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by skymt 13y ago
Take a look at Fossil, then. It's a distributed version control system, bug tracker, wiki and blog, from the author of SQLite.
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by skymt 13y ago
It's quite common for compilers to be written in the language they compile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_%28compilers%29
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by skymt 13y ago
I read a blog post today that has a different perspective on this issue: http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2014/02/women-play-where-were-welco...
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by skymt 13y ago
Regarding the high number of five-star ratings, there's a common pattern in this style of mobile game to optimize for ratings. After the tutorial introduces the mechanics, and after a bit of time spent in the main game, it prompts the
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by skymt 13y ago
A new format would be overkill. Websites can just set the "muted" attribute on video elements. If you also set "loop" & "autoplay" and hide the controls, you've got a video that acts just like a GIF.
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by skymt 13y ago
Seems reasonable. Those servers were never intended for widespread public use, so they may as well make back some funds for upkeep, and maybe encourage some more-technical users to switch away. Here's a blog post with some background o
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by skymt 13y ago
It's very similar, though there are some significant gameplay differences. But from a visual perspective, compare Bejeweled[0] and Candy Crush[1], then look at Action Candy Swap HD Pro[2]. [0]: http://appshopper.com/gam
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by skymt 13y ago
I'm a little sympathetic to King here because of the degree to which other developers have ripped off Candy Crush. A couple minutes searching the app store for "candy" turned up five examples ranging from "strongly based
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by skymt 13y ago
As the article notes, this did happen eariler: Bing has the same level of access.
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by skymt 13y ago
Why are ISPs letting spoofed traffic leave their network? I don't work at that level, but I thought this was a solved problem.
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by skymt 13y ago
If Google waited 24 hours before blacklisting a site, how many people would be infected during the grace period? It's incorrect to say that Google doesn't attempt to contact the site owner. According to the Webmaster Tools support
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by skymt 13y ago
I was under the impression that the old Flipboard TPM feed provided the full articles. TPM's current Atom feed is truncated. If what they pulled from Flipboard was also truncated, then the blog post makes no sense. A truncated feed is
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by skymt 13y ago
The RLZ string isn't unique per user, and AFAIK it isn't used at all by Google's ad systems. It's used to measure the effectiveness of Google's marketing of their own software. http://code.google.com&#x2F
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by skymt 13y ago
I think it comes down to how the Chrome team is used to thinking about security. Most of Chrome's security work, such as the phishing blacklist and the process sandbox, aims to prevent attacks from malicious web pages. In those circums
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by skymt 13y ago
That's a well-known problem with JavaScript crypto: http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/ The short answer is that so long as the page is loaded entirely over TLS, and the TLS isn't s
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by skymt 13y ago
BLARNEY is data-mining from IP metadata collected at Internet backbones, which is obviously a far broader net than backdoors at a few specific services.
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by skymt 13y ago
Many desktop monitors can be rotated 90 degrees, effectively giving you a 9:16 ratio.
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by skymt 13y ago
But legally mashups aren't okay. Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films was a sucessful suit over a two-second sample . The court decided that unlicensed use of even this brief riff was infringement. Mashups are tolerated because of the
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by skymt 13y ago
People recorded Let's Plays as a hobby for years before a few worked out that it might be a business. This isn't going to stop anyone but the few who thought it would be a good idea to make their living playing video games for the Internet.
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by skymt 13y ago
Why should we expect carriers to adopt IPv6+1 any quicker than IPv6? Are there specific elements of IPv6 that are so carrier-unfriendly that correcting them would be worth throwing away all the progress that's been made?
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by skymt 14y ago
Right now the best tool to target asm.js is a fork of Emscripten that compiles a program in LLVM bytecode to an asm.js module. So any language that targets LLVM should be relatively easy to compile to asm.js. The issue is that asm.js doesn'
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by skymt 14y ago
You're right; I obviously didn't think that through. It does seem like there ought to be a way to abstract out the design effort of working with ASM.js, but it probably wouldn't work with existing code bases.
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by skymt 14y ago
I don't think it's necessarily true that only projects that need ASM.js's speed will target it. There are already several languages or tools in increasingly common use that target vanilla JavaScript, like Haxe or GWT. Developers don't use t
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by skymt 14y ago
I'm very put off by people presuming to tell me what I think or plan to do.
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by skymt 14y ago
Stars are, in fact, exportable. The "Google Takeout" zip archive for Reader includes a file called starred.json, containing a list of your starred items in a JSON format that, as far as I know, nothing else reads. If whatever reader you swi
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by skymt 14y ago
The most popular ad blocker, Adblock Plus, not only supports blocking URL patterns, it can hide elements within a page via arbitrary CSS selectors. Any large-scale attempt to bypass Adblock Plus would be a cat-and-mouse game requiring adver
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by skymt 14y ago
The "communication interface" would be the server's network link, which it does indeed employ to: a) receive a request for the current version of the RSS feed ("compilation file") b) transfer the RSS feed to the client c) receive and respon
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by skymt 14y ago
You didn't read all the claims. :) Claim 31 describes an "apparatus for disseminating a series of episodes represented by media files via the Internet..." It goes on to describe, essentially, in patent-ese, a web server that serves a podcas
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by skymt 14y ago
The same information, minus design, is in the project's GitHub readme. https://github.com/usablica/front-end-frameworks
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by skymt 14y ago
Quora's terms of service allow for republishing[0] of any amount of content posted after April 22, 2010, so long as the user didn't mark it as not to be republished. There are a few caveats around attribution and a requirement to update con

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