rbarooah

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by rbarooah 16y ago
The fact they use a hushmail address for contacting them made me actually laugh out loud.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
GCD is an abstraction that uses queues to communicate work items between pools of worker threads. It has much in common with the actor model in this regard. It doesn't immunize the programmer against race conditions, but it certainly does
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I didn't actually expect people to go 'yay' or 'boo' at any statement in particular. The point is that there are value judgements associated with each one - trade offs. They are not neutral. I have to disagree with you about the fault bei
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Nicely written, and an important point. Technologies are developed by people to make something easier or to make something harder (or some combination of the two). This is never going to be value neutral. Developing weapons technology is
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I think it would be more accurate to say that from Apple's perspective 'the internet' is more than just the World Wide Web. Apps (and desktop applications) are peers to the browser - not something that necessarily has to run within it. Par
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by rbarooah 16y ago
The title actually reads "Sony: Publishers Are Being Held To Ransom by Apple" Missing off the "Sony:" makes it unnecessarily inflammatory.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I'm not sure that a single hand picked result shows much. If Matt has 40,000 results, how about opening them so we can get an idea of how things have changed for queries we care about, and letting people do an independent review?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Sometimes it's because you are encountering someone with a cognitive style that is oriented towards precision of expression. This is an admirable trait that can expose hidden assumptions and lead to valuable insights. Unfortunately, attack
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by rbarooah 16y ago
The argument isn't meant to be objective - it's a marketing position intended to support a future where Google has the strongest foothold. Generally that means playing down or ignoring the areas where competitors have made advances.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Isn't 'not having to download anything' becoming a bit meaningless now? Rich web apps do download plenty, and signing up on a web form isn't any simpler than a couple of clicks to download from an app store. The fact that Google thinks th
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by rbarooah 16y ago
If I were building a toolbar that followed tracked people's clicks, I would take some measures to have it record the 'final' URL loaded by the browser and not the naive link from the DOM. There are all sorts of redirectors in use and not w
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by rbarooah 16y ago
What do you mean by 'postmodern'? Is this a real criticism of what they are saying?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Jorge - rogue looks great, and had it existed when I started my current project I might well have picked scala rather than clojure and congomongo (which is great too). However - when you say it would have involved more work to guarantee wel
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by rbarooah 16y ago
True, but to compare them assumes that Apple's rate hasn't risen in the meantime, which is unlikely given that this is the holiday quarter.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Even if people don't find it 'sleazy' per se, you're forcing people who don't want the emails to take two actions to submit the form - one of which requires care and attention, rather than just hitting the big button. The extra burden alon
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I have read that. What I think he misses is that there isn't really a conspiracy - there is no bright line between us and 'them' - we all collude in the current state of affairs through want of something better. I think he has the opportu
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I don't think there's necessarily intellectual inconsistency going on. I personally would like to live in a world with far fewer secrets - particularly kept by those with power, and I certainly defend wikileaks right to free speech and abh
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Agreed. I personally think wikileaks only possible value is if it exposes actual corruption. Simply revealing sensitive information that weakens the US but doesn't reveal wrongdoing seems like a terrible mistake.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Surely any kind meaningful of dissemination of free speech in the modern world is going to involve business in some way, and in the US, businesses are recognized as legal persons. How can their actions be considered neutral?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Actually I think you win!
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Not for me in this case. Every sentence I tried was mangled in the traditional way: Once upon a time in america -> ants on a time in america The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat. -> the owl and pussyca
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I think that's my point - major reform is almost impossible for politicians to enact without an external force to react to. If we have structural problems (e.g. widespread corruption) then politicians alone won't fix it. I can't say that I
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I wanted to thank you for this well thought out reply even though the thread is close to dead. I totally agree with you about the kind of corruption that would be more meaningful for them to expose. Have you considered the possibility that
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I suspect this reaction is exactly why Wikileaks is metering out the information - each time they reveal some wrongdoing, it will be new wrongdoing and hence newsworthy, whereas each time people scream for Wikileaks's head it will be the
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Where do you suggest?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Except that we know that the government did contact Amazon and ask them to stop hosting wikileaks.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Because Amazon does not appear to have been compelled by law, so there's no law to change - just a vague sense of not wanting to be on the wrong side of powerful people. This is how the mafia works. It shouldn't be how the government work
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Hah, that was great!
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Whilst I agree with the point they are trying to make, they article is argued in a fallacious way that made me feel uncomfortable - they start off by acknowledging that there is no way to know whether Amazon really caved because of the call
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by rbarooah 16y ago
It has surprisingly bad reviews on the App store - enough to put me off even though I want something like this and my threshold for just trying stuff is usually quite low. Also, although I'd rather it was a universal app, having to pay twic

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