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by rryan 15y ago
Anyone saying that Dropship has legal uses is wrong -- you're stealing from Dropbox by using it whether you're sharing your academic, public-domain dataset or your pirated movie. Dropship sidesteps the TOS of Dropbox by letting users get un
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by rryan 15y ago
Google, Oracle, Apple, Amazon One of these things is not like the others.
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by rryan 16y ago
Emacs + org-mode
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by rryan 16y ago
http://pinboard.in
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by rryan 16y ago
Ironically, I read this article via Google's cache. How useful!
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by rryan 16y ago
Data liberation is different from open-sourcing. Delicious allows you to dump every bit of metadata about your bookmarks either through their Data Export menu or via their API. Yahoo! did fine with Delicious in terms of data liberation. I i
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by rryan 16y ago
Almost all Android phones are rootable in the same sense that the iPhone is rootable -- only by virtue of an accidental security flaw. The Nexus One/S are the only Android phones where root is not a privilege you have to take back from the
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by rryan 16y ago
The algorithm has to be seeded with a secret (Stream ciphers work this way). You can't get around having to have Chome own a secret, and it's really hard to protect a secret when you're in a hostile environment (e.g. the user's PC). This is
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by rryan 16y ago
Actually, no. Contribution and copyright are two different things. In the United States, every word you write is copyright by you. However, you can assign your copy rights to another entity. This allows copyright and authorship to become di
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by rryan 16y ago
From Wikipedia: "Chris DiBona (born October 1971) is the open source and public sector engineering manager at Google. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google
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by rryan 16y ago
http://www.galois.com/
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by rryan 16y ago
Am I the only one who was horrified by the typesetting of that document? It made it impossible to read.
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by rryan 16y ago
Supporting VP8 and allowing VP8 content to play if the user installs a VP8 codec are two very different things.
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It anagrams to Haskell, so I assumed this was some DSL for writing Javascript in Haskell...
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You know how you can't leave it because all your photos, connections, status messages, groups and all that won't come with you? That's called data portability. Facebook doesn't have it, and has no incentive to provide it. That's exactly why