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by teacup50 11y ago
It's a problem that apps have, but they just shift it onto the user.
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by teacup50 11y ago
> 2. What prevented Craigslist from giving a straightforward license and API to Padmapper? Maybe they didn't want to?
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by teacup50 11y ago
Giving away a $1M settlement is clearly a donation, and it's "out of the goodness of their hearts" when compared to the obvious alternative: keeping the money.
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by teacup50 11y ago
What's so embarrassing, exactly? It doesn't follow the latest web9.0 flat^Wmaterial^Wlook-a-monkey! design trends? The interface remains usably utilitarian? They don't try to capitalize to create an uber-exit that everyone ca
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by teacup50 11y ago
$5/mo for an IRC client? That's just silly. Geek cultured called -- they want their technology back. Apparently startup culture has corrupted our industry to a degree that people think $5/mo for a hosted IRC client is a fair
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by teacup50 11y ago
Users rarely get a choice when vendors decide to switch to rent-seeking licensing models, so where is it that they seem to prefer it?
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by teacup50 11y ago
... yet the bug count keeps rising.
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by teacup50 11y ago
The DOM is going to be the first thing to go if WebAssembly actually takes off. It's simply not a suitable performant model for a GUI event/render tree.
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by teacup50 11y ago
"Online enabled patches can allow developers to be a little more cavalier ..." That just means that we get to deal with buggy crap while they tell themselves it's OK because they can ship another update. Sigh.
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by teacup50 11y ago
There has been work on typed assembly that could also apply: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/talproj/
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by teacup50 11y ago
The "crack pipe" is in believing that these two situations are equivalent: - Disney replacing IT staff in bulk with outsourced workers. - A small (or large) technology firm wanting to hire a specific, highly qualified, but just ha
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by teacup50 11y ago
The faceprint shoplifting example is, when duly considered, a frightening example straight from dystopian cyberpunk -- individuals automatically banned from jobs, stores, private facilities, public spaces -- forever, automatically, under an
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by teacup50 11y ago
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ Shipped in FreeBSD by default, developed for FreeBSD first -- and that's just the bleeding edge side of things.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Doubt it; 10Base-T is 26 years old, and still works with today's modern 10Gbase-T NICs. There will be backwards compatibility options for an awfully long time.
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by teacup50 11y ago
I'm really bummed that you got rid of required fields in pb3. Now every consumer has to write additional code to verify that their required fields are actually available, and the proto spec is barely useful as an actual interpretable s
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by teacup50 11y ago
It may be true that "startup" success is mostly random in the YC/modern Valley-VC culture of throwing a fistful of darts at the board and hoping that at least a few stick. Business success, however, is not mostly random.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Is there a better alternative out there that isn't a web forum? My projects have been stuck on Google Groups for a long time, and I want to escape.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Ah! Thanks, that clarification makes way more sense.
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by teacup50 11y ago
It's disingenuous to equate fraud -- cheating in a zero sum game -- with violating a purely manufactured right like copyright. Unlike fraud, the ethics of violating copyright are highly situational and quite complex. A recent example o
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by teacup50 11y ago
> Being a licenced Unix is a technicality, mostly involving willingness to pay for a badge. It's not, actually. You also have to do a lot of work to conform to the specs. Linux doesn't. BSDs come very close. Mac OS X is confo
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by teacup50 11y ago
The security of such a thing assumes that: 1) The system can't be compromised through input data. 2) There's no other output mechanism by which an attacker could retrieve data (or watch the plane crash, which technically counts as
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by teacup50 11y ago
Only by redefining what "application" means.
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by teacup50 11y ago
The 'real' problem is that you shouldn't have to install dependencies in OS-level locations for an application-level product. In other words, the app should be able to bundle dependencies without having to use a crazy opaque
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by teacup50 11y ago
It was introduced as part of the Intel transition, prior to public release. Internally, Mac OS X ran on commodity PCs for quite some time before that and didn't include DSMOS.
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by teacup50 11y ago
IANAL, but speaking generally, the courts seem to take a dim view at technical workarounds, and instead focus on the actual intention and result. In this particular case, I believe what you would have produced would be classified as a &quot
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by teacup50 11y ago
This is something Apple does in their 'DSMOS' (don't steal Mac OS X) code (but they use copyright, not a trademark). Mac OS X looks for a set of firmware variables containing a non-formatted version of following haiku (reprod
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by teacup50 11y ago
Only if the ways are actually different, and the problems are the right problems to be solving. For example: containerization is a bit like taking a boat with a hole in its hull, and building a new boat to carry the old boat. When inste
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by teacup50 11y ago
I don't understand your classification of PostgreSQL as "the bazaar", and MySQL as "the cathedral"; if anything, MySQL exemplified the bazaar model of incorporating almost any half-baked idea in the rush to regularl
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by teacup50 11y ago
An in-house solution and the resulting acquired expertise may provide a great deal more inherent value. And what's irresponsible is using software (languages, architecture, deployment methods) so inefficient that you need to spend $200
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by teacup50 11y ago
I'd rather target open standards, like client-side SMTP/IMAP.

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