quickly about an 'in the wild' exploit that will impact a huge number of apps. Additionally
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by polemic 15y ago
So so true. On the flipside - there is usually also a bunch of stuff that you know is freakin' awesome , but which sits way in the background, and explaining what it is and why it is nearly impossible without the context of having worked o
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by polemic 15y ago
This is why insurance exists. I wonder if there are any insurance providers who'd be willing to provider coverage for this sort of event.
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WikiLeaks publishes The Global Intelligence Files(wikileaks.org)
6 points by polemic 15y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 15y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. It is important that the original code is vetted - for example during a peer review process - but to say that the entire code source is necessary to reproduce the result seems self contradictory. Surely it shoul
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by polemic 15y ago
Seems like now would be a good time to: https://supporters.eff.org/join , https://supporters.eff.org/donate or https://supporters.eff.org/shop
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by polemic 15y ago
Surely this is just a reflection of the fact that science is performed by humans with limited resources. I mean, there is something to be said for getting the approximately result correctly many times over. And don't forget there is a che
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by polemic 15y ago
You guys know where New Zealand is, right? You're going to need something to fly you over about 2000km of water - which gets you to Australia, which is the last place you want to be if you're fighting extradition to the US. http://maps.g
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by polemic 15y ago
A helicopter from New Zealand to...?
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by polemic 15y ago
Why "in this day and age", exactly? Conditions of bail are to protect the public and prevent the actions of the accused jeopardizing the case. He is accused of running massive piracy operation remotely via the internet - naturally the condi
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by polemic 15y ago
Tone down the hyperbole. Some sysadmin doing the best job (s)he can in the face of a legal request by law enforcement officers is not a 'hitman'.
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by polemic 15y ago
Will existing [installed] apps be required to ask for permission if it has not previously been explicitly granted? Or will they effectively be exempt?
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by polemic 15y ago
Could HN have an opt-in to save your outbound link click history? I've lost count of the number of times when I've unexpectedly wanted to revisit an article from days/weeks/months ago and have utterly failed to find the site by search/brows
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by polemic 15y ago
It's great to see serious traction on opening up government data in the US. Central and local governments around the world are beginning to recognize the economic and societal benefits of releasing data back to users for little or no charge
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by polemic 15y ago
It's interesting that one side effect of the Apple 'walled-garden' and the perceive strictness of the app approval process has led to the idea that: > ...this issue is a failure of Apple and a breach of trust by Apple, not by app devel
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by polemic 15y ago
Clearly there are a lot of WTFs going on at Path, but this isn't one of them. > Do I not have a right to keep that information private? But you didn't. You gave it to someone else. It's not your information any more. Information about
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by polemic 15y ago
But there is such a thing as over-specialisation. The 'long tail' niche is a myth when you have a gorilla that provides an adequate solution. And especially in a small country (i.e., market) and anything social (effectively lots of teeny
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by polemic 15y ago
> A MVP [minimal viable product] is not a minimal product.... While I agree with the general sentiment of the post, the insistence that an MVP doesn't actually have do be something useful has something wiffy about it. Am I the only
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by polemic 15y ago
Don't get me wrong, Microsoft isn't helping themselves with this, but @melling has it on the head. In the current climate, it's this kind of blog post that undoes a lot of the good work people are doing around protesting SOPA/PIPA. For thos
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by polemic 15y ago
Physics might be pure, but Biology is f king amazing. Makes me ponder my own place in the scheme of things - made up of many multicellular components, myself a component of a society, itself one of many that make up the Human species, one

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