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by scrod 15y ago
This is a terrific concept, but it's also too important to be relegated to a private web site. Until the software can be run as a local application (perhaps as part of a mutually-corroborated P2P network) and its internal workings made full
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by scrod 15y ago
>I seriously doubt Google is dumb enough to store user passwords in plaintext... And who said they'd need to store anything? The only need access to them once in order to defeat any kind of local encryption scheme based on your Goog
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by scrod 15y ago
Nope, you're wrong. Google will always be in a situation where they can read your password. Otherwise authentication to the rest of their services would be impossible.
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by scrod 15y ago
On "eligibility" requirements: >Note: Music recordings in other formats, lossless files, or audio recordings that are not of songs and non-audio files (even if in MP3 or AAC format) are not eligible for unlimited music space and will
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by scrod 15y ago
Wow, that's horrible.
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by scrod 15y ago
Or the actual PDF itself, which lacks the Scribd™ value-added feature of banner ads on every page: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Scripti...
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by scrod 15y ago
> You're attacking my name instead of actually participating in the conversation... Yes, that my point, and it's in much the same way that you're questioning my motives (a form of argumentum ad hominem) instead of... actually particip
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by scrod 15y ago
>Your bias is showing. Hard. Please tell me more, drivebyacct2. Edit: Your homoeroticism is showing.
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by scrod 15y ago
> Didn't Apple take the KHTML (Konqueror was a full fledged browser) code... WebKit has vastly evolved from the original KHTML library, to the point of being almost an entirely different product. The KHTML team has been pulling change
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by scrod 15y ago
> but the chrome team is mostly reponsible for adding websocket, the file api, web workers... Oh, so these features are comparable in effort and scale to an entire web browser and HTML5-compliant rendering engine then? By your logic,
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by scrod 15y ago
> By restricting HTML5 Audio controls, and rendering engine speed, it prevents games and music web apps from being viable inside the browser. It must be frustrating for the WebKit team when their engineering advancements are taken for
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by scrod 15y ago
Tell that to all the Windows users who think they're not really using an app until it's fully maximized to the entire width of their 20" display. Somehow it never seems to occur to them that stretching the background of a fixed-width layo
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by scrod 15y ago
The procedure described here is unnecessary and counterproductive. NV stores code snippets all by itself without any issues. An explanation that I've had to give many, many times is as follows: The reasoning behind Notational Velocity's pr
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by scrod 15y ago
Oh, but think of the poor, struggling entrepreneurs — working night and day to get their next round of venture funding!
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by scrod 15y ago
This is one of the very, very few enlightened comments that I've seen on the issue.
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by scrod 15y ago
WebCL makes about as much sense as AwkOS.
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by scrod 15y ago
It's not real Cloud Music until it's performed by Brian Eno — or perhaps it's more similar to gas music?
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by scrod 15y ago
>It is absolutely amazing to me that terrorist organizations would not use encrypted email. This is excellent observation, especially as so much of the justification for limiting, restricting, or circumventing encryption on the part of
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by scrod 15y ago
But was it mountable as a read-only volume? Keep in mind that most operating systems require a writable volume unless they've been specifically configured otherwise (e.g., Knoppix).
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by scrod 15y ago
>I also hate the display adapters Apple forces us to buy and carry around. This could turn into an advantage if the next MBA revision adopts Thunderbolt as its display connector — then you'll have incredibly high-speed access to externa
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by scrod 15y ago
Notational Velocity preserves bold, italic, and strikethrough specifically in its otherwise plain-text editor. All other attributes characteristic of "rich-text" editors are normalized to the current style. The result is a styled editor w
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by scrod 15y ago
> Also, quick questions -- what other platform has a nearly 100% market penetration rate and how does that compare to the iPhone's Cocoa? I don't know, why don't you ask an iOS developer? > AND, with the iPhone's Cocoa you're not e
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by scrod 15y ago
Probably because the web isn't actually an application platform at all, but is still fundamentally a medium for displaying static hyperlinked content on top of which has been piled an increasingly absurd series of hacks (forms + CGI, Cookie
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by scrod 16y ago
>Click on View live SPDY session to see all SPDY connections at a given time – all Google properties work with this technology. This reminds me of Microsoft skipping part of the three-way handshake for IIS-to-IE connections to reduce
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by scrod 16y ago
A relevant comment from the post: > You might want to put lines on that graph showing that Craigslist was sued for its adult classifieds on May 4th and removed the section on September 4th. One could argue that the disruption has primar
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by scrod 16y ago
The "Cloud" concept is much more profit-friendly than that of the general "Internet". Whereas the latter emphasizes decentralized control and is, in the most fundamental sense, a product of the cooperation of all participating network opera
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by scrod 16y ago
> A number of Objective-C 2.0 features and extensions are now supported by GCC. These features are enabled by default; you can disable them by using the new -fobjc-std=objc1 command-line option. This seems like a much more important an
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by scrod 16y ago
>What I would like to see is the calling-out of rent-seeking behavior from both sides . Oh yes, certainly. We should ensure fairness to the fullest extent by making workers fight just as hard for their wages as the largest multinationa
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by scrod 16y ago
> AppKit and UIKit aren't at all similar. And they aren't related. Actually, they're incredibly similar in terms of class hierarchy, design patterns (e.g., delegates, data sources, target/action for the most part), graphics principles (
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by scrod 16y ago
>It could be useful for lots of folks that know UIKit inside and out ... Then they'll have a very easy time picking up AppKit — certainly much easier than someone coming from any other platform would have, mobile or desktop. The lineage

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