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by stefantalpalaru 15y ago
"Any idiot could rip a movie and upload it to Pirate Bay, and they're even making money from it. That's nothing but commercial murder of those who actually make those items,” says Pontus Berg. ”We could be accused of having acted in a legal
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by stefantalpalaru 15y ago
I agree. It would be very hard for a lawyer to prove that using a public API amounts to derived work. Even so, GPL allows modified but not distributed versions (like you would see on a meteor server). The author of this blog post does not s
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by stefantalpalaru 15y ago
Because "hacker" in Hacker News doesn't mean what you think it means.
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by stefantalpalaru 15y ago
All that's missing is a couple of code monkeys to fix the bugs ;-)
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by stefantalpalaru 15y ago
The Nature abstract is about a "population of neurons" and triggering a memory related behavior while the extremetech article talks about "specific brain cells" and memory storage. Nothing to see here, move along.
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by stefantalpalaru 15y ago
first time I see "cheap" associated with Zurich :-)
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by stefantalpalaru 15y ago
The RPython translation to C sounds a lot like what cython is already doing with a subset of Python. Are the PyPy guys reinventing the wheel here?
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by stefantalpalaru 15y ago
So where should we put the lack of newline to <br> conversion inside place reviews - design or engineering?
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by stefantalpalaru 15y ago
This particular startup had VC money flooding them from all directions. The bugs are still there. One involves credit card access between users, the rest are trivial (the stuff you'd let a junior programmer handle). Upgrading to Rails 3 doe
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by stefantalpalaru 15y ago
An amazing feat seeing that airbnb doesn't employ any programmers (I know that because the interface bugs I reported as a paying customer were handled by the PR department or simply ignored).
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by stefantalpalaru 15y ago
I use cherokee in production and I can vouch for its performance and stability. It's so good that I'm giving it a pass for the enforced web UI configuration.