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   by rolux 14y ago

   For a good list of countries, mostly derived from wikipedia as well, that comes with properties like dependency, disputed, and so on, includes historical data, back to 1970, and whose main purpose, similarly, is a set of flag icons, see OxJ
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   by rolux 14y ago

   Just some background info: The new contractor, Orascom [1], has been issued a licence to operate the North Korean 3G Network [2]. Orascom is both a telecommunications and a construction company. I doubt that their plan is to use the hotel e
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   by rolux 14y ago

   In other news, New Zealand's prime minister seems to have issued a public apology to Kim Dotcom: https://torrentfreak.com/new-zealand-prime-minister-apologiz...
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   by rolux 14y ago

   Looking at my own iTunes library, the names of some of my playlists actually leak quite a bit of private information.
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   by rolux 14y ago

   Low-hanging fruit: The byline of this thread currently reads "2041 days ago", and it's really hard to make sense of that, since dividing by 365 usually takes more than a split-second. Thus for submissions and comments older than X days, cha
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   by rolux 14y ago

   In addition to that, mobile is closed because hardware manufacturers, software companies and network providers all seem to agree that the combination of mandated personalization and permanent tracking is a potential gold mine.
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   by rolux 14y ago

   I'm having similar concerns, and I think both your post and the parent post are indicative of a trend that, in hindsight, will have begun just around 2011/12. And as someone who remembers (and was part of) the first phase of migration to Ap
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   by rolux 14y ago

   5 years ago many people could and did swap components in their PC. Now try doing that with a modern smartphone or laptop. Do you think this is an entirely new development? Wouldn't the statement "5 years ago people could do X with compute
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   by rolux 14y ago

   I agree. While I can follow the author's reasoning about the history of computing (particularly his assertion that computing was most democratic in the 1980s), he doesn't reveal the sources for his optimism, apart from stating: If my obser
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    by rolux 14y ago

    Remember that there are two possible outcomes, one where the internet successfully manages to cause a swing to the edge of freedom, and another where it is successfully co-opted by big money and governments in a concerted effort to give us
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    by rolux 14y ago

    I think the following (quote from the article) is a very good observation: "I suspect — and I don’t think this is nostalgia — but it may have been able to become kind of a richer sauce, initially. It wasn’t able to instantly go from London
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    by rolux 14y ago

    True, the "wikipedia loop" itself is not a new discovery. But still, congrats for coming up with a nice GUI to demonstrate it!
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    by rolux 14y ago

    mbell - thanks for taking the time to debug this. I'm aware of what you're pointing out -- a lot of requests and rendering steps could be avoided by caching data on the server. But what you're looking at is just the HTML/JS that comes with
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    by rolux 14y ago

    Hey... I assume you're referring to 0xDB.org. That may be a bug in pan.do/ra (the application), rather than in OxJS itself. We fixed some memory leaks recently, but may have missed some. If you care to provide a few more details (via e-mail
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    by rolux 14y ago

    I get your point, but I don't think it's necessarily a browser vs. desktop thing, especially since that line is going to blur even more in the future. I guess it rather depends on the type of application you're building. For anything comple
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    by rolux 14y ago

    I don't want to dismiss your comment, but for me, the site is actually quite snappy, given that it's on the front page of HN. So I guess we need more data points...
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    by rolux 14y ago

    The website you see on oxjs.org is part of OxJS, and what happens when you click the documentation button is that the documentation is generated from the un-cached, un-minified version, live, on the client. This is really nice if you're usi
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    by rolux 14y ago

    Hey, thanks for your feedback. You're reading introductory blurb v0.1, so there's definitely room for improvement. To answer your questions: - The core library (Ox.js) is somewhat similar to underscore, while the UI module (Ox.UI) is more l
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    by rolux 14y ago

    (One of the authors here.) Correct - for input widgets that have a clear equivalent, we're planning to switch to HTML5 form elements eventually.
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    by rolux 14y ago

    Thanks for the suggestion. But if you reload http://pan.do a couple of times, you'll see that there are already quite a few contenders...
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    by rolux 14y ago

    I'm not too interested in ad hominem attacks. Can you cite any specific examples? Would it contribute to the overall discussion if we debated them here?
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    by rolux 14y ago

    Yes, precisely. You can run your own instance, with your own videos, and your own configuration. Pad.ma, for example, is quite different from 0xDB. "pan.do/ra is a website that runs in your browser" was our attempt to communicate that pan.d
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    by rolux 14y ago

    I'm beginning to think that the Ancient Greek should have sought better protection for their intellectual property: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_(mythology)
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    by rolux 14y ago

    Thanks! We're planning to formally launch it in a couple of days, and we're looking forward to your feedback...
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    by rolux 14y ago

    I guess that one of the things we're trying to achieve with pan.do/ra is to produce cutting-edge software without the help of marketeers or lawyers. There is a long tradition of making software that way, and we're trying to follow it. As a
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    by rolux 14y ago

    Our approach was: If the best name we can think of is a nine-letter URL, we got it.
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    by rolux 14y ago

    But what if we wanted to be recognized as the brand that is spelled pan.do/ra - which happens to be the URL of the product? And what if getting recognized as the brand involved in a trademark conflict about the name of a Greek mythological
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    by rolux 14y ago

    My intention was to sound like I'm not too worried. And you're right, we have "panˈdôrə" on our page - which is how you pronounce the name of Pandora, the figure from Greek mythology. Are you suggesting Pandora the radio would have a proble
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    by rolux 14y ago

    (One of the authors here.) Good question. Does Pandora the radio have a global trademark for what is essentially a US-only product? Would such a trademark cover any type of online service, including a video archive platform? And if so, woul
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    by rolux 15y ago

    In the meantime, try out this Firefox Extension: http://firefogg.org/